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The Department of International Relations Undergraduate Handbook Welcome to the Department of International Relations Undergraduate Handbook 2021/22 lse.ac.uk/international-relations COVID-19 SECURE Look after yourself. Look after others. 2M Wear a mask Wash or sanitise Keep a safe distance and hands regularly follow advice on campus Cover coughs Use learning Let LSE know if and sneezes spaces safely you feel unwell Do you have symptoms? 37.5° High temperature, fever Loss of sense of smell, taste, Dry cough shaking or chills or breathing difficulties Get a COVID-19 test, DO NOT go out and you MUST self-isolate for ten days. Thanks. Together we help make LSE COVID-secure. Campus safety, testing information and more: lse.ac.uk/coronavirus 1 KEY INFORMATION Contents Department of International Relations 4 Welcome from your Head of Department 5 The IR student community 5 Our programmes 5 Community communications 6 Representation: your voice 6 Socialising with the IR community 7 Your learning environment 7 The undergraduate journey 7 Academic support 8 Professional development 8 Outside the classroom 9 Support systems 10 The International Relations research community 10 The department’s research clusters 10 Research students 11 Millennium 11 International Relations research centres studenthub.lse.ac.uk/welcome 2 KEY INFORMATION Contents (continued) 12 Key information 13 Term dates and LSE closures – Academic Year 2021/22 14 Online Pre-Enrolment and Campus Enrolment 14 Your LSE Card 18 Student Services Centre 20 Student representation 22 Quality assurance 23 LSE services to support you with your studies and in your career 30 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) 32 Your wellbeing and health 36 Exams and assessments 39 Assessment Misconduct and Plagiarism 40 Results and classification 42 Fees and finance 44 Codes and charters 48 Systems and online resources 52 Course selection and timetables 57 LSE Campus studenthub.lse.ac.uk/welcome 4 KEY INFORMATION Welcome from your Head of Department Welcome (or welcome back) to the School and to the Department of International Relations! The department, and LSE, recruit students and faculty from all over the world and our list of distinguished alumni is a long one. I hope that you will find the atmosphere lively, interesting, and challenging, but most importantly that you will enjoy and make the most of your time with us. The Department has around 40 full-time teachers, and a terrific team of graduate teaching assistants and various distinguished guest teachers who undertake special contributions to our comprehensive teaching programme. We want to make everybody feel welcome; if you should need it, you can always find someone in the International Relations department who will support you with advice on any problems which might arise, large or small, academic or personal. This handbook is your introduction to the department, telling you all about the IR student community, your learning environment and the IR research community. Please do give it a read. We look forward to welcoming you soon to LSE, and my colleagues and I wish you a very enjoyable and rewarding year! Professor Karen E. Smith Head of the Department of International Relations 5 KEY INFORMATION The IR student community Our programmes We’re very pleased to have a broad student community, with students enrolled across four programmes at the undergraduate level along with a number of one-year exchange students, four MSc programmes and a vibrant PhD programme. Our students come to study in London from all over the world, and from a wide variety of backgrounds. Each of you brings your own unique experiences and insights with you, enriching the study, research, and work in our department. You’ll get to know your peers in your programme particularly well, but will have plenty of opportunities to meet other students in the department at social, academic and career- focused events. Community communications There’s always plenty going on in the department – new opportunities, events, and community achievements. We’ll share this news with you in The Wire, the newsletter which we create specifically for our students. You can also stay up to date with other community news by following our social media channels. We will also share your news if you let us know about it! If you do something which you’re particularly proud of, or have an opportunity that other students might be interested in, you can email [email protected] or tag us on social media, and we will share this through The Wire and our social media channels. 6 KEY INFORMATION The 2020/21 student representatives Representation: your voice Your views and experiences matter to us. At the start of each year, you’ll be invited to represent your programme as a Student Academic Representative. You will meet with other department representatives every term, and will be encouraged to pass on your peers’ experiences, suggestions and queries. We work to act on your feedback as much as we can, and this has resulted in improvements to your assessments, teaching, and events. Take a look at our Student Representation webpages to see how they’ve influenced the department in recent years. Socialising with the IR community We’re a sociable community of staff and students, and host a number of social events throughout the year – particularly during our Welcome event series, where you’ll get to know your fellow students through fun and engaging activities. We also hold end of term and end of year celebrations, attended by students and staff alike, to reflect on the term and celebrate your achievements. Studying in London gives you plenty of opportunities to plan your own social activities, whether that’s visiting one of the many museums within walking distance, exploring London’s great outdoors, or going to one of the bars, pubs or coffee shops on campus. 7 KEY INFORMATION Your learning environment The undergraduate journey Year one is a foundation year. It has three aims: first, introducing you to the principal theories, concepts, debates and issues that animate contemporary International Relations; second, providing you with a strong historical foundation that will enable you to deepen and test your understanding of these theories and concepts; and third, providing an opportunity for you to take an outside option, putting IR in conversation with the broader social sciences. The second year is about breadth. Here, too, you take four papers. Three of them are focused on the Department’s main subfields: International Relations theory, foreign policy analysis, international organisations, international security, and international political economy. A fourth paper may be in IR or in a closely related department such as Government, History, Law, Sociology, and Development. Year three is about specialisation. Having gained a foundation in the discipline and explored the breadth of the discipline, the final year of the programme gives you the chance to take research-led specialist courses, as well as conduct your own research project. Academic support Make the most of the academic support on offer in your department. A major part of the IR learning environment is the Academic Mentoring structure. Your Academic Mentor has oversight of your studies, and can help you to make the most of your time in the department. As a new undergraduate student in the IR department, you can also meet a Student Academic Mentor; someone who’s been in the department for a year and can help guide you through your first months here. 8 KEY INFORMATION Professional development During your time in the IR Department, you’ll have the opportunity to develop a range of professional skills, from networking with alumni to honing your interview skills. We have a dedicated IR careers specialist based in LSE Careers, Kirsty Whitelock (pictured right). Kirsty runs programme-specific career development sessions, advising about subjects such as securing an internship, how to hone your CV, and many other topics. Outside the classroom Want to engage with IR beyond your courses? We host numerous extra-curricular events and activities just for our students. These range from conversational and casual events, allowing you to explore new ideas and current affairs topics, to informal lunch meetings with faculty, and seminars featuring faculty, alumni and other distinguished speakers who discuss their work and career. Competitions and prizes: We run an annual IR image competition in which you’re invited to send in your art and photographs, and our annual Marco Lam Prize for Outstanding Blogging, open to our undergraduate students. Winners will feature on our blog and social media channels, and receive a prize for their work. Your exposure to cutting-edge learning doesn’t stop at the classroom door. As part of LSE’s public lecture programme, we regularly host world-leading speakers to talk about their research and how it’s shaping the current debate, or to talk about current global affairs. 9 KEY INFORMATION Much like our teaching, our event series covers a diverse field of topics. Recent speakers have included politicians, journalists, researchers and activists, speaking on issues as varied as the idea of a ‘world parliament’ to how the structure of the global economy affects nuclear proliferation. In addition to departmental events, the School runs its own public lecture programme covering a range of areas. With all of this going on, you could learn about a different topic almost every day if you wanted to! The LSE Students’ Union (lsesu.com) has over 200 societies – something for everyone! There are societies for sports, arts, cultural groups, career, politics, academic subjects, faith groups, and much more besides. Why not check out the Grimshaw Club for all things international affairs, Amnesty International, or United Nations if you want some more IR in your life? You can also get involved with RAG (Raising and Giving) who raise tens of thousands of pounds every year.
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