Undergraduate course guides 2014

Undergraduate course guides 2014/15

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AC
AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting and Financial Management
AC104 Elements of Accounting, Financial Institutions and Financial Management
AC211 Managerial Accounting
AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control
AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation.
AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management

AN
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts
AN102 Reading Other Cultures: Anthropological Interpretation of Text and Film
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia
AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology
AN227 The Anthropology of Economic Institutions and their Social Transformations
AN230 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life
AN231 The Anthropology of China
AN237 The Anthropology of Development
AN238 Anthropology and Human Rights
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography
AN244 Anthropology and Media
AN245 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries
AN246 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia
AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions
AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value
AN268 The Anthropology of Schooling
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia
AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology
AN301 The Anthropology of Religion
AN399 Ethnography as Research Method and Text

EC
EC100 Economics A
EC102 Economics B
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I
EC202 Microeconomic Principles II
EC210 Macroeconomic Principles
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics
EC221 Principles of Econometrics
EC230 Economics in Public Policy
EC301 Advanced Economic Analysis
EC302 Political Economy
EC303 Economic Policy Analysis
EC307 Development Economics
EC309 Econometric Theory
EC310 Behavioural Economics
EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change
EC313 Industrial Economics
EC315 International Economics
EC317 Labour Economics
EC319 Economic Theory and its Applications
EC321 Monetary Economics
EC325 Public Economics
EC331 Quantitative Economics Project
EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics

EH
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
EH205 Towns, Society and Economy in England and Europe 1450-1750
EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850
EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy
EH237 Theories and Evidence in Economic History
EH238 The Industrial Revolution
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context
EH301 The Origins of the World Economy, 1450 - 1750
EH304 The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War
EH306 Monetary and Financial History since 1750
EH307 The Economic History of South Asia, 1600-2000
EH308 Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
EH325 Issues in Modern Japanese Economic Development: Late Industrialisation, Imperialism and High Speed Growth
EH326 Innovation and its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries
EH327 China's Traditional Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term
EH390 Dissertation in Economic or Social History

FM
FM212 Principles of Finance
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets
FM320 Quantitative Finance

GI
GI200 Gender, Politics and Civil Society

GV
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory
GV101 Introduction to Political Science
GV225 Public Choice and Politics
GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy
GV245 Democracy and Democratisation
GV247 Theories and Problems of Nationalism
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union
GV262 Contemporary Political Theory
GV263 Public Policy Analysis
GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought
GV303 From Empire to Globalization
GV305 Sustainability Science and Policy: Problems and Perspectives
GV308 Leadership in the Political World
GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective
GV311 British Government
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics
GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective
GV314 Empirical Research in Government
GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World
GV390 Government Dissertation Option

GY
GY100 Environment, Economy and Society
GY103 Contemporary Europe
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future
GY121 Sustainable Development
GY140 Methods in Spatial and Social Analysis
GY200 Economy, Society and Space
GY201 Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis I
GY202 Introduction to Global Development
GY205 Political Geographies, Policy and Space
GY220 Environment: Science and Society
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics
GY240 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental)
GY244 London's Geographies:An Introduction to Cultural and Historical Geography
GY2A0 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental)
GY300 Theories of Regional Development and Change
GY301 The Political Geography of Development and the South
GY302 Urban Development: Politics, Policy and Planning
GY303 The Geography of Gender: Global Perspectives
GY305 Urban and Spatial Economic Analysis II
GY306 Geographies of Race
GY324 Environmental Governance
GY325 Environment and Development
GY350 Independent Research Project

HY
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY116 International History since 1890
HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800
HY203 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989
HY208 The History of the United States since 1783
HY216 Four Reichs: Austria, Prussia and the Contest for Germany since 1618
HY221 The History of Russia, 1682-1825
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918
HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990
HY233 Empire and Nation: Britain and India since 1750
HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840
HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992
HY239 Latin America and the United States since 1898
HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day
HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates
HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History
HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800
HY300 Dissertation
HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75)
HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1830
HY319 Napoleon and Europe
HY320 The Cold War Endgame
HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003
HY322 Nazi Germany and the Second World War â€“ Causes and Course, 1933-1945
HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825
HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945

IR
IR100 Concepts of International Society
IR200 International Political Theory
IR202.1 Foreign Policy Analysis 1
IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice
IR203 International Organisations
IR304 The Politics of International Economic Relations
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations
IR306 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory
IR308 Systemic Change in the 20th Century: Theories of the Cold War
IR311 Europe's Institutional Order
IR312 Genocide
IR313 Managing China's Rise in East Asia
IR314 Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security
IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory
IR316 United Nations
IR317 American Grand Strategy
IR318 Visual International Politics
IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics
IR398 Dissertation

