The following information provides prospective undergraduate students with a summary of new and updated course and programme information for the 2025/26 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.
Undergraduate Programmes:
The following programmes will change title for the 2025/26 session.
| 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 Government |
| BSc in Politics and Economics |
Additional options under Paper 10 Economics Options List |
| BSc in Politics |
New specialism - Data Science (for 25/26 entrants) |
| Department of International History |
| BSc in International Relations and History |
Changes to year 1 semi-core courses under Paper 2, 3 and 4 |
| Department of Mathematics |
| BSc Mathematics with Data Science |
Changes to core courses under Paper 1, 5 and 8 |
| Language Centre |
| BSc in International Relations and Chinese |
Changes to core courses under Paper 3 and Paper 7 |
The following programme(s) have been withdrawn from the 2025/26 session:
withdrawn programmes
| Department of Government |
| BSc in Politics and Data Science |
Undergraduate Courses:
The School is pleased to be able to offer the following new courses in 2025/26.
new courses
| 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 Government: |
| GV339 Global Change, Regional Responses: The Political Economy of National Development in the Global South (0.5) |
| GV340 The Art of Power and Political Resistance (0.5) |
| GV341 Politics, Gender, and Development (0.5) |
| Department of International History: |
| HY337 Sources for the Subcontinent: The Culture and Politics of South Asia (1.0) |
| Law School: |
| LL249 Legal Aspects of Commercial Property (0.5) |
| LL308 Commercial Trusts Law (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.
| Old code |
New code |
| Department of Anthropology |
| AN303 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology (0.5) |
AN273 Thinking as an Anthropologist (0.5) |
| Department of Geography and Environment |
| GY202 Introduction to Global Development (1.0) |
GY211 Introduction to Global Development (0.5) |
| Department of Mathematics |
| MA212 Further Mathematical Methods (1.0) |
MA221 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (0.5) |
| MA222 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) (0.5) |
| Department of Statisitcs |
| ST101 Programming for Data Science (0.5) |
ST101A Programming for Data Science (0.5) |
| ST101W Programming for Data Science (0.5) |
The following courses will change title for the 2025/26 session.
| Old title |
New title |
| Department of Anthropology |
| 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) |
| Department of Statistics |
| ST226 Actuarial Investigation: Financial (0.5) |
ST226 Mathematics for Finance and Investment (0.5) |