Undergraduate
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (extended major)
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Scholarships are available to students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academic achievement, financial need, educational disadvantage, leadership and community service, artistic or sporting achievements, and being from a rural or remote area.
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Undergraduate – onshore students
Annual course fees are calculated based on a standard annual study load of 48 credit points.
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Scholarships are available to students from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academic achievement, financial need, educational disadvantage, leadership and community service, artistic or sporting achievements, and being from a rural or remote area.
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Admission requirements
The University of Western Australia welcomes applications from international and domestic school-leavers. If you’re interested in studying this major, find out the admission details below.
Minimum entry requirements
- 8
- 525
- 3.3
- 27
- 8
- 66
- 60
- 270
- 75
- 80
- 320
- 8
- 7
Admission requirements
English competency
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Course details
Quick details
- Available
- Perth (Crawley campus)
- Full-time
- Part-time
- On-campus
- Semester 1, Semester 2
- 12 contact hours in classes, plus at least twice as many hours again for study in your own time.
- Undergraduate
- MJD-PPEDM
- 3 years (BPPE); 4 years (BPhil [Hons])
Why study Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- UWA is the only university in Western Australia to offer a Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics
- Students will study all three disciplines with leading experts in their respective fields – in particular, academics whose research straddles the three disciplines
- The program includes specially designed interdisciplinary units of study, where students will bring the tools of all three disciplines to bear upon pressing social, political and economic questions
You'll learn to
- apply the tools of each discipline to problems with political, philosophical and economic dimensions (e.g. inequality, criminal justice, climate change) and so learn to think about complex social issues in a genuinely interdisciplinary manner
- study how insights from each of the three disciplines bear upon issues in the others
- exercise invaluable critical thinking and analytical skills, and see how they can be deployed in a wide variety of contexts
Your degree options
This major is offered as a degree-specific, or first, major for these degrees.
Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours)
Professor Benjamin Reilly
Professor Benjamin Reilly
Professor Benjamin Reilly is an internationally recognised political scientist at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in the School of Social Sciences and a Fellow at UWA’s Public Policy Institute.
His research focuses on designing political institutions to manage conflicts in both emerging and established democracies, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. He has worked with the Australian Government, the United Nations and other international organisations advising governments on public policy issues of democratic governance, electoral system reform, and party politics in post-conflict environments. He is currently working with electoral reformers in the United States on the introduction of ranked choice (preferential) voting.