LL
LL104 Law of Obligations
LL105 Property I
LL106 Public Law
LL108 Criminal Law
LL109 Introduction to the Legal System
LL201 Administrative Law
LL202 Commercial Contracts
LL203 Law of Business Associations
LL204 Advanced Torts
LL205 Medical Law
LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights
LL209 Commercial Law
LL210 Information Technology and the Law
LL212 Conflict of Laws
LL221 Family Law
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union
LL233 Law of Evidence
LL241 European Legal History
LL242 International Protection of Human Rights
LL250 Law and The Environment
LL251 Intellectual Property Law
LL253 The Law of Corporate Insolvency
LL257 Labour Law
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750
LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology
LL275 Property II
LL278 Public International Law
LL284 Sentencing and Treatment of Offenders
LL293 Taxation
LL295 Media Law
LL298 Half-Unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic
LL299 Full- unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic
LL300 Competition Law
LL301 Global Commodities Law
LL305 Jurisprudence

LN
LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner)
LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN131 French Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN250 English Literature and Society
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History
LN252 Global Literature and Society
LN253 European Literature and Society
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists
LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery)
LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery)
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery)

LS
LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

MA
MA100 Mathematical Methods
MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods
MA203 Real Analysis
MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA208 Optimisation Theory
MA209 Differential Equations
MA210 Discrete Mathematics
MA211 Algebra and Number Theory
MA212 Further Mathematical Methods
MA300 Game Theory
MA301 Game Theory I
MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems
MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces
MA310 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation
MA313 Probability for Finance
MA314 Algorithms in Java
MA315 Algebra and its Applications
MA316 Graph Theory
MA317 Complex Analysis
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics

MG
MG100 Leadership and Communication in Teams
MG101 Core Business Disciplines I: Finance and Operations Management
MG102 Organisational Behaviour
MG103 Management, Labour and Work
MG201 Core Disciplines II: Marketing, Human Resource Management and Information Systems
MG202 Analytical Methods for Management
MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour
MG205 Learning from Quantitative Data
MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage
MG207 Economics for Management
MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management
MG209 E-business
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards
MG211 Operational Research Methods
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain
MG301 Strategy
MG302 Topics in Management Research
MG303 Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets
MG304 Digital Platform Innovation
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management
MG306 Managing Diversity in Organisations
MG307 International Context of Management
MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis
MG309 International Human Resource Management
MG310 Risk and Decision Analysis for Management and Policy
MG311 Behavioural Decision Science for Management and Policy
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts
MG313 Practical Optimisation Modelling
MG314 Principles of Marketing
MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project

PH
PH101 Logic
PH103 Reason, Knowledge and Values: An Introduction to Philosophy
PH201 Philosophy of Science
PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PH211 Philosophy of Economics
PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues
PH214 Morality and Values
PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic
PH219 Governing Knowledge: Foundational Issues in Science Policy
PH220 Scientific Method and Policy
PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy
PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society
PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy
PH229 Global Justice
PH231 Evidence and Policy
PH299 Essay on an Approved Subject in Philosophy

PS
PS102 Social Psychology
PS203 Societal Psychology: Theory and Applications

SA
SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy
SA101 Sociology and Social Policy
SA103 Introduction to Global Population Change
SA104 Social Economics and Policy
SA105 Crime and Society
SA201 Research Methods for Social Policy
SA204 Education Policy
SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice
SA218 Criminological Perspectives
SA221 Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change
SA222 Implementing Social Policy: From Principles to Practice
SA223 Health and Social Care Policy
SA250 Demographic Description and Analysis
SA302 Assessing Social Progress
SA309 Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies
SA313 European Social Policy
SA320 Comparative and International Social Policy
SA349 A Long Essay on an Approved Topic

SO
SO100 Key Concepts in Sociology: An Introduction to Sociological Theory
SO102 Statistics in Society
SO110 Key Issues in Contemporary Societies: An Introduction to Contemporary Sociology
SO201 Sociological Analysis
SO203 Political Sociology
SO208 Gender and Society
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control
SO211 Sociology of Health and Medicine
SO212 Work, Management and Globalization
SO221 Researching London: An Introduction to Social Research Methods
SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SO230 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture
SO302 Sociological Project
SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family

ST
ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory
ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics)
ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference
ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences
ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments
ST211 Applied Regression
ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial
ST227 Survival Models
ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models
ST302 Stochastic Processes
ST304 Time Series and Forecasting
ST305 Actuarial Mathematics (Life)
ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General)
ST307 Aspects of Market Research
ST308 Bayesian Inference
ST312 Applied Statistics Project
ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach
ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance