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Suspended programmes for 2020/21
The following programmes have been Suspended for the 2020/21 session.

Department of Social Policy

Substantive changes to programme regulations from 2020/21
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2020/21 session.

Department of Anthropology:

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

(second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

(third year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

(second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

(third year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 core courses

Department of Government:

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 1, Paper 3 from: PH101 or PH104 to: PH111 and either PH105 or PH112 and additional courses to Year 2, Paper 8 - PH223, PH224 and PH238

(second year students in 2020/21)

Additional optional courses to Year 2, Paper 8 - PH223, PH224 and PH238

Department of International History:

Change to Year 1 core courses; removal of unassessed course HY119; addition of new Paper 2 core course HY120; HY116 no longer core and now semi-core under papers 3&4

Change to Year 1 core courses; removal of unassessed course HY119; addition of new Paper 3 core course HY120

Department of Philosophy:

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 1, Papers 2 & 3 to include choices between PH112 and PH105 and change to Year 2, Paper 6 pathway one from: PH104 to: PH111 and PH112

(second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 2, Paper 6 pathway one from: PH104 to: PH111 and PH112

Change to Year 1, Paper 2 from: PH101 or PH104 to: PH111 and either PH112 or PH105

(third year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 3 additional course from EC340 to PH340

(first and second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 2, Paper 7 from: PH101 or PH104 to: PH111 and EC241.  Removal of EC240 in Year 2. Change to Year 3 additional course from EC340 to PH340

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 2, Paper 5 from: PB203 and PB211 to: PB230

(second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 2, Paper 5 from: PB203 and PB211 to: PB230

Department of Statistics:

Change to Year 1, Paper 3 to include additional optional courses - MA102 and ST101

(first year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 1, Paper 4 to include additional optional courses -  MA102, FM101 and ST101

(second year students in 2020/21)

Change to Year 2 structure

New courses for 2020/21
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2020/21:  

Department of Accounting courses:

Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5)

Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5)

Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting (0.5)

Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (0.5)

Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5)

Department of Economics courses:

PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (0.5)

Department of Economic History courses:

The Family Economy in History (1.0)

Dissertation in Historical Economic Geography (1.0)

Department of International History courses:

Historical Approaches to the Modern World (1.0)

Enslavement, commerce, and political formations in West Africa, c. 1550-1836 (1.0)

Language Centre courses:

Mandarin for International Relations (Elementary) (1.0)

Department of Mathematics courses:

Mathematical Proof and Analysis (0.5)

Dissertation in Mathematics (0.5)

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy (0.5.)

PPE Research Seminar (0.0)

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

Biological Psychology (0.5)

Cognitive Psychology (0.5)

Developmental Psychology (0.5)

Social Psychology: Individuals, Groups and Culture (0.5)

Individual Differences and Why They Matter (0.5)

Intermediate Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science (1.0)

Department of Social Policy courses:

Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5)

Department of Statistics courses:

Programming for Data Science (0.5)

Machine Learning (0.5)

Suspended courses for 2020/21
The following courses have been suspended for the 2020/21 session.

Department of Accounting courses:

Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (0.5)

Department of Anthropology courses:

The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5)

The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)

Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (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)

Anthropological Approaches to Value (0.5)

The Anthropology of Amazonia (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)

Department of Economic History courses:

Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity (1.0)

Atlantic World Slavery (1.0)

Issues in Modern Japanese Economic Development: Late Industrialisation, Imperialism and High Speed Growth (1.0)

Department of Economics courses:

Games and Economic Behaviour (1.0)

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

The London Lab: Geography in the City (1.0)

The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (1.0)

Geographies of Gender in the Global South (0.5)

Department of Government courses:

The Politics of Economic Policy (1.0)

Global Public Policy (0.5)

Leadership in the Political World (0.5)

Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0)

Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective (0.5)

Empirical Research in Government (1.0)

Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5)

Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science (0.5)

Political Economy of the Developing World (1.0)

Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology (1.0)

Department of International History courses:

Thinking Like A Historian (0.0)

The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992 (1.0)

Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 (1.0)

The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0)

Retreat from Power: British foreign and defence policy, 1931-68 (1.0)

Department of International Relations courses:

Managing China's Rise in East Asia (0.5)

Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security (0.5)

Visual International Politics (0.5)

Europe's Institutional Order (0.5)

Revolutions and World Politics (0.5)

Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5)

The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5)

The Rule of Law: A Global History (0.5)

Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5)

Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future (0.5)

Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5)

The Politics of Governance, Development and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)

Critical War Studies (0.5)

Language Centre courses:

Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0)

Mandarin: Level 2 (Standard)

Mandarin: Level 3 (Standard)

Mandarin: Level 4 (Standard)

French: Level Five (Management and Business)

French: Level Five (Legal Issues)

Spanish: Level Five (Culture and Society)

Portuguese: Level One (Standard)

Portuguese: Level One (Fast track)

Portuguese: Level Two (Standard)

Mandarin: Level 5 (Legal Issues)

Spanish: Level One (Super Standard)

