Study Abroad 2011-12 Contents
Term Dates 2011-2012 Academic departments 2 MICHAELMAS TERM Centres, Institutes and Research Units 3 Thursday, 29 September 2011 15 reasons to join the General Course 4 Friday, 9 December 2011 A message from the Associate Dean 5 (Teaching begins Monday, 3 October 2011) Introduction to LSE 6 Life at LSE 8 LENT TERM Education 14 Monday, 9 January 2012 Friday, 16 March 2012 Academic support services 16 How to apply 18 SUMMER TERM Departmental information 22 Monday, 23 April 2012 and course listings Friday, 29 June 2012 Life after LSE 29 The essential General Course 30 Further information 31 LSE location 33
Contact information www.lse.ac.uk/general-course
Student Recruitment Office The London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
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The General Course
Study year abroad at the London School of Economics and Political Science
This brochure provides information for students at 101 years of universities outside the United study abroad Kingdom who wish to join the General Course, usually as at LSE part of their work toward a degree at their home institution. The 1909-10 edition of the LSE It complements our website, ‘Calendar’ notes ‘The [General www.lse.ac.uk/general-course, Course] is recommended to which provides further detailed foreigners desirous of studying the information and answers development of British Institutions’. many of the most frequently Whilst the General Course is still asked questions. recommended, it is now students studying overseas we welcome, and the study of British Institutions need no longer be their focus!
Today, 101 years later, the General Course offers a fully integrated year of undergraduate study to around 300 students of more than 40 nationalities drawn from over 130 universities. 2
Academic departments
At LSE more than 250 undergraduate courses are taught each year by faculty organised into the following departments and groups: Accounting Anthropology Economic History Economics Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group (EROB) Finance* Geography and Environment Government Information Systems and Innovation Group * International History International Relations Language Centre Law Management Mathematics Media and Communications * Operational Research Group Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Social Policy Sociology Statistics *No UG degrees available. General Course students cannot be placed in these departments. A list of all the courses available to General Course students in 2010-11 is provided on page 22. 3
Institutes and Research Centres
LSE is also home to the Development Studies Institute following institutes (DESTIN) and research centres: European Institute Asia Research Centre Financial Markets Group (FMG) Association for the Study of Ethnicity Gender Institute and Nationalism Hellenic Observatory Business History Unit IDEAS: Diplomacy and Cañada Blanch Centre for Strategy@LSE Contemporary Spanish Studies Institute of Social Psychology Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) International Growth Centre (IGC) Centre for Analysis of Social LSE Cities Exclusion (CASE) LSE Global Governance Centre for Civil Society (CCS) LSE Health and Social Care Centre for Climate Change LSE London Economics and Policy (CCCEP) LSE Public Policy Group (PPG) Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) Mannheim Centre for Criminology Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Methodology Institute Social Science (CPNSS) Migration Studies Unit (MSU) Centre for the Analysis of Time Spatial Economics Research Centre Series (CATS) (SERC) Centre for the Economics Suntory and Toyota International of Education (CEE) Centres for Economics and Related Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Disciplines (STICERD) Biomedicine, Biotechnology and The Grantham Research Institute Society (BIOS) on Climate Change and the Centre for the Study Environment (GRI) of Human Rights Complexity Research Programme Crisis States Research Centre 4
15 reasons to join the General Course
As you read through this 4 Support of the Associate Dean 8 International and 12 Residential visit to brochure you will learn about for the General Course cosmopolitan environment Cumberland Lodge in LSE and all it has to offer study Available throughout your stay at the LSE students are drawn from over Windsor Great Park abroad students. You will School to deal with any problems, 140 different countries and 65 An introduction to both the discover there are many reasons queries or issues you might have. per cent of all those at the School UK and your fellow General why the General Course is the You will also have a departmental come from outside the UK. 40 Course students in the relaxed right choice for you, but here’s a tutor and a student mentor. per cent of the academic staff surroundings of an English selection to whet your appetite. originate from outside the UK. country house. 5 Teaching delivered by 1 The world’s leading dedicated leading academics 9 Guaranteed university 13 Over 150 student clubs social science institution LSE’s academics are at the cutting accommodation and societies LSE consistently receives the edge of the social sciences, All applicants offered a place Covering a wide variety of highest ratings available for the influencing opinion and helping on the General Course are interests including politics, culture, quality of its teaching and research. shape society. They are frequently guaranteed university housing. academia, sports, hobbies and It is also home to the world’s called upon to advise governments food and drink. Complemented 10 Central London location largest social science library, the and international organisations and by the activities of the University The School is on the doorstep of British Library of Political and provide an education grounded in of London Union. the City of London, Westminster Economic Science. the real world. and Covent Garden, providing 14 Work in London 2 Scholarships worth £7,000 6 Elite and intellectual great social and academic Automatic entitlement to work Three LSE General Course student body resources. on or off campus up to 20 hours Scholarships worth £7,000 High calibre students selected for each week of the academic term, 11 General Course each are available to all their academic ability who share and more in vacations. social calendar accepted students. your enthusiasm for the subject matter and motivation to learn. UK and European excursions 15 Global reputation 3 Over 250 courses to offered at substantial discounts. for excellence choose from 7 Public lectures delivered General Course students also Graduate schools and employers Covering all the main social by eminent outside speakers enjoy a Welcome Party and around the world will recognise science disciplines and taught An extensive programme of events bespoke orientation events. and respect the LSE name on alongside degree-seeking attracting leading individuals from your CV. You will also be part of an students in a mixture of lectures all walks of life, including in the impressive global alumni network and small classes. last year: Joseph Stiglitz, Janet ensuring you maintain a life-long Napolitano, Helen Clark and connection with the School. Javier Solana. 5
