Outside options
Outside options for first year students
Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (e.g., Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (e.g., Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the first two letters in its code.
Please note that some course combinations are not allowed. Please see the Mutually Exclusive options list below.
The courses available for this purpose in your first year are:
(H) means a half-unit course
(not available 2017/18) means the course has been suspended and is not available in the 2017/18 academic year
* means available with permission
Elements of Accounting and Finance | |
Introduction to Social Anthropology | |
Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts | |
Anthropology, Text and Film | |
Economics A (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background) | |
Economics B (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background) | |
The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the Present Day | |
Pre-industrial Economic History * | |
Finance (H) | |
Introduction to Political Theory | |
Introduction to Political Science | |
Introduction to Geography | |
Contemporary Europe | |
The Natural Environment | |
Environmental Change and sustainable Development | |
Introduction to Geographical Research | |
Empire to Independence: the Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century | |
International History since 1890 | |
Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 | |
Theories and Concepts of International Relations | |
Law of Obligations | |
Property I | |
Public Law | |
Criminal Law | |
Introduction to the Legal System | |
Russian Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Russian Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
Russian Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
Intensive German Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Spanish Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Spanish Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
Spanish Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
French Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
French Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
French Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Russian Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
German Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
Spanish Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
French Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
English Literature and Society | |
Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History | |
Contemporary Literature and Global Society | |
European Literature and Philosophy | |
Literature and Aspects of Ethics | |
Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists | |
Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (not available 2017/18) | |
French Language and Society 5 (Mastery) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) | |
Mathematical Methods | |
Introduction to Abstract Mathematics | |
Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) * | |
Basic Quantitative Methods | |
MG100 |
Leadership and Communication in Teams (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) |
MG101 |
Core Business Disciplines: Finance and Operations Management (withdrawn 2017/18) |
MG102 |
Organisational Behaviour (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Management, Labour and Work (not available 2017/18) | |
Operations Management (H) | |
Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (H) | |
Logic (not available to BSc in Economics students) | |
The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy | |
Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation | |
Social Psychology * | |
Foundations of Psychological Science (not available 2017/18) | |
Foundations of Social Policy * | |
Sociology and Social Policy * | |
Social Economics, Politics and Policy * | |
SA105 |
Crime and Society (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Social Theory | |
Statistics in Society | |
Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology | |
Elementary Statistical Theory | |
Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) | |
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences |
Outside options for second and third year students
Where undergraduate programme regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department this will be a paper in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. An outside paper may be selected from the Undergraduate Course Guides, subject to the approval of the candidate's tutor and to the successful completion of prerequisites where necessary, with the following exceptions:
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certain first-year courses are not available to students in the second or third year of their degree; |
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some courses are not available as an outside option; |
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some papers are mutually exclusive and may therefore not be combined. |
The following are courses that are available to second and/or third year students as an outside option where regulations permit.
(H) means a half-unit course
(not available 2017/18) means not available in the 2017/18 academic year
* means available with permission
Elements of Accounting and Finance | |
Managerial Accounting * | |
Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organizational Control | |
Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation * | |
Auditing, Governance and Risk Management * | |
Introduction to Social Anthropology | |
Ethnography & Theory: Selected Texts | |
Anthropology, Text and Film | |
The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender | |
The Anthropology of Melanesia | |
Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (H) | |
The Anthropology of Christianity (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Political and Legal Anthropology | |
The Anthropology of Development | |
Anthropology and Human Rights (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (not available 2017/18) | |
Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (not available 2017/18) | |
Anthropology and Media (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (H) | |
The Anthropology of Ontology (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
The Anthropology of South Asia (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H) | |
Anthropological Approaches to Value (H) | |
Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (H) * | |
The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) | |
Subjectivity and Anthropology (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
The Anthropology of Revolution (H) | |
Anthropology and the Anthropocene (H) * | |
Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H) * | |
Economics A (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background) | |
Economics B (dependant on Economics A-level or equivalent background) | |
Microeconomic Principles I | |
Microeconomic Principles II | |
Macroeconomic Principles | |
Introduction to Econometrics * | |
Principles of Econometrics * | |
Economics in Public Policy | |
Advanced Economic Analysis | |
Political Economy | |
Economic Policy Analysis * (not available 2017/18) | |
Development Economics | |
Econometric Theory * | |
Behavioural Economics | |
History of Economics: How Theories Change * | |
Industrial Economics | |
International Economics | |
Labour Economics | |
Games and Economic Behaviour | |
Monetary Economics * | |
Public Economics | |
Problems of Applied Econometrics * | |
Internationalization of Economic Growth | |
Pre-industrial Economic History * | |
Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity | |
The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 | |
Latin America and the International Economy | |
The Industrial Revolution | |
Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context | |
Principles of Finance | |
Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets | |
Quantitative Finance | |
Gender, Politics and Civil Society (not available 2017/18) | |
Introduction to Political Theory | |
Introduction to Political Science | |
Public Choice and Politics | |
The Politics of Economic Policy * | |
Democracy and Democratisation | |
Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives * | |
Research Design in Political Science * | |
Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union | |
Contemporary Political Theory | |
Public Policy Analysis | |
Politics and Institutions in Europe | |
Key Themes in the History of Political Thought * | |
Global Public Policy (H) * (n/a 16/17) | |
Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics * (not available 2017/18) | |
Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (H) * | |
Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory (H) * | |
The Modern State - Theory and Practice (H) | |
Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (H) * | |
Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
African Political Economy (H) | |
Introduction to Geography | |
Contemporary Europe | |
The Natural Environment | |
Environmental Change and Sustainable Development | |
Introduction to Geographical Research | |
Economy, Society and Space | |
Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis I | |
Introduction to Development in the South | |
Political Geographies, Policy and Space | |
Environment: Science and Society | |
Applied Environmental Economics | |
London's Geographies | |
Theories of Regional Development and Change | |
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Political Geography of Development and the South | |
Urban Development: Politics, Policy and Planning | |
The Geography of Gender: Global Perspectives | |
Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis II * | |
Geographies of Race | |
Environmental Governance | |
Environment and Development | |
From Empire to Independence: the Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century | |
International History since 1890 | |
The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International * | |
HY203 |
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion * (withdrawn 2017/18) |
The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 | |
The History of Russia, 1682-1825 | |
The Great War 1914-1918 | |
War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 | |
HY233 |
Empire and Nation: Britain and India since 1750 (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 | |
The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 | |
Latin America and the United States since 1898 (not available 2017/18) | |
From Empire to Commonwealth: War, Race and Imperialism in British History, 1780 to 1979. | |
What is History? Methods and Debates | |
The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History | |
Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 | |
The United States and the World since 1776 * | |
Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) * (not available 2017/18) | |
The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 | |
Napoleon and Europe | |
The Cold War Endgame | |
The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 * | |
Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 | |
Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (not available 2017/18) | |
Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 * | |
Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 * (not available 2017/18) | |
Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (not available 2017/18) | |
The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 * | |
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion * | |
Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development | |
From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century | |
International Political Theory | |
Foreign Policy Analysis 1 | |
Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice | |
International Organisations | |
International Security | |
International Political Economy * | |
Strategic Aspects of International Relations | |
Genocide (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
The Middle East and International Relations Theory | |
American Grand Strategy (H) * | |
Visual International Politics (H) * | |
Empire and Conflict in World Politics (H) * | |
Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (H) * | |
Political Economy of International Labour Migration (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (H) * | |
Economic Diplomacy (H) * | |
Global Environmental Politics (H) * | |
The Political Economy of Trade (H) * | |
Politics of Money in the World Economy (H) * | |
Law of Obligations | |
Property I | |
Public Law | |
Criminal Law | |
Administrative Law | |
Commercial Contracts * | |
Law of Business Associations * | |
Advanced Torts * | |
Medical Law * | |
Civil Liberties and Human Rights * | |
Commercial Law | |
Information Technology and the Law | |
Conflict of Laws * | |
Family Law * | |
Law and Institutions of the European Union | |
Law of Evidence * | |
European Legal History | |
International Protection of Human Rights * | |
Law and The Environment | |
Intellectual Property Law | |
Labour Law * | |
Legal and Social Change since 1750 | |
Outlines of Modern Criminology | |
Property II * | |
Public International Law | |
Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice (H) * | |
Taxation | |
Media Law | |
Competition Law * | |
Global Commodities Law * | |
Jurisprudence * | |
Russian Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Russian Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
Russian Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
German Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Spanish Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Spanish Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
Spanish Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
French Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
French Language and Society 1 (Beginner) | |
French Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) | |
Russian Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
German Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
Spanish Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
French Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) | |
English Literature and Society | |
Comparative Literature and Society | |
Contemporary Literature and Global Society | |
European Literature and Philosophy | |
Literature and Aspects of Ethics | |
Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists | |
Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (not available 2017/18) | |
French Language and Society 5 (Mastery) | |
Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) | |
Mathematical Methods | |
Introduction to Abstract Mathematics | |
Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) * | |
Basic Quantitative Methods | |
Real Analysis | |
Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) | |
Optimisation Theory | |
Differential Equations | |
Discrete Mathematics | |
Algebra and Number Theory | |
Further Mathematical Methods | |
Operational Research Methods | |
Game Theory | |
Game Theory I | |
Chaos in Dynamical Systems | |
Optimisation in Function Spaces (not available 2017/18) | |
Mathematics of Finance and Valuation | |
Probability for Finance | |
Algorithms and Programming | |
Algebra and its Applications | |
