General Course
Programme Code: UOGC
Department: General Course
For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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Course List |
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Accounting |
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting (0.5) |
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AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions (0.5) |
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AC205 Intermediate Financial Accounting (0.5) |
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AC206 Intermediate Management Accounting (0.5) |
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AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5) # |
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AC312 Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5) # |
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AC341 Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5) |
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AC342 Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (0.5) |
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Anthropology |
AN100 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (1.0) |
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AN101 A History of Anthropological Theory (1.0) |
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AN253 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN256 Economic Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN279 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5) |
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AN287 Environmental Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN288 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5) |
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AN290 Anthropology and Religion (0.5) |
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AN320 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN324 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN336 The Anthropology of Development (0.5) |
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AN350 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN358 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN363 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) |
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AN369 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN376 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) |
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AN377 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN383 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN384 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN390 Anthropology and Religion (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN392 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5) |
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AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5) # |
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AN395 Digital Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN3A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Data Science |
DS101A Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) |
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DS101W Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Economics |
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EC1A5 Microeconomics I (0.5) |
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EC1B5 Macroeconomics I (0.5) |
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EC230 Economics in Public Policy (1.0) |
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EC2A3 Microeconomics II (0.5) |
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EC2A5 Microeconomics II (0.5) |
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EC2B3 Macroeconomics II (0.5) |
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EC2B5 Macroeconomics II (0.5) |
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EC2C3 Econometrics I (0.5) |
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EC2C4 Econometrics II (0.5) |
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EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change (1.0) |
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EC317 Labour Economics (1.0) |
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EC335 Economic Policy in the Global Economy (0.5) |
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EC338 International Trade (0.5) |
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Economic History |
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day (1.0) |
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EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History (1.0) |
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EH111 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth (0.5) |
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EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (1.0) # |
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EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH214 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH215 Money and Finance: From the Eighteenth Century to Modernity (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH217 Chinese Economic History since 1800: A Chronology (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH218 Chinese Economic History since 1800: Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH221 Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World (1.0) |
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EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (1.0) |
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EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0) |
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EH238 The Origins of Growth (1.0) |
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EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) |
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Finance |
FM101 Finance (0.5) |
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FM211 Principles of Finance II (0.5) |
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FM310 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets I (0.5) |
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FM311 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets II (0.5) |
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Government |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (1.0) |
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GV101 Introduction to Political Science (1.0) |
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GV245 Democracy and Democratisation (1.0) |
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GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives (1.0) # |
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GV249 Research Design in Political Science (1.0) |
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GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union (1.0) |
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GV263 Public Policy Analysis (1.0) |
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GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe (1.0) |
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GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) |
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GV326 Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GV335 African Political Economy (0.5) |
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GV336 Latin America: Democracy and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Geography & Environment |
GY100 Introduction to Geography (1.0) |
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GY103 Contemporary Europe (1.0) |
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GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (1.0) |
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GY121 Sustainable Development (1.0) |
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GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research (1.0) |
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GY144 Human Geography and the City (1.0) |
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GY207 Economy, Society and Place (0.5) |
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GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development (0.5) # |
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GY211 Introduction to Global Development (0.5) |
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GY220 Environment: Science and Society (1.0) |
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GY222 Applied Environmental Economics (1.0) |
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GY307 Regional Economic Development (0.5) |
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GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5) |
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GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY310 Urban Politics (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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GY311 The Political Economy of Urbanisation (0.5) |
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GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation (0.5) # |
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GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration (0.5) # |
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GY315 Geographies of Race (0.5) |
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GY316 Gender, Space and Power (0.5) |
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GY317 Geographies of Urban Violence (0.5) |
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GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance (0.5) |
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GY327 Global Environmental Governance (0.5) |
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GY328 Political Ecology of Development (0.5) |
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GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development (0.5) |
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International History |
HY113 Empires and Resistance in Global History (1.0) |
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HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) |
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HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 (1.0) |
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HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International (1.0) |
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HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989 (1.0) |
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HY221 The History of the Russian Empire, 1676-1825 (1.0) |
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HY226 The Greater War c. 1912-1923 (1.0) |
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HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 (1.0) |
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HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0) |
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HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day (1.0) |
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HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History (1.0) |
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HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY245 The United States and the World since 1776 (1.0) |
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HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) |
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HY248 Britain in the World: British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1.0) |
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HY249 War, Social Conflict and Nation Building: The History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY250 Britain, Brussels, Bruges & Brexit: Reassessing Four Decades of UK EC/EU Membership (1.0) |
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HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) (1.0) |
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HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799 (1.0) |
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HY319 Napoleon and Europe (1.0) |
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HY320 The Cold War Endgame (1.0) |
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HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945 (1.0) |
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HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825 (1.0) |
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HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion (1.0) |
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HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century (1.0) |
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HY331 Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s (1.0) |
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HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) |
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HY333 People and Power in West African History, c. 1450 - 1850 (1.0) |
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HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c.1539 to the Present (1.0) |
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HY335 History of Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China, 1949-2008 (1.0) |
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HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY337 Sources for the Subcontinent: The Culture and Politics of South Asia (1.0) |
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HY344 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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International Relations |
IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates (1.0) |
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IR200 International Political Theory (1.0) |
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IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 (1.0) |
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IR205 International Security (1.0) |
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IR206 International Political Economy (1.0) |
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IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) |
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IR312 Genocide (0.5) |
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IR315 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) |
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IR317 American Grand Strategy (0.5) |
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IR318 Visual International Politics (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics (0.5) |
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IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR323 Race, Resistance and Decolonisation in International Relations (0.5) # |
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IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR327 World Orders in Historical International Relations (0.5) # |
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IR349 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR350 Global Politics of China (0.5) |
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IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) # |
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IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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IR373 China and the Global South (0.5) |
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IR378 Critical War Studies (0.5) |
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IR379 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5) # |
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IR391 Globalisation and Development (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Law |
LL106 Public Law (1.0) |
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LL108 Criminal Law (1.0) |
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LL143 Tort Law (1.0) |
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LL201 Law and State Power (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL205 Medical Law (1.0) |
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LL210 Information Technology and the Law (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL212 Conflict of Laws (1.0) |
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LL216 Freedom and the Law in Britain (0.5) |
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LL217 European Human Rights Law (0.5) |
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LL221 Family Law (1.0) |
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LL224 Regulation of Social Media and Online Platforms (0.5) |
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LL225 Critical Theory and Law (0.5) |
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LL228 European Union Law (0.5) |
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LL229 Law of the European Market (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL233 Law of Evidence (1.0) |
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LL241 European Legal History (1.0) |
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LL243 Constitutionalism Beyond Courts (0.5) |
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LL244 Sports: Law and Governance (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL245 Feminist Legal Theory (0.5) |
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LL246 Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law (0.5) |
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LL250 Law and The Environment (1.0) |
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LL251 Intellectual Property Law (1.0) |
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LL257 Employment Law (1.0) |
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LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL276 Property (1.0) |
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LL279 Public International Law (0.5) |
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LL280 Advanced Issues in Public International Law (0.5) |
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LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance (1.0) |
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LL295 Media Law (1.0) |
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LL300 Competition Law (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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LL303 Cultural Heritage and Art Law (0.5) |
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LL304 Global Commodities: The Rise of International Law (0.5) |
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LL306 Theories of Law (0.5) |
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LL307 Justifying Political Authority (0.5) |
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LL310 Competition Law (0.5) |
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Language Centre |
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LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) (1.0) # |
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LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) (1.0) # |
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LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History (1.0) # |
