Updated graduate course and programme information 2014/15 - for prospective students
The following information provides prospective graduate students with a summary of new courses and programmes being offered in the 2014/15 session:
Graduate programmes
New programmes for 2014-15 | |
Department of Economic History |
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Department of International Development |
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Department of Management and Department of Social Policy |
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Withdrawn programmes from 2014-15 | |
Department of Government | |
MSc Comparative Politics (Research) |
MSc Public Policy and Administration (Research) |
MSc Political Theory (Research) |
MSc Regulation (Research) |
Department of Sociology | |
Diploma in Sociology |
MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies |
Programme title changes from 2014-15 | |
Old title |
New title |
Department of International Relations | |
MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy |
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Department of Management | |
MSc Management, Information Systems and Innovation |
MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation |
Graduate courses
New courses for 2014-15 | |
Department of Anthropology courses: | |
AN473 Anthropological Approaches to Value (H) |
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Department of Economics courses: | |
EC409E Public Policy in Practice Workshop III (H) |
EC421E Global Market Economics (H) |
EC410 Public Economics for Public Policy (H) |
EC454E Economics for International Development (H) |
Department of Economic History courses: | |
EH409 Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H) |
EH474 Research Prospectus |
EH473 Research Paper in Quantitative Economic History |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU425E Interest groups, markets and democracy (modular) (H) |
EU474 Contested ideas in EU Law and Government (H) |
EU446E Economic governance of EMU (modular) (H) |
EU475 Muslims in Europe (H) |
EU453E The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform (H) |
EU476 Turkey in Europe (H) |
EU473 Informal Governance (H) |
EU497E Dissertation (H) |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
GY400 The Economics of Urbanization in Developing Countries (H) |
GY449 Urban Futures (H) |
GY441 The Politics of Housing (H) |
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Department of Government courses: | |
GV488E Regulatory Analysis |
GV4H5 The Politics and Philosophy of Environmental Change (H) |
GV4E4E Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (H) |
GV4H7 Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (H) |
GV4H4 Foundations of Political Theory (H) |
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Department of International Development courses: | |
DV448 Political Economy of Development I (H) |
DV451 Money in an Unequal World (H) |
DV449 Political Economy of Development II (H) |
DV501 Development History, Theory and Policy for Research Students (H) |
DV450 Bureaucracy and Development (H) |
DV510 Research Design and Proposal in International Development |
Department of International History courses: | |
HY447 Hacking the Archive |
HY470 What is international about the 'International' |
Department of International Relations courses: | |
IR452 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (H) |
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Department of Law courses: | |
LL440E Digital Rights, Privacy and Security (H) |
LL444E International Law and the Use of Force (H) |
LL441E Employment Law (H) |
LL4CL Explaining Punishment: Philosophy, Political Economy, Sociology (H) |
LL442E Insolvency Law-Company Liquidation and Stakeholder Interests (H) |
LL4CM Law in the Economy (H) |
LL443E Insolvency Law-Principles, Rescue and Reconstruction Processes (H) |
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Department of Management courses: | |
MG406E Behavioural Decision Science (H) |
MG463 CEMS Global Management Practice (H) |
MG407E Goals and Motivation for Individuals and Teams (H) |
MG464 CEMS Global Business Principles (H) |
MG460 Handling Disruption: Humanitarian Emergencies Management and Development (H) |
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Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH426E Philosophy and Public Policy (H) |
PH459 Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy (H) |
PH458 Evidence and Policy (H) |
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Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA4M2E Behavioural Science and Policy (H) |
SA4M5E Dissertation in Behavioural Science |
SA4M3E Research Methods for Behavioural Science (H) |
SA4X6E Welfare Analysis and Measurement (H) |
SA4M4E Policy Appraisal and Impact Assessment (H) |
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Department of Social Psychology courses: | |
PS464 Social Influence (H) |
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Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO476 Researching Migration - Research Questions and Research Methods |
SO480 Urban Inequalities (H) |
SO477 Urban Social Theory (H) |
SO481 Class, Politics and Culture (H) |
SO479 Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory (H) |
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Suspended courses for 2014-15 | |
Department of Accounting courses: | |
AC410 Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control |
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Department of Anthropology courses: | |
AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (H) |
AN463 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H) |
AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (H) |
AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (H) |
AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H) |
AN468 The Anthropology of Schooling (H) |
AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (H) |
AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) |
AN459 Anthropology and Media (H) |
AN900 A Programme of Ethnographic Films |
AN462 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) |
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Department of Economic History courses: | |
EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H) |
EH447 Great Depressions in Economic History (H) |
EH412 Research Topics in Economic History A (H) |
EH451 Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H) |
EH419 Research Topics in Economic History (H) |
EH466 Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) |
EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) |
EH467 Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, 1348-2000 (H) |
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU426 The West: Identity and Interests (H) |
EU460 European Society and Politics beyond the Nation State (H) |
EU427 European Public and Economic Policy |
EU462 Partisanship in Europe (H) |
EU431 European Integration from a Global Perspective (H) |
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Department of Finance courses: | |
FM440 Corporate Finance Theory (H) |
FM4T3 Corporate Finance Theory - Dissertation (H) |
Gender Institute courses: | |
GI416 Gender and Transition Societies: Politics, Policies and Patterns (H) |
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Department of Geography and the Environment courses: | |
GY408 Local Economic Development and Policy |
GY464 Race and Space (H) |
GY410 Economics of Local and Regional Development (H) |
GY467 Global Migration and Development (H) |
GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H) |
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Department of Government courses: | |
GV476 Twentieth-Century European Liberal Thought (H) |
GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (H) |
GV482 Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H) |
GV4G7 Marx and Marxism (H) |
GV498 Multiculturalism (H) |
GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought (H) |
GV4C2 Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism (H) |
GV4H7 Subnational Politics in Comparative Perspective (H) |
GV4F9 African Politics, Wars, and Violence (H) |
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Department of International Development courses: | |
DV409 Economic Development Policy |
DV434 Human Security (H) |
Department of International History courses: | |
HY438 Western Intellectuals and the Challenge of Totalitarianism |
HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 |
Department of International Relations courses: | |
IR415 Strategic Aspects of International Relations |
IR460 Comparative Political Economy |
IR422 Conflict and Peace Studies |
IR461 Islam in International Relations: From Al-Andalus to Afghanistan |
IR437 Postcolonial Perspectives in International Relations (H) |
IR463 The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H) |
Department of Law courses: | |
LL407 Media and Communications Regulation (H) |
LL4F1 Secured Financing in Commercial Transactions (H) |
LL4AX Selected Topics in International Human Rights Law (H) |
LL4F6 International Dispute Resolution: Non-Adjudicatory Processes (H) |
LL4AZ International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (H) |
LL4G7 Mental Health Law: The Civil Context (H) |
LL4BE Principles of Financial Regulation (H) |
LL4G9 European Monetary and Banking Law (H) |
LL4BQ Trade Mark Law (H) |
LL4H9 Human Rights in the Workplace (H) |
LL4BR Brands and Trade Marks: Contemporary Issues (H) |
LL4K2 Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions (H) |
LL4BY An Introduction to the International Human Rights of Women (H) |
LL4L7 Advanced Mediation (H) |
LL4BZ International Human Rights of Women: Advanced Issues (H) |
LL4S2 E-Commerce Law (H) |
LL4C2 World Poverty and Human Rights (H) |
LL4S5 Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (H) |
LL4CC Commercial Remedies (H) |
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Department of Management | |
ID421 Human Resource Management and Employment Regulation (H) |
MG452 Behavioural Economics for Management (H) |
ID434 Managing Diversity in Organisations (H) |
MG482 Innovation and Technology Management (H) |
IS416 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (modular) |
MN432 Personnel Economics (H) |
MG402 Public Management: A Strategic Approach (H) |
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Department of Mathematics: | |
MA419 Search Games (H) |
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Department of Methodology courses: | |
MY429 Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H) |
MY456 Survey Methodology (H) |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH423 Scientific Method and Policy |
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Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA4C8 Globalization and Social Policy (H) |
SA4L2 Contemporary Issues in European Social Policy (H) |
SA4E6 Rural Development and Social Policy |
SA4X6E Welfare Analysis and Measurement |
SA4K1 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics |
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Department of Social Psychology courses: | |
PS411 Current Communication Research (H) |
PS439 Science, Technology and Resistance (H) |
PS421 Issues in Social Psychology: Group Dynamics (H) |
PS447 Psychoanalysis and Communication (H) |