Graph Theory | |
Complex Analysis (H) | |
History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (H) | |
Partial Differential Equations (H) * | |
Mathematics of Networks (H) * | |
Practical Optimisation Modelling (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Organisational Theory and Behaviour (not available 2017/18) | |
Econometrics: Theory and Applications | |
Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (H) | |
Managerial Economics | |
Business Transformation and Project Management (H) | |
E-business (H) | |
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Marketing (H) | |
Information Systems (H) | |
Human Resource Management (H) * | |
Managing the Stone-Age Brain (H) | |
Strategy (3rd year only) | |
Topics in Management Research (H) (3rd year only) | |
Digital Platform Innovation (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Innovation and Technology Management (H) | |
MG306 |
Managing Diversity in Organisations (withdrawn 2017/18) |
International Context of Management (H) | |
Simulation Modelling and Analysis | |
International Human Resource Management (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
Analytics for Strategic Decisions (H) | |
Behavioural Decision Science for Management and Policy (H) (not available 2017/18) | |
Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (H) | |
Marketing Action Learning Project (H) | |
Logic (not available to BSc in Economics students) | |
The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy | |
Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation | |
Philosophy of Science | |
Philosophy of the Social Sciences * | |
Morality and Values | |
Set Theory and Further Logic * | |
Problems of Analytic Philosophy | |
Philosophy and Public Policy | |
Genes, Brains, and Society: Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences (H) | |
Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (H) | |
PH229 |
Global Justice (H) * (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Einstein for Everyone: From Time Travel to the Edge of the Universe (H) | |
Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (H) | |
Philosophy of Economics | |
Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H) | |
Self, Others and Society: Perspectives on Social and Applied Psychology * | |
Foundations of Psychological Science (2nd year only) (not available 2017/18) | |
Foundations of Social Policy (2nd year only) * | |
Sociology and Social Policy (not to be taken by 3rd year Social Policy students) * | |
Social Economics, Politics and Policy (only available to 2nd year students who have taken SA100) * | |
SA105 |
Crime and Society (not to be taken by 3rd year Social Policy students) (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Research Methods for Social Policy (not to be taken by 2nd or 3rd year Sociology students) * | |
Education Policy * | |
Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice | |
Criminological Perspectives (not available 2017/18) | |
Comparative and International Social Policy * | |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change | |
Health and Social Care Policy | |
Introduction to Global Population Change (not available 2017/18) | |
SA250 |
Demographic Description and Analysis (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Assessing Social Progress (not available 2017/18) | |
Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (H) | |
Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies | |
SA320 |
Comparative and International Social Policy * (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Social Theory | |
Statistics in Society | |
Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology | |
Key Issues in Sociological Analysis | |
Political Sociology | |
Gender and Society | |
Crime, Deviance and Control | |
SO211 |
Sociology of Health and Medicine (withdrawn 2017/18) |
Researching London: Methods for Social Research | |
The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | |
Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (not available 2017/18) | |
Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (H) * | |
Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (H) * | |
Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family | |
Atrocity and Justice (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
The Sociology of Elites (H) * (not available 2017/18) | |
Law and Violence (H) (3rd year only) * | |
Work, Inequality and Society (H) * | |
Material Culture and Everyday Life (H) | |
Elementary Statistical Theory | |
Quantitative Methods (Statistics) | |
Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences | |
Statistical Models and Data Analysis | |
Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference | |
Sample Surveys and Experiments (H) | |
Actuarial Investigations: Financial | |
Survival Models | |
Regression and Generalized Linear Models | |
Stochastic Processes | |
Time Series and Forecasting | |
Actuarial Mathematics (General) | |
Aspects of Market Research | |
Bayesian Inference (H) | |
Market Research: An Integrated Approach |
Mutually exclusive options (may not be combined)
The following courses may not be taken together i.e. students can only take one or other of the listed courses (and as programme regulations permit):
(H) means a half-unit course
(not available 2017/18) means the course has been suspended and is not available in the 2017/18 academic year
AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance with |
AC104 Elements of Accounting, Financial Institutions and Financial Management or |
EC100 Economics A with |
EC102 Economics B |
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I with |
EC202 Microeconomic Principles II |
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics with |
EC221 Principles of Econometrics |
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles for Econometrics with |
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (H) or |
GY240 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental) with |
GY2A0 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental) |
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 with |
HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (not available 2017/18) |
HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion |
HY203 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (withdrawn 2017/18) |
LL104 Law of Obligations with |
LL209 Commercial Law |
MA100 Mathematical Methods with |
MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods or |
MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) with |
MA100 Mathematical Methods or |
MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods with |
MA100 Mathematical Methods or |
MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) with |
MA100 Mathematical Methods |
MA300 Game Theory with |
MA301 Game Theory I (H) |
MG102 Organisational Behaviour (H) (withdrawn 2017/18) with |
MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour (not available 2017/18) |
MG201 (withdrawn 2017/18) and MG314 (withdrawn 2017/18) with |
MG212 Marketing (H) |
MG207 Economics for Management with |
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or |
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (H) with |
MG307 International Context of Management (H) |
SA218 (not available 2017/18) Criminological Perspectives with |
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control |
SO309 Atrocity and Justice (H) (not available 2017/18) |
IR312 Genocide (H) (not available 2017/18) |
ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory with |
ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) |
ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H) with |
ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach |
