Updated graduate course and programme information 2013/14
The following information provides a summary of new course and programme information for the 2013/14 session. It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses.
Graduate programmes
New programmes for 2013-14 | |
Anthropology Department |
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Economic History |
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European Institute |
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Finance Department |
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Government Department |
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Institute of Public Affairs |
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Law Department |
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Sociology Department |
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Suspended programmes for 2013-14 | |
International Relations Department: | |
MSc International Political Economy (Research) |
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Sociology Department: | |
MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies |
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Withdrawn programmes from 2013-14 | |
Economics Department: | |
MSc Economics (Research) |
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (Research) |
Finance Department: | |
MSc Management and Regulation of Risk |
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Sociology Department: | |
MSc Sociology (Economic Sociology) |
MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society |
Programme title changes from 2013-14 | |
Management Department: | |
Global MSc Management |
Executive Global MSc Management |
Graduate courses
New courses for 2013-14 | |
Anthropology Department courses: | |
AN466 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World |
AN470 Anthropology of Religion: Current Themes and Theories (H) |
AN497 Dissertation: MSc Religion in the Contemporary World |
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Economics Department courses: | |
EC440E Economic Policy Analysis (H) |
EC455E Empirical Methods for Public Policy (H) |
Economic History Department courses: | |
EH472 Essay in Quantitative Economic History (H) |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU443E European capitalism(s) and the global economy (H) |
EU452E Key issues in the political economy of Europe |
EU449E Capitalism and democracy in Central Europe (modular) (H) |
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Finance Department courses: | |
FM438 Advanced Asset Pricing (H) |
FM482 Research Paper in Finance |
FM481 Financial Econometrics for Research Students |
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Gender Institute courses: | |
GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns (H) |
GI421 Sexuality, Gender and Culture (H) |
GI419 Gender and Contemporary Social Movements (H) |
GI422 Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation |
GI420 Globalisation, Gender and Development: Policy and Practice (H) |
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Government Department courses: | |
GV478E Political Science and Public Policy (H) |
GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought (H) |
GV4G9E Public Policy in Practice Workshop II (H) |
GV4H2 Contemporary India: The World's Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century (H) |
GV4G8E Public Policy in Practice Workshop I (H) |
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Department of International Development courses: | |
DV435 African Political Economy (H) |
DV446 Technical Change, Paradigm Shifts and Global Development (H) |
DV445 Research Themes in International Development (H) |
DV447 Public Affairs, International Development and Gendered Violence (H) |
Department of International History courses: | |
HY442 Secret Intelligence in the 20th Century |
HY444 The Cold War in Latin America |
HY443 Class, Gender and Generation in 20th Century Germany |
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Department of International Relations courses: | |
IR439 Diplomacy (H) |
IR448 American Grand Strategy (H) |
IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) |
IR449 Conflict and Peacebuilding (H) |
Law Department courses: | |
The courses that will be offered on the Executive LLM over the four year degree period are set out below. The Department of Law will not offer all of these courses every year. For more information please refer to the Department of Law website. | |
LL400E European Capital Markets Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL419E Law of Corporate Finance I (E-LLM) (H) |
LL401E The Law of Armed Conflict (E-LLM) (H) |
LL420E International Law and Climate Change (E-LLM) (H) |
LL402E Key Issues in Transnational Environmental Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL422E Media and Communications Regulation (E-LLM) (H) |
LL403E International Human Rights: Concepts, Law and Practice (E-LLM) (H) |
LL423E Media Law: Regulating Publication (E-LLM) (H) |
LL404E European and UK Human Rights Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL424E Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (E-LLM) (H) |
LL405E Dispute Resolution and Advanced Mediation (E-LLM) (H) |
LL425E Competition Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL406E Regulation of Financial Markets I (E-LLM) (H) |
LL426E Theory of Human Rights Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL407E Regulation of Financial Markets II (E-LLM) (H) |
LL427E Constitutional Law and Theory (E-LLM) (H) |
LL408E Comparative Constitutional Law: Institutions (E-LLM) (H) |
LL430E Investment Treaty Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL409E Comparative Constitutional Law: Rights (E-LLM) (H) |
LL431E Takeover Regulation in the UK and US (E-LLM) (H) |
LL410E International Financial Law and Practice I (E-LLM) (H) |
LL432E Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (E-LLM) (H) |
LL411E International Financial Law and Practice II (E-LLM) (H) |
LL433E EU State Aid Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL412E International Economic Law I (E-LLM) (H) |
LL434E Introduction to Regulation (E-LLM) (H) |
LL413E International Economic Law II (E-LLM) (H) |
LL435E Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL415E Fundamentals of International Commercial Arbitration (E-LLM) (H) |
LL436E Constitutional Aspects of European Integration (E-LLM) (H) |
LL416E Advanced Issues of International Commercial Arbitration (E-LLM) (H) |
LL437E International Criminal Law (E-LLM) (H) |
LL417E International Commercial Contracts: General Principles (E-LLM) (H) |
LL438E Commercial Remedies (E-LLM) (H) |
LL418E Comparative Corporate Governance (E-LLM) (H) |
LL439E UK Corporate Law (E-LLM) (H) |
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New courses to be offered on the LLM: | |
LL4AA Global Copyright Policy: Contemporary Issues (H) |
LL4BH Contemporary Issues of European Union Law (H) |
LL4AB Law and administrative procedures in the EU (H) |
LL4BK Corporate Crime (H) |
LL4AC Legal Accountability and Redress of Grievance in the EU (H) |
LL4BL Financial Crime (H) |
LL4AD Rethinking International Law I: International Law and Contemporary Problems (H) |
LL4BM The Legal Protection of Inventions (H) |
LL4AE Rethinking International Law II: International Legal Thought (H) |
LL4BN Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (H) |
LL4AF Principles of Global Competition Law (H) |
LL4BP Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law (H) |
LL4AG Competition Law: Challenges and Prospects (H) |
LL4BQ Trade Mark Law (H) |
LL4AH Comparative Company Law (H) |
LL4BR Brands and Trade Marks: Contemporary Issues (H) |
LL4AJ Insolvency Law: Principles, Rescue and Reconstruction Processes (H) |
LL4BT Cultural Property and Heritage Law (H) |
LL4AK Insolvency Law: Company Liquidation and Stakeholder Interests (H) |
LL4BU Art and Antiquities Law (H) |
LL4AL International Business Transactions: Commercial Litigation (H) |
LL4BV Transnational Environmental Law (H) |
LL4AM International Business Transactions: Advanced Procedure and Tactics (H) |
LL4BW Law and Political Thought (H) |
LL4AN International Business Transactions: Transnational Torts (H) |
LL4BX Corporate Governance (H) |
LL4AP International Business Transactions: Contracts and Property (H) |
LL4BY An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women (H) |
LL4AQ Constitutional Theory (H) |
LL4BZ International Human Rights of Women: Advanced Issues (H) |
LL4AR International Criminal Law 1: Core Crimes and Contexts (H) |
LL4CA Law and Social Theory (H) |
LL4AS International Criminal Law 2: Prosecution and Practice (H) |
LL4CB Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (H) |
LL4AT Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement (H) |
LL4CC Commercial Remedies (H) |
LL4AU Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects (H) |
LL4CD European Company Law (H) |
LL4AV Global Trade Governance: Contemporary Issues (H) |
LL4CE Security and Criminal Law (H) |
LL4AW Foundations of International Human Rights Law (H) |
LL4CF UK Corporate Law (H) |
LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H) |
LL4CG Understanding Issues in Tax Law and Policy (H) |
LL4AY International Tax Systems (H) |
LL4CH Current Issues in Tax Law and Policy (H) |
LL4AZ International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (H) |
LL4CJ Comparative Corporate Taxation (H) |
LL4B1 Foundations of International Economic Law (H) |
LL4CK Taxation of Corporate Transactions (H) |
LL4BA International Law and the Movement of Persons within States (H) |
LL4F9 Legal Research and Writing Skills (H) |
LL4BB International Law and the Movement of Persons Between States (H) |
LL4H7 Foundations of Legal Theory (H) |
LL4BC Policing and Police Powers (H) |
LL4J1 Critical Perspectives on Legal Theory (H) |
LL4BD Policing: Contemporary Issues and Controversies (H) |
LL4L1 The Theory and Practice of dispute resolution (H) |
LL4BE Principles of Financial Regulation (H) |
LL4L7 Advanced Mediation (H) |
LL4BF Regulating for Financial Stability (H) |
LL4N6 Principles of Copyright Law (H) |
LL4BG Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (H) |
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Department of Management courses: | |
MG403 Pricing Strategy (H) |
MG404 Consumer Behaviour: Behavioural Fundamentals for Marketing and Management (H) |
Management Science Group courses: | |
OR437 Solving Unsolvable Problems: NP-completeness and how to cope with it (H) |
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Managerial Economics and Strategy Group courses: | |
MN431 Corporate Strategy (H) |
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Department of Mathematics courses: | |
MA420 Quantifying Risk Modelling Alternative Markets (H) |
MA422 Research Topics in Financial Mathematics |
MA421 Advanced Algorithms (H) |
