The following information provides current undergraduate students with a summary of new course and programme information being offered in the 2019/20 session:
Substantive changes to programme regulations from 2019/20
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2019/20 session.
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Department of Anthropology:
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(First year students in 2019/20)
(First year students in 2019/20) |
Addition of language specialism option. |
Department of Economic History:
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(First year students in 2019/20) |
EH103 to become a compulsory course in Year 1. |
(First year students in 2019/20) |
Change to core courses in Year 1. |
(First year students in 2019/20) |
Change to core courses in Year 1. |
Department of Geography & Environment:
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(First year students in 2019/20)
(Second year students in 2019/20) |
GY222 changed from core to optional in Year 2. |
(First year students in 2019/20) |
Addition of language specialism option. |
Department of Government:
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Removal of semi-core course EC221 from papers 7, 8 and 10. |
Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method:
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(First year students in 2019/20) |
Addition of language specialism option. |
New courses for 2019/20
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2019/20:
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Department of Anthropology courses:
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Public Anthropology (0.5) |
Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) |
Department of Accounting courses:
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Accounting Theory and Practice (1.0) |
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Department of Economic History courses:
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Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0) |
Department of Geography courses:
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Succeeding in your degree: Critical skills for Geography and Environment students (0.0) |
Department of Government courses:
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Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5) |
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Department of International History courses:
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The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0) |
Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s (1.0) |
Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0) |
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Department of International Relations courses:
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Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) |
Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5) |
Language Centre courses:
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Intercultural Communication and Management (1.0) |
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Department of Management courses:
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Brand Strategy (0.5) |
Department of Mathematics courses:
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Measure Theoretic Probability (0.5) |
Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) |
Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics (0.5) |
Programming in C++ (0.0) |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:
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Philosophy of Gender and Race (0.5) |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:
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Foundations of Behavioural Science (1.0) |
Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science (1.0) |
Department of Social Policy courses:
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Social Research for Understanding Social Needs and Problems (1.0) (new title: Foundations of Social Policy Research)
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Politics of Social Policy Making (1.0) |
Crime and Society: Representations and Realities (1.0) |
Identities, Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) |
Policing and Security (0.5) |
Politics and Crime (0.5) |
Department of Sociology courses:
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The Sociology of Homicide (0.5) |
Urban Society (0.5) |
Department of Statistics courses:
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Financial Statistics (0.5) |
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Suspended courses for 2019/20
We regret we are unable to offer the following courses in the 2019/20 session. For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.
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Department of Anthropology courses:
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Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) |
Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) |
Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5) |
Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) |
The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) |
Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5) |
Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5) |
The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) |
Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5) |
Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) |
Anthropology and Global History (0.5) |
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Department of Economic History courses:
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Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0) |
Slavery from Ancient Greece to the Gulag (1.0) |
Issues in Modern Japanese Economic Development: Late Industrialisation, Imperialism and High Speed Growth (1.0) |
China's Traditional Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term (1.0) |
Department of Geography and Environment courses:
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Geographies of Race (0.5) |
Department of Government courses:
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The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0) |
Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (0.5) |
Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory (0.5) |
Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0) |
Department of International History courses:
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The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0) |
Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0) |
Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0) |
The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0) |
Department of International Relations courses:
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Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) |
American Grand Strategy (0.5) |
Europe's Institutional Order (0.5) |
The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5) |
Political Economy of International Labour Migration (1.0) |
Governing IPE: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5) |
Africa: Governance, Peace and Security (0.5) |
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Language Centre courses:
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Arabic: Level Five (Current Issues) |
Spanish: Level Five (Culture and Society) |
Spanish: Level Five (Standard) |
Japanese: Level Four (Media and Culture) |
Russian: Level Three (Fast Track) |
Russian: Level Five (Current Issues) |
Mandarin: Level 5 (China Issues) |
Mandarin: Level 5 (Advanced Reading) |
Arabic Level 1 (Levantine Dialect) |
Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT- A) |
Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT-B1) |
Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT- B2) |
Academic English for ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳100 |
Improvisation |
Argumentation and Style |
Academic Reading |
Informal Vocabulary |
Grammar for Academic Purposes II |
Department of Law courses:
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Administrative Law (1.0) |
Law of Corporate Insolvency (1.0) |
Global Commodities Law (1.0) |
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Department of Mathematics courses:
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Optimisation in Function Spaces (0.5) |
Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5) |
Department of Management courses:
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Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5) |
Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5) |
International Context of Management (0.5) |
Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts (0.5) |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:
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Genes, Brains and Society (0.5) |
Rationality and Choice (0.5) |
Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5) |
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Department of Social Policy courses:
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Crime and Society: Representations and Realities (1.0) |
Identities, Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) |
Policing and Security (0.5) |
Politics and Crime (0.5) |
Department of Sociology courses:
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Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0) |
Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (0.5) |
Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5) |
Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family (1.0) |
Law and Violence (0.5) |
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Withdrawn courses for 2019/20
The following courses have been withdrawn for the 2019/20 session. For alternative option courses you should consult your academic adviser.