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LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists (1.0) |
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LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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LN370 Discourse and Communication (1.0) |
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Mathematics |
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MA108 Methods in Calculus and Linear Algebra (0.5) |
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MA203 Real Analysis (0.5) |
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MA211 Algebra and Number Theory (0.5) |
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MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5) |
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MA319 Partial Differential Equations (0.5) |
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MA320 Mathematics of Networks (0.5) |
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MA321 Measure Theoretic Probability (0.5) |
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MA322 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) |
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MA323 Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics (0.5) # |
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MA336 Mathematics of Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain (0.5) # |
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Management |
MG104 Operations Management (0.5) |
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MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (0.5) |
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MG205 Econometrics: Theory and Applications (1.0) |
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MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage (0.5) |
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MG207 Managerial Economics (1.0) |
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MG209 E-business (0.5) |
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MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) # |
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MG212 Marketing (0.5) |
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MG213 Information Systems (0.5) |
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MG214 Human Resource Management (0.5) |
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MG301 Strategy (1.0) |
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MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets (0.5) |
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MG305 Innovation and Technology Management (0.5) |
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MG307 International Context of Management (0.5) |
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MG312 Science of People in Workplaces (0.5) |
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MG316 Brand Strategy (0.5) |
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MG317 Leading Organisational Change (0.5) |
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Methodology |
MY360 Quantitative Text Analysis (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (1.0) |
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PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5) |
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PH111 Introduction to Logic (0.5) |
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PH112 Intermediate Logic and Probability (0.5) |
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PH201 Philosophy of Science (1.0) |
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PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) |
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PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy (1.0) |
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PH223 Mind and Metaphysics (0.5) |
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PH224 Epistemology (0.5) |
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PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics (0.5) |
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PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5) |
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PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes (0.5) |
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PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law (0.5) |
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PH240 The Ethics of Data and AI (0.5) |
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PH241 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (0.5) |
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PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5) |
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Psychological and Behavioural Science |
PB100 Foundations of Behavioural Science (1.0) |
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PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science (1.0) |
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PB102 Social Psychology (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Social Policy |
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SP112 Politics of Social Policy Making (1.0) |
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SP230 Education Policy (1.0) |
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SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0) |
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SP314 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy (0.5) |
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SP315 Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global Souths (0.5) |
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SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) |
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SP332 Social Security Policies (0.5) |
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SP333 NGOs, Social Policy and Development (0.5) |
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SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) |
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SP336 Behavioural Public Policy (0.5) |
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SP343 Social Policy of Climate Change (0.5) |
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SP372 Punishment and Penal Policy (0.5) |
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SP373 Policing, Security and Globalisation (0.5) |
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SP374 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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Sociology |
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory (1.0) |
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SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology (1.0) |
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SO203 Political Sociology (1.0) |
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SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness (0.5) |
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SO235 The Sociology of Homicide (0.5) |
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SO236 Urban Society (0.5) |
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SO237 Racial Borderscapes (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SO240 Crime, Deviance and Control (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SO243 Political Sociology: Nation-States Unravelled (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SO244 The Sociology of Race and Empire (0.5) |
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SO248 Gender and Society (0.5) |
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SO309 Atrocity and Justice (0.5) |
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SO310 The Sociology of Elites (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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SO311 Law and Violence (0.5) |
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SO312 Work, Inequality and Society (0.5) |
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SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life (0.5) |
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SO314 Class, Culture and Meritocracy (0.5) |
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SO348 Family Diversity and Change (0.5) |
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Statistics |
ST101 Programming for Data Science (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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ST101A Programming for Data Science (0.5) |
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ST101W Programming for Data Science (0.5) |
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ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (1.0) # |
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ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization (0.5) |
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ST301 Actuarial Mathematics (Life) (0.5) |
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ST302 Stochastic Processes (0.5) |
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ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General) (0.5) |
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ST313 Ethics for Data Science (0.5) |
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ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach (1.0) |
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ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance (1.0) |
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Footnotes
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