BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics
Programme Code: UBEM
Department: Economics
For students starting this programme of study in 2017/18
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Three-year classification scheme for BA/BSc degrees for all students from the 2018/19 academic year
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
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LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things | |
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LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification. | |
Econometrics and Mathematical Economics Selection List
AC211 Managerial Accounting (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0) # | |
EC303 Economic Policy Analysis (1.0) # (withdrawn 2018/19) | |
EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0) | |
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # ~B | |
MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5) # ~D (not available 2019/20) | |
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
Footnotes for Econometrics and Mathematical Economics Selection List~A : Students may take only one of AC211, AC310 and AC340 in Year 3. ~B : FM300 can only be taken if FM213 is taken in the second year. ~C : FM320 can only be taken if FM213 is taken in the second year. Students may take only one of FM213, FM300 and FM320 in Year 3. | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1)
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 timetabling constraints and 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. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 1: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0) | |
AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0) | |
IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0) | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL105 Property I (0.5) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (0.5) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) | |
PH101 Logic (1.0) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy (1.0) | |
SP170 Crime and Society: Representations and Realities (1.0) * | |
SP233 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Year 1) | |
Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)
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 timetabling constraints and 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. | |
Outside Options for students in Year 2 and Year 3: | |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) | |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) | |
AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0) # | |
AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation. (1.0) # * | |
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts (1.0) | |
AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film (1.0) | |
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) | |
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) | |
AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology (1.0) | |
AN237 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) | |
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) | |
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN244 Anthropology and Media (0.5) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN252 Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5) | |
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (0.5) | |
AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) * (not available 2019/20) | |
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
AN278 Anthropology and Global History (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) | |
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) | |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) | |
EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0) | |
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) | |
EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 (1.0) | |
EH208 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) * (not available 2019/20) | |
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0) | |
EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) | |
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0) | |
EH312 Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) * | |
EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) | |
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) # | |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) | |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) | |
GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # * | |
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) # | |
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0) # * | |
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) # * | |
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design (0.5) # * | |
GV320 Populism (0.5) | |
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5) * | |
GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) # | |
GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective (0.5) # * | |
GV335 African Political Economy (0.5) | |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) | |
GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) | |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) | |
GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) | |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) | |
GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) | |
GY205 Political Geographies (1.0) | |
GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation (0.5) | |
GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5) | |
GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # * | |
GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) | |
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) | |
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) * | |
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) | |
GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) | |
GY312 Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5) | |
GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # * | |
GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # * | |
GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
GY316 Gender in High Income and Emerging Economies (0.5) | |
GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5) | |
GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) | |
GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) | |
GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) # | |
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century (1.0) | |
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) | |
HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) * | |
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0) | |
HY221 The History of Russia, 1682-1825 (1.0) | |
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0) | |
HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 (1.0) | |
HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0) | |
HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0) | |
HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) | |
HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) | |
HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0) | |
HY244 Britain’s Atlantic World, 1688-1837 (1.0) | |
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) * | |
HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) * | |
HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) * | |
HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0) | |
HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0) | |
HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 (1.0) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) | |
HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0) | |
HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 (1.0) * (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
HY325 Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) * (not available 2019/20) | |
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0) | |
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0) | |
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) * | |
IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) | |
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
IR312 Genocide (0.5) | |
IR315 The Middle East and International Relations Theory (1.0) # ~B | |
IR317 American Grand Strategy (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) * | |
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) * (not available 2019/20) | |
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5) * | |
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0) | |
LL105 Property I (0.5) | |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) | |
LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) | |
LL201 Administrative Law (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) | |
LL241 European Legal History (1.0) | |
LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) | |
LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) | |
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0) | |
LL278 Public International Law (1.0) | |
LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) | |
LL295 Media Law (1.0) | |
LL300 Competition Law (1.0) | |
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) * (not available 2019/20) | |
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # | |
LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) (1.0) # * | |
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # | |
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) | |
MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
MA310 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
MA313 Probability for Finance (0.5) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics (0.5) # | |
MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5) # ~F (not available 2019/20) | |
MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
MG209 E-business (0.5) | |
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # | |
MG212 Marketing (0.5) | |
MG213 Information Systems (0.5) | |
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) # | |
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) | |
MG307 International Context of Management (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) | |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) # | |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) | |
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) # (not available 2019/20) | |
PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (0.5) (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) # | |
PH232 Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) # | |
PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5) (not available 2019/20) | |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) | |
SO201 Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory (1.0) | |
SO203 Political Sociology (1.0) | |
SO208 Gender and Society (1.0) | |
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0) | |
SO221 Researching London: Advanced Social Research Methods (1.0) * | |
SO224 The Sociology of Race and Empire (1.0) | |
SO231 Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (0.5) * (not available 2019/20) | |
SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5) # * (not available 2019/20) | |
SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy (1.0) * ~N | |
SP233 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) # (withdrawn 2019/20) | |
SP270 Understanding Crime and Punishment (1.0) (not available 2019/20) | |
SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) * ~R | |
SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) * ~S | |
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # | |
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) # | |
Footnotes for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~A : EC102 is dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background. ~B : IR315 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~C : LL342 can only be taken in Year 3. ~D : MA321 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~E : MA322 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~F : MA331 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~G : MA332 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~H : MG301 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~I : MG302 can be taken in Year 3 only. ~J : PB101 is not available to third year students. ~K : PH101 is not available to BSc in Economics students. ~L : SO236 is available to students in Year 2 only. ~M : SO311 is available in Year 3 only. ~N : SP100 can be taken in Year 2 only. ~O : SP110 is not to be taken by third year Social Policy students. ~P : SP111 is only available to second year students who have taken SP100. ~Q : SP201 is not to be taken by second or third year Sociology students. ~R : SP331 can be taken in Year 3 only. | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options for Undergraduate Outside Options List (Years 2 & 3)~1 : EC220 can not be taken with MG205 ~2 : EC221 can not be taken with MG205 | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
* means available with permission
Footnotes
A : EC102 course allocation dependent on Economics A-level or equivalent background. See course guides for further information.
B : In exceptional circumstances a student may substitute a paper from the Undergraduate Outside Options List for Paper 11. This outside paper should be both of an advanced nature and coherent with the student's other choice of papers. Permission to take such a paper should first be obtained from the Departmental Tutor who must countersign the Additional Permission Form. Any subsequent revision to the student's choice of papers must also be countersigned by the Departmental Tutor.
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the undergraduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the undergraduate summary page for future students.