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Department of Accounting courses:
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AC211 Managerial Accounting (1.0) |
Department of Anthropology courses:
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AN244 Anthropology and Media (0.5) |
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Department of Geography & Environment courses:
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GY244 London's Geographies (1.0) |
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Department of International History courses:
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HY321 The Struggle for the Persian Gulf, 1945-2003 (1.0) |
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Department of International Relations courses:
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IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Practice (0.0) |
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Department of Mathematics courses:
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MA310 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation (0.5) |
MA313 Probability for Finance (0.5) |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:
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PH213 Scientific Revolutions: Philosophical and Historical Issues (1.0) |
PH220 Scientific Method and Policy (1.0) |
PH228 Emotion, Cognition and Behaviour: Science and Policy (0.5) |
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Department of Social Policy courses:
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SA309 Crime Control: Ideas and Controversies (1.0) |
SP233 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) |
SP330 Assessing Social Progress (1.0) |
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Course title changes from 2019/20
The following courses have changed title for the 2019/20 session.
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Old title
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New title
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Department of Geography & Environment courses:
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GY144 London's Geographies (1.0) |
The London Lab: Geography in the City (1.0) |
GY207 Economy, Society and Space (0.5) |
Economy, Society and Place (0.5) |
GY247 Field Methods in Geography & Environment (0.5) |
Field Methods in Geography with Economics (0.5) - for students on BSc in Geography with Economics
Field Methods in Geography & Environment (0.5) - for students on BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics
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Department of International History courses:
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HY116 International History since 1890 (1.0) |
International Politics since 1914: Peace and War (1.0) |
HY239 Latin America and the United States since 1898 (1.0) |
People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day (1.0) |
Department of Management courses:
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MG310 Analytics for Strategic Decisions (0.5) |
Strategic Decision Making (0.5) |
Department of Social Policy courses:
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SP101 Social Research for Understanding Social Needs and Problems (1.0) |
Foundations of Social Policy Research (1.0) |
SP111 Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) (formerly SA104)
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Social Economics and Policy (1.0) |
Department of Sociology courses:
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SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (1.0) |
The Sociology of Race and Empire (1.0) |
Course code changes from 2019/20
The following courses have changed department codes for the 2019/20 session. Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School.
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Old code
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New code
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Department of Economic History courses:
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EH311 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) |
Atlantic World Slavery (1.0) |
Department of Geography & Environment courses:
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GY247 Field Methods in Geography & Environment (0.5) |
Field Methods in Geography with Economics (0.5) - for students on BSc in Geography with Economics
Field Methods in Geography & Environment (0.5) - for students on BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development and BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics
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Department of Law courses:
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LL242 International Protection of Human Rights (1.0) |
International Protection of Human Rights (1.0) |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:
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PS111 Foundations of Behavioural Science (1.0) |
Foundations of Behavioural Science (1.0) |
PS115 Introductory Research Methods for Psychological & Behavioural Science (0.5) |
Introductory Research Methods for Psychological & Behavioural Science (0.5) |
ST117 Introductory Quantitative Methods for Psychological & Behavioural Science (0.5) |
Introductory Quantitative Methods for Psychological & Behavioural Science (0.5) |
Department of Social Policy courses:
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SA100 The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0) |
The Foundations of Social Policy (1.0) |
SA101 Sociology and Social Policy (1.0) |
Sociology and Social Policy (1.0) |
SA104 Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) |
Social Economics, Politics and Policy (1.0) |
SA201 Research Methods for Social Policy (1.0) |
Research Methods for Social Policy (1.0) |
SA204 Education Policy (1.0) |
Education Policy (1.0) |
SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) |
Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0) |
SA218 Criminological Perspectives (1.0) |
Criminological Perspectives (1.0) |
SA219 Comparative and International Social Policy (1.0) |
Comparative and International Social Policy (1.0) |
SA221 Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change (1.0) |
Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Change (1.0) |
SA223 Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) |
Health and Social Care Policy (1.0) |
SA224 Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) |
Introduction to Global Population Change (1.0) |
SA303 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) |
Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5) |
SA304 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) |
Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches (0.5) |
SA319 Social Security Policies (0.5) |
Social Security Policies (0.5) |
SA349 Dissertation (1.0) |
Dissertation (1.0) |
