2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Politics with Quantitative Research Methods (Industrial)
Programme code: | BA-POLI/QS4 | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Yoshiharu Kobayashi | Contact address: | Y.Kobayashi@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
Entry requirements:
There will be no direct recruitment to the ‘quantitative methods’ pathways. Students will be able to transfer to the quantitative methods pathway at the end of level one subject to achieving a minimum mark of 60 in PIED1110 Comparative Politics and an average of 60 overall.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
The School of Politics and International Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
The School of Politics and International Studies Examination Board
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will critically engage with the nature of Political Studies furnishing the student with a historically informed and theoretically aware academic understanding of the dynamics of political phenomena and an in depth understanding of political processes, both at the domestic and international levels.
The Pathway will:
- Provide students with an understanding of the logic and principles of quantitative analysis
- Enable students to apply the logic and principles to a range of substantive settings, including case-study and comparative approaches
- Teach students to use simple statistical tests to assess the rigour and robustness of empirical data sources
- Provide the opportunity to carry out exploratory analysis of quantitative data using bivariate techniques
- Understand secondary analyses using complex statistical techniques
- Conceive, construct and interpret advanced statistical analyses, including multivariate regression and causal analysis
Such learning outcomes will contribute to students’ capacity to progress to further study at postgraduate level, bring a substantial set of social science analytical tools to the full range of disciplinary Masters and PhD programmes, as well as a very strong analytical skillsets for the employment market. Combined with the wide array of subjects in a School the size of POLIS, the applications of QM for undergraduates will be extremely broad. Similarly, the opportunity to undertake short-courses and attend other events run by the University’s Q-Step Centre will introduce students to a much wider network of social scientists working in different disciplines, and allow them to develop understanding of social enquiry through QM. Graduates from the Pathway programme should enter the new cohort of academic, public- and private-sector analysts.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
PIED1001 | The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher | 40 credits | Not running until 202425 | |
PIED1100 | British Politics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED1110 | Comparative Politics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED1601 | Freedom, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Political Ideas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study 20 credits of discovery modules
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
You are required to study the following compulsory modules.
PIED2711 | Analysing Data in Politics, Development and International Relations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2721 | Approaches to Analysis | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Political Theory Options:
You are required to study 20 - 40 credits from the following Political Theory modules. You must pass at least 20 credits of modules in this group
PIED2601 | Revolution and Reaction: Political Problems in the 20th Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2602 | Justice, Community and Conflict | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Government and Political Systems options:
You are required to study 20 - 40 credits from the following Government and Political Systems modules. You must pass at least 20 credits of modules in this group
FOSS2002 | Social Sciences and Emergencies: Theories, Contexts and Approaches | 20 credits | Not running until 202425 | |
PIED2126 | The Conservative Party Since 1945 | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
PIED2139 | The Labour Party Since 1945 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED2161 | Media and Democracy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED2250 | Latin American Development Challenges in Global Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2301 | Politics and Policy in the EU | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2448 | Politics of Contemporary China | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2455 | State and Politics in Africa | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2463 | United States Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2570 | Forced Migration | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 |
FURTHER OPTION AND DISCOVERY MODULES
To make up your total to 120 credits, you may take further options from the following, or alternatively may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules:
PIED2220 | North-South Linkages | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED2501 | Theories of International Relations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2559 | Global Security Challenges | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED2706 | The UK Parliament: Between Tradition and Reform | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED2711 | Analysing Data in Politics, Development and International Relations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Further options:
To make up your total to 120 credits, you may take further options from the following, or alternatively may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Discovery modules:
You may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
PIED8800 | POLIS Industrial Placement (Full Year) | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
You are required to study the following compulsory modules.
PIED3704 | Advanced Statistical Analysis | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3769 | Dissertation for Q-Steps Students | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
You are required to study 40 - 60 credits of optional modules from the following list:
FOSS3001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3158 | British Foreign Policy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3170 | The End of British Politics? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3171 | The Politics of national identity in the UK | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3305 | The Far Right in Europe and Beyond | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3325 | Europe in the World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3408 | Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3608 | Philosophy of Human Rights | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3611 | Radical Political Ideas | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3617 | Reimagining Politics: Gender, Race, and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3650 | Global Political Economy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3810 | Video Games: Politics, Society and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Further options and discovery modules:
You can take up to 20 credits from the following list. Alternatively you may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Further options and discovery modules:
You can take up to 20 credits from the following list. Alternatively you may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules
PIED3207 | International Development and Social Policy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3261 | Violence and Reconciliation in Africa | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3342 | Gender and Security in Global Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3402 | American Foreign Policy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PIED3504 | Critically Analysing The Responsibility to Protect | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PIED3565 | Terrorism: Concepts, Debates, Cases | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP3500 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3995 | Ethnicity and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
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