Undergraduate course guides 2022

Undergraduate course guides 2022/23

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AC
AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance
AC102 Elements of Financial Accounting
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions
AC200 Accounting Theory and Practice
AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation
AC312 Performance Measurement, Strategy, and Uncertainty
AC331 Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting
AC332 Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
AC341 Corporate Governance, Risk Management and Financial Audit
AC342 Accounting, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability

AN
AN100 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology
AN101 A History of Anthropological Theory
AN102 Ethnography through Mixed Media
AN1E0 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges)
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology
AN237 The Anthropology of Development
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa
AN280 Public Anthropology
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives
AN282 Bangladesh and Beyond: Anthropological Perspectives
AN283 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics
AN284 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation
AN298 Fieldwork in London: Learning Ethnographic Methods
AN2E0 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (Anthropology Exchanges)
AN2E6 Political and Legal Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges)
AN301 The Anthropology of Religion
AN303 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation
AN397 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology
AN3E1 The Anthropology of Religion (Anthropology Exchanges)

DS
DS101L Fundamentals of Data Science
DS101M Fundamentals of Data Science
DS105L Data for Data Science
DS105M Data for Data Science
DS202 Data Science for Social Scientists

EC
EC1A1 Microeconomics I
EC1A3 Microeconomics I
EC1A5 Microeconomics I
EC1B1 Macroeconomics I
EC1B3 Macroeconomics I
EC1B5 Macroeconomics I
EC1C1 Econometrics I
EC1P1 Economics
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I
EC210 Macroeconomic Principles
EC241 PPE Interdisciplinary Research Seminar
EC2A0 Introductory Course in Microeconomic Principles
EC2A1 Microeconomics II
EC2A3 Microeconomics II
EC2A5 Microeconomics II
EC2B1 Macroeconomics II
EC2B3 Macroeconomics II
EC2B5 Macroeconomics II
EC2C1 Econometrics II
EC2C3 Econometrics I
EC2C4 Econometrics II
EC301 Advanced Economic Analysis
EC302 Political Economy
EC307 Development Economics
EC309 Econometric Theory
EC310 Behavioural Economics
EC311 History of Economics: How Theories Change
EC313 Industrial Economics
EC315 International Economics
EC317 Labour Economics
EC319 Games and Economic Behaviour
EC321 Monetary Economics and Aggregate Fluctuations
EC325 Public Economics
EC331 Quantitative Thesis
EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics

EH
EH101 The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the present day
EH102 Pre-industrial Economic History
EH103 Making Economic History Count
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity
EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth
EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day
EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000
EH214 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
EH215 Money and Finance: From the Eighteenth Century to Modernity
EH217 Chinese Economic History since 1800: A Chronology
EH218 Chinese Economic History since 1800: Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective
EH221 Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World
EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy
EH237 Theories and Evidence in Economic History
EH238 The Origins of Growth
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context
EH304 The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War
EH306 Monetary and Financial History since 1750
EH307 The Economic History of South Asia, 1600-2000
EH308 Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries
EH312 Knowledge, Technology and Economy from the Middle Ages to Modernity
EH313 Economic History Lab: Cities, Economy and Society, 1550-1750
EH314 Political economy and economic policies: Europe from the High Middle Ages to the French Revolution
EH316 Atlantic World Slavery
EH317 Disease, Health and History
EH326 Innovation and its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries
EH327 China's Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term
EH390 Dissertation in Economic or Social History
EH391 Dissertation in Historical Economic Geography

EU
EU3A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union

FM
FM100 Introduction to Finance
FM101 Finance
FM200 Financial Systems and Crises
FM201 Macro-Finance
FM212 Principles of Finance
FM213 Principles of Finance
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets
FM301 Market Anomalies and Asset Management
FM302 Theories of Corporate Finance
FM304 Applied Corporate Finance
FM305 Advanced Financial Economics
FM321 Risk Management and Modelling
FM322 Derivatives

GV
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory
GV101 Introduction to Political Science
GV225 Public Choice and Politics
GV245 Democracy and Democratisation
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives
GV249 Research Design in Political Science
GV250 Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence
GV251 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union
GV252 Politics and Policy of Data Science
GV262 Contemporary Political Theory
GV263 Public Policy Analysis
GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe
GV267 Global Political Thought
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates
GV309 Politics of Money and Finance in Comparative Perspective
GV311 British Government
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics
GV313 Politics of Trade in Comparative Perspective
GV314 Empirical Research in Government
GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies
GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design
GV319 Experimental Politics
GV320 Populism
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory
GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government
GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science
GV325 Topics in Political Economy
GV326 Conflict, War and Revolution - Approaches to Political Theory
GV327 Governance and Corruption
GV328 Middle East Politics in Transnational Perspective
GV329 Making Democracy Work
GV330 Data Science Applications to Politics Research
GV331 Capstone Data Science & Civic Engagement
GV332 Big Data in Politics: A Few Provocative Debates
GV334 Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Politics: Global North, Global South
GV335 African Political Economy
GV336 Latin America: Democracy and Development
GV337 Politics, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Comparative Perspective
GV338 Politics and Political Economy of India
GV342L Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Research Project
GV342M Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone
GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World
GV390 Government Dissertation Option
GV398 Inside the Mind of a Voter: Research in Electoral Psychology
GV3L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics
GV3L2 The Politics and Policy of Climate Change and Sustainability

GY
GY100 Introduction to Geography
GY101 Succeeding in your degree: Critical skills for Geography and Environment students
GY103 Contemporary Europe
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future
GY121 Sustainable Development
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research
GY144 Human Geography and the City
GY202 Introduction to Global Development
GY204 Political Geography
GY205 Political Geographies
GY206 Urban Geography and Globalisation
GY207 Economy, Society and Place
GY209 The Economic Geography of Trade, Production and Development
GY210 The Economics of Cities
GY212 Pathways in Human Geography
GY220 Environment: Science and Society
GY222 Applied Environmental Economics
GY245 Quantitative Methods in Geography and GIS
GY246 Field Methods in Geography
GY247 Field Methods in Geography with Economics
GY248 Field Methods in Geography & Environment
GY307 Regional Economic Development
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development
GY309 The Political Geography of Development
GY310 Urban Politics
GY311 The Political Economy of Urbanisation
GY313 Firms and Economic Geography: Location, Technology and Innovation
GY314 The Economics of Housing Markets and Migration
GY315 Geographies of Race
GY316 Gender, Space and Power
GY326 Sustainable Business and Finance
GY327 Global Environmental Governance
GY328 Political Ecology of Development
GY329 Applied Economics of Environment and Development
GY331 Geographies of Global Migration
GY350 Dissertation

HY
HY113 From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century
HY116 International Politics since 1914: Peace and War
HY118 Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800
HY120 Historical Approaches to the Modern World
HY200 The Rights of Man: the History of Human Rights Discourse from the Antigone to Amnesty International
HY206 The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989
HY221 The History of Russia, 1676-1825
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918
HY232 War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990
HY235 Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840
HY238 The Cold War and European Integration, 1947-1992
HY239 People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day
HY240 From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day
HY241 What is History? Methods and Debates
HY242 The Soviet Union: Domestic, International and Intellectual History
HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800
HY245 The United States and the World since 1776
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s
HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present
HY300 Dissertation
HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75)
HY315 The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799
HY319 Napoleon and Europe
HY320 The Cold War Endgame
HY322 Nazi Germany's War: Violence and Occupation in Europe, 1939-1945
HY323 Travel, Pleasure and Politics: The European Grand Tour, 1670-1825
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89
HY328 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century
HY331 Henry Kissinger and the Global 1970s
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War
HY333 Enslavement, commerce, and political formations in West Africa, c. 1550-1850
HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c.1539 to the Present
HY335 History of Foreign Relations of the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China, 1949-2008
HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War

IR
IR100 International Relations: Theories, Concepts and Debates
IR101 Contemporary Issues in International Relations
IR102 Thinking Globally: Studying International Relations
IR200 International Political Theory
IR202 Foreign Policy Analysis 1
IR203 International Organisations
IR205 International Security
IR206 International Political Economy
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations
IR312 Genocide
IR313 Managing China's Rise in East Asia
IR314 Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security
IR315 International Relations of the Middle East
IR317 American Grand Strategy
IR318 Visual International Politics
IR319 Empire and Conflict in World Politics
IR320 Europe's Institutional Order
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory
IR323 Gendered/ing and International Politics
IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice
IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court
IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History
IR345 Global Politics of China
IR349 Conflict and Peacebuilding
IR354 Governing International Political Economy: Lessons from the Past for the Future
IR355 Economic Diplomacy
IR367 Global Environmental Politics
IR368 The Political Economy of Trade
IR369 Politics of Money in the World Economy
IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations)
IR373 China and the Global South
IR377 The Politics of Peace & Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
IR378 Critical War Studies
IR379 Russia in World Politics
IR380 The Politics of Inequality and Development
IR395 The Politics of Displacement and Refuge
IR398 Dissertation

LL
LL100 Foundational Legal Skills
LL104 Law of Obligations
LL105 Property I
LL106 Public Law
LL108 Criminal Law
LL109 Introduction to the Legal System
LL201 Law and State Power
LL202 Commercial Contracts
LL203 Law of Business Associations (Company Law)
LL204 Advanced Torts
LL205 Medical Law
LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights
LL210 Information Technology and the Law
LL212 Conflict of Laws
LL221 Family Law
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union
LL233 Law of Evidence
LL241 European Legal History
LL250 Law and The Environment
LL251 Intellectual Property Law
LL253 The Law of Corporate Insolvency
LL257 Employment Law
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750
LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology
LL275 Property II
LL278 Public International Law
LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice
LL293 Tax and Tax Avoidance
LL295 Media Law
LL300 Competition Law
LL301 Global Commodities Law
LL305 Jurisprudence
LL342 International Protection of Human Rights
LL398 Half-Unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic
LL399 Full-unit Dissertation on an approved legal topic

LN
LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN104 Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner)
LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN112 German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN115 Intercultural Communication and Management
LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced)
LN131 French Language and Society 1 (beginner)
LN132 French Language and Society 2 (intermediate)
LN140 Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced)
LN142 Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)
LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN210 German Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN230 French Language and Society 4 (proficiency)
LN240 Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)
LN241 Mandarin for International Relations (Elementary)
LN250 English Literature and Society
LN251 Comparative Literature and 20th Century Political History
LN252 Contemporary Literature and Global Society
LN253 European Literature and Philosophy
LN254 Literature and Aspects of Ethics
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists
LN303 Language Studies Dissertation
LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery)
LN330 French Language and Society 5 (mastery)
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN341 Mandarin in the Global Workplace
LN342 Academic Chinese for International Relations
LN370 Discourse and Communication

LS
杏吧论坛100A The 杏吧论坛 Course: How can we avert climate catastrophe?
杏吧论坛100B The 杏吧论坛 Course: How can we control AI?
杏吧论坛100C The 杏吧论坛 Course: How can we create a fair society?

MA
MA100 Mathematical Methods
MA102 Mathematical Proof and Analysis
MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA203 Real Analysis
MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)
MA208 Optimisation Theory
MA209 Differential Equations
MA210 Discrete Mathematics
MA211 Algebra and Number Theory
MA212 Further Mathematical Methods
MA213 Operations Research Techniques
MA214 Algorithms and Data Structures
MA222 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra)
MA301 Mathematical Game Theory
MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems
MA315 Algebra and its Applications
MA316 Graph Theory
MA317 Complex Analysis
MA318 History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics
MA319 Partial Differential Equations
MA320 Mathematics of Networks
MA321 Measure Theoretic Probability
MA322 Mathematics of Finance and Valuation
MA323 Computational Methods in Financial Mathematics
MA324 Mathematical Modelling and Simulation
MA330 Game Theory for Collective Decisions
MA333 Optimisation for Machine Learning
MA334 Dissertation in Mathematics

MC
MC300 Showcase Portfolio: Media Power and Communication Practice

MG
MG104 Operations Management
MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
MG205 Econometrics: Theory and Applications
MG206 Firms, Management and Competitive Advantage
MG207 Managerial Economics
MG209 E-business
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards
MG212 Marketing
MG213 Information Systems
MG214 Human Resource Management
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain
MG301 Strategy
MG302 Topics in Management Research
MG303 International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets
MG305 Innovation and Technology Management
MG307 International Context of Management
MG308 Simulation Modelling and Analysis
MG310 Strategic Decision Making
MG311 Foundations of Behavioural Decision Science
MG312 Extreme Organisational Behaviour: Examining behaviour in non-normative organisational contexts
MG315 Marketing Action Learning Project
MG316 Brand Strategy
MG317 Leading Organisational Change
MG318 Social Enterprise Design Fundamentals

MY
MY360 Quantitative Text Analysis
MY361 Social Network Analysis

PB
PB100 Foundations of Behavioural Science
PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science
PB102 Social Psychology
PB130 Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB200 Biological Psychology
PB201 Cognitive Psychology
PB202 Developmental Psychology
PB204 Social Psychology: Individuals, Groups and Culture
PB205 Individual Differences and Why They Matter
PB230 Intermediate Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB300 Advances in Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB301 Cognition and Culture
PB302 Creativity and Innovation
PB303 Organisations, Groups and Identity
PB304 Organisational and Social Decision-Making
PB307 Consumer Psychology for Sustainability
PB308 Social Psychology of Economic Life
PB310 Independent Research Project
PB312 Research Apprenticeship
PB314 Behavioural Science in an Age of New Technology

PH
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
PH105 Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy
PH111 Introduction to Logic
PH112 Intermediate Logic and Probability
PH201 Philosophy of Science
PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences
PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics
PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy
PH223 Mind and Metaphysics
PH224 Epistemology
PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe
PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes
PH238 Philosophy of Language
PH239 Anarchy, Authority and Evidence: Topics in Philosophy of Law
PH301 Rationality and Choice
PH311 Philosophy of Economics
PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race
PH340 PPE Research Seminar
PH341 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications
PH399 Dissertation in Philosophy

SO
SO100 Key Concepts: Introduction to Social Theory
SO102 Data in Society: Researching Social Life
SO110 Power, Inequality, and Difference: Contemporary Themes in Sociology
SO201 Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory
SO203 Political Sociology
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control
SO221 Researching London: Advanced Social Research Methods
SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness
SO234 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture
SO235 The Sociology of Homicide
SO236 Urban Society
SO237 Racial Borderscapes
SO240 Crime, Deviance and Control
SO244 The Sociology of Race and Empire
SO248 Gender and Society
SO302 The Sociological Dissertation
SO309 Atrocity and Justice
SO310 The Sociology of Elites
SO311 Law and Violence
SO312 Work, Inequality and Society
SO313 Material Culture and Everyday Life
SO348 Family Diversity and Change

SP
SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy
SP101 Foundations of Social Policy Research
SP110 Sociology and Social Policy
SP111 Social Economics and Policy
SP112 Politics of Social Policy Making
SP200 Comparative and International Social Policy
SP201 Research Methods for Social Policy
SP210 Development and Social Change
SP230 Education Policy
SP231 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy
SP232 Health and Social Care Policy
SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice
SP314 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy
SP331 Sexuality, Everyday Lives and Social Policy in Developing Countries
SP332 Social Security Policies
SP333 NGOs, Social Policy and Development
SP335 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches
SP336 Behavioural Public Policy
SP372 Punishment and Penal Policy
SP374 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence
SP399 Dissertation

ST
ST101 Programming for Data Science
ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory
ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics)
ST109 Elementary Statistical Theory I
ST110 Elementary Statistical Theory II
ST115 Managing and Visualising Data
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference
ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments
ST206 Probability and Distribution Theory
ST207 Databases
ST211 Applied Regression
ST213 Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization
ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial
ST227 Survival Models
ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models
ST301 Actuarial Mathematics (Life)
ST302 Stochastic Processes
ST303 Stochastic Simulation
ST304 Time Series and Forecasting
ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General)
ST307 Aspects of Market Research
ST308 Bayesian Inference
ST309 Elementary Data Analytics
ST310 Machine Learning
ST311 Artificial Intelligence
ST312 Applied Statistics Project
ST313 Ethics for Data Science
ST326 Financial Statistics
ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach
ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance

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