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Department of Media and Communications courses: | |
MC428 Media Culture and Neoliberalism in the Global South (H) |
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Department of Methodology courses: | |
MY428 Qualitative Text Analysis (H) |
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Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH427 Genes, Brains, and Society: Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences (H) |
PH430 Chaos and Spacetime - Introduction to Philosophy of Physics I (H) |
PH428 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H) |
PH431 Quanta and Entropy - Introduction to Philosophy of Physics II (H) |
PH429 Global Justice (H) |
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Department of Social Psychology courses: | |
PS409 Political Psychology (H) |
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Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA4L5 Applied Health Econometrics (H) |
SA4L6 Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (H) |
SA4K2 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (H) |
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Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO474 Bodies, Markets and Politics (H) |
SO475 Material Culture and Design (H) |
Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST426 Applied Stochastic Processes (H) |
ST429 Probabilistic Methods in Risk Management and Insurance (H) |
ST427 Insurance Mathematics (H) |
ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (H) |
Suspended courses for 2013-14 | |
Accounting Department courses: | |
AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (H) |
AC471 Accounting in the Global Economy (MSc International Management) (H) |
Anthropology Department courses: | |
AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialization and Industrial Life (H) |
AN462 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) |
AN429 The Anthropology of Southern Africa (H) |
AN463 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H) |
AN439 Anthropology and Human Rights (H) |
AN467 Anthropology of South Asia (H) |
AN444 Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) |
AN468 The Anthropology of Schooling (H) |
AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H) |
AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) |
AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (H) |
AN900 A Programme of Ethnographic Films |
Economics Department courses: | |
EC450 Urban and Transport Economics Seminars |
EC453 Political Economy |
Economic History Department courses: | |
EH404 India and the World Economy (H) |
EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History (H) |
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History A (H) |
EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H) |
EH419 Research Topics in Economic History B (H) |
EH466 Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) |
EH423 Japan and Korea as Developing Economies (H) |
EH486 Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters c.1600-1800 (H) |
EH424 The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) |
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Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group courses: | |
ID411 International and Comparative Human Resource Management (H) |
ID421 Human Resource Management and Employee Regulation (H) |
ID419M Cross-cultural Management (H) |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU425 Interest Representation and Economic Policy - Making in Europe (H) |
EU440 Greece and South-East Europe: Government, Economy and Foreign Policy (H) |
EU426 The West: Identity and Interests (H) |
EU461 Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 (H |
EU427 European Public and Economic Policy |
EU463 European Human Rights Law (H) |
EU438 Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration (H) |
EU466 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (H) |
Finance Department courses: | |
FM440 Corporate Finance Theory (H) |
FM4T3 Corporate Finance Theory - Dissertation (H) |
Gender Institute courses: | |
GI406 Feminist Political Theory (H) |
GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns (H) |
Geography and Environment Department courses: | |
GY430 Contemporary Urbanism |
GY479 The Urban Revolution (H) |
Government Department courses: | |
GV427 Democracy and Democratisation in East and South East Asia (H) |
GV4F6 The Philosophy and Politics of Environmental Change |
GV436 National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation (H) |
GV4F8 Institutions in the Global Economy (H) |
GV482 Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H) |
GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (H) |
Institute of Public Affairs courses: | |
SA4X6E Welfare Analysis and Measurement (H) |
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International Development courses: | |
DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (H) |
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International History Department courses: | |
HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century |
HY464 Crises and Detente in the Cold War, 1962-1979 |
HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa |
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International Relations Department courses: | |
IR412 International Institutions |
IR434 European Defence and Security (H) |
