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Updated undergraduate course and programme information 2016/17 - for prospective students

The following information provides undergraduate students with a summary of new courses course and programmes being offered in the 2016/17 session. It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses.

Undergraduate programmes

New programmes for 2016/17
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new programmes in 2016/17

Department of Finance

 

Withdrawn programmes from 2016/17
The following programmes will be permanently withdrawn, and no longer available in the 2016/17 session. 

Department of Social Policy

BSc in Social Policy and Criminology

 

Substantive changes to Programme regulations from 2016/17
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2016/17 session.

Department of Anthropology

Department of History


Department of Management

Department of Mathematics

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Department of Government
Department of Economics



Undergraduate courses

Updated undergraduate summative assessment information for 2016/17

New courses for 2016/17
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2016/17.

Department of Anthropology courses:

The Anthropology of Ontology (H) (reinstated)

AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H)

AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation, Development, and Globalisation (H)

 

Department of Economics courses:

EC240 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Macroeconomics for MSc F&E (H)

EC4B6 Microeconomics for MSc F&E (H)

 

Department of Finance courses:

Introduction to Finance (H)

 

Department of Geography & Environment courses:

Advanced Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics: Time, Risk and Environmental Policy (H)

 

Department of Government courses:

Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H)

Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (H)

The Modern State - Theory and Practice (H)

Building Democracies from Conflict. Violence, Power­Sharing and Institutional Design (H)

Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H)

 

Department of International History courses:

Thinking Like a Historian (non-assessed)

The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89

Department of International Relations courses:

Europe's Institutional Order (H)

Gender and International Politics (H)

The Practices of Transitional Justice (H)

The Situations of the International Criminal Court (H)

Language Centre courses:

German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)

Literature and Aspects of Ethics

Spanish: Level One (Super Standard)

Arabic Level 1 (Levantine dialect)

Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT1)

Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT2)

Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT3)

 

Department of Management courses:

Marketing (H)

Human Resource Management (H)

Information Systems (H)

 

Department of Mathematics courses:

Mathematics of Networks (H)

 

Department of Philosophy courses:

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation

Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H)

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

Foundations of Psychological Science

 

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA219 Comparative and International Social Policy

 

Department of Sociology courses:

The Sociology of Elites (H)

The Law of Violence (H)

Work, Inequality and Society (H)

 

 

Suspended courses for  2016-17
We regret we are unable to offer the following courses in the  2016-17 session.  For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (H)

AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (H)

AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (H)

AN238 Anthropology and Human Rights (H)

AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H)

AN244 Anthropology and Media (H)

AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H)

AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (H)

AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

 

Department of Economics courses:

EC303 Economics Policy Analysis

 

Department of Economic History courses:

EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850

EH304 The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War

Department of Finance courses:

FM200 History of Financial Markets and Institutions (H)

FM201 Macroeconomics and Finance (H)

Market Anomalies and Asset Management (H)

Theories of Corporate Finance (H)

FM304 Applied corporate Finance (H)

FM305 Advanced Asset Markets (H)

Risk Management and Modeling (H)

Derivatives (H)

Department of Government courses:

GV306 Global Public Policy (H)

Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H)

GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics

GV314 Empirical Research in Government

GV342 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone and Research Project

 

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY303 The Geography of Gender: Global Perspectives

 

Department of International History courses:

HY200 The Rights of 'Man': the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International

HY233 Empire and Nation: Britain and India since 1750

HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799

HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003

Department of International Relations courses:

IR321 Revolutions and World Politics (H)

 

Department of Law courses:

LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750

 

Department of Management courses:

MG103 Management, Labour and Work

MG202 Analytical Methods for Management

MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour