Undergraduate course and programme information for current students

The following information provides current undergraduate 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.


 Undergraduate Programmes:

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 Anthropology
BA/BSc in Social Anthropology Restructure of BA/BSc in Social Anthropology
BA in Anthropology and Law Paper 5 AN253 and AN379
Paper 9 and Paper 12 added Law option lists
Department of Economics
BSc Economics  Paper 8 added EH238 (1.0)
BSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics Paper 8 added EH238 (1.0)
Law School
LLB Bachelor of Laws Restructuring of LLB
Department of Mathematics
BSc in Mathematics with Data Science Paper 5 withdrawal of semi-core course ST101W (0.5)
Department of Geography
BSc in Environmental and Sustainable Development Paper 5 course change from GY202 (1.0) to GY211 (0.5) and GY248 (0.5)
Department of Government
BSc in Politics and Data Science Paper 9 withdrawal of semi-core course GV331 (0.5)
Department of Social Policy
BSc International Social and Public Policy with Politics  Paper 8 added Government Selectin List 2
Department of Statistics
BSc in Actuarial Science Removed EH101 from Paper 8
Paper 11 and Paper 12 combined
BSc in Actuarial Science (with Placement Year) Removed EH101 from Paper 8
Paper 11 and Paper 12 combined

 
Undergraduate Courses:

New courses from 2024/25

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

new courses
Department of Anthropology:
AN285 Mind and Society (0.5)
AN395 Digital Anthropology (0.5)
Data Science Institute:
DS205 Advanced Data Manipulation (0.5)
Department of Economics:
EC328 Economics of Diversity and Discrimination (0.5)
Department of Government:
GV333 Politics of Public Lands (0.5)
GV3L6 The Political Economy of Inequality (0.5)
Department of International History:
HY248 Britain in the World: British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (1.0)
HY249 War, Social Conflict and Nation Building: The History of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (1.0)
Department of International Relations:
IR392 The Political Economy of China’s Technological Rise (0.5)
Law School:
LL150 Introduction to Careers in Law (0.0)
LL200 Foundation Practice Skills (0.0)
LL224 Regulation of Platforms (0.5)
LL225 Critical Theory and Law (0.5)
LL229 Law of the European Market (0.5)
LL243 Constitutionalism Beyond Courts (0.5)
LL244 Sports: Law and Governance (0.5)
LL245 Feminist Legal Theory (0.5)
LL332 Advanced EU Law (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method:
PH241 Animal Minds and Animal Ethics (0.5)
Department of Sociology:
SO243 Political Sociology: Nation-States Unravelled (0.5)
Department of Statistics:
ST111 Business Analytics (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 Accounting:
AC200 Accounting Theory and Practice (1.0) AC205 Intermediate Financial Accounting (0.5)
AC206 Intermediate Management Accounting (0.5)
Department of Finance:
FM212 Principles of Finance (1.0) FM210 Principles of Finance I (0.5)
FM211 Principles of Finance II (0.5)
FM213 Principles of Finance (1.0) FM214 Principles of Finance I (0.5)
FM215 Principles of Finance II (0.5)
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets (1.0) FM310 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets I (0.5)
FM311 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets II (0.5)
Department of Government:
GV312 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (1.0) GV362 Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics (0.5)
LSE Law School:
LL202 Commercial Contracts (1.0) LL213 Commercial Law (0.5)
LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights (1.0) LL216 Freedom and the Law in Britain (0.5)
LL217 European Human Rights Law (0.5)
LL210 Information Technology and the Law (1.0) LL220 Technology Law and Regulation (0.5)
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union (1.0) LL228 European Union Law (0.5)
LL278 Public International Law (1.0) LL279 Public International Law (0.5)
LL280 Advanced Issues in Public International Law (0.5)
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0) LL304 Global Commodities: The Rise of International Law (0.5)
LL305 Jurisprudence (1.0) LL306 Theories of Law (0.5)
LL307 Justifying Political Authority (0.5)
Department of International Relations:
IR349 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) IR374 Conflict and Peacebuilding (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method:
PH340 PPE Research Seminar (0.0) PH344 PPE Research Seminar (0.5)
Department of Statistics:
ST101A Programming for Data Science (0.5) ST101 Programming for Data Science (0.5)
ST101W Programming for Data Science (0.5)

Course title changes from 2024/25

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

title changes
Old title New title
Department of Economics:
EC1P1 Economics (0.5) EC1P1 Economic Reasoning (0.5)
Department of Finance:
FM100 Introduction to Finance (0.5) FM100 Introduction to Finance for BSc in Finance (0.5)
Department of Government:
GV225 Public Choice and Politics (1.0) GV225 Analytical Politics (1.0)
GV332 Big Data in Politics: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5) GV332 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Politics: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5)
Department of International History:
HY113 From Empire to Independence: World History in the Twentieth Century (1.0) HY113 Empires and Resistance in Global History (1.0)
HY221 The History of Russia, 1676-1825 (1.0) HY221 The History of the Russian Empire, 1676-1825 (1.0)
HY226 The Great War 1914-1918 (1.0) HY226 The Greater War c. 1912-1923 (1.0)
Department of International Relations: 
IR323 Gendered/ing International Politics (0.5) IR323 Race and Gender in International Relations (0.5)
IR391 Globalisation and the State in Developing Countries (0.5) IR391 Globalisation and Development (0.5)
Department of Media and Communications: 
MC300 Media Power and Communication Practice (Showcase Portfolio) (0.5) MC300 Media, Communication and Power (0.5)

Suspended courses for 2024/25

The following courses will not be available in the 2024/25 session.

