Students may also seek approval from their Programme Supervisor and the Course Convenor to enrol on other MSc options. Not all courses may be offered each year and are subject to cancellation, substitution and timetabling constraints. |
Additional School of Public Policy courses
Second year students may select either the MPA Dissertation or the MPA Policy Paper but cannot take both: |
PP4V8 Policy Paper (0.5) |
PP4B4 Dissertation (1.0) |
PP406 Philosophy for Public Policy (0.5) |
PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5) |
PP411W Political Economy Applications for Public Policy (0.5) # |
PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) # |
Welfare State Policies |
GI414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy (0.5) |
GI415 Gender and Welfare Regimes: Developments and Change (0.5) |
GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5) |
PP412 Cold War II? Public Policy Implications of US-China Relations in the 2020s (0.5) |
PP4J2 New Institutions of Public Policy: Strategic Philanthropy, Impact Investment and Social Enterprise (0.5) |
PP4J4 Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Policies and Programmes (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0) |
SP441 Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
Urban Policy |
GY400 The Economics of Urbanisation (0.5) # |
GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
GY454 Urban Policy and Planning (0.5) # |
GY457 Applied Urban and Real Estate Economics (1.0) # |
GY479 Urban Transformations (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) |
Environmental Policy |
DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # |
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) |
GY420 Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy (1.0) |
GY427 Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy (0.5) |
GY465 Concepts in Environmental Regulation (0.5) |
GY475 Issues in Environmental Governance (0.5) |
International Policy |
GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) |
IR412 International Institutions (1.0) |
IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5) |
IR469 Politics of Money in the World Economy (0.5) # * |
Development Policy |
AN436 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) |
AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) |
AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) |
DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5) # |
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) |
DV418 African Development (0.5) |
DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5) |
DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) # |
DV424 International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) |
DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) |
DV435 African Political Economy (0.5) |
DV447 Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) |
DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) # |
DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) # |
DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) # |
GV443 The State and Political Institutions in Latin America (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) |
GV444 Democracy and Development in Latin America (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24) |
GY410 Economics of Local and Regional Development (0.5) |
GY421 Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) |
PP448 International Political Economy and Development (0.5) |
PP449 Comparative Political Economy and Development (0.5) |
PP454 Development Economics (1.0) # ~A |
Economic Policy
~B |
EC402 Econometrics (1.0) # |
EC411 Microeconomics (1.0) # |
EC413 Macroeconomics (1.0) # |
EC421 International Economics (1.0) # |
EC424 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) # |
EC426 Public Economics (1.0) # |
EC427 The Economics of Industry (1.0) # |
EC428 Development and Growth (1.0) # |
EC453 Political Economy (1.0) # |
GY455 Economic Appraisal and Valuation (0.5) |
LL4CP Tax Avoidance (0.5) |
MG4B9 The World Trading System (0.5) # * (not available 2023/24) |
PH413 Philosophy of Economics (1.0) # (withdrawn 2023/24) |
PP410 Public Economics for Public Policy (0.5) # |
PP418 Globalisation and Economic Policy (0.5) # |
PP419 Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis (0.5) # |
PP452 Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy (0.5) # |
Regulatory Policy |
GV403 Network Regulation (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) |
LL4AT Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement (0.5) |
LL4AU Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24) |
LL4BF International Financial Regulation (0.5) |
LL4CP Tax Avoidance (0.5) |
MC403 Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Policy (0.5) # |
SO425 Economy, Risk and Society (1.0) |
Governance |
GV442 Globalisation and Democracy (0.5) * (withdrawn 2020/21) |
GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change (0.5) # |
GV4C5 Politics of Economic Policy (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) |
PB415 Behavioural Science (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
PB421 Happiness (0.5) |
PH415 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) |
SO469 Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) |
SP434 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5) |
Europe |
EU421 Policy-Making in the European Union (0.5) # |
EU425 Interest Representation and Economic Policy- Making in Europe (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23) |
EU443 European Models of Capitalism (0.5) |
EU446 The Political Economy of European Monetary Integration (0.5) # |
EU453 The Political Economy of European Welfare States (0.5) |
EU455 Concepts in Political Economy (0.5) |
EU477 Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) |
Institutions, Politics and Policies of the EU |
EU430 Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (0.5) |
EU439 Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23) |
GV4J4 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
Central and Eastern Europe Transition and Reform |
EU449 Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) |
Regional Courses |
EU440 The Balkans in Europe: Transition, Democratisation, Integration (0.5) (not available 2023/24) |
Management of Organisations |
AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5) |
AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (0.5) # |
AC490 Management Accounting, Decisions and Control (0.5) |
AC491 Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure (0.5) |
GV483 Public Management Theory and Doctrine (0.5) ~1 |
MG479 Information Systems for the Public Sector: Digital Government and Service Innovation (0.5) |
MG487 Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (0.5) |
MG4A3 Incentives and Governance in Organisations (0.5) # |
MG4B7 Leading Organisational Change (0.5) |
MG4C2 Organisational Behaviour (0.5) |
MG4D4 Cross Cultural Management (0.5) # |
MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) |
PH425 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5) |
PP4E4 Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation (0.5) # (not available 2023/24) |
PP4E5 Innovations in the governance of public services delivery (0.5) |
PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (0.5) |
PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5) |
Students may also seek approval from their Programme Supervisor and the Course Convenor to enrol on other MSc options. |
Footnotes for MPA Options List
~A : PP454 is not available to students in their first year.
~B : Because of the extremely demanding standard of 杏吧论坛 Economics, the following options are available only to students with very good first degrees in Economics and with the permission of the Economics Department: EC402, EC411, EC413, EC421, EC424, EC426, EC427, EC428, EC453. Any student wishing to take these courses must be admitted to the September Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics (EC400) at the beginning of their second year and pass the course examinations. Students taking more than one Economics option must take one of EC402, EC411 or EC413. |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for MPA Options List
~1 : GV483 can not be taken with MG419 |
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