Updated graduate course and programme information 2020/21 - for prospective students
The following information provides prospective students with a summary of new course and programme information for the 2020/21 session. It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses.
This page will continue to be updated throughout the academic year as changes are confirmed by departments.
Please note that due to the introduction of in-year re-sits for postgraduate taught students, the classification scheme and local rules listed on the programme regulations are currently under review and will be updated prior to the start of the 2020/21 academic year.
New programmes | Suspended programmes | Withdrawn programmes | Substantive changes to programme regulations | Programme title changes | New courses | Suspended courses | Withdrawn courses | Assessment changes | Course title changes | Course code changes
Graduate programmes
New programmes for 2020/21 |
Department of Accounting |
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Department of International Development |
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Department of International History |
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Department of Social Policy |
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳-Fudan Double Master's in International Social and Public Policy |
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Suspended programmes for 2020/21 |
Department of Law |
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Programme title changes 2020/21 | |
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Department of Gender Studies | |
MSc in Women, Peace and Security |
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Graduate courses
New courses for 2020/21 | |
Department of Accounting courses: | |
Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (1.0) |
Topics in Accounting Research (EoA) (0.0) |
European Institute courses: | |
The Political Economy of Migration and Spatial Inequality in Europe (0.5) |
European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective (0.5) |
Public Opinion in Europe (0.5) |
Concepts in Political Science and Public Policy (0.0) |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
Writing the World (0.0) |
Politics of Environment and Development (0.5) |
Department of Health Policy courses: | |
Behavioural Insights for Health Incentive Design (0.5) |
Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of Healthcare Programs and Policies (0.5) |
Randomised Evaluation of Health Programmes and Policies (0.5) |
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Department of International Development courses: | |
Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) (0.5) |
Poverty (0.5) |
Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) |
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Department of International History courses: | |
Germanness in the 20th century: Identity, Politics, and Violence in Germany from the First World War to Re-Unification (1.0) |
Practicing Abolition in the Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0) |
Dissertation with an Asian Focus (1.0) |
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Department of International Relations courses: | |
Critical Theories of International Relations (0.5) |
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Department of Law courses: | |
Legal Aspects of Private Equity and Venture Capital (0.5) |
Law and Economics of Network Industries (0.5) |
Department of Management courses: | |
Foundations of Management III: Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and Leadership (0.5) |
Extended Essay for Management (0.5) |
Management Dissertation (1.0) |
A Social Sciences Perspective of Academic Research in Management |
Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Seminar II (0.5) |
Marketing II: Consumer Behaviour and Quantitative Modelling (0.5) |
Research in Organisational Behaviour Seminar II (0.5) |
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Department of Mathematics courses: | |
Algorithmic Game Theory (0.5) |
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Department of Media and Communications courses: | |
Advanced Doctoral Workshop in Media and Communications (0.0) |
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Department of Social Policy courses: | |
Academic and Professional Skills Development (0.5) |
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Department of Sociology courses: | |
Lawful Violence: Policing, Militaries and Security (0.5) |
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Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST510 Foundations in Machine Learning (0.5) |
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Suspended courses for 2020/21 | |
Department of Anthropology courses: | |
The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) |
Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) |
Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) |
Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) |
Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) |
The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) |
Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) |
Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) |
Public Anthropology (0.5) |
Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) |
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Department of Economics courses: | |
International Economics (1.0) |
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Department of Economic History courses: | |
Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (0.5) |
Japan and Korea as Developing Economies (0.5) |
The Economic History of War (1.0) |
Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c 1600-1860 (0.5) |
EH518 The Economic History of Firms & Industries Seminar (0.0) |
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European Institute courses: | |
Interest Representation and Economic Policy-Making in Europe (0.5) |
Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States (0.5) |
The Balkans in Europe: Transition, Democratisation, Integration (0.5) |
Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe (0.5) |
Religious Diversity and Conflict in Europe (0.5) |
Politics of Memory: Germany, France, UK and Turkey (0.5) |
Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe (0.5) |
Political Economy and Public Policy Workshop (0.0) |
Department of Finance courses: | |
Forecasting Financial time Series (0.5) |
Financial Engineering (0.5) |
Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5) |
Applied Computational Finance (0.0) |
Financial Economics Preparatory Course (0.0) |
Financial Econometrics for Research Students (1.0) |
Forecasting Financial Time Series - Dissertation (0.5) |
Global Financial Systems - Dissertation (0.5) |
Financial Engineering - Dissertation (0.5) |
International Finance - Dissertation (0.5) |
Risk Management in Financial Markets - Dissertation (0.5) |
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Department of Gender Studies courses: | |
Screening the Present: contemporary cinema and cultural critique (0.5) |
Feminist Population Politics (0.5) |
Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction (0.5) |
Globalisation and Sexuality (0.5) |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
The Economics of Urbanisation (0.5) |
Economics of Local and Regional Development (0.5) |
Urban Ethnography (0.5) |
Urban Africa (0.5) |
Real Estate Investment (0.5) |
Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) |
Advanced Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics: Time, Risk and Environmental Policy (0.5) |
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Department of Government courses: | |
Government and Politics in China (0.5) |
European Politics: Comparative Analysis (0.5) |
War, Peace and the Politics of National Self-Determination |
Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (0.5) |
Kant's Political Philosophy (0.5) |
Institutions and Global Trade (0.5) |
Contemporary India: The World's Largest Democracy in the Early 21st Century (0.5) |
Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5) |
Game Theory for Research (0.5) |
Modern African Political Philosophy (0.5) |
Department of Health Policy courses: | |
Measuring Health System Performance (0.5) |
Health Systems and Policies in Developing Countries (0.5) |
Social Determinants of Health (0.5) |
Principles of Modern Epidemiology (0.5) |
Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (0.5) |
Mental health policy (0.5) |
Health Administration and Management (0.5) |
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Department of International Development courses: | |
Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5) |
Global Political Economy of Development (0.5) |
Human Security (0.5) |
Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) |
Critical Population Health Issues in High and Middle-Income Countries (0.5) |
Civil society, security and development (0.5) |
International Institutions and Late Development (0.5) |
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Department of International History courses: | |
HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (1.0) |
Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War (1.0) |
The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) |
Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China and India, 1550 - 1840 (1.0) |
Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0) |
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Department of International Relations courses: | |
Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) |
The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5) |
European Defence and Security (0.5) |
China and the World (1.0) |
Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) |
Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) |
Islam in World Politics (1.0) |
International Political Theory (0.5) |
The Politics of International Law (0.5) |
The International Politics of Culture and Religion (1.0) |
The Situations of the International Criminal Court (0.5) |
Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Advanced Topics in International Relations) (0.5) |
Revolutions and World Politics (0.5) |
Gender and Political Violence (0.5) |
Sub-Saharan Africa: Governance, Peace, and Security (0.5) |
Critical War Studies (0.5) |
Russia in World Politics (0.5) |
Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations (0.5) |
International Relations Research Design Workshop (0.0) |
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Department of Law courses: | |
UK Human Rights Law (0.5) |
Law in War (0.5) |
Rethinking International Law: International Law and Contemporary Problems (0.5) |
Rethinking International Law: International Legal Thought (0.5) |
International Business Transactions: Advanced Procedure and Tactics (0.5) |
International Business Transactions: Conflict of Laws, Extraterritoriality, and Global Governance (0.5) |
Constitutional Theory (0.5) |
International Criminal Law: Prosecution and Practice (0.5) |
Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects (0.5) |
Foundations of International Human Rights Law (0.5) |
Taxation of Multinational Enterprises: Transfer Pricing (0.5) |
International Financial Regulation (0.5) |
Law and Government of the European Union (0.5) |
Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (0.5) |
Art Law (0.5) |
Law and Political Thought (0.5) |
Advanced Issues of International Commercial Arbitration (0.5) |
Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (0.5) |
Commercial Remedies (0.5) |
European Company Law (0.5) |
Security and Criminal Law (0.5) |
Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (0.5) |
Freedom of Speech, Media and the Law (0.5) |
Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering (0.5) |
Human Rights in the Workplace (0.5) |
The International Law of Self-Determination (0.5) |
Mental Health Law: The Criminal Context (0.5) |
Law of Corporate Finance: Securities Regulation (0.5) |
The Theory and Practice of Alternative Commercial Dispute Resolution (0.5) |
Socio-legal Theory and Practice (0.5) |
Theory of Constitutional Rights (0.5) |
Advanced Mediation and Negotiation (0.5) |
Copyright Law (0.5) |
Principles of Taxation and Tax Disputes (0.5) |
EU State Aid Law (0.5) |
Comparative Constitutional Rights (0.5) |
Department of Mathematics courses: | |
Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory (0.5) |
Functional Analysis and its Applications (0.5) |
Games of Incomplete Information (0.5) |
Stochastic Analysis (0.5) |
Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, and Equilibrium (0.5) |
MA422 Research Topics in Financial Mathematics (0.0) |
Advanced Topics in Operations Research and Applicable Mathematics (0.5) |
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Department of Management courses: | |
Globalization and Strategy (0.5) |
Research Methods for Studies in Global Management (0.5) |
Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) |
Strategy and Change in Public Sector Management (0.5) |
Management and Economics of E-Business (0.5) |
Organisational Change (0.5) |
Evolutionary Psychology and Management (0.5) |
Digital Marketing (0.5) |
Contemporary Topics in Advanced Technology Management (0.5) |
Principles of Pricing (0.5) |
MG511 Technology, Practice and Institutions (0.5) |
MG513 Marketing: Quantitative Modelling (0.5) |
Social Organisation (0.5) |
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5) |
Department of Media and Communications courses: | |
International Media and The Global South (0.5) |
Information, Communication and Knowledge Systems (0.5) |
Critical Studies in Media and Journalism (0.5) |
Global Media Industries (0.5) |
Digital Media Futures (0.5) |
Humanitarian Communication: vulnerability, discourse and power (0.5) |
Digital Platforms and Media Infrastructures (0.5) |
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Department of Methodology courses: | |
Doing Ethnography (0.5) |
Qualitative Research with Digital and Visual Data (0.5) |
Doing Ethnography (0.5) |
Qualitative Research with Digital and Visual Data (0.5) |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
Psychological and Behavioural Science (0.0) |
PB415 Behavioural Science (0.5) |
Cognition and Culture (0.5) |
PB419 Creativity and Innovation (0.5) |
PB420 Current Communication Research (0.5) |
Organisational Life (0.5) |
Knowledge Processes in Organisations (0.5) |
Organisational and Social Decision Making (0.5) |
Science Communication and Controversies (0.5) |
Social Influence (0.5) |
Behavioural Science for Health (0.5) |
Corporate Behaviour and Decision Making (0.5) |
Corporate Behaviour and Decision Making - Dissertation (1.0) |
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School of Public Policy courses: | |
Developments in Contemporary Policy-Making (0.5) |
Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation (0.5) |
Department of Social Policy courses: | |
International Planning and Children's Rights (0.5) |
Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) |
Global Social Policy and International Organizations (0.5) |
Basic Education for Social Development (0.5) |
International Housing and Human Settlements; Conflicts and Communities (0.5) |
Social Rights and Human Welfare (0.5) |
Wellbeing and Public Policy (0.5) |
Issues in Contemporary Policing (0.5) |
Illegal Drugs and Their Control: Theory, Policy and Practice (0.5) |
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Department of Sociology courses: | |
Classical Social Thought (0.5) |
Modern Social Thought (0.5) |
Families and Inequalities (0.5) |
Gender and Societies (0.5) |
Crime, Control and the City (0.5) |
The New Reproductive Sociology (0.5) |
Nature and Technology: More than Human Sociology (0.5) |
Becoming a Professional Sociologist (0.0) |
Research Seminar on Cities and Space (0.0) |
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Department of Statistics courses: | |
Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (0.5) |
ST426 Applied Stochastic Processes (0.5) |
Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling (0.5) |
Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (0.5) |
Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) |
ST448 Insurance Risk (0.5) |
ST542 Longitudinal Data Analysis (0.5) |
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Updated graduate summative assessment information for 2020/21 |
Course title changes from 2020/21 | |
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Department of Accounting courses: | |
AC500 Accounting, Organisations and Society (0.0) |
Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (0.0) |
AC501 Empirical Financial Accounting and Capital Markets (1.0) |
Topics in Accounting Research (EoA) (1.0) |
Department of Economic History courses: | |
EH402 Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (0.5) |
Quantitative Analysis in Economic History I (0.5) |
EH427 Quantitative topics in economic history II: time series and economic dynamics (0.5) |
Topics in Quantitative Analysis in Economic History (0.5) |
Department of Economics courses: | |
EC424 Monetary Economics (1.0) |
EC424 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0) |
European Institute courses: | |
EU476 Turkey and Europe (0.5) |
Politics of Memory: Germany, France, UK and Turkey (0.5) |
Department of Gender Studies courses: | |
GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development (0.5) |
GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) |
GI413 Gender and Militarisation (0.5) |
Gender, 'Race' and Militarisation (0.5) |
GI417 Gender, Population and Policy (0.5) |
Feminist Population Politics (0.5) |
GI422 Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation (1.0) |
Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0) |
