Teaching & modules
Modules
Required Modules
You are required to take the following modules:
- The Policy Process (15 credits)
- Comparative Public Policy (15 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules
You must take at least 90 credits from the following modules:
- Evaluating Public Policy (15 credits)
- Public Policy Internship (15 credits)
- Liberty, Equality & Justice: Political Theory and Public Policy (15 credits)
- Media, Elections and Campaigning (15 credits)
- The Political Economy of Corruption (15 credits)
- Gender, Politics and Public Policy (15 credits)
- Business and Politics (15 credits)
- Comparative Political Economy (15 credits)
- Quantitative Methods in Political Economy (15 credits)
- Institutions and Economic Development (15 credits)
- Political Economy of Discrimination (15 credits)
- New Political Economy of the Media (15 credits)
- Ethics and Public Policy (15 credits)
- Economic History (15 credits)
- The Political Effects of Extreme Weather Events (15 credits)
- Democracy in the United Kingdom (15 credits)
- Britain and Europe Since 1945 (15 credits)
- Anglo-American Relations Since 1945 (15 credits)
- Managing the UK economy: Fiscal and monetary policy since 1945 (15 credits)
- Development Economics (15 credits)
- Using Economics in Government
- From Blair to Brexit: Britain since 1997 (15 credits)
- Ethics and Public Policy (15 credits)
You may select as options other Level 7 modules offered by King’s College London with the approval of the programme director.
Programmes are divided into modules. You will take modules totalling 180 credits.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Lectures
Seminars
Group Tutorials
Independent study
personal tutor
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/Practical Examinations
- Assessed Essays
- Presentations
You will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written examinations. Assessment patterns will vary across modules, but examples of typical assessments for 15-credit modules would be a 3,000-word essay or a 2 hour unseen examination. The assessment of the dissertation module will be through a 1,000-word research proposal (10%) and a 10,000-word dissertation (90%).