Year 1

LSE100

LSE100 is a half unit taken by all students, running across Autumn and Winter Terms in the first year. The course provides one of the marks that is eligible to be included in the calculation of the First Year Average for purposes of classification.

Students will choose ONE of the three half-unit options below:

LSE100A The LSE Course: How can we transform our climate futures? (0.5)

LSE100B The LSE Course: How can we control AI? (0.5)

LSE100C The LSE Course: How can we create a fair society? (0.5)

Paper 1

GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0)

Paper 2

GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0)

Paper 3

EC1A3 Microeconomics I (0.5) # and EC1B3 Macroeconomics I (0.5) #

Paper 4

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (0.5) # and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (0.5) #

Skills Course

GY101 Succeeding in your degree: Critical skills for Geography and Environment students (0.0)

Year 2

Paper 5

GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0)

Paper 6

GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0)

Paper 7

A

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following:

GV262 Contemporary Political Theory (1.0) #

GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0)

GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0)

GY204 Political Geography (0.5) #

GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5)

GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) #

GY210 The Economics of Cities (0.5) #

GY211 Introduction to Global Development (0.5)

GY212 Pathways in Human Geography (0.5) #

GY245 Quantitative Methods in Geography and GIS (0.5) #

GY248 Field Methods in Geography & Environment (0.5)

LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0)

LL279 Public International Law (0.5)

LL280 Advanced Issues in Public International Law (0.5)

(OR) An approved language course:

Language Courses List 2

Paper 8

EC2A3 Microeconomics II (0.5)

And either:

EC2B3 Macroeconomics II (0.5)

EC2C3 Econometrics I (0.5)

Year 3

Papers 9 & 10

Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following:

GY307 Regional Economic Development (0.5)

GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

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)

Papers 11 & 12

B

Courses to the value of 2 unit(s) from the following:

EC307 Development Economics (1.0) #

EC325 Public Economics (1.0) #

EC328 Economics of Diversity and Discrimination (0.5) #

EC338 International Trade (0.5)

EC339 International Macroeconomics (0.5) #

GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)

GY311 The Political Economy of Urbanisation (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)

GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5)

GY331 Geographies of Global Migration (0.5)

GY350 Dissertation (1.0)