BSc in Social Policy and Economics
Programme Code: UBSPEC
Department: Social Policy
For students starting this programme of study in 2017/18
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Three-year classification scheme for BA/BSc degrees for all students from the 2018/19 academic year
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 | ||
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Paper 1 |
SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy (1.0) | |
Paper 2 |
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Paper 3 |
MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) # and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) # | |
Paper 4 |
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Year 2 | ||
Paper 5 |
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Paper 6 |
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Paper 7 |
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Paper 8 |
SP201 Research Methods for Social Policy (1.0) | |
Year 3 | ||
Paper 9 |
SP399 Dissertation (1.0) | |
Paper 10 |
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Paper 11 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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Paper 12 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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. | |
Economics Selection List
EC303 Economic Policy Analysis (1.0) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0) | |
EC319 Games and Economic Behaviour (1.0) # (not available 2020/21) | |
Social Policy Selection List
SP230 Education Policy (1.0) | |
SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP232 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) | |
SP233 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
SP270 Understanding Crime and Punishment (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP332 Social Security Policies (0.5) ~A (not available 2020/21) | |
SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) ~B | |
Footnotes for Social Policy Selection List | |
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. | |
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) | |
AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5) # * ~A | |
AC312 Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5) # * ~B | |
AC331 Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting (0.5) # * ~C | |
AC332 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (0.5) # * ~D | |
AC341 Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5) ~E | |
AC342 Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (0.5) ~F (not available 2020/21) | |
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 2020/21) | |
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
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 2020/21) | |
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # * | |
AN278 Anthropology and Global History (0.5) | |
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
EC319 Games and Economic Behaviour (1.0) # (not available 2020/21) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 (1.0) | |
EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 (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) | |
EH312 Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) * | |
EH313 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # * | |
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) | |
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) # * | |
GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
GV326 Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory (1.0) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) # * | |
GV329 Making Democracy Work (0.5) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
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 Place (0.5) | |
GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # * | |
GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) | |
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) | |
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) | |
GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) | |
GY312 Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
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) | |
GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5) | |
GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) | |
GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) # | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (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, 1676-1825 (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) (not available 2020/21) | |
HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (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) # (not available 2020/21) | |
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) * | |
HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
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) | |
HY320 The Cold War Endgame (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) | |
HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (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) | |
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) * | |
IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory (1.0) # * ~I | |
IR318 Visual International Politics (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
IR321 Revolutions and World Politics (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
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) (not available 2020/21) | |
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) | |
LL241 European Legal History (1.0) | |
LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) | |
LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) | |
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0) | |
LL278 Public International Law (1.0) | |
LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) | |
LL295 Media Law (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
LL300 Competition Law (1.0) | |
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (not available 2020/21) | |
MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (0.5) # | |
MG209 E-business (0.5) | |
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
MG212 Marketing (0.5) | |
MG213 Information Systems (0.5) | |
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) (not available 2020/21) | |
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 2020/21) | |
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) | |
PH111 Introduction to Logic (0.5) | |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
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) # | |
PH238 Philosophy of Language (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (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) (not available 2020/21) | |
SO224 The Sociology of Race and Empire (1.0) | |
SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness (0.5) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
SO235 The Sociology of Homicide (0.5) # (not available 2020/21) | |
SO236 Urban Society (0.5) | |
SP110 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0) | |
SP112 Politics of Social Policy Making (1.0) | |
SP170 Crime and Society: Representations and Realities (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
SP171 Identities, Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
SP210 Development and Social Change (1.0) # (not available 2020/21) | |
SP230 Education Policy (1.0) | |
SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP232 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) | |
SP270 Understanding Crime and Punishment (1.0) * (not available 2020/21) | |
SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) (not available 2020/21) | |
SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) ~P (not available 2020/21) | |
SP332 Social Security Policies (0.5) ~Q (not available 2020/21) | |
SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) ~R | |
SP370 Criminological Controversies (0.5) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
SP371 Interrogating Criminological Research (0.5) # * (not available 2020/21) | |
SP372 Punishment and Penal Policy (0.5) * (not available 2020/21) | |
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) # | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~A : AC311 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~B : AC312 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~C : AC331 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~D : AC332 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~E : AC341 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~F : AC342 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~G : EC102 is dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background. ~H : GV335 available in Year 3 only ~I : IR315 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~J : LL342 can only be taken in Year 3. ~K : MA321 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~L : MA322 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~M : MG301 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~N : MG302 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~O : PB101 is not available to third year students. ~P : SP331 is available in Year 3 only. ~Q : SP332 is available in Year 3 only. ~R : SP335 is available in Year 3 only. | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~1 : EC220 can not be taken with MG205 | |
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 guides for further information.
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
It is not always possible to offer students a place on each of their preferred courses. This is particularly the case where courses are offered outside the Department of Social Policy (ie not prefixed with 'SP').
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.