Outside Options

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Outside options for first year students

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 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 letters in its code.

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

The courses available for this purpose in your first year are:

(H) means a half-unit course
(n/a 16/17) means not available in the 2016/17 academic year
* means available with permission

AC100	Elements of Accounting and Finance
AN100	Introduction to Social Anthropology
AN101	Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts
AN102	Anthropology, Text and Film
EC100	Economics A (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background)
EC102	Economics B (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background)
EH101	The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the Present Day
EH102	Pre-industrial Economic History *
GV100	Introduction to Political Theory
GV101	Introduction to Political Science
GY100	Introduction to Geography
GY103	Contemporary Europe
GY120	The Natural Environment
GY121	Environmental Change and sustainable Development
GY140	Methods in Spatial and Social Analysis
HY113	Empire to Independence: the Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY116	International History since 1890
HY118	Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800
IR100	Concepts of International Society
LL104	Law of Obligations
LL105	Property I
LL106	Public Law
LL108	Criminal Law
LL109	Introduction to the Legal System
LN100	Russian Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN101	Russian Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN102	Russian Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN104	Mandarin Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN110	Intensive German Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN112	German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN120	Spanish Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN121	Spanish Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN122	Spanish Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN130	French Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN131	French Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN132	French Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN140	Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN142	Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN200	Russian Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN210	German Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN220	Spanish Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN230	French Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN240	Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN250	English Literature and Society
LN251	Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History
LN252	Contemporary Literature and Global Society
LN253	European Literature and Society
LN254	Literature and Aspects of Ethics
LN270	Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists
LN320	Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN330	French Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN340	Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
MA100	Mathematical Methods
MA103	Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
MA107	Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) *
MA110	Basic Quantitative Methods
MG100	Leadership and Communication in Teams (H)
MG101	Core Business Disciplines: Finance and Operations Management
MG102	Organisational Behaviour (H)
MG103	Management, Labour and Work
PH101	Logic (not available to BSc in Economics students)
PH103	Reason, Knowledge and Values: An Introduction to Philosophy
PH104	Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation
PS102	Social Psychology *
PS110	Foundations of Psychological Science
SA100	Foundations of Social Policy *
SA101	Sociology and Social Policy
SA103	Introduction to Global Population Change
SA104	Social Economics and Policy *
SA105	Crime and Society
SO100	Social Theory
SO102	Statistics in Society
SO110	Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology
ST102	Elementary Statistical Theory
ST107	Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H)
ST108	Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences

Outside options for second and third year students

Where undergraduate programme regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department this will be a paper in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. 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;
	some papers are mutually exclusive and may therefore not be combined.

The following are courses that are available to second and/or third year students as an outside option where regulations permit.

(H) means a half-unit course
(n/a 16/17) means not available in the 2016/17 academic year
* means available with permission

AC100	Elements of Accounting and Finance
AC211	Managerial Accounting *
AC310	Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organizational Control
AC330	Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation *
AN100	Introduction to Social Anthropology
AN101	Ethnography & Theory: Selected Texts
AN102	Anthropology, Text and Film
AN200	The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN205	The Anthropology of Melanesia (n/a 16/17)
AN216	Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN221	The Anthropology of Christianity (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN223	The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN226	Political and Legal Anthropology
AN230	The Anthropology of Industrialization and Industrial Life (H) (withdrawn 16/17)
AN231	The Anthropology of China (H) (withdrawn 16/17)
AN237	The Anthropology of Development
AN238	Anthropology and Human Rights (H) * (n/a 16/17)
AN240	Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts
AN243	Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (n/a 16/17)
AN244	Anthropology and Media (H) * (n/a 16/17)
AN247	The Anthropology of Ontology (H)
AN250	The Anthropology of South Asia (H)
AN251	Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN252	Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)
AN256	Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (H) *
AN269	The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN274	Subjectivity and Anthropology (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN275	The Anthropology of Revolution (H) (n/a 16/17)
AN298	Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H) *
EC100	Economics A (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background)
EC102	Economics B (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background)
EC201	Microeconomic Principles I
EC202	Microeconomic Principles II
EC210	Macroeconomic Principles
EC220	Introduction to Econometrics *
EC221	Principles of Econometrics
EC230	Economics in Public Policy
EC301	Advanced Economic Analysis
EC302	Political Economy
EC303	Economic Policy Analysis * (n/a 16/17)
EC307	Development Economics
EC309	Econometric Theory *
EC310	Behavioural Economics
EC311	History of Economics: How Theories Change *
EC313	Industrial Economics
EC315	International Economics
EC317	Labour Economics
EC319	Mathematical Economics
EC321	Monetary Economics *
EC325	Public Economics
EC333	Problems of Applied Econometrics *
EH101	Internationalization of Economic Growth
EH102	Pre-industrial Economic History *
EH204	Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
EH205	Towns, Society and Economy in England and Europe, 1450-1750 (withdrawn 16/17)
EH207	The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 (n/a 16/17)
EH211	Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000
EH225	Latin America and the International Economy
EH238	The Industrial Revolution
EH240	Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context
EH307	The Economic History of South Asia, 1600-2000 *
FM212	Principles of Finance
FM300	Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets
FM320	Quantitative Finance
GI200	Gender, Politics and Civil Society
GV100	Introduction to Political Theory
GV101	Introduction to Political Science
GV225	Public Choice and Politics
GV227	The Politics of Economic Policy *
GV245	Democracy and Democratisation
GV248	Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives *
GV249	Research Design in Political Science *
GV251	Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union
GV262	Contemporary Political Theory
GV263	Public Policy Analysis
GV264	Politics and Institutions in Europe
GV302	Key Themes in the History of Political Thought *
GV306	Global Public Policy (H) * (n/a 16/17)
GV312	Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics * (n/a 16/17)
GV315	Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (H) *
GV316	Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (H) *
GV317	The Modern State - Theory and Practice (H)
GV318	Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (H) *
GV325	Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H)
GV335	African Political Economy (H)
GY100	Introduction to Geography
GY103	Contemporary Europe
GY120	The Natural Environment
GY121	Environmental Change and Sustainable Development
GY140	Methods in Spatial and Social Analysis
GY200	Economy, Society and Space
GY201	Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis I
GY202	Introduction to Development in the South
GY205	Political Geographies, Policy and Space
GY220	Environment: Science and Society
GY222	Applied Environmental Economics
GY244	London's Geographies: An Introduction to Cultural and Historical Geography
GY300	Theories of Regional Development and Change
GY301	Political Geography of Development and the South
GY302	Urban Development: Politics, Policy and Planning
GY303	The Geography of Gender: Global Perspectives (n/a 16/17)
GY305	Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis II *
GY306	Geographies of Race
GY324	Environmental Governance
GY325	Environment and Development
HY113	From Empire to Independence: the Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY116	International History since 1890
HY200	The Rights of 'Man': the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International * (n/a 16/17)
HY203	The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion *
HY206	The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989
HY216	Four Reichs: Austria, Prussia and the Contest for Germany since 1618 (withdrawn 16/17)
HY221	The History of Russia, 1682-1825
HY226	The Great War 1914-1918
HY232	War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990
HY233	Empire and Nation: Britain and India since 1750 (n/a 16/17)
HY235	Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840
HY238	The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992
HY239	Latin America and the United States since 1898
HY240	From Empire to Commonwealth: War, Race and Imperialism in British History, 1780 to 1979.
HY241	What is History? Methods and Debates
HY242	The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History
HY243	Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800
HY311	Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) *
HY315	The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (n/a 16/17)
HY319	Napoleon and Europe
HY320	The Cold War Endgame
HY321	The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 * (n/a 16/17)
HY322	Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945
HY323	Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825
HY324	Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 *
HY325	Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 *
HY326	Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900
HY327	The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 *
HY328	The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion * (n/a 16/17)
IR200	International Political Theory
IR202	Foreign Policy Analysis 1
IR202.2	Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice
IR203	International Organisations
IR204	International Political Economy (H) *
IR305	Strategic Aspects of International Relations
IR306	Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (withdrawn 16/17)
IR308	Systemic Change in the Twentieth Century: Theories of the Cold War (withdrawn 16/17)
IR311	Europe's Institutional Order (withdrawn 16/17)
IR312	Genocide
IR315	The Middle East and International Relations Theory
IR317	American Grand Strategy (H) *
IR318	Visual International Politics (H) *
IR319	Empire and Conflict in World Politics (H) *
IR322	Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (H) *
IR347	Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) *
IR354	Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (H) *
IR355	Economic Diplomacy (H) *
IR367	International Political Economy of the Environment (H) *
IR368	The Political Economy of Trade (H) *
IR369	Politics of Money in the World Economy (H) *
LL104	Law of Obligations
LL105	Property I
LL106	Public Law
LL108	Criminal Law
LL201	Administrative Law
LL202	Commercial Contracts *
LL203	Law of Business Associations *
LL204	Advanced Torts *
LL205	Medical Law *
LL207	Civil Liberties and Human Rights *
LL209	Commercial Law
LL210	Information Technology and the Law
LL212	Conflict of Laws *
LL221	Family Law *
LL232	Law and Institutions of the European Union
LL233	Law of Evidence *
LL241	European Legal History
LL242	International Protection of Human Rights *
LL250	Law and The Environment
LL251	Intellectual Property Law
LL257	Labour Law *
LL259	Legal and Social Change since 1750 (n/a 16/17)
LL272	Outlines of Modern Criminology
LL275	Property II *
LL278	Public International Law
LL284	Sentencing and Treatment of Offenders *
LL293	Taxation
LL295	Media Law
LL300	Competition Law *
LL301	Global Commodities Law *
LL305	Jurisprudence *
LN100	Russian Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN101	Russian Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN102	Russian Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN104	Mandarin Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN110	German Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN112	German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN120	Spanish Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN121	Spanish Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN122	Spanish Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN130	French Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN131	French Language and Society 1 (Beginner)
LN132	French Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN140	Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN142	Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN200	Russian Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN210	German Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN220	Spanish Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN230	French Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN240	Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN250	English Literature and Society
LN251	Comparative Literature and Society
LN252	Contemporary Literature and Global Society
LN253	European Literature and Society
LN254	Literature and Aspects of Ethics
LN270	Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists
LN320	Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN330	French Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN340	Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
MA100	Mathematical Methods
MA103	Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
MA107	Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) *
MA110	Basic Quantitative Methods
MA203	Real Analysis
MA207	Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA208	Optimisation Theory
MA209	Differential Equations
MA210	Discrete Mathematics
MA211	Algebra and Number Theory
MA212	Further Mathematical Methods
MA300	Game Theory
MA301	Game Theory I
MA303	Chaos in Dynamical Systems
MA305	Optimisation in Function Spaces
MA310	Mathematics of Finance and Valuation
MA313	Probability for Finance
MA314	Algorithms in Java
MA315	Algebra and its Applications
MA316	Graph Theory
MA317	Complex Analysis (H)
MA318	History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (H)
MA319	Partial Differential Equations (H) *
MA320	Mathematics of Networks (H) *
MG201	Core Disciplines II: Marketing, Human Resource Management and Information Systems (withdrawn 16/17)
MG203	Organisational Theory and Behaviour (n/a 16/17)
MG205	Learning from Quantitative Data
MG206	Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (H)
MG207	Managerial Economics
MG208	Business Transformation and Project Management (H)
MG209	E-business (H)
MG210	Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (H) (n/a 16/17)
MG211	Operational Research Methods
MG212	Marketing (H)
MG213	Information Systems (H)
MG214	Human Resource Management (H)
MG228	Managing the Stone-Age Brain (H)
MG301	Strategy (3rd year only)
MG302	Topics in Management Research (H) (3rd year only)
MG304	Digital Platform Innovation (H) (n/a 16/17)
MG305	Innovation and Technology Management (H)
MG306	Managing Diversity in Organisations (n/a 16/17)
MG307	International Context of Management (H)
MG308	Simulation Modelling and Analysis
MG309	International Human Resource Management (H) * (n/a 16/17)
MG310	Risk and Decision Analysis for Management and Policy (H)
MG311	Behavioural Decision Science for Management and Policy (H)
MG312	Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (H)
MG313	Practical Optimisation Modelling (H)
MG314	Principles of Marketing (H) (withdrawn 16/17)
MG315	Marketing Action Learning Project (H)
PH101	Logic (not available to BSc in Economics students)
PH103	Reason, Knowledge and Values: An Introduction to Philosophy
PH104	Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation
PH201	Philosophy of Science
PH203	Philosophy of the Social Sciences *
PH214	Morality and Values
PH217	Set Theory and Further Logic *
PH221	Problems of Analytic Philosophy
PH222	Philosophy and Public Policy
PH227	Genes, Brains, and Society: Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences (H)
PH228	Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H)
PH229	Global Justice (H) * (n/a 16/17)
PH230	Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe (H)
PH232	Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H)
PH311	Philosophy of Economics
PH332	Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H)
PS102	Self, Others and Society: Perspectives on Social and Applied Psychology *
PS110	Foundations of Psychological Science (2nd year only)
PS203	Societal Psychology: Theory and Applications (withdrawn 16/17)
SA100	Foundations of Social Policy (2nd year only) *
SA101	Sociology and Social Policy (not to be taken by 3rd year Social Policy students)
SA103	Introduction to Global Population Change
SA104	Social Economics and Policy (only available to 2nd year students who have taken SA100) *
SA105	Crime and Society (not to be taken by 3rd year Social Policy students) (n/a 16/17)
SA201	Research Methods for Social Policy (not to be taken by 2nd or 3rd year Sociology students) *
SA204	Education Policy *
SA217	Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice
SA218	Criminological Perspectives
SA219	Comparative and International Social Policy *
SA221	Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change
SA223	Health and Social Care Policy
SA250	Demographic Description and Analysis
SA302	Assessing Social Progress (n/a 16/17)
SA309	Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies
SA320	Comparative and International Social Policy *
SO100	Social Theory
SO102	Statistics in Society
SO110	Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology
SO201	Key Issues in Sociological Analysis
SO203	Political Sociology
SO208	Gender and Society
SO210	Crime, Deviance and Control
SO211	Sociology of Health and Medicine
SO212	Work, Management and Globalisation * (withdrawn 16/17)
SO221	Researching London: Methods for Social Research
SO224	The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SO230	Digital Technology, Speed and Culture
SO231	Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (H) *
SO308	Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family
SO309	Atrocity and Justice (H) *
SO310	The Sociology of Elites (H) (3rd year only) *
SO311	Law and Violence (H) (3rd year only) *
SO312	Work, Inequality and Society (H) (3rd year only) *
ST102	Elementary Statistical Theory
ST107	Quantitative Methods (Statistics)
ST108	Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
ST201	Statistical Models and Data Analysis
ST202	Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference
ST203	Statistics for Management Sciences (withdrawn 16/17)
ST205	Sample Surveys and Experiments (H)
ST226	Actuarial Investigations: Financial
ST227	Survival Models
ST300	Regression and Generalized Linear Models
ST302	Stochastic Processes
ST304	Time Series and Forecasting
ST306	Actuarial Mathematics (General)
ST307	Aspects of Market Research
ST308	Bayesian Inference (H)
ST327	Market Research: An Integrated Approach

