New programmes for 2015-16
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new programmes in 2015-16. Links to  programme regulations and course information will be added when available.

Department of Anthropology

MRes/PhD in Anthropology

Department of Management

MSc in Human Resources and Organisations

Department of Media and Communications

MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society) - new programme stream

Institute of Public Affairs

Executive Master in Public Policy

Department of Social Policy

MSc in Global Health

MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences

Department of Sociology

MSc in Inequalities and Social Science

Suspended programmes for 2015-16
The following programmes have been suspended for the 2015-16 session.

Department of Anthropology:

MSc in Social Anthropology (Learning and Cognition)

Department of Government

MSc Global Politics (Civil Society Stream)

Department of Social Psychology:

MSc in Health, Community and Development

Withdrawn programmes for 2015-16
The following programmes have been withdrawn for the 2015-16 session.

Department of Anthropology:

MPhil/PhD in Anthropology

MSc in Social Anthropology (Research)

Department of Management:

MSc International Employment Relations and Human Resources Management

MSc Management and Human Resources

MSc Organisational Behaviour

Programme title changes from 2015-16
The following programmes have changed title from the 2015-16 session.

European Institute:

MSc in European Studies: Ideas and Identities

MSc in European Studies: Ideas, Ideologies and Identities

MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union

MSc in EU Politics

Department of Social Policy:

MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management (modular)

Executive MSc in Health Economics, Policy and Management

Substantive changes to Programme regulations from 2015-16
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2015-16 session.

Department of Economics

MRes/PhD in Economics

Department of Geography and Environment

MSc Urbanisation and Development

New courses for 2015-16 
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2015-16.

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN471 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists

AN474 Subjectivity and Anthropology (H)

AN472 Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social Sciences

AN475 The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

Department of Economics courses:

EC465 Economic Growth, Development, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective

European Institute courses:

EU477 Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (H)

Gender Institute courses:

GI423 Globalisation and Sexuality (H)

GI425 Women, Peace and Security (H)

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY452 Urban Research Methods (H)

GY459 Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (H)

Department of Government courses:

GV4H6 Behavioural and Experimental Political Economy (H)

GV4J3 Public Opinion, Political Psychology and Citizenship (H)

GV4H9 Armed Groups: Violence, Governance, and Mobilization (H)

GV517 Comparative Political Economy: New Approaches and Issues in CPE

Institute of Public Affairs courses:

GV4J1E Public Policy in Practice Workshop I (EMPP) (H)

Department of International Development courses:

DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H)

DV531 Development Management

DV518 African Development (H)

DV545 Research Themes in International Development (H)

DV520 Complex Emergencies (H)

DV590 Economic Development Policy I (H)

DV528 Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV591 Economic Development Policy II (H)

Department of International History courses:

HY448 Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950

HY449 Long-term History: The Patterns of the Past and the Shape of Things to Come

HY460 Ideologies and Political Thought in Germany in the Era of Extremes (1914-1990)

Department of International Relations courses:

IR453 Global Business in International Relations (H)

IR454 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (H)

Department of Management courses:

MG4E1 Algorithmic Techniques for Data Mining (H)

MG504 General Management PhD research seminar

Department of Media and Communications courses:

MC429 Humanitarian Communication: vulnerability, discourse and power (H)

MC430 Data in Communication and Society (H)

Department of Methodology courses:

MY454 Applied Statistical Computing using R (H)

MY554 Applied Statistical Computing using R (H)

MY465 Intermediate Quantitative Analysis (H)

MY565 Intermediate Quantitative Analysis (H)

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA4M6 Economic Analysis for Health Policy (H)

SA4N3 Social Policy and Global Health (H)

SA4M6E Economic Analysis for Health Policy (H)

SA4N4 Financing Health Care: Global Perspectives (H)

SA4M7E Quality and Outcomes in Cardiovascular Sciences (H)

SA4N5 Global Ageing (H)

SA4M8E Economic Evaluation in Health Care (H)

SA4N6 Principles of Modern Epidemiology (H)

SA4M9E Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (H)

Department of Social Psychology courses:

PS4A5 Methods for Social Psychology Research: Fundamental Qualitative and Fundamental Quantitative Methods

Department of Sociology courses:

SO478 Inequality and its Social Scientific Analysis

SO495 MSc in Economy, Risk and Society Dissertation

SO483 Social Change Organizations (H)

SO496 MSc in Human Rights Dissertation

SO493 MSc in Culture and Society Dissertation

SO497 MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Dissertation

SO494 MSc in Political Sociology Dissertation

Department of Statistics courses:

ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (H)

ST501 Multilevel Modelling (H)

ST444 Statistical Computing (H)

ST542 Longitudinal Data Analysis (H)

Suspended courses for 2015-16
We regret we are unable to offer the following courses in the 2015-16 session. For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H)

AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H)

AN437 Anthropology of Learning and Cognition

AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (H)

AN439 Anthropology and Human Rights (H)

AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN441 Anthropological Fieldwork Methods

AN473 Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)

AN444 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H)

AN501 Field Research Seminar (Anthropology)

AN449 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H)

AN900 A Programme of Ethnographic Films

AN455 Statistics and Causal Analysis for Social Anthropologists (H)

Department of Economic History courses:

EH423 Japan and Korea as Developing Economies

EH424 The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000

EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science

EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity

EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History

EH451 Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History

EH467 Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, 1348-2000

European Institute courses:

EU426 The West: Identity and Interests (H)

EU432 The Philosophy of Europe (H)

EU427 European Public and Economic Policy

EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity (H)

EU431 European Integration from a Global Perspective (H)

EU474 Contested Ideas in EU Law and Government (H)

EU473 Informal Governance

Department of International Development courses:

DV423 Global Political Economy of Development (H)

DV434 Human Security (H)

DV429 Global Civil Society (H)

DV415 Global Environmental Governance

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions

Department of Finance courses:

FM438 Advanced Asset Pricing

FM4U3 Advanced Asset Pricing Dissertation

FM440 Corporate Finance Theory

FM4T0 Financial Risk Analysis - Dissertation

FM4T3 Corporate Finance Theory - Dissertation

Gender Institute courses:

GI411 Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

GI419 Gender and Contemporary Social Movements

Department of Government courses:

GV403 Network Regulation

GV4G6 Nationalism and Global Politics

GV476 Twentieth Century European Liberal Thought

GV4H2 Contemporary India: The World's Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century

GV498 Multiculturalism

GV4H6 Behavioural and Experimental Political Economy

GV4A2 Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities

GV4H7: Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective

GV4C4 Legislative Politics: US

GV510 Ethnicity and Nationalism Research Workshop

GV4D7: Dilemmas of Equality

GV513 Qualitative Methods in the Study of Politics

GV4E8 Conflict and Institutional Design in Divided Societies

GV515 Researching People, Politics and Organisations

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South

GY432 Urban Ethnography

GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia

GY441 The Politics of Housing

Department of History courses:

HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe

HY439 War Cultures, 1890-1945

HY444 The Cold War in Latin America

Department of International Relations courses:

IR422 Conflict and Peace Studies

IR431 European Union Policy Making in a Global-Context

IR453 Global Business in International Relations

IR460 Comparative Political Economy

IR462 Introduction to International Political Theory

IR463 The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention

IR465 The International Politics of Culture and Religion

IR467 International Political Economy of the Environment

IR482 Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Security Policies

Department of Law courses:

LL407 Media and Communications Regulation (H)

LL4BY An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women (H)

LL4AE Rethinking International Law II: International Legal Thought (H)

LL4BZ International Human Rights of Women: Advanced Issues (H)

LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H)

LL4CF UK Corporate Law (H)

LL4AZ International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (H)

LL4F6 International Dispute Resolution: Non-Adjudicatory (H)

LL4BE Principles of Financial Regulation (H)

LL4G8 Law of Corporate Finance (H)

LL4BM The Legal Protection of Inventions (H)

LL4K5 International Commercial Contracts - General Principles (H)

LL4BN Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (H)

LL4K6 International Uniform Sales Law (H)

LL4BP Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law (H)

LL4L7 Advanced Mediation  (H)

LL4BQ Trade Mark Law (H)

LL4Z9 Banking Law (H)

LL4BX Corporate Governance - Advanced Topics (H)

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA418 Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, and Equilibrium

Department of Media & Communication courses:

MC416 Representation in the Age of Globalisation

Department of Management courses:

MG402 Public Management: A Strategic Approach

MG404 Behavioural Fundamentals for Marketing and Management (H)

MG453 Managing Digital Business

MG474 Managing Diversity in Organisations

MG476 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards

MG4A7 Solving Unsolvable Problems: NP- completeness and how to cope with it

MG4B2 Personnel Economics

MG4B4 Advanced Topics in Operational Research

MG4D1 International and Comparative Human Resource Management

MG4D3 The Dark Side of the Organisation

Department of Methodology courses:

MY429 Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H)

MY529 Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H)

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH429 Global Justice

Department of Social Psychology courses:

PS461 Health, Community and Development

PS409 Political Psychology of Intercultural Relations

PS411 Current Communication Research

PS439 Science, Technology and Resistance

PS460 Inter-cultural Relations and Racism

PS461 Health, Community and Development

PS464 Social Influence

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA493 Demographic Change and Development

SA4L6 Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice

SA4E6 Rural Development and Social Policy

SA4M1 Politics of Social Policy: Welfare and Work in Comparative Perspective

SA4G5 Valuation, Behaviour and Policy

SA4X6E Welfare Analysis and Measurement

SA4L2 Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy

Department of Sociology courses:

SO430 Economic Sociology

SO433 Cultural Theory

SO438 Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work

SO471 Technology, Power and Culture

SO477 Urban Social Theory

SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory

SO480 Urban Inequalities

SO521 Research Seminar on Cities and Space

Department of Statistics courses:

ST441 Introduction to Markov Processes and their Applications

Withdrawn courses for 2015-16
The following courses will be permanently withdrawn, and no longer available in the 2015-16 session. For alternative option courses, please consult your academic adviser.

