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Programme Code: UBPOL

Department: Government

For students starting this programme of study in 2018/19

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

See note

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

Year 1

Paper 1

GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

Paper 2

GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

EC100 Economics A (1.0) #

 

EC102 Economics B (1.0) # A

 

EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0)

 

GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0)

 

HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0)

 

HY116 International History since 1890 (1.0)

 

HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0)

 

IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0)

 

MG103 Management, Labour and Work (1.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

 

PH101 Logic (1.0)

 

PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) #

 

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation (1.0) #

 

SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0)

 

SA101 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0)

 

SA104 Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) #

 

SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0)

 

SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0)

Paper 4

Approved courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following:

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)

Year 2

Papers 5, 6 & 7

Courses to the value of 3.0 unit(s) from the following:

Government List A

Paper 8

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following: B

Government List A

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Year 3

Paper 9

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Government List B

Paper 10

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Government List B

Paper 11

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following: C

Government List B

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Paper 12

GV390 Government Dissertation Option (1.0)

 

OR

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

Government List B

 

OR

Approved courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following:

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Notes

LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification.

Government List A

GV225 Public Choice and Politics (1.0) #

GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) #

GV247 Theories and Problems of Nationalism (1.0) #  (withdrawn 2018/19)

GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) #

GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0)

GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) #

GV262 Contemporary Political Theory (1.0) #

GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0) #

GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0) #

Government List B

GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) #

GV306 Global Public Policy (0.5) #

GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (0.5)

GV308 Leadership in the Political World (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV311 British Government (1.0) #

GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5) #

GV314 Empirical Research in Government (1.0)

GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (0.5)

GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice (0.5) #

GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) #

GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV320 Populism (0.5)

GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) #

GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5)

GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5)

GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) #

GV335 African Political Economy (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World (1.0) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0)

GV3A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union (0.5)

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)

Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code.

Please note that some course combinations are not allowed. Please see the Mutually Exclusive Options list.

The courses available as outside options where regulations permit are:

Outside Options for students in Year 1:

AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5)

AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5)

AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0)

AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0)

AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0)

EC100 Economics A (1.0) #

EC102 Economics B (1.0) #

EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0)

EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0) *

FM101 Finance (0.5) #

GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0)

GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0)

GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0)

GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0)

GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0)

GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0)

HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY116 International History since 1890 (1.0)

HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0)

IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0)

LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0)

LL105 Property I (0.5)

LL106 Public Law (1.0)

LL108 Criminal Law (1.0)

LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (0.5)

LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) #

LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN131 French Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) (1.0) #

LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) (1.0) #

LN250 English Literature and Society (1.0) #

LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) #

LN252 Global Literature and Society (1.0) #

LN253 European Literature and Philosophy (1.0) #

LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics (1.0) #

LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0)

LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) #

MA100 Mathematical Methods (1.0) #

MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (1.0) #

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) # *

MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (1.0) #

MG104 Operations Management (0.5) #

MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (0.5) #

PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science (1.0) #

PB102 Social Psychology (1.0)

PH101 Logic (1.0)

PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) #

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation (1.0) #

SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0)

SA101 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0)

SA104 Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) #

SA224 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) #

SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0)

SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life (1.0)

SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0)

ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory (1.0) #

ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) #

ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (1.0) #

Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g. Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code.

Please note that some course combinations are not allowed. Please see the Mutually Exclusive Options list.

An outside paper may be selected from the Undergraduate Course Guides, subject to the approval of the candidate's tutor and to the successful completion of prerequisites where necessary, with the following exceptions:

- certain first-year courses are not available to students in the second or third year of their degree;
- some courses are not available as an outside option; and
- some papers are mutually exclusive and may therefore not be combined.

The courses available as outside options where regulations permit are:

Outside Options for students in Year 2 and Year 3:

AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5)

AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5)

AC211 Managerial Accounting (1.0) # *

AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0) #

AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation. (1.0) # *

AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management (1.0) # *

AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0)

AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0)

AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0)

AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0)

AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) #

AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)

AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology (1.0)

AN237 The Anthropology of Development (0.5)

AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) #

AN244 Anthropology and Media (0.5) *  (not available 2018/19)

AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5)

AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) #

AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5)

AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) *  (not available 2018/19)

AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # *

AN278 Anthropology and Global History (0.5) #

AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology (0.5) *

AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5)

EC100 Economics A (1.0) #

EC102 Economics B (1.0) # ~A

EC201 Microeconomic Principles I (1.0) #

EC202 Microeconomic Principles II (1.0) #

EC210 Macroeconomic Principles (1.0) #

EC220 Introduction to Econometrics (1.0) # *

EC221 Principles of Econometrics (1.0) # *

EC230 Economics in Public Policy (1.0) #

EC301 Advanced Economic Analysis (1.0) #

EC302 Political Economy (1.0) #

EC307 Development Economics (1.0) #

EC309 Econometric Theory (1.0) # *

EC310 Behavioural Economics (1.0) #

EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0) *

EC313 Industrial Economics (1.0) #

EC315 International Economics (1.0) #

EC317 Labour Economics (1.0) #

EC319 Games and Economic Behaviour (1.0) #

EC321 Monetary Economics (1.0) # *

EC325 Public Economics (1.0) #

EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics (1.0) # *

EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0)

EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0)

EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0)

EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 (1.0)

EH208 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) *

EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0)

EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0)

EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0)

EH311 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) *

FM212 Principles of Finance (1.0) #

FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) #

FM320 Quantitative Finance (1.0) #

GI200 Gender, Politics and Civil Society (1.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0)

GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0)

GV225 Public Choice and Politics (1.0) #

GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) # *  (not available 2018/19)

GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) #

GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # *

GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0) *

GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) #

GV262 Contemporary Political Theory (1.0) #

GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0) #

GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0) #

GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) # *

GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (0.5)

GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # *  (not available 2018/19)

GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice (0.5) # *

GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) # *

GV320 Populism (0.5)

GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) # *

GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5) *

GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5) *

GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) # *

GV335 African Political Economy (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0)

GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0)

GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0)

GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0)

GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0)

GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0)

GY205 Political Geographies (1.0)

GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5)

GY207 Economy, Society and Space (0.5)

GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # *

GY210 The Economics of Cities (0.5) #

GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0)

GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0)

GY307 Regional Economic Development (0.5) *  (not available 2018/19)

GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) *

GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5)

GY310 Urban Politics (0.5)

GY311 The Political Economy of Urbanisation (0.5) *

GY312 Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5)

GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # *

GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # *

GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5)

GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5)

GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)

GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5)

GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) #

GY331 Geographies of Global Migration (0.5) *

HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY116 International History since 1890 (1.0)

HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) *

HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0)

HY221 The History of Russia, 1682-1825 (1.0)

HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0)

HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 (1.0)

HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0)

HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0)

HY239 Latin America and the United States since 1898 (1.0)

HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0)

HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0)

HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0)

HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0) #

HY244 Britain’s Atlantic World, 1688-1837 (1.0)

HY245 The United States and the World since 1776 (1.0) *

HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) *

HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) *

HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0)

HY319 Napoleon and Europe (1.0) *

HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0)

HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 (1.0) *

HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0)

HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0)

HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 (1.0) *

HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0)  (not available 2018/19)

HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0)  (not available 2018/19)

HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) *

HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (1.0) *

HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0)

HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0)

IR200 International Political Theory (1.0)

IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0)

IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice (0.0)

IR203 International Organisations (1.0) #

IR205 International Security (1.0)

IR206 International Political Economy (1.0) *

IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0)

IR312 Genocide (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory (1.0) #

IR317 American Grand Strategy (0.5) # *

IR318 Visual International Politics (0.5) # *

IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (0.5) # *

IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) *

IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) *

IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # *

IR355 Economic Diplomacy (0.5) # *

IR367 Global Environmental Politics (0.5) # *

IR368 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5) # *

IR369 Politics of Money in the World Economy (0.5) # *

IR378 Critical War Studies (0.5) *

LL100 Foundational Legal Skills (0.0) *

LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0)

LL105 Property I (0.5)

LL106 Public Law (1.0)

LL108 Criminal Law (1.0)

LL201 Administrative Law (1.0)

LL202 Commercial Contracts (1.0) # *

LL203 Law of Business Associations (Company Law) (1.0) # *

LL204 Advanced Torts (1.0) # *

LL205 Medical Law (1.0) *

LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights (1.0) *

LL210 Information Technology and the Law (1.0) # *

LL212 Conflict of Laws (1.0) # *

LL221 Family Law (1.0) *

LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0)

LL233 Law of Evidence (1.0) *

LL241 European Legal History (1.0)  (not available 2018/19)

LL242 International Protection of Human Rights (1.0) # *

LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0)

LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0)

LL257 Employment Law (1.0) *

LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0)

LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology (0.5) # *

LL275 Property II (1.0) *

LL278 Public International Law (1.0)

LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice (0.5) *

LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0)

LL295 Media Law (1.0)

LL300 Competition Law (1.0)

LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) *

LL305 Jurisprudence (1.0) *

LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) #

LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) #

LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) #

LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) #

LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced) (1.0) # *

LN131 French Language and Society 1 (beginner) (1.0) # *

LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # *

LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) (1.0) #

LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) #

LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) #

LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) (1.0) #

LN250 English Literature and Society (1.0) #

LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) #

LN252 Global Literature and Society (1.0) #

LN253 European Literature and Philosophy (1.0) #

LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics (1.0) #

LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0)

LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery) (1.0) #

LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) #

MA100 Mathematical Methods (1.0) #

MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics (1.0) #

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) # *

MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (1.0) #

MA203 Real Analysis (0.5) #

MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) #

MA208 Optimisation Theory (0.5) #

MA209 Differential Equations (0.5) #

MA210 Discrete Mathematics (0.5) #

MA211 Algebra and Number Theory (0.5) #

MA212 Further Mathematical Methods (1.0) #

MA231 Operational Research Methods (1.0) #

MA300 Game Theory (1.0) #

MA301 Game Theory I (0.5) #

MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems (0.5) #

MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces (0.5) #

MA310 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) #

MA313 Probability for Finance (0.5) #

MA314 Algorithms and Programming (0.5) #

MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5) # *

MA316 Graph Theory (0.5) #

MA317 Complex Analysis (0.5) #

MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (0.5) #

MA319 Partial Differential Equations (0.5) # *

MA320 Mathematics of Networks (0.5) # *

MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5) # ~B  (not available 2018/19)

MG205 Econometrics: Theory and Applications (1.0) #

MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (0.5) #

MG207 Managerial Economics (1.0) #

MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

MG209 E-business (0.5)

MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) #

MG212 Marketing (0.5)

MG213 Information Systems (0.5)

MG214 Human Resource Management (0.5) # *

MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

MG301 Strategy (1.0) # ~C

MG302 Topics in Management Research (0.5) # ~D

MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) #

MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5)

MG307 International Context of Management (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis (0.5) #

MG310 Analytics for Strategic Decisions (0.5) #

MG311 Foundations of Behavioural Decision Science (0.5) #

MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) #

MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project (0.5) #

PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science (1.0) #

PB102 Social Psychology (1.0)

PH101 Logic (1.0) ~E

PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) #

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation (1.0) #

PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0) #

PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1.0) # *

PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) #

PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic (1.0) # *

PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy (1.0) #

PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0)

PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) #

PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (0.5)

PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) #

PH232 Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) #

PH311 Philosophy of Economics (1.0) #

PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5)  (not available 2018/19)

SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0) * ~F

SA101 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0) * ~G

SA104 Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) # ~1 * ~H

SA201 Research Methods for Social Policy (1.0) * ~I

SA204 Education Policy (1.0) *

SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0)

SA218 Criminological Perspectives (1.0)  (not available 2018/19)

SA219 Comparative and International Social Policy (1.0) # *

SA221 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0)

SA223 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0)

SA224 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) #

SA302 Assessing Social Progress (1.0) #  (not available 2018/19)

SA303 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5)

SA304 Migration: Current research, critical approaches (0.5)

SA309 Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies (1.0)

SA319 Social Security Policies (0.5) *

SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0)

SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life (1.0)

SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0)

SO201 Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory (1.0)

SO203 Political Sociology (1.0)

SO208 Gender and Society (1.0)

SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0)

SO221 Researching London: Advanced Social Research Methods (1.0)

SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (1.0)

SO230 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (1.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

SO231 Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (0.5) *  (not available 2018/19)

SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness (0.5) # *

SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5) # *

SO234 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (0.5) # *

SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family (1.0)

SO309 Atrocity and Justice (0.5) #  (not available 2018/19)

SO310 The Sociology of Elites (0.5) #

SO311 Law and Violence (0.5) # ~J

SO312 Work, Inequality and Society (0.5) #

SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life (0.5) #

ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory (1.0) #

ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) #

ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (1.0) #

ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (0.5) #

ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) #

ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (0.5)

ST211 Applied Regression (0.5) #

ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) #

ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial (0.5) #

ST227 Survival Models (0.5) #

ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models (0.5) # *

ST302 Stochastic Processes (0.5) #

ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (0.5) #

ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General) (0.5) #

ST307 Aspects of Market Research (0.5) #

ST308 Bayesian Inference (0.5) #

ST309 Elementary Data Analytics (0.5) #

ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach (1.0) #

Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

~A : EC102 is dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background.

~B : MA331 can be taken in Year 3 only.

~C : MG301 can be taken in Year 3 only.

~D : MG302 can be taken in Year 3 only.

~E : PH101 is not available to BSc in Economics students.

~F : SA100 can be taken in Year 2 only.

~G : SA101 is not to be taken by third year Social Policy students.

~H : SA104 is only available to second year students who have taken SA100.

~I : SA201 is not to be taken by second or third year Sociology students.

~J : SO311 is available in Year 3 only.

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)

~1 : Before taking SA104 you must take SA100

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

* means available with permission

Footnotes

A : EC102 course allocation dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background. See course guide for further information.

B : Courses selected from the Undergraduate Outside Options List must be approved.

C : Courses selected from the Undergraduate Outside Options List must be approved.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the undergraduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the undergraduate summary page for future students.

 
 
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