Updated graduate course and programme information 2020/21 - for current students
The following information provides current 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.
New programmes | Suspended programmes | Withdrawn programmes | Substantive changes to programme regulations | Programme title changes | New courses | Suspended courses | Withdrawn courses | Assessment changes | Course title changes | Course code changes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) |
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) |
AN478 Anthropology and Global History (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) |
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) |
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) |
MG422 Thinking Strategically (0.5) |
Research Methods for Studies in Global Management (0.5) |
Behavioural Economics for Management (0.5) |
MG456 Strategic Decision Making (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) |
SP435 Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (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) |
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) |
SO482 Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (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) |
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) |