PPES Course Structure
Junior Fresh
In the Junior Fresh (first) year, you will take 60 ECTS worth of compulsory modules from within all four subjects:
- Economics (including Mathematics and Statistics)
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Sociology
Senior Fresh
Pathway details are provided as a guideline, the below is subject to change - Full Information Booklet here.
In Senior Fresh (second) year students take 60 ECTS from within two or three of the four subjects, taking either
- 20 ECTS in Subject 1, 20 ECTS in Subject 2 and 20 ECTS in Subject 3, dropping one of the four subjects taken in Junior Fresh year or
- 20 ECTS in Subject 1, 20 ECTS in Subject 2, 10 ECTS from any of the available modules within the programme structure and 10 ECTS of Trinity Electives, dropping two of the four subjects taken in Junior Fresh year, or
- 40 ECTS in Subject 1 and 20 ECTS in Subject 2, dropping two of the four subjects taken in Junior Fresh year.
- 40 ECTS in Subject 1, 10 ECTS from any of the available modules within the programme structure and 10 ECTS of Trinity Electives
Note: In order to continue with a Single Honor, students must take 40 ECTS in that subject in the Senior Fresh year.
Junior and Senior Sophister
In Junior and Senior Sophister year, students can pursue the following: - Full Information Booklet here:
- Single Honor
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Economics
- Sociology
- Major/Minor
- Major Economics
- Minor Philosophy
- Minor Political Science
- Minor Sociology
- Major Philosophy
- Minor Political Science
- Minor Economics
- Minor Sociology
- Major Political Science
- Minor Philosophy
- Minor Economics
- Minor Sociology
- Major Sociology
- Minor Philosophy
- Minor Political Science
- Minor Economics
- Joint Honor
- Philosophy and Political Science
- Philosophy and Economics
- Philosophy and Sociology
- Political Science and Economics
- Political Science and Sociology
- Sociology and Economics
- Major Economics
Course Regulations
Please see details of general college regulations on the following topics:
If you need any further information please consult the College Calendar.
Course Transfer
Students may apply, through their tutor, to the Senior Lecturer for permission to transfer to another course. Transfer applications should be submitted to the Admissions Office using a standard form.
While every effort will be made to allow adequately qualified students to change course, it will not be possible to permit a transfer into a course which already has a full complement of students. In no case may students register for a course until their application to transfer has been formally approved and they have received notification from the Senior Lecturer.
The categories of transfer applicants are as follows:
(i) Newly entered Junior Freshman students who in their first term seek to transfer into the Junior Freshman year of a different course. A two-tiered system applies to applicants in this category:
- First tier
Students seeking to transfer should apply by the end of the second week of Michaelmas teaching term. Decisions on applications received by the closing date will be made on the basis of (a) availability of places and (b) entry qualifications. - Second tier
These requests will be processed on a first come, first served basis and students are eligible for only such course vacancies as still exist after the earlier transfer period. In no case can acceptance of late transfer be cited by students as grounds for poor performance at examinations.
(ii) Continuing Junior Freshman students and non Junior Freshman students seeking to transfer into the Junior Freshman year of a different course.
Students in this category will be assessed on the basis of their original entry qualifications. Students who miss this cut-off date may apply in the same way as newly entered Junior Freshman students.
(iii) Continuing Junior Freshman students and non Junior Freshman students seeking to transfer into a year other than the Junior Freshman year of a different course.
Students in this category should apply no later than the Friday before the start of Michaelmas teaching term and will be assessed, after consultation with the departments concerned, on the basis of original entry qualifications and results of College examinations.
If you need any further information please contact the Course Administration Office at or consult the College Calendar.
Coursework and Attendance
In many subjects modules in assessment and essay work completed during the year are incorporated in varying ways into the overall annual examination mark. In other modules this is not so, but students nonetheless may be required to attend classes and submit assessment work in these modules. A student is deemed non-satisfactory in a term when more than a third of required work/attendance in that term is missed. Any student who is deemed non-satisfactory in each of the first two terms may, in accordance with the regulations laid down by the University Council, be refused permission to take examinations in that year.
If you need any further information please contact the Course Administration Office at or consult the College Calendar.
Off Books Regulations
The Senior Lecturer may permit students who are in good standing to go ‘off-books’ on medical grounds or personal reasons where to do so would be in the best interests of the student. ‘Off-Books’ students can be readmitted to the College in a subsequent year only at the discretion of the Senior Lecturer. ‘Off-Books’ students suffering from ill-health who have allowed their names to go off the books can only be readmitted, even in the current academic year, at the discretion of the Senior Lecturer who may require a satisfactory certificate from a nominated medical referee.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is interpreted by the University as the act of presenting the work of others as one's own work without acknowledgement, and as such, is considered to be academically fraudulent. The University considers plagiarism to be a major offence and it is subject to the disciplinary procedures of the University.
TurnItIn Software is now available to all students to help them with this matter.
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