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The London School of Economics and Political Science Course The London School of Economics and Political Science Course Guides and Programme Regulations 2010-2011 www.lse.ac.uk/calendar © Copyright 2010 The London School of Economics and Political Science 10_0014 Vol 3 COVER.indd 3 12/8/10 16:09:47 The London School of Economics and Political Science 2010-2011: Course Guides and Programme Regulations CertIFICATE Programme Regulations 1 UNDERGRADUATE Programme Regulations 5 Course Guides 35 Courses not available to General Course Students 129 DIPLOMA Programme Regulations 133 TAUGHT MASTERS Programme Regulations 137 Partnership Programme Regulations 185 Course Guides 195 LANGUAGE CENTRE COURSES Modern Foreign Language Certificate courses 447 English for Academic Purposes Insessional Programme 469 RESEARCH MRes/PhD Programme Regulations 475 MPhil/PhD Programme Regulations 483 Course Guides 505 2 Certificate Programme Regulations Certificate Programme Regulations Certificate Programme Regulations 1 Certificate Programme Regulations Key to Undergraduate Regulations (H) means a half-unit course (C) means this course is capped (n/a 10/11) means not available in the 2010/11 academic year (M) means Michaelmas Term (L) means Lent Term (S) means Summer Term Certificate in Health Economics, Policy and Management (modular) Students take four compulsory half unit courses. Paper Course number and title Year 1 1 SA4G1 Financing Health Care (modular) (H) 2 SA4G2 Health Economics (modular) (H) 3 SA4E1 Health Administration and Management (modular) (H) 4 SA4E2 Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis (modular) (H) 2 Certificate Programme Regulations Undergraduate Programme Regulations 4 Undergraduate Programme Regulations Undergraduate Programme Regulations 5 OR202 Operational Research Methods Key to Undergraduate Regulations Or one of the following: (H) means a half-unit course EC315 International Economics (C) means this course is capped EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: (n/a 10/11) means not available in the 2010/11 Britain in International Context academic year ID290 Human Resource Management (M) means Michaelmas Term LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery) (L) means Lent Term LN330 French Language and Society 5 (Mastery) MA200 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (H) (S) means Summer Term MA201 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) (H) MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (H) BSc Accounting and Finance MA300 Game Theory For all first, second and third year students in 2010-11 MA301 Game Theory 1 (H) MA303 Chaos in Dynamic Systems (H) Paper Course number and title SO203 Political Sociology See note LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of SO212 Work, Management and Globalisation things ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (H) Year 1 ST202 Probability, Distribution and Inference 1 AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences 2 EC102 Economics B ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H) 3 MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST308 Bayesian Inference (H) ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) or In exceptional circumstances a student may take a course ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory or not listed above, but permission will need to be sought ST108 Probability and Statistics for the Social Sciences* from the Departmental Tutor. No first year courses can be 4 One of: taken in the third year. MA100 Mathematical Methods (must be selected if ST102 Notes * ST108 and MA110 must be taken by those students taken under paper 3) or who have not studied Mathematics beyond GCSE level MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (must be selected if or equivalent. ST108 taken under paper 3)* or an approved paper taught LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of outside the Department Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course Year 2 is compulsory and does not affect the final degree 5 AC211 Managerial Accounting classification. 6 FM212 Principles of Finance 7 Either EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 This programme is externally accredited by the ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA Microeconomic Principles II or EC210 Macroeconomic and ACCA. Further information is available from the Department Principles of Accounting by accessing the website www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ 8 One of: accounting/ or by emailing [email protected] Either EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles of Econometrics Either ID200 Organisational Theory and Behaviour, LL209 Commercial Law, MN200 The Process of Management or BSc Actuarial Science OR202 Operational Research Methods For all first, second and third year students in 2010-11 Approved papers to the value of one unit taught outside the Department (normally papers available only to second or third year students) Paper Course number and title Year 3 See note LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of 9 AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation things 10 Either AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Year 1 Management and Organizational Control or AC340 1 ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory Auditing, Governance and Risk Management 2 MA100 Mathematical Methods 11 Either FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and 3 Either AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance Financial Markets or FM320 Quantitative Finance or MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics 12 One from the selection list below: 4 EC102 Economics B (if not already taken under papers 10 &11): Year 2 AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management 5 ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference and Organizational Control 6 MA201 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management (H) and FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial MA200 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (H) Markets 7 ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial (H) and FM320 Quantitative Finance ST227 Survival Models (H) (if not already taken under papers 7 or 8): 8 Courses to the value of one unit from: EC201 Microeconomic Principles I SO100 Key Concepts in Sociology: An Introduction to EC210 Macroeconomic Principles Sociological Theory EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles of PS102 Self, Others and Society: Perspectives on Social and Econometrics Applied Psychology (if not already taken under paper 8): IS143 Information Technology and Society EH206 The Evolution of Economic Policy in Advanced SA103 Population, Economy and Society Economies MA103 Introduction to Abstract Mathematics EH207 The Making of an Economic Superpower: China ST211 Applied Regression (H) since 1850 ST212 Applied Statistics Project (H) ID200 Organisational Theory and Behaviour ST218 Project in Applied Statistics (withdrawn 10/11) LL209 Commercial Law ST308 Bayesian Inference (H) MN200 Management: Theory and Evidence Year 3 6 Undergraduate Programme Regulations 9 ST302 Stochastic Processes (H) and AN245 The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H) (n/a 10/11) ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (H) AN246 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) (n/a 10/11) 10 ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models (H) and AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (H) (n/a ST306 Actuarial Mathematics: General (H) 10/11) 11 ST305 Actuarial Mathematics: Life AN248 Ethnography of a Selected Region (H) (n/a 10/11) 12 ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance AN249 Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H) Notes Students can replace 10, 11 or 12 with subjects to the AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia (H) value of one unit approved by their tutor, but this will AN265 Medical Anthropology (H) (n/a 10/11) affect exemptions from examinations set by the Institute An approved paper taught outside the Department and Faculty of Actuaries. LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Anthropology Selection List B Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender is compulsory and does not affect the final degree AN227 The Anthropology of Economic Institutions and their Social classification. Transformations AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology This programme is externally accredited by the Institute and Faculty AN301 The Anthropology of Religion of Actuaries. Further information is available on the Department of Statistics website www.lse.ac.uk/collections/statistics/study/ Law Selection List currentstudents/exemptions.htm. LL201 Administrative Law LL202 Commercial Contracts LL203 Law of Business Associations LL204 Advanced Torts BA Anthropology and Law LL205 Medical Law LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights For first, second and third year students in 2010-11 LL210 Information Technology and the Law LL212 Conflict of Laws Paper Course number and title LL221 Family Law See note LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes LL233 Law of Evidence of things LL242 International Protection of Human Rights Year 1 LL250 Law and the Environment 1 AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology LL251 Intellectual Property Law 2 AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts LL253 The Law of Corporate Insolvency 3 LL106 Public Law LL257 Labour Law 4 LL105 Property I (H) and LL109 Introduction to the Legal LL259 Legal and Social Changes Since 1750 System (H) LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology (H) Year 2 LL278 Public International Law 5 AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology LL284 Sentencing and Treatment of Offenders (H) 6 LL108 Criminal Law LL293 Taxation 7 LL104 Law of Obligations LL295 Media Law 8 Courses to the value of one unit to be selected from the LL305 Jurisprudence Anthropology Selection Lists A and B Year
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