Undergraduate course guides 2017

Undergraduate course guides 2017/18

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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 Anthropology, 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
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 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches
AN247 The Anthropology of Ontology
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia
AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions
AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia
AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene
AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology
AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology
AN301 The Anthropology of Religion
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation
AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology

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
EC240 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar
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 Games and Economic Behaviour
EC321 Monetary Economics
EC325 Public Economics
EC331 Quantitative Economics Project
EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics
EC340 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

EH
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day
EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History
EH103 Making Economic History Count
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
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
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
EH309 Slavery from Ancient Greece to the Gulag
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
FM100 Introduction to Finance
FM101 Finance
FM200 Financial Systems and Crises
FM201 Macro-Finance
FM212 Principles of Finance
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets
FM301 Market Anomalies and Asset Management
FM302 Theories of Corporate Finance
FM304 Applied Corporate Finance
FM305 Advanced Asset Markets
FM320 Quantitative Finance
FM321 Risk Management and Modelling
FM322 Derivatives

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
GV249 Research Design in Political Science
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
GV306 Global Public Policy
GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates
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
GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies
GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory
GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design
GV319 Experimental Politics
GV320 Populism
GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy
GV335 African Political Economy
GV342 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone and Research Project
GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World
GV390 Government Dissertation Option
GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology

GY
GY100 Introduction to Geography
GY103 Contemporary Europe
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future
GY121 Sustainable Development
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research
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
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
HY119 Thinking Like A Historian
HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989
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
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
HY245 The United States and the World since 1776
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.1680-1799
HY319 Napoleon and Europe
HY320 The Cold War Endgame
HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003
HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945
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
HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68
HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89
HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century

IR
IR100 Theories and Concepts of International Relations
IR200 International Political Theory
IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1
IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice
IR203 International Organisations
IR205 International Security
IR206 International Political Economy
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations
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
IR317 American Grand Strategy
IR318 Visual International Politics
IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics
IR320 Europe's Institutional Order
IR321 Revolutions and World Politics
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory
IR323 Gender and International Politics
IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice
IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court
IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future
IR355 Economic Diplomacy
IR367 Global Environmental Politics
IR368 The Political Economy of Trade
IR369 Politics of Money in the World Economy
IR373 China and the Global South
IR377 The Politics of Governance, Development and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
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 and Enterprise 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 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice
LL293 Taxation
LL295 Media Law
LL300 Competition Law
LL301 Global Commodities Law
LL305 Jurisprudence
LL398 Half-Unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic
LL399 Full-unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic

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)
LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
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 Philosophy
LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics
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
MA231 Operational Research 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 and Programming
MA315 Algebra and its Applications
MA316 Graph Theory
MA317 Complex Analysis
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics
MA319 Partial Differential Equations
MA320 Mathematics of Networks
MA321 Measure Theoretic Probability
MA322 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation
MA323 Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics
MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling

MG
MG103 Management, Labour and Work
MG104 Operations Management
MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
MG202 Analytical Methods for Management
MG203 Organisational Theory and Behaviour
MG205 Econometrics: Theory and Applications
MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage
MG207 Managerial Economics
MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management
MG209 E-business
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards
MG212 Marketing
MG213 Information Systems
MG214 Human Resource Management
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain
MG301 Strategy
MG302 Topics in Management Research
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets
MG304 Digital Platform Innovation
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management
MG307 International Context of Management
MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis
MG309 International Human Resource Management
MG310 Analytics for Strategic Decisions
MG311 Behavioural Decision Science for Management and Policy
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts
MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project

PH
PH101 Logic
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation
PH201 Philosophy of Science
PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues
PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics
PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic
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
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe
PH232 Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes
PH301 Rationality and Choice
PH311 Philosophy of Economics
PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence
PH341 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications
PH399 Dissertation in Philosophy

PS
PS102 Social Psychology
PS110 Foundations of Psychological Science

SA
SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy
SA101 Sociology and Social Policy
SA104 Social Economics, Politics and Policy
SA201 Research Methods for Social Policy
SA204 Education Policy
SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice
SA218 Criminological Perspectives
SA219 Comparative and International Social Policy
SA221 Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change
SA223 Health and Social Care Policy
SA224 Introduction to Global Population Change
SA302 Assessing Social Progress
SA303 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries
SA309 Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies
SA349 Dissertation

SO
SO100 Social Theory
SO102 Statistics in Society
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology
SO201 Key Issues in Sociological Analysis
SO203 Political Sociology
SO208 Gender and Society
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control
SO221 Researching London: Methods for Social Research
SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SO230 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture
SO231 Knowledge, Power, and Social Change
SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness
SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
SO302 The Sociological Dissertation
SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family
SO309 Atrocity and Justice
SO310 The Sociology of Elites
SO311 Law and Violence
SO312 Work, Inequality and Society
SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life

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
ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments
ST206 Probability and Distribution Theory
ST211 Applied Regression
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization
ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial
ST227 Survival Models
ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models
ST301 Actuarial Mathematics (Life)
ST302 Stochastic Processes
ST303 Stochastic Simulation
ST304 Time Series and Forecasting
ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General)
ST307 Aspects of Market Research
ST308 Bayesian Inference
ST312 Applied Statistics Project
ST326 Financial Statistics
ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach
ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance