The following information provides future undergraduate students with a summary of new and updated course and programme information for the 2025/26 session.
This page will continue to be updated throughout the academic year as changes are confirmed by departments.
Undergraduate Programmes:
The following programmes will change title for the 2025/26 session.
Programme changes 25/26
| Department of Social Policy |
| Old title |
New title |
| BSc in International Social and Public Policy and Economics |
BSc International Social and Public Policy with Economics |
The following programmes will change their structure, course options and/or other elements of the programme regulations from the 2025/26 session.
| Department of Geography and Environment |
| BSc in Environment and Sustainable Development |
Changes to core courses under Paper 5 |
| Department of International History |
| BSc in International Relations and History |
Changes to core courses under Paper 2 |
| Language Centre |
| BSc in International Relations and Chinese |
Changes to core courses under Paper 3 and Paper 7 |
Undergraduate Courses:
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2025/26.
| Department of Anthropology: |
| AN253 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5) |
| AN286 Ethnographic Methods and Skills: Individual Research Project (1.0) |
| AN287 Environmental Anthropology (0.5) |
| AN288 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5) |
| AN379 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5) |
| AN389 Anthropology of the Body (0.5) |
| AN390 Anthropology and Religion (0.5) |
| AN3A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5) |
| Department of Statistics: |
| ST360 Placement Year (0.0) |
The following courses will change codes for the 2025/26 session. Course codes are used to register you for courses in the School.
course code changes 25/26
| Old code |
New code |
| AN303 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (0.5) |
AN273 Thinking as an Anthropologist (0.5) |
| GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) |
GY211 Introduction to Global Development (0.5) |
| MA212 Further Mathematical Methods (1.0) |
MA221 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (0.5) |
| MA222 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) (0.5) |
The following courses will change title for the 2025/26 session.
course title changes 25/26
| Old title |
New title |
| AN102 Ethnography through Mixed Media (1.0) |
AN102 Anthropology through Mixed Media (1.0) |
| AN303 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (0.5) |
AN273 Thinking as an Anthropologist (0.5) |