Mutually exclusive options (may not be combined)

The following courses may not be taken together i.e. students can only take one or other of the listed courses (and as programme regulations permit):

(H) means a half-unit course
(n/a 16/17) means not available in the 2016/17 academic year

AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance with	AC104 Elements of Accounting, Financial Institutions and Financial Management
EC100 Economics A with	EC102 Economics B
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I with	EC202 Microeconomic Principles II
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics with	EC221 Principles of Econometrics
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles for Econometrics with	ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (H) or ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences (withdrawn 16/17) or ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (H)
GY240 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental) with	GY2A0 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental)
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 with	HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68
LL104 Law of Obligations with	LL209 Commercial Law
MA100 Mathematical Methods with	MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods or MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) or MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) with	MA100 Mathematical Methods or MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods or ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory
MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods with	MA100 Mathematical Methods or MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) with	MA100 Mathematical Methods
MA300 Game Theory with	MA301 Game Theory I (H)
MG102 Organisational Behaviour (H) with	MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour
MG201 Core Disciplines II: Marketing, Human Resource Management and Information Systems (withdrawn 16/17) with	MG212 Marketing (H) MG213 Information Systems (H) MG214 Human Resource Management (H)
MG207 Economics for Management with	EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 Microeconomic Principles II
MG303 Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets (H) with	MG307 International Context of Management (H)
SA218 Criminological Perspectives with	SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control
SO309 Atrocity and Justice (H)	IR312 Genocide (H)
ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory with	ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (H) or ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (H) with	ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences (withdrawn 16/17)
ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H) with	ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach