Graduate course and programme information for prospective students

The following information provides prospective taught masters, research and executive students with a summary of new and updated course and programme information for the 2024/25 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.


 Graduate Programmes:

New programmes for 2024/25

new
 Department of Sociology
 PG Certificate in Social and Economic Equity

Programme title changes for 2024/25

The following programmes have changed title for the 2024/25 session.

Old title New title
European Institute
MSc in European and International Public Policy MSc in European and International Politics and Policy
MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE and Bocconi)  MSc in European and International Politics and Policy (LSE and Bocconi)
MSc in European and International Public Policy (LSE and Sciences Po) MSc in European and International Politics and Policy (LSE and Sciences Po)
Department of Finance
MSc in Risk and Finance MSc in Finance and Risk
Department of Media and Communications
MSc in Strategic Communications MSc in Strategic Communications and Society
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences MSc in Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences

Substantive changes to programme regulations for 2024/25

The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2024/25 session.

Department of Geography and Environment
MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation Paper 1 course change from GY420 (1.0) to GY465 (0.5) and GY475 (0.5)
Department of Health Policy
MSc in Health Data Science Paper 2 course change from ST447 (0.5) to ST447 (0.5) or ST411 (0.5)
Department of International Development
MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies Addition of paper 3 semi-core courses
Department of International History
MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation Paper 1 withdrawal of core course HY4B4A/W (0.5)
Department of Management
MSc in Management (1 Year Programme) Paper 5 core course change from MG4F4 (0.5) and MG4F5 (0.5) to MG4J4 (1.0)
Marshall Institute 
Executive MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship Paper 3 core course change from EC452E (0.5) to MG4H8E (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
MSc in Philosophy of Science Paper 1 core course change to PH400 (1.0)
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
MSc in Behavioural Science Paper 5 core course change to PB410 (1.0)
School of Public Policy
Double Master of Public Administration (LSE-Sciences Po) Paper 2 and 3 option change to MPA Course List
Department of Sociology
MSc in Economy and Society Paper 1 core course change from SO425 (1.0) to SO4D1 (1.0)
Department of Statistics
MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) Paper 2 core course change from ST422 (0.5) and ST436 (0.5) to ST436 (0.5) and ST458 (0.5)
MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research) Paper 3 core course change from ST422 (0.5) to ST458 (0.5)

Suspended programmes for 2024/25

The following programme(s) have been suspended for the 2024/25 session: 

suspended programmes
Department of Media and Communications
MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and UCT)
Department of Sociology
MPhil/PhD in Cities

 

 Graduate Courses:

New courses for 2024/25

The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2024/25.

new courses
Department of Anthropology:
AN485 Mind and Society (0.5)
AN495 Digital Anthropology (0.5)
Department of Health Policy:
HP437 Health equity, climate change and the common good (0.5)
Department of International Development:
DV473 Health, conflict and crises (0.5)
Department of International History:
HY4C1 Fighting and Enduring the Great War (1.0)
Department of Management:
MG4H8E Social Entrepreneurship in Context (0.5)
Department of Social Policy:
SP444 Educational Inequality in the Global South (0.5)
Department of Sociology:
SO4C8 The Social and Political Lives of the Dead (0.5)
Department of Statistics:
ST458 Financial Statistics II (0.5)

Course code changes from 2024/25

The following courses have changed codes for the 2024/25 session.  Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School. 

Old code New code
Department of International Development:
DV476 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5) MY476 Population Analysis: Methods and Models (0.5)
Department of Management:
MG4F4 MiM Capstone Course - International Management in Action (0.5) MG4J4 MiM Capstone Course - International Management in Action (1.0)
Department of Sociology:
SO425 Economy, Risk and Society (1.0) SO4C9 Risk Governance (0.5)
SO430 Economic Sociology (0.5) SO4D1 Economic Sociology (1.0)

Course title changes from 2024/25

The following courses have changed titles for the 2024/25 session.  

Old title New title
Department of International Development
DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach  (0.5) DV411 Population, Development and Environment: an Analytical Approach (0.5)
DV465 Global Health Work: Expertise and Labour (0.5) DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5) (suspended 2024/25)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PH422 Dissertation Seminar - Philosophy of Social Science (0.0) PH422 Dissertation Seminar - Philosophy of Economics and the Social Sciences (0.0)
School of Public Policy
PP409E Public Policy in Practice Workshop III (EMPA) (0.5) PP409E Public Policy in Practice Workshop II (EMPA) (0.5)
PP4G8E Public Policy in Practice Workshop (EMPA) (0.5) PP4G8E Introduction to Public Policy (EMPA) (0.5)
PP4G9E Public Policy in Practice Workshop II (EMPA) (0.5) PP4G9E Public Policy in Practice Workshop I (EMPA) (0.5)
PP4J1E Public Policy in Practice Workshop I (EMPP) (0.5) PP4J1E Introduction to Public Policy (EMPP) (0.5)
PP4J2E Public Policy in Practice Workshop II (EMPP) (0.5) PP4J2E Public Policy in Practice Workshop I (EMPP) (0.5)
PP4J3E Public Policy in Practice Workshop III (EMPP) (0.5) PP4J3E Public Policy in Practice Workshop II (EMPP) (0.5)
Department of Statistics
ST418 Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (0.5) ST418 Advanced Time Series Analysis (0.5)

Suspended courses for 2024/25

The following courses are not available for the 2024/25 session.

suspended
Department of Anthropology
AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)
AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5)
AN475 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5)
AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)
AN480 Public Anthropology (0.5)
AN481 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
AN483 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5)
AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
AN493 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
Department of Economic History
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)
EH426W Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5)
EH432 Economic History and Geography: Advanced Topics and Methods (0.5)
EH436 Economic History of the Early Modern New World (The Americas) (0.5)
EH439 History of Banking Systems (0.5)
EH442 Labour Markets in Historical Perspective (0.5)
EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0)
EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)
European Institute
EU430 Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (0.5)
EU4A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union (0.5)
EU4A6 Reconciliation and Crisis: Politics in Southern Europe (0.5)
Department of Finance
FM408E Financial Engineering (0.5)
FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets (0.5)
FM431W Corporate Finance A (0.5) 
Department of Gender Studies
GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development (1.0)
GI417 Feminist Population Politics (0.5)
GI423 Globalisation and Sexuality (0.5)
GI430 Intersectional Inequalities in the Agro-Food System (0.5)
Department of Geography and Environment 
GY431 Cities, People and Poverty in the South (0.5)
GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5)
GY470 Urban Africa (0.5)
GY477 Race and Capitalism in North America (0.5)
Department of Government
GV4B8 Civil Wars: Concepts and Cases (0.5)
GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia (0.5)
GV4E1 Comparative Democratization in a Global Age (0.5)
GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Public Policy and Political Science (0.5)
GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought (0.5)
GV4J4 Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union (0.5)
GV4K2 Postcolonial and Comparative Political Theory (0.5)
GV4L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics (0.5)
GV4L3 Data Science Applications in Politics Research (0.5)
GV4M6 Modern African Political Philosophy (0.5)
Department of Health Policy
HP429 Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care (0.5)
Department of International Development
DV411 Population and Development: an Analytical Approach (0.5)
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)
DV433 The Informal Economy and Development (0.5)
DV435 African Political Economy (0.5)
DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference (0.5)
DV465 Labour, Social Services and Development (0.5)
DV591 Economic Development Policy II (0.5)
Department of International History
HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0)
HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0)
HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)
HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)
HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5)
HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)
HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)
HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)
Department of International Relations
IR415 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (1.0)
IR445 Global Politics of China (1.0)
IR464 The Politics of International Human Rights (0.5)
IR472 Diplomacy in the 21st Century (0.5)
IR479 Eastern Europe: Domestic Regimes and Foreign Policies (0.5)
IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)
Law School
LL4AJ Corporate Rescue and Reorganisation (0.5)
LL4AK Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law (0.5)
LL4BM The Legal Protection of Inventions (0.5)
LL4CS Law and Economics of Network Industries (0.5)
LL4F2 The Law and Practice of International Finance (0.5)
LL4F4 Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (0.5)
LL4K5 International Commercial Contracts - General Principles (0.5)
LL4Z5 State Aid and Subsidies Regulation (0.5)
LL4Z9 Banking Law (0.5)
Department of Management
MG422 Thinking Strategically (0.5)
MG460 Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation (0.5)
MG486 Social Computing, Data Analytics, and Information Services (0.5)
MG4B9 The World Trading System (0.5)
MG4F5 Business in the Global Environment (0.5)
MG4J9 Responsible Digital Innovation: Ethics at Work (0.5)
Department of Media and Communications
MC401 Mediated Resistance and Activism (0.5)
MC416 Representation in the Age of Globalisation (0.5)
MC420 Identity, Transnationalism and the Media (0.5)
MC433 Technology and Justice (0.5)
MC439 Media, Technology, and the Body (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method 
PH430 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe (0.5)
PH436 Set Theory (0.5)
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB422 Health Communication (0.5)
PB427 Organisational and Social Decision Making (0.5)
PB429 Science, Innovations and the Human Future (0.5)
PB430 Social Influence Modes and Modalities (0.5)
PB435 Behavioural Science for Planetary Wellbeing (0.5)
PB437 Conversation Analysis and the Science of Social Interaction (0.5)
PB452 Behavioural Science for Health and Pandemic Responses (0.5)
School of Public Policy
PP411A Political Entrepreneurship (0.5)
PP412 Cold War II? Public Policy Implications of US-China Relations in the 2020s (0.5)
PP414W Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes (0.5)
PP416 Boyond the policy cycle: how theory explains practice (0.5)
PP417A The Practice of Effective Climate Policy (0.5)
PP425 Strategic Policymaking: Economic Analysis, Narrative Development, Political Feasibility, and Implementation (0.5)
PP450 Public Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5)
PP4J4 Designing and Implementing Evidence-Informed Policies and Programmes (0.5)
PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting (0.5)
PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement (1.0)
Department of Social Policy
SP471 Issues in Contemporary Policing (0.5)
SP475 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5)

Withdrawn courses for 2024/25

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Department of Accounting
AC499 Dissertation (1.0)
Department of Anthropology
AN444 Investigating the Plilippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5)
AN463 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)
AN482 Bangladesh and Beyond: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
Department of Economic History
EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5)
European Institute
EU449 Emerging Markets, Political Transition and Economic Development in Central Eastern Europe (0.5)
EU467 The Political Economy of the Neoliberal State (0.5)
EU468 The Political Economy of Migration in Europe (0.5)
EU490 Evidence and Analysis in Policy-Making (0.5)
Department of International History
HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (1.0)
HY484A Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5)
HY484W Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5)
HY4B8 On German Memory Politics: From the Cold War to New Global Challenges (1.0)
Department of International Relations
IR486 Dissertation in International Relations Theory and International Relations (Research) (1.0)
Law School
LL4AL International Business Transactions: Commercial Litigation (0.5)
LL4AM International Business Transactions: Advanced Procedure and Tactics (0.5)
LL4AN International Business Transactions: Conflict of Laws, Extraterritoriality, and Global Governance (0.5)
LL4AP International Business Transactions: Contracts and Property (0.5)
LL4AZ Taxation of Multinational Enterprises: Transfer Pricing (0.5)
LL4BN Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (0.5)
LL4CB Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (0.5)
LL4CH Taxation of Transactions (0.5)
LL4L1 The Theory and Practice of Alternative Commercial Dispute Resolution (0.5)
LL4L7 Advanced Mediation and Negotiation (0.5)
Department of Management
MG412 Globalization and Strategy (0.5)
MG466 Supply Chain Management (0.5)
MG467 Strategy and Change in Public Sector Management (0.5)
Department of Methodology
MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development (0.0)
MY424 Advanced qualitative field methods for researching space and place (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PH427 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5)
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB4D2 Happiness - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D3 Behavioural Science in an Age of New Technology - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D4 Behavioural Science for Health and Pandemic Responses - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D5 Corporate Behaviour and Decision Making - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D6 Wellbeing for Policy - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D7 Behavioural Science for Planetary Wellbeing - Dissertation (1.0)
PB4D8 The Science of Time at Work and Beyond - Dissertation (1.0)
Department of Social Policy
SP416 International Planning and Children's Rights (0.5)
SP435 Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities (0.5)
SP436 Basic Education for Social Development (0.5)
SP437 International Housing and Human Settlements; Conflicts and Communities (0.5)
SP439 Social Rights and Human Welfare (0.5)