Outside options

Outside options for first year students

Where the regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department, this means that you may take any course in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. If your degree is for joint honours (eg Philosophy and Economics) or is a major/minor combination (eg Geography with Economics), a course outside the department means a course taught in any department other than the two named in the title of your degree. The home department of each course is indicated by the letters in its code. The courses available for this purpose in your first year are:

AC100   

Elements of Accounting and Finance

AN100   

Introduction to Social Anthropology

AN101   

Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts

AN102   

Reading Other Cultures: Anthropological Interpretation Of Text and Film

AN240

Investigating the Philippines: New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H)

EC100   

Economics A

EC102   

Economics B

EH101   

The Internationalisation of Economic Growth, 1870 to the Present Day

GV100   

Introduction to Political Theory

GV101   

Introduction to Political Science

GY100   

Environment, Economy and Society

GY103   

Contemporary Europe

GY120   

The Natural Environment

GY121   

Environmental Change and sustainable Development

HY101   

The European Civil War, 1890-1990 

HY113   

Empire to Independence: the Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

HY114   

War and Society from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic Era, c1500-1815

HY116   

International History since 1890 

HY117

Rule Britannia: Britain and Empire from 1780 to the Present Day

ID100   

Employment Relations

IR100   

The Structure of International Society

IS143   

Information Technology and Society

LL104

Law of Obligations

LL105

Property I

LL106

Public Law: Elements of Government

LL108

Criminal Law

LL109

Introduction to the Legal System

LL278   

Public International Law

LN100   

Russian Language and Society 3 (Advanced)

LN101   

Russian Language and Society 1 (Beginner)

LN102   

Russian Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)

LN110   

Intensive German Language and Society 3 (Advanced)

LN120   

Spanish Language and Society 3 (Advanced)

LN121

Spanish Language and Society 1 (Beginner)

LN122   

Spanish Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)

LN130   

French Language and Society 3 (Advanced)

LN131

French Language and Society 1 (Beginner)

LN132   

French Language and Society 2 (Intermediate)

LN200   

Russian Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)

LN210   

German Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)

LN220   

Spanish Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)

LN230   

French Language and Society 4 (Proficiency)

LN250

English Literature and Society

LN251

Comparative Literature and Society (H)

MA100   

Mathematical Methods

MA103   

Introduction to Abstract Mathematics

MA107 & ST107

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H)

MA110

Basic Quantitative Methods 

PH101   

Logic

PH103   

Reason, Knowledge and Values: an Introduction to Philosophy

PH200

Mathematical Logic 

SA100   

Foundations of Social Policy

SA101   

Sociology and Social Policy

SA103   

Population, Economy and Society

SO100   

Key Concepts in Sociology: An Introduction to Sociological Theory

SO107

Self, Others and Society: Perspectives on Social and Applied Psychology

SO110   

Key Issues in Contemporary Societies: an Introduction to Contemporary Sociology

SO215   

Evolution and Social Behaviour 

SO222   

Aspects of British Society

ST102

Elementary Statistical Theory

ST103

Statistical Methods for Social Research

ST108

Probability and Statistics for the Social Sciences

Outside options for second and third year students - list of exclusions

Where the degree regulations refer to an approved paper taught outside the department this will be a paper in a subject other than the principal subject(s) of your degree, subject to timetabling constraints and any restrictions listed in the Course Guides. An outside paper may be selected from the Undergraduate Course Guides, subject to the approval of the candidate's tutor and to the successful completion of prerequisites where necessary, with the following exceptions:

  • Certain first-year courses are not available to students in the second or third year of their degree.
  • Some courses are not available as an outside option.
  • Some papers are mutually exclusive and may therefore not be combined.

First-year courses not available to students in the second or third year

IR100

Structure of International Society*

IS143

Information Technology and Society (without special permission)

* Students in the 2nd or 3rd year of study in degrees other than BSc/IR may nevertheless be admitted with the written approval of their tutors and the principal teacher of IR100.

Not available as an outside option

AC330   

Financial Accounting and Analysis

AN399   

Special Essay in Social Anthropology

EH301   

The Origins of the World Economy, 1450-1750

EH315   

Africa and the World Economy 

EH325   

Issues in Modern Japanese Economic Development: Late Industrialisation, Imperialism and High Speed Growth 

EH326

Innovation and Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries

EH327

China's Traditional Economy and its Growth in the Very Long Term

EH390   

Long Essay in Social or Economic History

GY140

Methods in Spatial and Social Analysis

GY240

Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental)

GY305

Applied Location and Spatial Analysis

GY350   

Independent Research Project

GV314

Empirical Research in Government

HY300   

Essay Option

ID300   

Selected Topics in Employment Relations

ID301

Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice

ID399   

Industrial Relations Project

IR309

International Security

IR398

Dissertation

LL203   

Law of Business Associations

LL207   

The Law Relating to Civil Liberties in England and Wales 

LL212   

Conflict of Laws 

LL242   

International Protection of Human Rights

LL251   

Intellectual Property Law

LL253   

The Law of Corporate Insolvency

LL257   

Labour Law

LL293   

Taxation 

LL298   

Essay on an approved Legal Topic (H)

LL299   

Full unit Essay Option

LL305   

Jurisprudence

MN101   

Introduction to Psychology and Behavioural Science for Management

MN200 

The Process of Management

MN201

Economics for Management

MN203

Social Science Research Methods for Management

MN302   

International Marketing: A Strategic Approach

MN303   

International Context of Management (H)

MN304   

Introduction to Strategy (H)

OR302   

Applied Management Sciences

PH299   

Philosophy Essay

SA105

Crime and Society

SA349   

A Long Essay on an Approved Topic

SO302   

Sociological Project

Mutually exclusive options (may not be combined)

EC100 Economics A   

with   

EC102 Economics B

EC201 Microeconomic Principles I   

with   

EC202 Microeconomic Principles II

EC220 Introduction to Econometrics   

with   

EC221 Principles of Econometrics

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H)

with   

MA100 Mathematical Methods or MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods or ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory or ST103 Statistical Methods for Social Research

MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H)

with

MA100 Mathematical Methods

LL104 Law of Obligations 

with   

LL209 Commercial Law

MN302 International Marketing: A Strategic Approach   

with   

ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach

MN201 Economics for Management   

with   

EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 Microeconomic Principles II

ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory   

with   

ST103 Statistical Methods for Social Research

MA100 Mathematical Methods   

with   

MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods or MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)

MA300 Game Theory   

with   

MA301 Game Theory I (H)

MN101 Introduction to Psychology and Behavioural Science for Management   

with   

SO107 Self, Others and Society: Perspectives On Social and Applied Psychology

MN201 Economics for Management   

with   

EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 Microeconomic Principles II

ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis H or ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (H) 

with   

ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences

ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H)  

with   

ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach

ST331 Decision Theory and Bayesian Statistics (H)   

with   

OR304 Decision Analysis

(H) means a half-unit course
(n/a 08/09) means not available in the 2008/09 academic year

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