GI424 Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach (0.5) |
Gender Theories: An Interdisciplinary Approach (0.5) |
GI425 Women, Peace and Security (0.5) |
Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security (0.5) |
GI427 Advanced Issues in Women, Peace and Security (0.5) |
Advanced Issues in Gender, Peace and Security (0.5) |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
GY457 Applied Urban and Regional Economics (1.0) |
Applied Urban and Real Estate Economics (1.0) |
Department of Government courses: | |
GV481 Political Science and Political Economy (0.5) |
GV481 Quantitative Analysis for Political Science (0.5) |
GV4B7 The Liberal Idea of Freedom (0.5) |
GV4B7 The Idea of Freedom (0.5) |
GV4F9 The Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) |
GV4F9 The Challenges of Governance and Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) |
GV4H5 The Political Philosophy of Environmental Change (0.5) |
GV4H5 The Political Philosophy of Epidemics (0.5) |
Department of International Development courses: | |
DV444 Global Health and Population Change (0.5) |
Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response (0.5) |
DV447 International Development, Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) |
Youth and Gendered Violence (0.5) |
Department of Law courses: | |
LL432E Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings (0.5) |
LL432E Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (0.5) |
LL4AG Competition Law: Challenges and Prospects (0.5) |
LL4AG Competition Law, Technology and Intellectual Property (0.5) |
LL4AJ Insolvency Law: Principles, Rescue and Reconstruction Processes (0.5) |
LL4AJ Corporate Rescue and Reorganisation (0.5) |
LL4AK Insolvency Law: Company Liquidation and Stakeholder Interests (0.5) |
LL4AK Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law (0.5) |
LL4AV Global Trade Governance: Contemporary Issues (0.5) |
LL4AV International Economic Law and Development (0.5) |
LL4AZ International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (0.5) |
LL4AZ Taxation of Multinational Enterprises: Transfer Pricing (0.5) |
LL4B1 Foundations of International Economic Law (0.5) |
LL4B1 International Trade Law (0.5) |
LL4CG Understanding Tax Law and Policy (0.5) |
LL4CG Tax Law and Policy (0.5) |
LL4CH Current Issues in Taxation (0.5) |
LL4CH Tax in the Digital Economy (0.5) |
LL4L1 The Theory and Practice of Dispute Resolution (0.5) |
LL4L1 The Theory and Practice of Alternative Commercial Dispute Resolution (0.5) |
LL4L7 Advanced Mediation (0.5) |
LL4L7 Advanced Mediation and Negotiation (0.5) |
LL4S5 Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (0.5) |
LL4S5 Copyright Law (0.5) |
LL4Z2 Principles of Taxation (0.5) |
LL4Z2 Principles of Taxation and Tax Disputes (0.5) |
Department of Management courses: | |
MG460 Handling Disruption: Humanitarian Emergencies Management and Development (0.5) |
MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5) |
MG463 CEMS Global Management Practice (0.5) |
CEMS Global Leadership (0.5) |
MG468 Foundations of Management III: Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Leadership (0.5) |
MG468 Foundations of Management III: Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and Leadership (0.5) |
MG486 Social Computing, Data and Information Service (0.5) |
MG486 Social Computing, Data Analytics, and Information Services (0.5) |
MG496 Study Skills and Research Methods (0.0) |
MG496 Study Skills and Contemporary Topics in Information Systems and Digital Innovations (0.0) |
MG505 Research into Organisational Behaviour (1.0) |
Research into Organisational Behaviour I (0.5) |
MG512 Marketing Consumer Behaviour (0.5) |
Marketing I: Consumer Behaviour and Quantitative Modelling (0.5) |
MG518 Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Seminar (0.5) |
Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Seminar I (0.5) |
Department of Mathematics courses: | |
MA431 Advanced Topics in Operational Research and Applicable Mathematics (0.5) |
Advanced Topics in Operations Research and Applicable Mathematics (0.5) |
Department of Methodology courses: | |
MY405 Research Methods for Evaluation in Health, Development and Public Policy (0.5) |
Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5) |
MY505 Research Methods for Evaluation in Health, Development and Public Policy (0.5) |
Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation (0.5) |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
PB424 Issues in Organizational and Social Psychology: Organizational Life (0.5) |
Organisational Life (0.5) |
PB425 Identity and Group Dynamics in Organisational and Social Settings (0.5) |
PB425 Organisations, Groups and Identity (0.5) |
PB428 Political Psychology: Inequality and Prejudice (0.5) |
PB428 Political Psychology: Inequality & Intergroup Relations (0.5) |
PB432 Social Representations (0.5) |
PB432 Social Representations: Social Knowledge and Contemporary Issues (0.5) |
PB433 Theory and Practice of Organisation Development (0.5) |
PB433 Theory and Practice of Organisational Development (0.5) |
PB452 Behavioural Science for Health (0.5) |
PB452 Behavioural Science for Health in the Time of a Pandemic (0.5) |
PB4D4 Behavioural Science for Health - Dissertation (1.0) |
PB4D4 Behavioural Science for Health in the Time of a Pandemic - Dissertation (1.0) |
School of Public Policy courses: | |
PP411L Developments in Contemporary Policy-Making (0.5) |
PP411L Developments in International Conflict Resolution and Transformation (0.5) |
PP450 Making governments and policies deliver for development (0.5) |
PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) |
Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO4A1E Governing Cities in an Urban Age: Challenges and Opportunities (0.5) |
SO4A1E Cities in an Urban Age: Challenges and Opportunities (0.5) |
Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST444 Statistical Computing (0.5) |
ST444 Computational Data Science (0.5) |