Argumentation and Style

Discussion

Informal Vocabulary

Academic Vocabulary

Grammar for Academic Purposes

Pronunciation and Voice

Presentation Skills

Grammar for Academic Purposes II

Department of Law courses:

Administrative Law (1.0)

Media Law (1.0)

Global Commodities Law (1.0)

Department of Mathematics courses:

Chaos in Dynamical Systems (0.5)

Graph Theory (0.5)

Department of Management courses:

Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (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)

Marketing Action Learning Project (0.5)

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

Rationality and Choice (1.0)

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

Social Psychology (1.0)

Department of Social Policy courses:

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)

Development and Social Change (1.0)

Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy (1.0)

Understanding Crime and Punishment (1.0)

Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0)

Comparative Criminology (0.5)

Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries (0.5)

Social Security Policies (0.5)

Department of Sociology courses:

Crime, Deviance and Control (1.0)

Sociology of Health and Illness (0.5)

The Sociology of Homicide (0.5)

Department of Statistics courses:

Databases (0.5)

Applied Statistics Project (0.5)

杏吧论坛100 The 杏吧论坛 Course: Understanding the causes of things (0.0)

Withdrawn courses for 2020/21
The following courses have been withdrawn for the 2020/21 session.

Department of Accounting courses:

AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control (1.0)

AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation (1.0)

AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management (1.0)

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN216 Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (0.5)

AN251 Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (0.5)

AN274 Subjectivity and Anthropology (0.5)

AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (1.0)

AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (0.5)

Department of Economic History courses:

EH309 Slavery from Ancient Greece to the Gulag (1.0)

Department of Economics courses:

EC240 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (0.5)

EC340 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (0.0)

Department of Government courses:

GV317 The Modern State - Theory and Practice (0.5)

GV322 Knowledge Economies: Global Innovation Networks and Segregated Societies (0.5)

Department of International History courses:

HY244 Britain’s Atlantic World, 1688-1837 (1.0)

HY326 Slavery, Capital, and Empire in the British World, 1700-1900 (1.0)

Language Centre courses:

LN709 Arabic: Level Five (Current Issues)

LN790 Spanish: Level Five (Standard)

LN813 Japanese: Level Four (Media and Culture)

LN816 Russian: Level Three (Fast Track)

LN817 Russian: Level Five (Current Issues)

LN822 Mandarin: Level 5 (China Issues)

LN823 Mandarin: Level 5 (Advanced Reading)

LN825 Arabic Level 1 (Levantine Dialect)

LN826 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT- A)

LN827 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT-B1)

LN828 Mandarin for Business (Leading to BCT- B2)

LN900 Academic English for 杏吧论坛100

LN950 Improvisation

LN953 Academic Reading

LN958 Seminar Skills

LN989 Examination Writing Skills

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA331 Practical Optimisation Modelling (0.5)

MA332 Programming in C++ (0.0)

Department of Management courses:

MG208 Business Transformation and Project Management (0.5)

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces (0.5)

Department of Sociology courses:

SO231 Knowledge, Power, and Social Change (0.5)

SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century (0.5)

Assessment changes from 2020/21

Updated undergraduate summative assessment information for 2020/21

Course title changes from 2020/21
The following courses have changed title for the 2020/21 session. 

Old title

New title

Department of Accounting courses:

AC311 Financial Management and Organisational Control (0.5)

Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation (0.5)

AC312 Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting (0.5)

Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty (0.5)

AC331 Contemporary Issues in Financial Reporting (0.5)

Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting (0.5)

AC341 Auditing, Risk Management and Governance (0.5)

Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit (0.5)

Department of Economics courses:

EC321 Monetary Economics (1.0)

Monetary Policy and Aggregate Fluctuations (1.0)

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY316 Gender in High Income and Emerging Economies (0.5)

Gender, Space and Power (0.5)

Department of Government courses:

GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates (0.5)

Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5)

GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy (0.5)

Topics in Political Economy (0.5)

Department of International History courses:

HY221 The History of Russia, 1682-1825 (1.0)

HY221 The History of Russia, 1676-1825 (1.0)

Department of International Relations courses:

IR323 Gender and International Politics (0.5)

Gendered/ing and International Politics (0.5)

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH101 Logic (1.0)

Introduction to Logic (0.5)

PH104 Formal Methods of Philosophical Argumentation (1.0)

Intermediate Logic (0.5)

PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy (1.0)

Mind and Metaphysics (0.5)

PH332 Effective Philanthropy: Ethics and Evidence (0.5)

Epistemology (0.5)

Course code changes from 2020/21
The following courses have changed codes for the 2020/21 session. 

Old code

New code

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (1.0)

Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (0.5)

AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (0.5)

Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (1.0)

Department of Economic History courses:

EH208 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0)

Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750 (1.0)

Department of Government courses:

GV342 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone and Research Project (1.0)

Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Research Project

Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

PB203 Intermediate Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science: A Methodological Toolkit (0.5)

PB211 Intermediate Quantitative Methods for Psychological & Behavioural Science (0.5)

Intermediate Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science (1.0)