IR418 International Politics: Asia and the Pacific |
IR438 Theory of International Society: The English School and its Critics (H) |
IR422 Conflict and Peace Studies |
IR460 Comparative Political Economy |
IR431 European Union Policy Making in a Global-Context (H) |
IR463 International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) |
Law Department courses: | |
LL407 Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
LL4H2 Media Law: Regulating Publication (H) |
LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies |
LL4H3 Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (H) |
LL4A6 Climate Change and International Law (H) |
LL4H9 Human Rights in the Workplace (H) |
LL4BQ Trade Mark Law (H) |
LL4J1 Critical Perspectives on Legal Theory (H) |
LL4BR Brands and Trade Marks: Contemporary Issues (H) |
LL4K2 Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions (H) |
LL4BZ International Human Rights of Women: Advance Issues (H) |
LL4L4 Law and the Holocaust (H) |
LL4CC Commercial Remedies (H) |
LL4L6 Theory of Human Rights Law (H) |
LL4CK Taxation of Corporate Transactions (H) |
LL4S2 E-commerce Law (H) |
LL4F1 Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions (H) |
LL4S5 Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (H) |
LL4G9 European Monetary and Banking Law (H) |
LL4Z4 Value Added Tax in the European Context (H) |
Management Department courses: | |
MG401 Operations Management (formerly OR436) |
MG404 Consumer Behaviour: Behavioural Fundamentals for Marketing and Management (H) |
Management Science Group courses: | |
OR409 Auctions and Game Theory (H) |
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Managerial Economics and Strategy Group courses: | |
MN432 Personnel Economics (H) |
MN433 Case Studies in Management & Strategy (H) |
Mathematics Department courses: | |
MA419 Search Games (H) |
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Social Psychology Department courses: | |
PS437 Representations, Institutions and Communities (H) |
PS451 Cognition and Culture (H) |
PS439 Science Technology and Resistance (H) |
PS456 Consumer Psychology (H) |
PS446 Issues in Organisational Social Psychology: Organisational Life (H) |
PS460 Inter-cultural Relations and Racism (H) |
Social Policy Department courses: | |
SA429 Social Exclusion, Inequality and the 'Underclass' Debate (H) |
SA4E6 Rural Development and Social Policy (H) |
SA4B5 International Planning and Children's Rights (H) |
SA4F3 US Health Policies (H) |
SA4D3 Valuing Health (H) |
SA4X6E Welfare Analysis and Measurement (H) |
Sociology Department courses: | |
SO433 Cultural Theory (H) |
SO466 Race and Biopolitics (H) |
SO438 Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (H) |
SO467 Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945) (H) |
SO447 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies |
SO473 Crime, Control and the City (H) |
SO452 Urban Environment (H) |
SO474 Bodies, Markets and Politics (H) |
SO461 Racial Formations of Modernity (H) |
SO475 Material Culture and Design (H) |
SO464 Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Colonial Societies (H) |
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Withdrawn courses for 2013-14 | |
Anthropology Department courses: | |
AN464 Ethnography of a Selected Region (H) |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU429 Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe (H) |
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Finance Department courses: | |
FM4E1 Economics Finance Option 1 |
FM4E3 Economics Finance Option 3 |
FM4E2 Economics Finance Option 2 |
FM4E4 Economics Finance Option 4 |
European Institute courses: | |
EU436 Law and Governance of the Single European Market |
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Gender Institute courses: | |
GI405 Globalising Sexualities (H) |
GI412 Narratives of the Modern (H) |
GI408 Cultural Constructions of the Body (H) |
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Information Systems and Innovation Group courses: | |
IS419 Qualitative Research in Management Studies (H) |
IS484 Managing Information Risk and Security in Business (H) |
International Development courses: | |
DV425 Managing Globalization (H) |
DV437 Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India (H) |
DV427 Public Management of Development (H) |
DV475 Information and Communication Technologies and Socio-Economic Development |
International History Department courses: | |
HY467 Media and politics, 1890-c.1970/80 (UK, Germany and the US) |
HY4A3 The History of the Soviet Union and of the Post-Soviet Transition |
HY468 Nazi Germany and WW II - Causes and Course, 1933-1945 |
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International Relations Department courses: | |
IR446 Chinese Foreign and Security Policy |
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Law courses: | |
LL400 Jurisprudence and Legal Theory |
LL465 Law and Social Theory |
LL402 Alternative Dispute Resolution |
LL474 Modern Legal History |
LL403 Copyright and Related Rights |
LL478 Policing & Police Powers |
LL406 Introduction to Regulation |
LL479 Issues in Taxation |
LL409 Human Rights in the Developing World |
LL484 Regulation of Financial Markets |
LL414E Law and the Holocaust (E-LLM) (H) |
LL490 Full Unit Dissertation |
LL418 European Administrative Law |
LL491 Taxation of Corporate Transactions |
LL421E Trade Marks and Brands (E-LLM) (H) |
LL494 Value Added Tax |
LL423 Rethinking International Law |
