Optional courses

Students can choose from a wide variety of optional courses from different departments across the LSE.  This information applies to students entering in and after the 2015/16 academic year. 

Accounting

• AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5 unit)
• AC103 Elements of Management Accounting and Financial Management (0.5 unit)
• AC211 Managerial Accounting (1.0 unit)
• AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0 unit)
• AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation (1.0 unit)

Economics and Economic History

• EC210 Macroeconomic Principles (1.0 unit)
• EC313 Industrial Economics (1.0 unit)
• EH240 Business and Economic Performance Since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0 unit)

Finance

• FM212 Principles of Finance (1.0 unit)
• FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0 unit)

Information Systems

• MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5 unit)
• MG209 E-business (0.5 unit)
• MG213 Information Systems (0.5 unit)
• MG304 Digital Platform Innovation (0.5 unit)

Law

• LL209 Commercial Law (1.0 unit)

Management Science and Methodology

• MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5 unit)
• MG202 Analytical Methods for Management (1.0 unit)
• MG211 Operational Research Methods (1.0 unit)
• MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis (0.5 unit)
• MG310 Risk and Decision Analysis for Management and Policy (0.5 unit)
• MG311 Behavioural Decision Science for Management and Policy (0.5 unit)
• MG313 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5 unit)
• ST201  Statistical Models and Data Analysis (0.5 unit)
• ST205  Sample Surveys and Experiments (0.5 unit)

Managerial Economics and Strategy

• MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (0.5 unit)
• MG228 Evolutionary Approaches to Behaviour and Management (0.5 unit)
• MG302 Topics in Management Research (0.5 unit)
• MG303 Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets (0.5 unit)
• MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5 unit)
• MG307 International Context of Management (0.5 unit)
  

Marketing

• MG212 Marketing (0.5 unit)
• MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project (0.5 unit)
• ST307 Aspects of Market Research (0.5 unit)
• ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach (1.0 unit)

Organisational Behaviour and Employee Relations

• MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5 unit)
• MG214 Human Resource Management (0.5 unit)
• MG306 Managing Diversity in Organizations (0.5 unit)
• MG309 International Human Resource Management (0.5 unit)
• MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5 unit)

Philosophy

• PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5 unit)

Additional options (available in the third year only)

Courses to the value of one (1.0) unit from: 

• AN230 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (0.5 unit)
• SO208 Gender and Society (1.0 unit)
• EC317 Labour Economics (1.0 unit)
• MA301 Game Theory (0.5 unit)
• LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0 unit)
• An Outside Option, subject to departmental approval