Undergraduate course and programme information for prospective students

The following information provides prospective 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.

This page will continue to be updated throughout the academic year as changes are confirmed by departments.


 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
BSc in Mathematics with Data Science Paper 5 withdrawal of semi-core course ST101W (0.5)
BSc in Politics and Data Science Paper 9 withdrawal of semi-core course GV331 (0.5)

 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 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)

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 Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method:
PH340 PPE Research Seminar (0.0) PH344 PPE Research Seminar (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)

Suspended courses

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)
AN292 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
AN393 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
Department of Economic History
EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day (1.0)
EH221 Boom and Bust: Macroeconomic History of the Modern World (1.0)
EH222 Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa (1.0)
EH225 Latin America and the International Economy (1.0)
EH306 Monetary and Financial History since 1750 (1.0)
EH307 The Economic History of south Asia, 1600-2000 (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)
GV319 Experimental Politics (0.5)
GV334 Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Politics: Global North, Global South (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)
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)
Department of Management:
MG310 Strategic Decision Making (0.5)

Withdrawn courses

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
IR320 Europe's Institutional Order (0.5)
IR324 The Practices of Transitional Justice (0.5)
IR325 The Situations of the International Criminal Court (0.5)