Updated undergraduate course and programme information 2016/17 - for prospective students

The following information provides undergraduate students with a summary of new courses course and programmes being offered in the 2016/17 session. It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses.

Undergraduate programmes

New programmes for 2016/17
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new programmes in 2016/17

Department of Finance

BSc in Finance

 

Withdrawn programmes from 2016/17
The following programmes will be permanently withdrawn, and no longer available in the 2016/17 session. 

Department of Social Policy

BSc in Social Policy and Criminology

 

Substantive changes to Programme regulations from 2016/17
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2016/17 session.

Department of Anthropology

BA/BSc in Social Anthropology

Department of History

BA in History
BSc in International Relations and History

Department of Management

BSc in Management

Department of Mathematics

BSc in Mathematics with Economics

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Department of Government
Department of Economics

BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
BSc in Politics and Philosophy
BSc in Philosophy and Economics

Undergraduate courses

Updated undergraduate summative assessment information for 2016/17

New courses for 2016/17
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2016/17.

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN247 The Anthropology of Ontology (H) (reinstated)

AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H)

AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation, Development, and Globalisation (H)

 

Department of Economics courses:

EC240 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

EC4B5 Macroeconomics for MSc F&E (H)

EC4B6 Microeconomics for MSc F&E (H)

 

Department of Finance courses:

FM100 Introduction to Finance (H)

 

Department of Geography & Environment courses:

GY526 Advanced Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics: Time, Risk and Environmental Policy (H)

 

Department of Government courses:

GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H)

GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (H)

GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice (H)

GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict. Violence, Power­Sharing and Institutional Design (H)

GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy (H)

 

Department of International History courses:

HY119 Thinking Like a Historian (non-assessed)

HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89

Department of International Relations courses:

IR320 Europe's Institutional Order (H)

IR323 Gender and International Politics (H)

IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (H)

IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court (H)

Language Centre courses:

LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)

LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics

LN824 Spanish: Level One (Super Standard)

LN825 Arabic Level 1 (Levantine dialect)

LN826 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT1)

LN827 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT2)

LN828 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT3)

 

Department of Management courses:

MG212 Marketing (H)

MG214 Human Resource Management (H)

MG213 Information Systems (H)

 

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA320 Mathematics of Networks (H)

 

Department of Philosophy courses:

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation

PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (H)

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

PS110 Foundations of Psychological Science

 

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA219 Comparative and International Social Policy

 

Department of Sociology courses:

SO232 The Sociology of Elites (H)

SO233 The Law of Violence (H)

SO234 Work, Inequality and Society (H)

 

 

Suspended courses for  2016-17
We regret we are unable to offer the following courses in the  2016-17 session.  For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (H)

AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (H)

AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (H)

AN238 Anthropology and Human Rights (H)

AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H)

AN244 Anthropology and Media (H)

AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H)

AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (H)

AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

 

Department of Economics courses:

EC303 Economics Policy Analysis

 

Department of Economic History courses:

EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850

EH304 The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War

Department of Finance courses:

FM200 History of Financial Markets and Institutions (H)

FM201 Macroeconomics and Finance (H)

FM301 Market Anomalies and Asset Management (H)

FM302 Theories of Corporate Finance (H)

FM304 Applied corporate Finance (H)

FM305 Advanced Asset Markets (H)

FM321 Risk Management and Modeling (H)

FM322 Derivatives (H)

Department of Government courses:

GV306 Global Public Policy (H)

GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (H)

GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics

GV314 Empirical Research in Government

GV342 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone and Research Project

 

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY303 The Geography of Gender: Global Perspectives

 

Department of International History courses:

HY200 The Rights of 'Man': the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International

HY233 Empire and Nation: Britain and India since 1750

HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799

HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003

Department of International Relations courses:

IR321 Revolutions and World Politics (H)

 

Department of Law courses:

LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750

 

Department of Management courses:

MG103 Management, Labour and Work

MG202 Analytical Methods for Management

MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour

MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (H)

MG304 Digital Platform Innovation (H)

MG306 Managing Diversity in Organisations (H)

MG309 International Human Resource Management (H)

 

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues

PH220 Scientific Method and Policy

PH229 Global Justice

PH341 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA105 Crime and Society

SA302 Assessing Social Progress

 

Withdrawn courses for 2016-17
The following courses will be permanently withdrawn, and no longer available in the 2016/17 session. For alternative option courses, please consult your academic adviser

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN230 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life

AN231 The Anthropology of China

AN399 Ethnography as Research Method and Text

 

Department of Economic History courses:

EH205 Towns, Society and Economy in England and Europe 1450-1750

EH301 The Origins of the World Economy, 1450 - 1750

Department of Government courses:

GV303 From Empire to Globalization

 

Department of International History courses:

HY216 Four Reichs: Austria, Prussia and the Contest for Germany since 1618

 

Department of International Relations courses:

IR306 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (H)

IR308 Systemic Change in the 20th Century: Theories of the Cold War

IR311 Europe's Institutional Order

 

Department of Management courses:

MG201 Core Disciplines II: Marketing, Human Resource Management and Information Systems

MG314 Principles of Marketing

Department of Social Policy courses:

SA222 Implementing Social Policy: From Principles to Practice

 

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

PS203 Societal Psychology: Theory and Applications

 

Department of Sociology courses:

SO212 Work, Management and Globalization

 

Department of Statistics courses:

ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences

 

 

Course title changes from 2016/17
The following courses have changed title from the 2016/17 session.

Old title

New title

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN102 Reading Other Cultures: Anthropological Interpretation of Text and Film

AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film

AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation, Development, and Globalisation

AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation

Department of Finance courses:

FM200 History of Financial Markets and Institutions

FM200 Financial Systems and Crises

FM201 Macroeconomics and Finance

FM201 Macro-Finance

FM305 Theories of Asset Markets

FM305 Advanced Asset Markets

Department of International History courses:

HY322 Nazi Germany and the Second World War – Causes and Course, 1933-1945

HY322 Nazi Germany’s War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945

Department of Management courses:

MG101 Core Business Disciplines I: Finance and Operations Management

MG101 Core Business Disciplines: Finance and Operations Management

MG207 Economics for Management

MG207 Managerial Economics

Department of Sociology courses:

SO201 Sociological Analysis

SO201 Key Issues in Sociological Analysis