Undergraduate course and programme information for prospective students

The following information provides prospective undergraduate students with a summary of new and updated course and programme information for the 2024/25 session.

It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses.

This page will continue to be updated throughout the academic year as changes are confirmed by departments.


 Undergraduate Programmes:

Substantive changes to programme regulations for 2024/25

The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2024/25 session.

Department of Anthropology
BA/BSc in Social Anthropology Restructure of BA/BSc in Social Anthropology
BSc in Mathematics with Data Science Paper 5 withdrawal of semi-core course ST101W (0.5)
BSc in Politics and Data Science Paper 9 withdrawal of semi-core course GV331 (0.5)

 Undergraduate Courses:

New courses from 2024/25

The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2024/25.

new courses
Department of Anthropology:
AN285 Mind and Society (0.5)
AN395 Digital Anthropology (0.5)
Data Science Institute:
DS205 Advanced Data Manipulation (0.5)
Department of International History:
HY248 Britain in the World: British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1.0)
HY249 War, Social Conflict and Nation Building: The History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1.0)

Course code changes from 2024/25

The following courses have changed codes for the 2024/25 session.  Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School. 

Old code New code
Department of Accounting:
AC200 Accounting Theory and Practice (1.0) AC205 Intermediate Financial Accounting (0.5)
AC206 Intermediate Management Accounting (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method:
PH340 PPE Research Seminar (0.0) PH344 PPE Research Seminar (0.5)

Course title changes from 2024/25

The following courses have changed titles for the 2024/25 session.  

title changes
Old title New title
Department of Economics:
EC1P1 Economics (0.5) EC1P1 Economic Reasoning (0.5)

Suspended courses

The following courses will be suspended in the 2024/25 session.

Department of Anthropology:
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5)
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5)
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)
AN280 Public Anthropology (0.5)
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
AN292 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
Department of Geography and Environment:
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5)
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5)
Department of Management:
MG310 Strategic Decision Making (0.5)
 

Withdrawn courses

The following courses will be withdrawn in the 2024/25 session.

Department of Anthropology:
 AN1E0 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
 AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5)
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)
AN282 Bangladesh and Beyond: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
AN2E0 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
AN2E6 Political and Legal Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
AN3E1 The Anthropology of Religion (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
European Institute:
EU3A1
Department of Government:
GV250
GV331
Department of International History:
HY329