PS428 Knowledge Processes in Organisations (H) |
PS460 Inter-cultural Relations and Racism (H) |
Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO420 Globalisation: Economy, Politics and Power (H) |
SO438 Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations at Work (H) |
SO433 Cultural Theory (H) |
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Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST418 Non-linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (H) |
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Withdrawn courses for 2014-15 | |
Department of Anthropology courses: | |
AN429 The Anthropology of Southern Africa (H) |
AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (H) |
AN446 Tutorials for MSc China in Comparative Perspective |
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Department of Economics courses: | |
EC450 Urban and transport Economics Seminars |
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European Institute courses: | |
EU423 Greece and the European Union |
EU461 Economic History of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East, 1820-1970 |
EU438 Turkey: Political Economy and European Integration |
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Department of International History courses: | |
HY443 Class, Gender and Generation in 20th Century Germany |
HY464 Crises and Detente in the Cold War, 1962-1975 |
HY445 The Holocaust as Global History |
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Department of Geography and the Environment courses: | |
GY430 Contemporary Urbanism |
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Department of Government courses: | |
GV436 National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation |
GV4F6 The Philosophy and Politics of Environmental Change |
Department of International Relations courses: | |
IR438 Theory of International Society: The English School and its Critics |
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Department of Law courses: | |
LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies |
LL4D5 Legal Risk in the Financial Markets (H) |
LL4C9 Project Finance and Public Private Partnerships (H) |
LL4L4 Law and the Holocaust (H) |
Department of Management courses: | |
MN433 Case Study in Management and Strategy (H) |
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Department of Social Psychology courses: | |
PS437 Representations, Institutions and Communities (H) |
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Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO447 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies |
SO464 Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Colonial Societies (H) |
SO452 Urban Environment (H) |
SO467 Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post-1945) (H) |
SO461 Racial Formations of Modernity (H) |
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Course title changes from 2014-15 | |
Old title |
New title |
Gender Institute courses: | |
GI411 Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H) |
Gender, Postcoloniality, Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (H) |
Department of Law courses: | |
LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies |
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LL4AH Comparative Company Law (H) |
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LL4BF Regulating for Financial Stability (H) |
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LL4BX Corporate Governance (H) |
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Department of Management courses: | |
IS418 Convergence and Information Management (H) |
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MG421 The Future of the Multinational Firm (H) |
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MG455 Principles of Decision Sciences (H) |
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MG489 Professional Development Programme and Business Project (H) |
Title and code changed to: MG488 MiM Capstone Course – Management in Action (H) |
MG498 Dissertation: Executive Global MSc Management (H) |
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Department of Methodology courses: | |
MY429 Special Topics in Qualitative Research Methods (H) |
Special Topics in Qualitative Research: Introspection-based Methods in Social Research (H) |
Department of Philosophy courses: | |
PH427 Genes, Brains, and Society: Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences (H) |
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Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA429 Social Exclusion, Inequality and the Underclass Debate |
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SA466 European Social Policy - Long Essay |
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SA4D2 Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies |
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Department of Social Psychology courses: | |
PS409 Political Psychology |
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Course code changes from 2014-15 | |
Old code |
New code |
Department of International Development courses: | |
DV443 Humanitarian Consultancy Project (H) |
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Gender Institute courses: | |
GI406 Feminist Political Theory (H) |
GV4H3 (H) |
Department of Law courses: | |
LL416 Regulating New Medical Technologies |
LL4CN (H) |
Department of Management courses: | |
MG489 Professional Development Programme and Business Project (H) |
Title and code changed to: MG488 MiM Capstone Course – Management in Action (H) |
Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO447 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies |
SO482 (H) |