Department of Accounting courses:

AC410 Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control

AC464 Management Accounting and Financial Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting and Disclosure

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN462 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H)

AN468 The Anthropology of Schooling (H)

AN463 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H)

Department of Economic History courses:

EH412 Research Topics in Economic History A

EH419 Research Topics in Economic History

EH466 Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe

Department of Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour courses:

ID436 Advanced and Emerging Topics in Organisational Behaviour

ID441 Contemporary Issues in HR Management

ID496 Dissertation: Organisational Behaviour

ID499 Dissertation

European Institute courses:

EU462 Partisanship in Europe (H)

Gender Institute courses:

GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY445 Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South

Department of International Development courses:

DV410.1 Social Research Methods in Developing Countries

DV441 Development Policy and Management

Department of International History:

HY426 The European Enlightenment, c1680-1799

HY442 Secret Intelligence in the 20th century

HY447 Hacking The Archive

HY470 What is international about the 'International'?

Department of International Relations:

IR407 International Political Economy of the Environment

IR429 Economic Diplomacy

IR437 Postcolonial Perspectives in International Relations

IR451 Politics of Money in the World Economy

IR467 The Political Economy of International Trade

Department of Law:

LL4G9 European Monetary and Banking Law

LL4K2 Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions

Department of Management courses:

IS416 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (H)

MG444 Getting Things Done With Research

MG4C4 Human Resource Management and Employment Regulation

MG489 Professional Development Programme and Business Project

Department of Methodology courses:

MY593 Authoring a PhD and Developing as a Researcher

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH458 Evidence and Policy (H)

PH459 Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy (H)

Department of Social Psychology:

PS447 Psychoanalysis and Communication

PS4A1 Methods for Social Psychology Research: Fundamental Qualitative and Fundamental Quantitative Methods

PS4A2 Methods for Social Psychology Research: Advanced Qualitative and Fundamental Quantitative Methods

PS4A3 Methods for Social Psychology Research: Advanced Quantitative and Fundamental Qualitative Methods

PS4A4 Methods for Social Psychology Research: Advanced Qualitative and Advanced Quantitative Methods

Department of Sociology:

SO420 Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power

SO466 Race and Biopolitics

Course code changes from 2015-16
The following courses have changed codes for the 2015-16 session.  Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School.

Old code

New code

Department of Accounting courses:

AC410 Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control

AC415 (H) - change to half unit

Gender Institute courses:

GI400 Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach

GI424 (H) - change to half unit

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY445 Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South

GY459 (H) - change to half unit

Department of International Development courses:

DV409 Economic Development Policy

DV490 (H) - change to half unit

DV491 (H) - change to half unit

DV452 Humanitarian Consultancy Project

DV453 (H) - change to half unit

Department of International Relations courses:

IR429 Economic Diplomacy

IR455 (H) - change to half unit

IR407 International Political Economy of the Environment

IR467 (H) - change to half unit

IR451 Politics of Money in the World Economy

IR469 (H) - change to half unit

IR457 The Political Economy of International Trade

Code and title changed to: IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (H) - change to half unit

Department of Management courses:

For a full list of Management code changes please click here.

Course title changes from 2015-16
The following courses have changed title from the 2015-16 session.

Old title

New title

Department of Finance courses:

FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students

Computational Tools in Finance

Department of Government courses:

GV4F4 The politics of Policy Advice

Policy Advice in Theory and Practice

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY400 The Economics of Urbanization in Developing Countries

The Economics of Urbanisation

GY445 Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South

Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South (H)

Department of International History courses:

HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama bin Laden

Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS

Department of International Relations courses:

IR454 History of International Political Economy-Theories & Practice (H)

Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (H)

Department of Law courses:

LL433E EU State Aid Law

State and Market in the EU

LL436E Philosophy of EU Law (H)

Rethinking EU Law (H)

Department of Management courses:

MG414 Public Management and Governance

Integrative Problem Solving in Organisations

MG415 Policy Analysis, Evaluation and Implementation

Thinking like a Policy Analyst

MG454 Leadership (modular)

Leadership in Practice (modular)

MG493 Human Resource Policy and Practice (formerly ID493)

Developing Professional Research and Employability Skills

Department of Methodology courses:

MY459 Special Topics in quantitative Analysis: Applied Statistical Computing (H)

Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (H)

MY559 Special Topics in quantitative Analysis: Applied Statistical Computing (H)

Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis (H)

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH430 Chaos and Spacetime Introduction to Philosophy of Physics I

Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe

PH431 Quanta and Entropy - Introduction to Philosophy of Physics II

Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes

Department of Sociology courses:

SO465 City-making: the Politics of Urban Form

City-Making: the Politics of Urban Form