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Philosophy, Politics and Economics - Course outline

A typical weekly timetable

Your work is divided between lectures (six to eight a week), tutorials and classes (typically two tutorials or one tutorial and one class a week), and private study mainly spent preparing essays for tutorials and classes.

1st year

Courses

All three branches of PPE are studied equally

Philosophy:

General philosophy
Moral philosophy
Elementary logic

Politics:

Theorising the democratic state
Analysis of democratic institutions in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States

Economics:

Microeconomics: the functioning of the market economy;
Macroeconomics: dealing with national output and employment, exchange rates and policy issues;
Mathematical techniques used in economics

Assessment

First University examinations
Three written papers

2nd and 3rd years

Compulsory core subjects:

Students choose to continue with all three branches or concentrate on any two, taking compulsory courses in the chosen branches along with optional courses:

Compulsory core courses:

Philosophy: Ethics and either History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant, or Plato’s Republic; or Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Politics (any two of these): Comparative Government; British Politics and Government since 1900; Theory of Politics; International Relations; Political Sociology
Economics: Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Quantitative Economics

Optional courses:

More than 50 choices, including: Post-Kantian Philosophy; Later Wittgenstein; Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; Political thought: Plato to Rousseau; International Economics; Economics of Developing Countries (see www.ppe.ox.ac.uk for the full list of optional PPE papers)

Assessment

Final University examinations
Eight written papers, one of which can be replaced by a thesis

Optional PPE courses

As shown above, PPE students take optional papers in their second and third years. This list shows those courses which are currently available, but please note that they may change from year to year. Core papers (see above) may also be taken as optional papers.

Philosophy

Knowledge and Reality
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Psychology and Neuroscience
Philosophy of Science and Social Science
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Logic and Language
Aesthetics
Medieval Philosophy: Aquinas
Medieval Philosophy: Duns Scotus and Ockham
Philosophy of Kant
Post-Kantian Philosophy
Theory of Politics
Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein
The Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein
Formal Logic
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Science
Jurisprudence

Politics

Modern British Government and Politics
Government and Politics of the United States
Government and Politics in Western Europe
Politics in Europe
The Politics of the European Union
Russian Government and Politics
Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
Politics in Latin America
Politics in South Asia
Politics in the Middle East
International Relations in the Era of the Two World Wars
International Relations in the Era of the Cold War
Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau
Political Thought: Bentham to Weber
Marx and Marxism
Sociological Theory
Sociology of Industrial Societies
British Society in the Twentieth Century
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Government and Politics of Japan
Social Policy
Comparative Demographic Systems
Quantitative Methods in Politics and Sociology
Politics in China

Economics

Microeconomic Theory
Money and Banking
Public Economics
Economics of Industry
International Economics
Command and Transitional Economics
Economics of Developing Countries
British Economic History since 1870
Classical Economic Thought
Statistical Methods in Economics
Econometrics
Economics of OECD Countries
Economic Decisions with the Firm
Finance
Game Theory
Mathematical Methods

UCAS Course Code: L0V0

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA
Intake: 239
Applications shortlisted for interview: 60.3%
Successful applications: 16.5%

Open days 2012

27 and 28 June, and 14 September

Contact details

For general information about applying to study PPE, please
visit www.ppe.ox.ac.uk,
email ppeadmissions@socsci.ox.ac.uk
or call +44 (0) 1865 288564. However, if you have specific questions about the course
content for each of the three subjects, please contact the relevant department below.

Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy,
10 Merton Street,
Oxford OX1 4JJ
+44 (0) 1865 276926
Please email us at enquiries@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
View Philosophy website

Politics
Department of Politics and International Relations,
Manor Road Building,
Oxford OX1 3UQ
+44 (0) 1865 288564
Please email us at ug.studies@politics.ox.ac.uk
View Politics website

Economics
Department of Economics,
Manor Road Building,
Oxford OX1 3UQ
+44 (0) 1865 271098
Please email us at econundergrad@economics.ox.ac.uk
View Economics website