Department of Anthropology:
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5)
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5)
AN275 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5)
AN277 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5)
AN280 Public Anthropology (0.5)
AN281 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
AN283 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5)
AN292 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
Data Science Institute
DS101W Fundamentals of Data Science (0.5)
Department of Economic History
EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (1.0)
EH217 Chinese Economic History since 1800: A Chronology (0.5)
EH218 Chinese Economic History since 1800: Economic Growth in a Historical Perspective (0.5)
EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (1.0)
EH306 Monetary and Financial History since 1750 (1.0)
EH307 The Economic History of south Asia, 1600-2000 (1.0)
EH316 Atlantic World Slavery (1.0)
EH317 Disease, Health and History (1.0)
EH326 Innovation and its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0)
EH327 China's Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term (1.0)
Department of Economics
EC302 Political Economy (1.0)
Department of Geography and Environment
GY308 The Economic Geography of Growth and Development (0.5)
GY309 The Political Geography of Development (0.5)
Department of Government
GV267 Global Political Thought (1.0)
GV302 Key Themes in the History of Political Thought (1.0)
GV307 Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates (0.5)
GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies (0.5)
GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5)
GV338 Politics and Political Economy of India (0.5)
GV366 Political Economy of the Developing World (1.0)
GV3L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics (0.5)
Department of International History
HY246 The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s - 1980s (1.0)
HY247 The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present (1.0)
HY327 The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1939-89 (1.0)
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War (1.0)
HY334 Communication Revolutions in Latin America, c. 1539 to the Present (1.0)
HY336 The United States and nuclear weapons from the Manhattan project to the end of the Cold War (1.0)
Department of International Relations
IR318 Visual International Politics (0.5)
IR322 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory (0.5)
IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5)
IR326 The Rule of Law: A Global History (0.5)
IR327 World Orders in Historical International Relations (0.5)
IR345 Global Politics of China (1.0)
IR355 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)
IR372 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Special Topics in International Relations) (0.5)
Language Centre
LN340 Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (1.0)
Law School
LL210 Information Technology and the Law (1.0)
LL233 Law of Evidence (1.0)
LL253 The Law of Corporate Insolvency (1.0)
Department of Management
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards (0.5)
MG228 Managing the Stone-Age Brain (0.5)
MG310 Strategic Decision Making (0.5)
MG312 Science of People in Workplaces (0.5)
Department of Mathematics
MA315 Algebra and its Applications (0.5)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society (0.5)
PH236 Set Theory (0.5)
Department of Social Policy
SP374 Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence (0.5)
Department of Sociology
SO203 Political Sociology (1.0)
SO240 Crime, Deviance and Control (0.5)
SO310 The Sociology of Elites (0.5)
SO312 Work, Inequality and Society (0.5)

Withdrawn courses for 2024/25

The following courses will be withdrawn in the 2024/25 session.

Department of Anthropology
AN1E0 Being Human: Contemporary Themes in Social Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
AN240 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5)
AN245 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)
AN282 Bangladesh and Beyond: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5)
AN2E0 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
AN2E6 Political and Legal Anthropology (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
AN3E1 The Anthropology of Religion (Anthropology Exchanges) (0.5)
European Institute
EU3A1 The Politics and Policies of 'Brexit': The UK's changing relationship with the European Union (0.5)
Department of Government
GV250 Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence (0.5)
GV323 Transparency and Accountability in Government (0.5)
GV331 Capstone Data Science & Civic Engagement (0.5)
Department of International History
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development (1.0)
Department of International Relations
IR313 Managing China's Rise in East Asia (0.5)
IR320 Europe's Institutional Order (0.5)
IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court (0.5)
Law School
LL104 Law of Obligations (1.0)
LL202 Commercial Contracts (1.0)
LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights (1.0)
LL259 Legal and Social Change since 1750 (1.0)
LL278 Public International Law (1.0)
LL301 Global Commodities Law (1.0)
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
PH301 Rationality and Choice (1.0)
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science
PB102 Social Psychology (1.0)
PB301 Cognition and Culture (0.5)
PB302 Creativity and Innovation (0.5)
Department of Social Policy
SP271 Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice (1.0)
Department of Sociology
SO234 Digital Technology, Speed and Culture (0.5)

Assessment changes for 2024/25