LSE Open Day
Wednesday 3 April 2019 LSE Open Day Programme 1
World-class courses. Summer World-class city. School Welcome to LSE World-class experience. 2019
On behalf of all LSE’s staff and students, I would like to welcome you to our Open Day. We have created a schedule that gives you the opportunity to find out more about the subjects you are interested in, obtain information from LSE Summer School relevant departments and, perhaps most importantly, experience LSE’s unique atmosphere.
This programme details the events and activities taking place during the Open Day, including times and locations. If you require any further information please ask one of our Student Ambassadors, who will be happy to assist you. These Ambassadors are also able to provide an insight into student life at LSE, so be sure to ask for their candid opinions!
Please ensure that you (and your guest) register in the New Academic Building when you first arrive at the School. After registration you will be free to enjoy the many Open Day events taking place on campus.
I do hope that you find your visit both informative and enjoyable, and that you will consider applying to LSE in the near future.
Enjoy your day. Get a head start on your undergraduate studies
Choose from over 100 17 June – inspiring courses taught by world-class LSE faculty Minouche Shafik 16 August Director, LSE 2019
Visit our stand for more information Library, LSE LIFE, Workspace 3 lse.ac.uk/summerschool
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Your Students’ Union Contents
Welcome to LSE 1
Your Students’ Union 2
General events 4 and activities ASK AN AMBASSADOR General talks 5 We have a number of current LSE students working at the Open Day as Ambassadors. They Subject talks 6-7 will be identifiable by black or white LSE t-shirts. Please ask them if you require directions or Plan your day 8-9 have any general questions about the School. Food and drink 11
Accommodation tours 12
Explore the campus 14-16
Local area map 17
LSE campus map Back cover Welcome to LSE, the place I call home. LSE Students’ Union is the hub of student life at LSE and is here to ensure our students have the most fulfilling time possible. FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND LSE You can find all LSE buildings using Google With over 300 sports clubs, societies and media groups, the Maps or Apple Maps but if you need help opportunities for growth and development are endless. LSESU also just ask one of our Student Ambassadors or facilitates student-led campaigns as well as an expert Advice Service look for the grey signs on the corners of our available to all students throughout your studies. Whatever your buildings. The first digit of each room number interest, there is something for you! Being at LSE brings you into a indicates what floor it’s on eg, room 6.02 is on creative, multinational student community located in the heart of one the sixth floor. the world’s most vibrant and culturally rich cities. The whole world is here and we are here to help you make the most of it. If you study at LSE, you will become part of this sociable, engaged and ambitious CAMPUS DEVELOPMENTS LSE world, and your Union is here to ensure you succeed and have Some parts of LSE’s campus are currently a great time while doing so! closed as we develop new state-of-the-art Share your #LSEOpenDay experience: From Welcome Week to Graduation, LSESU is here to support you. I look buildings and facilities. We apologise for any forward to meeting you today. On behalf of all of us, welcome to LSE! @StudyLSE inconvenience these works cause, and hope they will not detract from your enjoyment of @facebook.com/lseps Zulum Elumogo, LSE Students’ Union General Secretary 2018-19 the day. To find out more, please visit @londonschoolofeconomics lse.ac.uk/CentreBuildings 4 LSE Open Day Programme LSE Open Day Programme 5
General events and activities General talks
REGISTRATION INFORMATION STANDS PARENTS’ AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT TALK Room G.01, Pankhurst House (PAN), 9.45-10.30am• 11-11.45am • 12.15-1pm • 1.30-2.15pm
A presentation for parents and guardians addressing living and studying in London, financial support and accommodation. Old Building
New Academic Building LSE LIFE APPLYING TO LSE TALK Ground floor, New Academic Building (NAB) – LSE LIFE, Library (LRB), 9.15am – 4pm Old Theatre, Old Building (OLD), Kingsway entrance, 9-9.30am • Staff from the departments below will be available 9.30-10am • 11.30am – 12 noon • 9.30-10am 10-10.30am 10.30-11am • • • throughout the day to answer your questions and 12.30-1pm • 2.30-3pm 11-11.30am • 11.30am – 12 noon provide advice and guidance. An LSE Admissions Specialist provides Please register your attendance on the ground Admissions • Careers • Disability and information on the UCAS application process, floor of the New Academic Building via the Wellbeing* • Financial Support • General including personal statement advice. entrance on Kingsway. At registration you will Enquiries • Language Centre • LSE Alumni • receive an LSE wristband which will act as your Old Theatre LSE LIFE • Residential Services • visitor pass for the day. Students’ Union • Summer School STUDENT LIFE TALK WHERE NEXT? After registration, you are free Old Theatre, Old Building (OLD), to attend any of the events taking place during ACCOMMODATION TOURS 10.30-11am • 1.30-2pm • 3.45-4.15pm the day. Find out about the Students’ Union and student life at LSE.
Shaw Library
CAREERS TALK Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building (OLD) 9.45-10.15am • 11-11.30am • Bankside House 12.15-12.45pm • 1.30-2pm
Bankside House and Northumberland House, LSE Careers will provide information on 11am – 4.30pm their services and the career opportunities for LSE graduates. Two of our halls of residence are open for you to *The Disability and Wellbeing service will also be open for view today. See page 12 for further details. private drop-in consultations between 9.30am – 4pm in room 3.02, Fawcett House (FAW). 6 LSE Open Day Programme LSE Open Day Programme 7
Subject talks SUBJECT TIMES LOCATION International History Discover more about the degree programmes on offer and ask any questions you might have about BA History 11-11.45am Room 4.02, studying at the School. Subject talks are repeated twice throughout the day and include information BSc International Relations and History and 2.45-3.30pm Clement House (CLM) about the degree programmes listed. Due to space restrictions, we can only admit prospective students International Relations to these talks. Parents and guests can attend the other events taking place at this time, including the Parents’ and Financial Support talk and information stands. Talks will be recorded and available online at BSc International Relations 12.15-1pm Hong Kong Theatre, lse.ac.uk/visitLSE and 4-4.45pm Clement House (CLM) Languages BSc International Relations and Chinese 12.15-1pm Room 2.06, New SUBJECT TIMES LOCATION BSc Language, Culture and Society and 2.45-3.30pm Academic Building (NAB) Accounting Law BSc Accounting and Finance 9.45-10.30am Room 5.02, LLB Bachelor of Laws 9.45-10.30am Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New and 1.30-2.15pm Clement House (CLM) and 2.45-3.30pm Academic Building (NAB) Anthropology Management BA Anthropology and Law 11-11.45am Room 2.04, New BSc Management 11-11.45am Room 2.02, BA/BSc Social Anthropology and 1.30-2.15pm Academic Building (NAB) and 1.30-2.15pm Clement House (CLM) Economic History Mathematics BSc Economic History 12.15-1pm Room 4.02, BSc Financial Mathematics and Statistics 12.15-1pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New BSc Economic History with Economics and 4-4.45pm Clement House (CLM) BSc Mathematics and Economics and 4-4.45pm Academic Building (NAB) BSc Economic History and Geography BSc Mathematics with Economics BSc Economics and Economic History Philosophy Economics BSc Philosophy and Economics 9.45-10.30am Room 2.02, BSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics 11-11.45am Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New BSc Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and 2.45-3.30pm Clement House (CLM) BSc Economics and 1.30-2.15pm Academic Building (NAB) BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics BSc Economics with Economic History Psychological and Behavioural Science Finance BSc Psychological and Behavioural Science 12.15-1pm Room 3.02, BSc Finance 11-11.45am Hong Kong Theatre, and 2.45-3.30pm Clement House (CLM) and 2.45-3.30pm Clement House (CLM) Social Policy Geography and Environment BSc Criminology 12.15-1pm Room 2.04, New BSc Environmental Policy with Economics 11-11.45am Room 3.02, BSc International Social and Public Policy and 2.45-3.30pm Academic Building (NAB) BSc Environment and Development and 1.30-2.15pm Clement House (CLM) BSc International Social and Public Policy BA Geography and Economics BSc Geography with Economics BSc International Social and Public Policy Government with Politics BSc Politics 9.45-10.30am Hong Kong Theatre, Sociology BSc Politics and Economics and 1.30-2.15pm Clement House (CLM) BSc Sociology 11-11.45am Room 2.06, New BSc Politics and History and 1.30-2.15pm Academic Building (NAB) BSc Politics and International Relations BSc Politics and Philosophy Statistics BSc Actuarial Science 12.15-1pm Room 5.02, BSc Mathematics, Statistics and Business and 2.45-3.30pm Clement House (CLM) 8 LSE Open Day Programme LSE Open Day Programme 9
Plan your day FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND LSE The LSE campus is very compact, so it won’t take you long to get to the different activities. You can find all LSE buildings using Google Maps, Apple Maps or the map on the back SUBJECT TALKS LOOKING FOR A PROSPECTUS? page of this booklet. If you need help just ask one of our Talks about each of the subjects LSE Pick one up from the information stands Student Ambassadors or look for the grey signs on the teaches will take place twice during the day. located in LSE LIFE, Library (LRB). corner of the buildings. The first digit of each room number See pages 6-7 for further information. indicates what floor it’s on eg, room 3.02 is on the 3rd floor.
9am 9.30am 10am 10.30am 11am 11.30am 12 noon 12.30pm 1pm 1.30pm 2pm 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4pm 4.30pm 5pm
Registration 1 Registration 2 Registration 3 Registration 4 Registration 5 Registration 6 New Academic New Academic New Academic New Academic New Academic New Academic Building (NAB) Building (NAB) Building (NAB) Building (NAB) Building (NAB) Building (NAB)
Information stands Information stands LSE LIFE, Library (LRB) LSE LIFE, Library (LRB)
Subject talks Subject talks Subject talks Subject talks Subject talks Subject talks Various locations Various locations Various locations Various locations Various locations Various locations
Parents’ and Parents’ and Parents’ and Parents’ and Financial Support talk Financial Support talk Financial Support talk Financial Support talk Room G.01, Room G.01, Room G.01, Room G.01, Pankhurst House (PAN) Pankhurst House (PAN) Pankhurst House (PAN) Pankhurst House (PAN)
Applying to Applying to Applying to Applying to LSE talk LSE talk LSE talk LSE talk Old Theatre, Old Theatre, Old Theatre, Old Theatre, Old Building Old Building Old Building Old Building (OLD) (OLD) (OLD) (OLD)
Student Student Student Life talk Life talk Life talk Old Theatre, Old Theatre, Old Theatre, Old Building Old Building Old Building (OLD) (OLD) (OLD)
Careers talk Careers talk Careers talk Careers talk Shaw Library, Shaw Library, Shaw Library, Shaw Library, Old Building Old Building Old Building Old Building (OLD) (OLD) (OLD) (OLD)
Accommodation tours Accommodation tours Bankside House and Northumberland House Bankside House and Northumberland House LSE Open Day Programme 11 Language Centre Food and drink
LOCATION OF FOOD AND DRINK ON CAMPUS
SERLE STREET 5LF
1 32L 3 2
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS 35L
LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS 5 CAREY STREET
PORTUGAL STREET 2 5 1 MAR QUE 2 3 50L LRB 1 NAB PORTSMOUTH ST 2 4 1 JOHN WATKINS 4 POR LCH PLAZA
SAR SHEFFIELD ST 6 LAK 2 GRANGE COURT 3 COW 3 1 1 SHF 4KGS 1 ST CLEMENT’S LANE SARDINIA ST SAW ST CLEMENT’S LANE 2 PAR STC 1 CLEMENT’S INN 3 CLARE MARKET 1 KINGSWAY HOUGHTON ST PAN FAW PEL 3 1 3 PEA PORTUGAL ST CBR OLD 5 KEMBLE ST KSW 2 95A CLM LSE MAIN 2 ENTRANCE 5 ALD 1 3 COL 5 STRAND CON 1 3 1 ALDWYCH
3 1KW ALDWYCH
LSE Language Centre provides a range of language programmes No access LSE under construction for students, staff and alumni. Over 2,000 people take a course Key with us every year. 95A1 95Water Aldwych fountains LCH Lincoln Chambers5 RestaurantsPEA Peacock Theatre ALD Aldwych House 5LF 5 Lincoln’s Inn Fields POR 1 Portsmouth Street 2 Eat your own 6 “Grab and go” food CBR Centre Building 32L 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields QUE Queens House 3 RedevelopmentCafés 35L 35 Lincoln’s Inn FieldsFree hot drinksSAR (just Sardinia House For more information, contact [email protected] CLM Clement House MAR The Marshall Buildingshow your wristband)SAW Saw Swee Hock 4 Pubs/Bars or go to our website www.lse.ac.uk/languages COL Columbia House (44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields) Student Centre CON Connaught House 50L 50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields SHF Sheffield Street COW Cowdray House LRB Lionel Robbins Building, STC St Clement’s KGS King’s Chambers Library and The Womens Library TW1 Tower One 1KW 1 Kingsway NAB New Academic Building TW2 Tower Two KSW 20 Kingsway OLD Old Building TW3 Tower Three LAK Lakatos Building PAR Parish Hall
No Cycle Hire LSE LSE Building Information Building Development Access Station
All buildings have wheelchair access and lifts, except , 95A, KGS, KSW*, 5LF, 50L, POR* and SHF. *KSW 20 Kingsway (Language Centre only), *POR 1 Portsmouth Street (Shop only).
Disabled Access After 6.30pm, please call Security Control on 020 7955 6200 to ensure that any disabled access doors are open. Also see: Accessibility map [PDF] For access to 20 Kingsway, please call security staff on 020 7955 6200 to set up the portable ramp in the entrance foyer.
Access Guides to LSE buildings DisabledGo have produced detailed access guides to the LSE campus and residences, and route maps between key locations. These access guides, and route maps, are now available online. 12 LSE Open Day Programme
Accommodation tours
The School guarantees accommodation, either in LSE or intercollegiate residences, GETTING TO to all first year undergraduates who apply NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE before the accommodation deadline. For Edward VII Rooms, 8A Northumberland full details about all of our halls of residence Avenue, London, WC2N 5BY and intercollegiate accommodation, please Northumberland House is situated just off visit the LSE Accommodation website: Trafalgar Square, a short walk away from the lse.ac.uk/accommodation Strand, the National Gallery, the West End, Covent Garden and Piccadilly Circus. Two of our halls of residence are open for you to view today. Visit either Bankside BY BUS House or Northumberland House for a guided tour given by a resident LSE student. • Board bus 11, 87, 6, 15 or 91 on the Strand, in front of Somerset House (bus stop R Aldwych/ Somerset House). Travel three stops to GETTING TO BANKSIDE HOUSE Trafalgar Square (bus stop K). 24 Sumner House, London, SE1 9JA • Walk towards Trafalgar Square. At the Bankside House is near the south bank of the roundabout cross the road so that you are on Thames, close to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre the same side of the road as Tesco, turn left, and behind the Tate Modern art gallery. walking past Garfunkels and continue for two minutes until you reach Northumberland House BY BUS on your right (Edward VII Rooms). • Board bus RV1 on the Strand, in front of Journey time: 15 minutes. Somerset House (bus stop S Aldwych/ Somerset House). Travel eight stops to WALKING Lavington Street (bus stop SW). The residence is a 20 minute walk from LSE • Walk along Southwark Street and turn (see map on page 17). left onto Great Guildford Street. • At the end of the road take a slight left onto Sumner Street. Bankside House is on your left.
Journey time: 25 minutes.
WALKING
The residence is a 25 minute walk from LSE (see map on page 17).
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7 NEW ACADEMIC BUILDING Explore the campus The School’s New Academic Building was purchased At the Open Day, you are free to explore the LSE campus at your leisure in 2004. Constructed in 1912, the building has using this self-guided tour and the map on the back page of this booklet. undergone a radical transformation and now provides The tour begins at the main entrance to the Old Building on Houghton Street. students with fantastic state-of-the-art facilities. It houses the School’s departments of Management 1 OLD BUILDING 3 FOURTH FLOOR RESTAURANT and Law. It boasts eight floors of teaching rooms, lecture theatres and offices, built around a soaring Enter the Old Building through the glass doors Here students can purchase main meals along central atrium flooded with natural light. and you will see a reception desk to your right. with hot and cold snacks at subsidised prices. If you need any help navigating your way There is a wide variety of food to suit all tastes Cross Sardinia Street and walk down around the campus please ask a member and requirements, with a selection from around 5 THE BRITISH LIBRARY OF Portsmouth Street. On your right you will of staff. The doors in front of you lead the world available, reflecting the international POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCE see the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, into the Old Theatre. This is one of the nature of the School. Outside is a roof terrace for The LSE Library, founded in 1896 as the British which you are welcome to explore. School’s main lecture theatres and is students to enjoy food and drink al fresco. From Library of Political and Economic Science, is the largest in the world devoted exclusively to used for teaching and guest lectures, here you will have a good view across Houghton 8 SAW SWEE HOCK STUDENT CENTRE LSE Drama Society productions and Street to the redevelopment of LSE’s centre the social sciences. The Library subscribes to Since opening in 2014, the Student Centre has weekly Students’ Union meetings. buildings and the creation of a new academic and over 50,000 e-journals as part of its electronic been presented with a host of architecture social space, due for completion in May 2019. information provision and has over four million Take the lift or stairs to the sixth floor. Go separate printed items, including over 33,000 awards, including the prestigious RIBA London Go back to the lift/stairs and return to the ground through the swing doors and follow the past and present journal titles. Building of the Year Award 2014. The building is corridor through the Anthropology Department, floor. Turn right at the Old Theatre and follow the a student hub at the heart of LSE’s campus and On exiting the Library return to Portugal Street, round to the right and into the Shaw Library/ corridor until you see the entrance to the Student houses the LSE Students’ Union and large venue bear left and cross the road so you are outside Founders’ Room. Services Centre on your right. Enter through the space. Here, you will find a pub, a fitness centre, double doors. the George IV pub on Portsmouth Street. a multifaith prayer centre, as well as the LSE Continue along Portsmouth Street, past the LSE 2 THE SHAW LIBRARY Residential Services Team, and the LSE Careers Students’ Union shop and the Old Curiosity Shop. Service. The Student Centre is also home to the A library and common room for the entire LSE 4 STUDENT SERVICES CENTRE Turn right onto Lincoln’s Inn Fields and continue LSE Media Centre, which includes LSE’s Pulse community. The Library encourages students The Centre brings together LSE’s student support until you arrive at 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Please Radio, its weekly newspaper (The Beaver), its to widen their interests by reading books on services, and the staff at the counter will be pleased note internal access to this building is restricted termly journal (The Clare Market Review) and subjects not included in the School curriculum. to answer any basic questions you may have. to LSE staff and students only. LSE’s very own TV station, LooSE TV. The Shaw Library holds a generous stock Drop in sessions for more detailed queries on of English language fiction classics through immigration, fees, financial support and admissions On leaving the Student Centre, turn right and 6 32 LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS to modern book prize winners, as well as are held at various times during the week. You will then right again, onto Portugal Street. The former Land Registry Building opened its significant collections on poetry, biographies, also see pictures of the 18 LSE alumni or staff doors as 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 2013. The plays, art, architecture, sport, music and travel members who have been awarded Nobel prizes. building enjoys views over London’s largest guides. The Library also stages free lunchtime Leave the Student Services Centre through the public square. It offers five floors of academic and evening concerts by leading jazz and door under the stairs, at the opposite end to offices plus three lower floors of teaching and classical performers. where you entered. Continue forward and follow student activity areas, which can cater for up the blue floor signs to exit the building onto Make your way back along the Anthropology to 1,000 students. corridor and through the swing doors. Take the Portugal Street. Turn right, and continue until Turn left onto Lincoln’s Inn Fields and walk lift or stairs to the fourth floor. Go through the you reach the John Watkins Plaza and the LSE towards Sardinia Street. LSE’s New Academic swing doors into the Fourth Floor Restaurant. Library, on your right. Building is across the road on your right. 16 LSE Open Day Programme LSE Open Day Programme 17
9 PEACOCK THEATRE 11 CLEMENT HOUSE LSE utilises this 999-seat West Clement House was built in 1911, and acquired Local area map End theatre for lectures, public by LSE in the mid 1990’s. On the ground floor is talks, conferences and the Hong Kong Theatre, which is used for both graduation ceremonies. academic and public lectures.