Updated graduate course and programme information 2012/13 -  for prospective students

The following information provides prospective graduate students with a summary of new courses and programmes being offered in the 2012/13 session:

Graduate programmes

New programmes for 2012-13
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new programmes in 2012-13. 

Anthropology Department:

MSc Anthropology and Development Management

Departments of Government/Sociology:

MSc International Migration and Public Policy

Department of Management:

Global MSc Management

Statistics Department:

MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics)
MSc Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research)

Graduate courses

New courses introduced 2012-13
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2012-13.  Links to this information will be available soon.

Economic History courses

EH476  The Economic History of War

 

European Institute courses:

EU465 Research Methods and Design in EU Politics

EU498 Dissertation

Finance Department:

MG442 Foundations of Management 2: Technical Skills for General (Global MIM)

 

Gender Institute courses:

GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns (H)

 

Government Department courses:

GV4G4 Comparative Conflict Analysis (H)

GV4G5 The History and Politics of the Middle East

Geography and Environment Department courses:

GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (H)

 

International History Department courses:

HY441 Nusantara: State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago from the Colonial Period to Reformasi

 

International Relations Department courses:

IR497 Dissertation: MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy (2 units)

IR464 The Politics of International Law

Law Department courses:

LL4E9 Dissertation: MSc Law, Anthropology and Society

LL4H1 Constitutional Theory (H)

Department of Management courses:

MG440 Managerial Economics (Global MIM) (H)

MG441 Foundations of Management 1:Strategy and Organisation (Global MIM) (H)

MG443 Organisational Behaviour (Global MIM) (H)

MG444 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (Global MIM) (H)

MG445 Marketing Strategy (Global MIM) (H)

MG446 Strategy, Organisations and Innovation (Global MIM) (H)

MG447 Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets (Global MIM) (H)

MG448 International Political Economy (Global MIM) (H)

MG498 Dissertation: Global MSc Management (Global MIM) (H)

 

Social Policy Department courses:

SA4H9 Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy & Development (H)

SA4J8 Social Policy and Development: Core Concepts (H)

SA4J9 States, Social Policy and Development (H)

SA4K3 MPA Capstone Project (1.5 units)

SA4K4 MPA Dissertation

SA4L1 The Governance of Welfare: The Nation State and the European Union (H)

SA4L2 Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy (H)

 

Sociology Department courses:

SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration (H)

 

Statistics Department courses:

ST436 Financial Statistics (H)

ST437 Life Insurance (H)

ST438 Non-Life Insurance (H)

ST439 Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling (H)

ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (H)

ST441 Introduction to Markov Processes and their Applications (H)


Some other information you might find useful

Programme title changes from 2012-13
The following programmes have changed title from the 2012/13 session.

Old title

New title

European Institute:

MSc European Political Economy

MSc Political Economy of Europe

Government Department:

MSc Comparative Politics (Nationalism and Ethnicity stream)

Stream title changes to 'Nationalism and Ethnic Politics'

International History Department:

MA/MSc History of International Relations

MSc History of International Relations ('MA' removed)

Department of Management:

MSc Management and Economics

MSc Economics and Management

Social Policy Department:

MSc NGOs and Development

Becomes a stream on the MSc Social Policy and Development programme:
MSc Social Policy and Development: Non-Governmental Organisations

MSc European Social Policy

Becomes a stream on MSc Social Policy (European and Comparative Social Policy)

MSc Social Policy and Planning

Becomes a stream on MSc Social Policy (Social Policy and Planning)

 

Suspended courses for 2012-13 
We regret we are unable to offer the following courses in the 2012-13 session.  For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.

Anthropology Department courses:

AN420 The Anthropology of South-East Asia

AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialization and Industrial Life

AN424 Anthropology of Melanesia

AN429 The Anthropology of Southern Africa

AN444 Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts

AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography

AN459 Anthropology and Media

AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being

AN462 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia

AN463 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries

 AN464 Ethnography of a Selected Region

AN468 The Anthropology of Schooling

Economic History courses

EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000

EH412 Research Topics in Economic History 1

EH419 Research Topics in Economic History 2

EH423 Japan and Korea as Developing Economies

EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History

EH466 Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe

EROB courses:

ID411 International and Comparative Human Resource Management

ID421 Human Resource Management and Employment Regulation (H)

ID434 Managing Diversity in Organisations

 

European Institute courses:

EU423 Greece and the European Union (H)

EU426 The West: Identity and Interests

EU429 Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe (H)

EU439 Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (H)

EU461 Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 (H)

EU463 European Human Rights Law (H)

Gender Institute courses:

GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns (H)

GI408 Cultural Constructions of the Body

Government Department courses:

GY430 Contemporary Urbanism

GY479 The Urban Revolution (H)

Government Department courses:

GV436 National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation  (H)

GV482 Political Economy and Political Science: Advanced Topics

GV4B6 Kant's Political Philosophy  (H)

GV4D7 Dilemmas of Equality  (H)

GV4E3 Democratization, Conflict and State-Building  (H)

GV4F9 African Politics, Wars and Violence (H)

GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (H)

 

Department of International Development courses:

DV425 Managing Globalization (H)

DV427 Public Management of Development

DV437 Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India (H)

 

International Relations Department courses:

IR445 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy

IR464 The Politics of International Law (H)

IR466 Genocide (H)

IR481 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations

Law Department courses:

LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies (Dissertation Only)

LL418 European Administrative Law

LL425 European Monetary and Financial Services Law

LL433 International & Comparative Commercial

LL437 Law of Corporate

LL444 Constitutional Theory

LL447 International Economic Law

LL4G9 European Monetary and Banking Law H)

LL4E5 International Sale of Goods

LL4K3 Secured Credit in English, Comparative and International Law

LL4K6 International Uniform Sales Law (H)

LL4K8 Law of Corporate Finance B (H)

LL4L6 Theory of Human Rights Law (H)

LL4L9 LLM full unit dissertation

LL4S4 Digital Rights, Privacy and Security

 

Management Science Group courses:

OR405 Advanced Behavioural Decision Making

OR409 Auctions and Game Theory

OR414 Advanced Topics in Operational Research

 

Mathematics Department courses:

MA401 Computational Learning Theory and Neural Networks (H) 

 

Social Policy Department courses:

SA4E6 Rural Development & Social Policy (H)

SA4F7 The Economics of European Social Policy (H)

Institute of Social Psychology courses:

PS415 The Social Psychology of Economic Life

PS421 Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology

PS437 Representations, Institutions and Communities

PS439 Science, Technology and Resistance

Sociology Department courses:

SO420 Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power (H)

SO447 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial-Studies

SO452 Urban Environment

SO457 Political Reconciliation (H)

SO467 Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945)

SO461 Racial Formations of Modernity

 

Suspended programmes for 2012-13
The following programme has been suspended for the 2012/13 session.

Sociology Department:

MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society

MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

 

Course title changes from 2012-13
The following courses have changed title from the 2012/13 session.

Old title

New title

European Institute:

EU464 Migration and Mobility in the European Union

Migration and Mobility: EU Law and Politics

Geography and the Environment Department:

GY445 Urban Policy and Practice in the South

Urban Theory, Policy and Practice in the Global South

Government Department:

GV4A5 Public Policy Responses to International Migration (H)

 International Migration and Immigration Management.

GV4D4 Comparative Politics of Redistribution in Advanced Democracies

The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution

GV4E1 Comparative Democratization (H)

Comparative Democratization in a Global Age

GV4F9 The Politics of modern sub-Saharan Africa (H)

African Politics, Wars, and Violence

GV4G4 Theories of Political Violence (H)

Comparative Conflict Analysis

 Information Systems and Innovation:

IS418 Digital Convergence and Information Services

Convergence and Information Management

International Development Department:

DV413 Environmental Problems. Politics and Development (H)

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions

DV421 HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats (H)

Emerging Health Threats and Development

DV424 Global Political Economy of Development II (H)

International Institutions and Late Development

DV442 Development: History, Theory and Policy (International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies) (H)

Key Issues in Development Studies

Law Department:

LL4B6  Human Rights Law in the UK

European and UK Human  Rights Law

LL468  Human Rights Law: The European Convention of Human Rights

European Human Rights Law

LL469  Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Act

UK Human Rights Law

Mathematics Department:

MA416 The Foundations of Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange and Credit Risk Theory (H)

The Foundations of Interest Rate and Credit Risk Theory

Social Policy Department:

SA470 NGOs and Development Dissertation

Dissertation - Social Policy and Development: Non-Governmental Organisations

 

Course code changes from 2012-13
The following courses have changed codes for the 2012-13 session.  Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School.

Old code

New code

AN438 Law in Society: A Joint Course in Anthropology and Law

Change code to LL4E8

 

Withdrawn courses from 2012-13
The following courses will be permanently withdrawn, and no longer available in the 2012-13 session.  For alternative option courses, please consult your academic adviser.

Anthropology Department courses:

AN453 The Anthropology of India (H)

AN460 Taiwan in Comparative Perspective (H)

AN465 Medical Anthropology (H)

 

Economic History

EH417 Political Economy of Late Industrialisation

EH418 Research Issues in African Economic History

EH453 Economic Globalisation

EH475 The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in Twentieth-Century Europe

EH485 Scientific, Technical and Useful Knowledge from Song China to the Industrial Revolution

 

EROB courses:

ID416 Globalisation and Employment (H)

 

European Institute courses:

EU448 Minorities and Migration in Europe (H)

 

Government Department courses:

GV460 Politics and Policy in Britain (H)

GV4D2 Social Theory and Political Commitment: the case of Max Weber and Nationalism (H)

GV4F1 The Political Philosophy of John Locke (H)

GV4F7 The Political Theory of Jurgen Habermas (H)

International History Department courses:

HY4A2 The Past and Future of Indian Democracy

 

Management Department courses:

MG435 International Business and Governance

 

Social Policy Department courses:

SA405 European Social Policy

SA435 Non-Governmental Organisations and Development.

SA452 Social Policy and Development

SA4F6 Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies in Developing Countries (H)

SA4B4 Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development (H)

SA4B6 International Social Policy and Children's Needs (H)

 Statistics Department courses:

ST415 Research Design for Experimental and Observational Studies (H)

ST431 Insurance Mathematics

ST432 Stochastic Finance

 


Information for 2013-14 session

Graduate programmes

New programmes for 2013-14
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new programmes in 2013-14.

Anthropology Department

MSc Religion in the Contemporary World

Law Department

Executive LLM

Social Policy Department

MSc Global Health Policy

 

New courses for 2013-14
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2013-14.

Anthropology Department courses:

AN466 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World

AN497 Dissertation: MSc Religion in the Contemporary World

Law Department courses:

LL400E International Law and the Use of Force (E-LLM)

LL419E Law of Corporate Finance I (E-LLM)

LL401E Law in War (jus in bello) (E-LLM)

LL420E Law of Corporate Finance II (E-LLM)

LL402E Key Issues in Transnational Environmental Law (E-LLM)

LL421E Trade Marks and Brands (E-LLM)

LL403E International Human Rights: Concepts, Law and Practice (E-LLM)

LL422E Media and Communications Regulation (E-LLM)

LL404E World Poverty and Human Rights

LL423E Media Law: Regulating Publication (E-LLM)

LL405E Theories of Dispute Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution (E-LLM)

LL424E Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (E-LLM)

LL406E Regulation of Financial Markets I (E-LLM)

LL425E Competition Law (E-LLM)

LL407E Regulation of Financial Markets II(E-LLM)

LL426E Theory of Human Rights Law (E-LLM)

LL408E Comparative Constitutional Law: Institutions (E-LLM)

LL427E Constitutional Theory (E-LLM)

LL409E Comparative Constitutional Law: Rights (E-LLM)

LL428E International Dispute Resolution: Courts and Tribunals (E-LLM)

LL410E International Financial Law and Practice I (E-LLM)

LL429E International Dispute Resolution: Non-Adjudicatory Processes

LL411E International Financial Law and Practice II (E-LLM)

LL430E Investment Treaty Law (E-LLM)

LL412E International Economic Law I (E-LLM)

LL431E Takeover Regulation in the US and UK (E-LLM)

LL413E International Economic Law II (E-LLM)

LL432E Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (E-LLM)

LL414E Law and the Holocaust (E-LLM)

LL433E EU State Aid Law (E-LLM)

LL415E Fundamentals of International Commercial Arbitration (E-LLM)

LL434E Introduction to Regulation (E-LLM)

LL416E Advanced Issues of International Commercial Arbitration (E-LLM)

LL435E Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (E-LLM)

LL417E International Commercial Contracts: General Principles (E-LLM)

LL436E Constitutional Aspects of European Integration (E-LLM)

LL418E Comparative Corporate Governance (E-LLM)

LL437E International Criminal Law (E-LLM)

Social Policy Department courses:

SA4K1 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Policies (H)

 

 

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