General Course
Programme Code: UOGC
Department: Undefined Department
For students starting this programme of study in 2019/20
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and can be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
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Accounting | |
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AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) * | |
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AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management (1.0) # * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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Anthropology | |
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AN100 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
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AN101 A History of Anthropological Theory (1.0) | |
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AN102 Ethnography through Mixed Media (1.0) | |
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AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) | |
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AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) | |
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AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology (1.0) | |
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AN237 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) | |
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AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # | |
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AN244 Anthropology and Media (0.5) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
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AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN278 Anthropology and Global History (0.5) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (1.0) # * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
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Economics | |
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EC100 Economics A (1.0) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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EC102 Economics B (1.0) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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EC202 Microeconomic Principles II (1.0) # * (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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EC220 Introduction to Econometrics (1.0) # * (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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EC221 Principles of Econometrics (1.0) # * (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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EC230 Economics in Public Policy (1.0) # (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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EC321 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) # * | |
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Economic History | |
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EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
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EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0) | |
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EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) | |
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EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth (1.0) # | |
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EH208 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) | |
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EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0) | |
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EH309 Slavery from Ancient Greece to the Gulag (1.0) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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EH312 Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) * | |
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EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) | |
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Finance | |
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FM101 Finance (0.5) | |
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FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # | |
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Government | |
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GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
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GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
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GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # * | |
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GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
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GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) # * | |
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GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) | |
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GV308 Leadership in the Political World (0.5) # * A (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice (0.5) # * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) # * | |
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GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5) # * B (not available 2022/23) | |
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GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) # | |
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GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) * | |
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GV335 African Political Economy (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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Geography & Environment | |
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GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
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GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
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GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
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GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
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GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
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GY144 Human Geography and the City (1.0) | |
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GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) | |
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GY205 Political Geographies (1.0) | |
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GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5) | |
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GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5) | |
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GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # | |
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GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) | |
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GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) | |
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GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) * | |
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GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) | |
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GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) | |
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GY312 Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5) (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # * | |
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GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # * | |
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GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5) | |
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GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5) | |
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GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5) | |
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GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
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GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) | |
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GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) # | |
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International History | |
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HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
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HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
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HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0) | |
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HY119 Thinking Like A Historian (0.0) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) * | |
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HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0) | |
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HY221 The History of Russia, 1676-1825 (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 (1.0) | |
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HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0) | |
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HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) | |
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HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0) | |
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HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0) | |
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HY244 Britainâs Atlantic World, 1688-1837 (1.0) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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HY245 The United States and the World since 1776 (1.0) | |
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HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) | |
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HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) | |
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HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) * | |
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HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0) | |
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HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0) | |
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HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 (1.0) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) | |
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HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0) | |
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HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 (1.0) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0) * (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) * | |
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HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (1.0) * | |
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HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0) | |
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HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0) | |
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HY331 Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) | |
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International Relations | |
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IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0) | |
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IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) | |
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IR205 International Security (1.0) | |
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IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) | |
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IR312 Genocide (0.5) | |
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IR313 Managing China's Rise in East Asia (0.5) (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR314 Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security (0.5) | |
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IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR320 Europe's Institutional Order (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR321 Revolutions and World Politics (0.5) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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IR377 The Politics of Peace & Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) * | |
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Law | |
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LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
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LL105 Property I (0.5) | |
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LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
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LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
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LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (0.5) | |
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LL205 Medical Law (1.0) | |
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LL212 Conflict of Laws (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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LL221 Family Law (1.0) | |
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LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) | |
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LL233 Law of Evidence (1.0) | |
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LL241 European Legal History (1.0) | |
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LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) | |
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LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) | |
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LL257 Employment Law (1.0) | |
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LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology (0.5) | |
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LL275 Property II (1.0) | |
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LL278 Public International Law (1.0) | |
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LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice (0.5) | |
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LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) | |
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LL295 Media Law (1.0) | |
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LL300 Competition Law (1.0) | |
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LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) | |
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LL305 Jurisprudence (1.0) | |
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Language Centre | |
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LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
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LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # * | |
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LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
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LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
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LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
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LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
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LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) # * | |
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LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) (1.0) # * | |
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LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) (1.0) # * | |
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LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
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LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
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Mathematics | |
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MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (1.0) # (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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MA231 Operational Research Methods (1.0) # (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces (0.5) # * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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MA310 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) # * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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MA314 Algorithms and Programming (0.5) # * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (0.5) # * | |
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MA323 Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics (0.5) # * | |
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MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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Management | |
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MG104 Operations Management (0.5) | |
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MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (0.5) | |
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MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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MG209 E-business (0.5) | |
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MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # | |
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MG212 Marketing (0.5) | |
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MG213 Information Systems (0.5) | |
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MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) | |
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MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) # | |
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MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) | |
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MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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MG310 Strategic Decision Making (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project (0.5) # (not available 2022/23) | |
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Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method | |
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PH101 Logic (1.0) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
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PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation (1.0) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0) | |
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PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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PH220 Scientific Method and Policy (1.0) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy (1.0) # (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
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PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5) | |
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PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) | |
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PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (0.5) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) # | |
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PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) # | |
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PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5) | |
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Psychological and Behavioural Science | |
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PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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Social Policy | |
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SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy (1.0) * | |
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SP170 Crime and Society: Representations and Realities (1.0) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SP171 Identities, Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SP172 Policing and Security (0.5) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SP173 Politics and Crime (0.5) * (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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SP233 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
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SP270 Understanding Crime and Punishment (1.0) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) * (not available 2022/23) | |
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SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) * | |
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SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) * | |
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Sociology | |
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SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
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SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life (1.0) | |
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SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
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SO201 Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory (1.0) | |
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SO203 Political Sociology (1.0) | |
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SO208 Gender and Society (1.0) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0) (not available 2022/23) | |
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SO224 The Sociology of Race and Empire (1.0) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SO231 Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (0.5) * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5) # * (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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SO234 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (0.5) # * (not available 2022/23) | |
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SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family (1.0) (withdrawn 2021/22) | |
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SO311 Law and Violence (0.5) | |
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SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life (0.5) | |
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Statistics | |
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ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (1.0) # (withdrawn 2022/23) | |
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ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
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ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) # * | |
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Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
* means available with permission
Footnotes
A : GV308 can be taken in Year 3 only.
B : GV319 can be taken in Year 3 only.
C : LL342 can only be taken in Year 3.
# 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.