LL497 Half Unit Self Standing Elective Essay |
LL425 European Monetary and Financial Services Law |
LL4A2 LLM Dissertation Seminars |
LL430 Competition Law |
LL4B9 Corporate and Financial Crime |
LL433 International & Comparative Commercial Arbitration |
LL4B6 European and UK Human Rights Law |
LL435 Corporate Governance |
LL4B2 Advanced Issues of European Union Law |
LL437 Law of Corporate Finance |
LL4C1 Innovation, Technology and Patent Law |
LL439 Insolvency Law: Principles and Policy |
LL4C8 Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law |
LL442 International Business Transactions I: Litigation |
LL4D1 Trade Mark Law |
LL443 International Business Transactions II: Substantive Law |
LL4D3 Cultural Property and Heritage Law |
LL444 Constitutional Theory |
LL4D6 International and European Environmental Law |
LL445 International Criminal Law |
LL4D7 Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in the EU and the United States |
LL446 Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects |
LL4E5 International Sale of Goods |
LL447 International Economic Law |
LL4F5 International Dispute Resolution |
LL452 The International Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force |
LL4F7 Comparative Constitutional Law |
LL453 International Human Rights |
LL4H1 Constitutional Theory |
LL454 Human Rights of Women |
LL4H6 Human Rights in the Workplace - Dissertation |
LL455 International Tax Systems |
LL4K3 Secured Credit in English, Comparative and International Law |
LL458 Mental Health Law |
LL4L9 LLM Full Unit Dissertation attached to a Half Unit course |
LL460 International Law and the Protection of Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants |
LL4Z8 Theories of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice |
Management Department courses: | |
MG413 Entrepreneurial Strategy (H) |
MG433 Foundations of Management |
Managerial Economics and Strategy Group courses: | |
MN419 Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling |
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Management Science Group courses: | |
OR431 System Dynamics Modelling (H) |
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Mathematics courses: | |
MA401 Computational Learning Theory and Neural Networks (H) |
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Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH409 Philosophical Foundations of Physics |
PH411 Philosophy of the Biological and Cognitive Sciences |
Sociology Department courses: | |
SO439 Sociology of Employment II: Contemporary Management and Globalisation (H) |
SO472 Biomedicine and Bioscience in Culture and Society (H) |
SO445 New Media, Development and Globalisation (H) |
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Statistics Department courses: | |
ST437 Life Insurance (H) |
ST438 Non-Life Insurance (H) |
Course title changes from 2013-14 | |
Old title |
New title |
European Institute courses: | |
EU446 Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Institutions and Politics of EMU (H) |
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Geography and Environment courses: | |
GY467 Development, Diaspora and Migration (H) |
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Government courses: | |
GV439 Government and Politics in Eastern Europe (H) |
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GV498 Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Citizenship (H) |
Multiculturalism (H) |
GV4A4 From Empire to Globalization |
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International Development courses: | |
DV421 Emerging Health Threats and Development (H) |
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DV483 Aspects of Information and Communication Technologies and Socio-Economic Development (H) |
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International History courses: | |
HY441 Nusantara: State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago from the Colonial Period to Reformasi |
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International Relations courses: | |
IR438 Theory of International Society: English School Texts (H) |
Theory of International Society: The English School and its Critics (H) |
Management Department courses: | |
MG405 Advanced Behavioural Decision Making (H) |
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Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH423 Evidence, Objectivity and Policy |
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Social Psychology courses: | |
PS418 The Social Psychology of Health Communication (H) |
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Social Policy courses: | |
SA493 Demography of the Developing World (H) |
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SA4G5 Valuing Health and Welfare (H) |
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Statistics courses: | |
ST416 Multilevel and Longitudinal Modelling (H) |
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Course code changes from 2013-14 | |
Old code |
New code |
Management Department courses: | |
OR405 Advanced Behavioural Decision Making (H) |
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OR434 Principles of Decision Sciences (H) |
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OR435 Advanced Decision Sciences (H) |
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OR436 Operations Management (H) |
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