At Roehampton the BA Honours Degree in Politics Philosophy and Ecomomics is essentially about action and decisionmaking the art and science of the possible Working in a political or economic or business environment means employing the best strategies to negotiate your way to your objectives This is why the practical dimension of the degree has a focus on actual negotiation skills the secondyear module Political Skills Negotiation teaching for example the Harvard Negotiation Method and leadership and communication skills Allied to this PPE at Roehampton is designed to produce effective decisionmakers out in the world informed by the best ways of negotiating through political and business systems ethical and philosophical principles regarding the good of humankind and economic choices regarding the best uses of increasingly scarce resources