A Message from the Associate Dean
The London School of Economics We’re confident that your time at and Political Science is a place of LSE will be both enjoyable and genuine intellectual excitement and rewarding, providing you with cutting-edge research, employing knowledge and experience that many of the world’s leading experts will prove hugely beneficial in both in their fields and attracting the your future academic, personal very best students from across and professional careers. If you the globe. The General Course think you’d enjoy this academically offers you a unique opportunity rigorous and culturally rich to experience all that LSE and the programme, I encourage you to great city of London have to offer, read on and look forward to whilst undertaking a year of fully receiving your application. integrated undergraduate study at the world’s leading dedicated social science institution.
LSE provides you with an environment Mark Hoffman in which you can study your chosen Associate Dean, the General Course courses in depth, whilst becoming fully involved in all aspects of School life. Furthermore, not only will you be an LSE student but upon completion of your year you will become an LSE alumnus, thus beginning what we hope will be a life-long association with the School. 6
Introduction to LSE
The London School of you welcome the stimulus of new Economics and Political experiences and ideas in a lively Science (LSE) offers a unique capital city, choose LSE! opportunity to study the social sciences in a university What we study LSE seeks to promote the institution with a worldwide impartial pursuit of knowledge and academic reputation, while understanding about how people enjoying the cultural, social and organise themselves into, and recreational facilities of one of interact within, social groupings. the world’s great capital cities. The social sciences offer a number Why choose LSE? of ways of investigating and The School’s location in central thinking about these questions: London is fundamental to its they do not teach you a ‘right’ (or identity. LSE just wouldn’t be the left, or centre!) way to solve the same if it were located anywhere world’s problems. The focus of our else. LSE looks out over the London teaching is on helping you to learn skyline, rather than over green fields. some of the different ways to test It is stimulating, cosmopolitan and your – and other people’s – ideas: very much a part of the ‘real world’. and, in the words of our motto, The School is compact and full to rerum cognoscere causas, ‘to the brim with students and staff – understand the causes of things’. this just contributes to the vitality The School offers courses not only and friendliness of the place. LSE in economics and political science, offers you the opportunity – and the but also in a wide range of social challenge – to study different ways science subjects, taught within of understanding human society 17 departments and a number together with people from all parts of groups and interdisciplinary of the world, with radically differing institutes. It is the only British experiences, views and beliefs, in university specialising in the study an atmosphere that encourages of the social sciences, and has a you to question ideas and to seek worldwide reputation in the field. solutions to problems. If you prefer Indeed, several subjects, including the tranquillity of a rural campus or Anthropology, International Relations the traditions of dreaming spires, and Social Policy, have been then LSE will not suit you; but, if pioneered at LSE. 7
LSE’s own undergraduates are General Course students are ‘Academically, culturally, studying for a very specialised expected to pursue at least one degree over a period of three years. course in the department to and socially, LSE offers The regulations for these degrees which they are assigned (two if the best study abroad are often tightly drawn in terms of in Economics). Some General compulsory courses and limited Course students choose to spread experience out there’ choices within a carefully defined their four courses over a range Matthew Frisch range of optional courses. of different academic interests. University of Pennsylvania Others choose to concentrate more General Course students, on the heavily in just one. The choice is other hand, may take virtually entirely yours! Whichever approach any four year-long undergraduate you adopt, you will be taught courses (or the equivalent in half- alongside LSE undergraduates in units) and in any combination. our regular scheduled lectures and Over 250 courses, listed on page classes – you are not segregated, 22 and detailed on our website at marginalised or educated differently www.lse.ac.uk/general-course, in any way. are available to General Course students. It is also worth noting that only a third of these courses are in economic or economics- related subjects. Well over two thirds of the teaching available at LSE is in non-quantitative subjects such as anthropology, government, international history, international relations, law and social policy. 8
Life at LSE
London is an exciting, vibrant and colourful city. Whatever your interests or appetite you will always find something to suit your palate and your pocket in this truly international centre. Whether you are into art, architecture or artefacts, dance, film, music or theatre, London really does have it all!
As a student at LSE you will be studying in the heart of a multicultural city alongside students from across the world. Major attractions such as Theatreland, the West End, the Royal Opera House and the British Library and Museum are right on your doorstep. It is truly one of the most dynamic and exciting cities in the world. Educational benefits include libraries, professional institutes and all the resources of the University of London. LSE’s central position means that you are a short walk from an enormous range of opportunities and attractions, many of them tailored for the tastes and pockets of the tens of thousands of students in the many universities and colleges in London.
Living in London The map inside the back cover of this brochure shows some of the 9
attractions that you will be able to LSE offers a variety of styles of s 2OSEBERY !VENUE (ALL SINGLE access within easy walking distance accommodation. In all of them, (some equipped with mobility of LSE. As a student living in the there will be a varied mix of home aids for wheelchair users) and 13 heart of London and a member of and overseas students, men and twin rooms close to Sadler’s Wells LSE’s Students’ Union, you will also women. In each residence there is Theatre; evening meals are provided be in a position to take advantage a student committee to organise as required, and cost about the of numerous student discounts regular events, such as video same as at Carr-Saunders. designed to save you money. evenings or film shows. The University of London The School itself offers a very s "ANKSIDE (OUSE PLACES IN also provides intercollegiate wide range of activities to its mainly single rooms, many with accommodation in seven mixed students. LSE’s weekly Student private bathroom facilities, located halls: Commonwealth Hall, News e-newsletter lists many just south of the Thames, next Hughes-Parry Hall, International public lectures, films and concerts. door to the Tate Modern gallery. Hall, Nutford House, College Hall, The Students’ Union has its own s #ARR 3AUNDERS (ALL SINGLE Canterbury Hall and Connaught Hall. newspaper, The Beaver, and rooms and 12 twin rooms in the Should you miss the application supports a lively variety of affiliated West End, near the Telecom Tower deadline for guaranteed social, political and ethnic clubs and Tottenham Court Road; meals accommodation, or you simply wish and societies; there are many social are provided as required and to live in private housing, the School events and entertainments throughout cost on average £4.50 for an can still assist you. There is plenty of the year, at little or no cost. evening meal. rented housing available in London, For details of the General Course’s s (IGH (OLBORN SPACES but to get a good price and a good own social calendar please see just a short walk from the location you will need to allocate page 10. School, in the heart of London’s some time to ‘shopping around’. LSE Guaranteed Housing Theatreland. This is self-catering is able to offer you a place in one of All students who have accepted accommodation. its halls of residence for two weeks prior to the start of the Michaelmas the offer of a place on the General s 0ASSlELD (ALL SINGLE (first) Term. From this base you Course and applied for housing by 42 twin and 14 treble rooms in a will be able to meet other General the deadline of 31 May 2011 are Georgian terrace overlooking a Course students and begin to look guaranteed to be offered a place tree lined square in Bloomsbury, for housing together, using both the in LSE or University of London near the University of London School’s Accommodation Office accommodation, although it may central precinct; one meal a day and that provided by the University not be in your preferred residence or (dinner) is included in the fees. in a single room. of London. Further details on LSE accommodation can be found at www.lse.ac.uk/accommodation 10
Life at LSE (continued)
Welcome party Tembo A well established event at the Tembo is the General Course start of each new academic year newsletter. Issued throughout the is the Welcome Party for arriving year, it provides General Course study abroad students, hosted by students with a dedicated forum the Associate Dean for the General for sharing their experiences, Course. Held in the week prior to the knowledge, ideas and queries. The start of the Michaelmas Term, this first issues of the year are sent to popular icebreaker is a great way incoming students prior to their to meet your fellow students before arrival in London, providing them you settle down to the serious work with useful information and advice of studying and exploring London! before they land in the UK.
Cumberland Lodge General Course Social Calendar residential visit Throughout your year at the School An escape from London to you will be able to explore the UK Cumberland Lodge (a country and Europe on a range of day trips house in Windsor Great Park) is an and short breaks. Past excursions annual event in the General Course have covered the delights of calendar. Since 1947 Cumberland Amsterdam, the ruggedness of the Lodge has been a place where Scottish Highlands, and the joys students and teachers in higher of an English brewery! Each trip education can go to reflect quietly is subsidised by LSE and offered on the purpose of their study to our study abroad students at a and research. significant discount, helping you get the most out of your time with us. The General Course visit acts as an introduction to both the School LSE Students’ Union and the UK and involves a mixture and student societies of academic seminars and social The Students’ Union represents activities, as well as the opportunity LSE students on campus. It is there to explore the Park and Windsor to ensure that your time at LSE is itself. Held over a weekend in the as full, trouble-free and entertaining Michaelmas Term it is open to as possible. To make certain that around 40 students each year, with this is the case for you, General the cost subsidised by the School. 11
Course students elect their own Athletics Union swimming pool, aerobics/dance ‘Great experience! representative to the Union at the start Athletics are the responsibility of classes, discos and live gigs, bars, of each academic year. The Union the Athletics Union (AU), which is banks, general store, sports shop, It represents an organises entertainments – concerts, funded by the Students’ Union. All copy shop, ticket agency, travel office, enrichment on every films, cabaret and discos – and funds students are eligible to join the AU day nursery, opticians, insurance over 150 student societies covering a by becoming members of any of centre, health spa, badminton court, level and the teaching wide variety of interests. its constituent clubs. Over 30 clubs squash court and a range of other is excellent.’ exist for a wide range of sports recreation facilities. All General Course It also funds a free weekly student and many use the School’s 25 acre students are welcome to make use of Arnaud Alves de Souza newspaper, The Beaver, a termly sports ground at New Malden, these facilities. HEC Lausanne magazine The Script and a radio Surrey. There are pitches for soccer, station PuLSE. The Union runs a rugby, hockey (both men’s and National Health Service (NHS) shop, a copy shop, a café and three women’s) and cricket, together with General Course students are bars which have a joint capacity of grass tennis courts, and a restaurant eligible to use the National Health 1,500 people, and which on Friday and well-appointed bar, both of Service on the same terms as UK and Saturday nights provide a venue which are open on match days. At residents. The NHS aims to provide for what is one of London’s top Houghton Street the School has comprehensive, free, in and out- student night clubs. its own gymnasium (much used patient medical care for anyone who LSE is famous, or perhaps infamous, for football, badminton and other is registered with a doctor. for the political activism of its training sessions), a room for judo, students. Many former students table tennis, karate and boxing, maintain that they learnt more arguing while the SU provides a large fitness in the bars and cafés than they ever centre fully staffed by qualified fitness did in class. The crucible for debate instructors and three squash courts. is the weekly Union General Meeting where left, right and centre compete University of London Union for the hearts and minds of the All registered students of the School uncommitted – few students can are automatically members of ULU, resist at least one visit to this hotbed and are entitled to make use of the of revolution, reaction and intrigue. extensive facilities without payment of any extra membership fee. ULU is housed nearby in Malet Street, and the premises include a fitness centre, 12
Life at LSE (continued)
Students who have a disability, You can contact the Disability and Student Mentoring Scheme ‘This year in London long-term medical conditions Well-Being Office at Disability- General Course students, or dyslexia [email protected] in common with our new changed my life. Prior The Disability and Well-being Office undergraduate degree seeking to studying at LSE, I provides a first point of contact for Counselling students, can use the Student prospective and current students The LSE Student Counselling Mentoring Scheme. had a much more Service offers free and confidential with disabilities, long term medical Volunteer mentors come mainly limited knowledge of support to all current students, conditions and/or dyslexia. from the second and third years including those on the General critical global issues.’ of undergraduate degrees. They Facilities at LSE include: Course. The Service aims to help provide incoming General Course Akhila Kolisetty, s !N ACCESSIBLE LIBRARY WITH students cope more effectively with students with a friendly face and two study rooms and some any personal or study difficulties Northwestern University information on the wide range of computers reserved for students that may be affecting them while at support services available at the with disabilities; lockers; a book LSE. There are nine professionally School. Whilst they are not expected fetch service and photocopying qualified and experienced to advise you on academic or assistance where required counsellors, offering about 100 personal matters, they will be able counselling sessions each week. s !SSISTIVE SOFTWARE AND SPECIALIST to refer you to the individuals and IT support Appointments can be booked departments at LSE that are best Monday to Friday throughout the year. s ! RANGE OF ACCESSIBLE AND ADAPTED able to assist you. Your student In addition students can access free rooms in halls of residence mentor will contact you via your counselling through the Students’ LSE email account prior to the start s !LL LECTURE THEATRES AND SOME Union Advice and Counselling Centre. classrooms are fitted with infra-red of the academic year, and will offer hearing support systems For further information to meet you in person during the induction period. Further information s 2EADERS NOTE TAKERS AND SUPPORT please see the Student assistants can be arranged as Counselling Service website on the scheme can be found on the part of the LSE Circles Network of at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ General Course website. peer/staff support studentCounsellingService Careers s 0RACTICAL SUPPORT CAN ALSO BE The LSE Careers Service has provided by a Community Service an experienced team of careers Volunteer (CSV) advisers and information staff to provide assistance and advice to s 4HERE IS A REST ROOM WITH A BED General Course students, both and easy chairs. informally and in careers seminars and interviews. 13
They run an extensive programme Volunteering of careers fairs and forums and host The LSE Volunteer Centre exists many employer presentations, skills to help place LSE students in sessions and recruiter-in-residence voluntary positions all over London. sessions with top employers. Volunteering is about giving Venture@LSECareers will help you something back to the community develop entrepreneurial skills and and helping others, whilst helping develop your ambitions to work in yourself too. You can develop social enterprise or start your own your skills; meet new people; have business venture. fun, and make a difference to the local community. A wide range of Whether you are looking for organisations and projects are looking internships, work experience, for your help, so whether your interest vacation work or part-time, term- lies in caring for animals, staffing time jobs to help finance your study, helplines, working in museums and you can search for current job galleries or assisting organisations vacancies at ‘My Careers Service’. dealing with women’s issues (to name For further information please see but a few) you will find something to the Careers Service website at interest you. For further information www.lse.ac.uk/careers visit the Volunteer Centre website at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ volunteerCentre 14
Education
LSE believes in a traditional Lectures are not compulsory approach to teaching, but are strongly recommended. ensuring students have a solid Classes, however, are compulsory understanding of the core and you will usually be expected to elements of their subjects. submit two written pieces of work or a certain number of problem Teaching methods sets per course per term. Class In each of the four courses you teachers report each term on your take over the year, teaching will attendance, work in class and consist of a mixture of lectures and written work submitted for the class. linked classes, running in parallel, These reports are then sent to your in which you will work through academic adviser who will discuss questions, problem sets and issues them with you, as well as your raised in the lectures or present overall progress. Your class teacher and discuss your own papers or will also provide an overall grade essays. Lectures are attended by at the end of the year. These will all the students taking the course appear on your final LSE transcript, (and some auditing the lectures out along with the grades for your of general interest); on a popular final examinations, as a summary course, there could be several of your work at the School. The hundred students in a lecture. For taught elements of our courses the classes, you would be allocated are intended only as a framework to a much smaller group, generally around which each student must consisting of no more than 15 work, providing you with a structure students. In some advanced third for your own research and reading. year courses, the two functions We expect that in addition to of lectures and classes may be ‘formal’ contact time, our students combined in seminars or small- spend at least double the amount of group tutorials: this depends on the hours pursuing ‘independent study’ numbers taking the course, and related to their four courses. The on the subject being studied. The timetabled teaching might not look number of ‘formal’ contact hours will like all that many hours a week, but vary with the type of course you are the associated reading and writing taking but will normally be between of essays, projects and other 2-4 hours per course per week. 15
course work assignments make up Credits, grades and the transcript Note: Students studying on the ‘The program has been a full working week. Motivation and All visiting students are reminded General Course through the Institute commitment are the keys to success! that it is their home institution for Study Abroad, Butler University, simply exceptional that determines if and how credit or The College of Global Studies in every dimension. Examination and assessment is awarded, not LSE. As already at Arcadia University will receive Like our teaching methods, LSE described, General Course students from them a transcript converted It has broadened my has a traditional approach to receive two sets of grades on into American semester credits and horizons academically, examinations and assessments. their end of year General Course letter grades. socially and culturally.’ For most courses, students are transcript; one, the class grades, examined once, at the end of the for their course work undertaken Divya Goenka year. This is usually by three-hour throughout the academic year for Brandeis University unseen paper, and all General class teachers, and the other the Course students are required to exam grade, for each of the four take these exams. These results examinations taken at the end of the also appear on the final transcript. year. On successful completion of A number of courses have an the General Course each student ‘assessed coursework’ component will be provided with a detailed that contributes towards the final transcript which includes the exam mark. Typically this takes the following information: form of an independently produced (a) the titles of the four courses for piece of writing. which the student was enrolled; In exceptional circumstances, and only with the permission of the (b) assessments in letter grades for Associate Dean for the General class work for these courses; Course and the course teacher (c) assessments in letter grades for responsible, a General Course final examinations taken; student may also pursue one (d) an indication of the exam grade graduate-level course as one of distribution for all General Course their four choices. However, you students in current and previous are not permitted to sit a graduate years, with equivalents for other examination at the end of the full-time undergraduates at year and will need to arrange an the School. additional form of assessment, again usually a piece of independent research and writing. 16
Academic support services
The Library lunchtime and evening recitals. As use their own computer in their speakers who combine extensive The Library (The British Library an LSE student you will also have study bedroom or in the wireless teaching experience with an of Political and Economic access to the libraries of most other zone, located in the social and educational background in one or Science) is more than a book colleges of the University of London. recreational areas in residences. more of the subject specialisms and journal collection. It also has To find out more about the offered at LSE. Whether you are hundreds of study spaces and IT Library, visit their website at Using your own computer going to study a modern foreign workstations, laptop points, rooms www.lse.ac.uk/library Computer ownership is not language or need to improve your for group study, video viewing obligatory, but if you do bring English for academic purposes, their and photocopying facilities. The Information technology your own computer, IT Services aim is to provide you with the highest Library’s Course Collection contains IT facilities on campus provides information and help level of language support throughout books on your reading lists and There are around 1,000 PCs with connecting to the LSE IT your studies. All LSE’s language the Electronic Library, accessible available for students to use in open environment and accessing services courses utilise the specialist talents from workstations right around access areas around the School and resources both on campus of our lecturers who relate their the School, provides access to an and in the computer classrooms. and off site. On campus, there are own expertise to the teaching of increasing range of publications Over 450 of these PCs are located over 200 laptop plug-in points in languages for specific purposes. in the Library, and there is 24-hour the Library, and laser printing is such as newspapers and journals. Further information can be obtained PC availability on campus during also available. In addition there is from the Language Centre website The main stock of the Library covers term-time. an extensive wireless network from at www.lse.ac.uk/depts/language the social sciences in the widest which you can gain access to the All networked PCs on campus sense; collections are particularly internet and email. Off campus, provide access to common Academic guidance strong in economics, sociology, students can connect via the desktop applications and specialist As already alluded to, LSE believes political science and the social, Remote Desktop or a virtual private software. PCs on campus also that its students are mature, economic and international aspects network (VPN). provide access to the Library responsible adults who are self- of history. We have rich collections catalogue and a wide range of For more information see www.lse. motivated, self-disciplined and of government publications from electronic databases and datasets ac.uk/itservices capable of guided independent nearly all the countries of the world, (eg, census, financial information). study. As a LSE student you would a wealth of statistical materials, LSE Language Centre be largely responsible for organising important collections of manuscripts IT facilities in residences The LSE Language Centre is unique your own work to keep up with the and rare books and long runs All residences are wired for direct – no other centre specialises in requirements of your four courses. of a large number of journals. connection to the School network. creating courses targeted to the Anyone who meets our admission The School also has a separate There are a small number of open needs of students and practitioners standards should have a good idea collection of general literature and access PCs in each residence in the field of the social sciences already of the kind of skills needed; music which is housed in the Shaw computer room, which are available and related areas of study. All but we find that our students can Library, a pleasant room in which 24 hours a day, and students may the Centre’s teachers are native often use some extra advice. LSE to read, study, relax and listen to can help in the following ways: 17
Study skills support Tutor responsible for the day to-day Throughout the academic year, running of undergraduate studies in there is a popular series of the department and all members of open lectures beginning with an academic staff set aside specified introduction to Study at LSE and times when they are free to see continuing with topics including any student. essay writing, effective reading, preparing for quantitative tests Associate Dean for the and exam preparation. If you need General Course more personalised support for any In addition to your class teachers subject, the Teaching and Learning and an academic adviser, the Centre offers one-to-one advice Associate Dean for the General sessions with experienced Course is available to deal with study advisers. any academic, administrative or pastoral support issues you might Further details are available at have. These can include advice on www.lse.ac.uk/collections/TLC housing, particular course choices, Teachers and academic advisers changing departmental affiliation For guidance about a particular and support for credit transfers to class, there is the individual class your home university. The Associate teacher, and a teacher responsible Dean also offers orientation for each course (who guides the seminars covering topics such class teachers). Each student has as the grading system, academic an academic adviser, who meets progression and internships and with you several times over the careers. You are encouraged course of the year, receives regular to contact the Associate Dean reports from class teachers, and whenever you need assistance. is able to advise on your progress. The academic adviser is also there to help with any academic, administrative or personal questions where you may not be sure who is the person or office responsible. Each department also has a Departmental 18
How to Apply
Application for admission to the Students must follow and abide by General Course may be made by the specific requirements of their students who will have completed home university. Failure to do so at least two years of study in may adversely affect the outcome of an overseas university by the the selection process. Applications time they register at the School. should comprise: Students who have directly s A COMPLETED 'ENERAL #OURSE entered the second year of application form; their university on the basis of A-levels or an International s A COLLEGE TRANSCRIPT SHOWING Baccalaureate will be considered grades up to and including the on a case-by-case basis. first semester of the applicant’s Students who have directly second year of university*. entered their second year Transcripts must be written in, on the basis of ‘Advanced or translated into, English; Placement’ tests will not normally s TWO REFERENCES AT LEAST ONE be considered for a place. of which must be written by a We positively welcome good university teacher currently familiar applicants from any university with the applicant’s work, preferably in any country. Students must in a field which he/she intends to register for the full academic pursue at LSE. References must be year, ie, from October to June. written in, or translated into, English. LSE has no ‘semester’ or ‘single- * Students come to us from many term’ programmes. different universities, using varied Students undertaking a degree grading systems; any transcript/ through the University of London record should be accompanied by External Programme with LSE as a note on how to ‘translate’ the lead college may be eligible for the grades. entry after just one year of study. Once the completed application is Those interested in pursuing this received by the Student Recruitment opportunity should contact the Office, it normally takes less than School at [email protected] before seven working days for a decision submitting an application. to be issued. Both the applicant and 19
their home university will be notified to arrive in London a week prior s )NTERNATIONAL %NGLISH ,ANGUAGE if a place on the programme has to the start of the new academic Testing Service (IELTS) with a been offered. The applicant is under year if they are staying in university score of 7.0 in all four components no obligation to accept an offer of accommodation, and earlier if they s )NTERNATIONAL 'ENERAL #ERTIlCATE admission nor do they make any need to find housing in the private of Secondary Education (IGCSE) legal or financial undertaking before sector (see section on ‘Guaranteed English as a First Language with they arrive at the School. (OUSING PAGE !LONG WITH THE a grade B or better including induction activities organised for all the Speaking and Listening Online application new undergraduate students by the coursework component (Edexel) The General Course has its own School and your department, there or grade 2 in the optional online application, which applicants will also be an induction specifically speaking test (CIE) are welcome to use in place of the tailored for General Course traditional paper form. The online students, details of which will be s 4EST OF %NGLISH AS A &OREIGN application is completely free of included in your Welcome Pack. Language (TOEFL) with a charge and facilitates the electronic minimum score of 627 in the paper submission of all the required Entry requirements test, including 5.5 in writing and documentation, including transcripts We judge each applicant individually 50 in TSE, or 107 in the internet and references. Applicants studying and have no ‘agreements’ which based test with a minimum of 25 at institutions that require continued give advantage to students out of 30 in each of the four skills. use of the paper form are, however, from particular countries or assured that submitting paper particular universities. We seek to applications remains perfectly allocate students to an academic acceptable. department reflecting their major interests, but permit applicants Application and induction dates to choose courses across the full Completed applications can be range of our curriculum. Applicants submitted at any time and will be whose two years of university considered from January 2011. The education prior to joining LSE application cycle closes on haven’t been undertaken in English 2 September 2011. We operate a are required to provide evidence of ‘rolling admissions’ process until proficiency in the English language. all the available places are filled The following is an example of some so applicants are recommended of the qualifications we accept: to apply early. Students joining the General Course are advised 20
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We look in detail at each applicant’s Applications can be submitted directly The Institute for Study Abroad, students who cater for themselves recent university academic record, to the School or via the IfSA, Butler Butler University or eat at LSE will live more cheaply paying particular attention to the University or The College of Global Students wishing to apply to the in terms of ‘household expenses’. subjects studied and the grades Studies at Arcadia University (please General Course through the Institute obtained. For example, using see below). Those applying directly to for Study Abroad, Butler University LSE is also a registered institution university grade scales common in LSE will incur no application fees and (IfSA-Butler) should visit the IfSA- for most types of US and Canadian the USA, a student with a minimum no tuition deposits. Most applicants Butler website at www.ifsa-butler. Student Loans. The LSE US Student 3.3 grade point average (on a 4 point will find that they are helped by initial org for further information and Loans reference number is G06693. scale) will be positively considered. In contact with their home university’s details of the fees applicable. the case of those students applying Office of International Programs Fees to departments or predominantly or Study Abroad Office, to whom The tuition fee for all students listing courses that are quantitatively we regularly mail General Course applying directly to the General based (ie, economics, maths and material. Such offices can advise you Course (not through CGS-Arcadia statistics) we are looking for a 3.5 or on their support for study abroad or IfSA-Butler) in 2011-12 will be better in related courses, including and its impact on your academic £15,003 for the full year. Please higher level calculus and linear progress, financial aid, etc. note, the tuition fee is the same algebra. In practice, we are looking Students who are offered admission for all General Course students, for students who are in the top 10- to the General Course are notified regardless of nationality or 15 per cent of their class. We are by email and invited to complete residence. Fees cover tuition, primarily interested in a student’s an ‘Acceptance Form’ online. This examination entry, library use, academic work in social science will be followed by a Welcome Pack access to all LSE social, health and subjects and will be especially later in the year detailing information welfare facilities and Student Union interested in the quality of work in on our registration and orientation membership. They do not cover the fields they might wish to pursue arrangements. accommodation or living costs at LSE. We are particularly assisted which must be budgeted separately. by the comments of academic The College of Global Studies at We estimate that the cost of living in referees, especially if they are Arcadia University London during the nine months of relevant to the courses the applicant Students wishing to apply to the the 2010-11 academic session will wishes to follow at the School. We General Course through The College total some £9,000, with total one- actively encourage enquiries, most of Global Studies at Arcadia University off costs of about £1,000, giving a conveniently by email, and invite you (CGS-Arcadia) should visit the CGS- sum total of about £10,000 for nine to contact the School to discuss any Arcadia website at www.arcadia.edu/ months. However, savings can be prospective application – write to: abroad for further information and made. For instance, walking to LSE [email protected] details of the fees applicable. can eradicate local travel costs and 21
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Successful applicants are, whenever The LSE application form asks you to on our website at www.lse.ac.uk/ 300 level courses are taught to possible, assigned to a place in identify up to six courses of particular general-course and should be LSE’s third year degree seeking one of the academic departments interest – to assist us in making an referred to when you complete the students. They are advanced at LSE reflecting their major area initial departmental assignment. Prior Course Preferences section of the and equivalent to either final year of interest, and that department to your arrival you will be asked to application form. The three-digit undergraduate or first year graduate will subsequently nominate a select four courses for the purposes codes indicate whether the course courses. They have prerequisites of member of their faculty to act as of pre-registration. However, your is normally followed by our own university level intermediate courses. the student’s academic adviser final selection of four courses will three-year degree students in their General Course students should during the year. Before making be confirmed after your arrival at first, second or third year of study, ordinarily only select one of these such an assignment we will weigh LSE and in consultation with your but access is not restricted for courses when they have a minimum up your academic background, the academic adviser. Our aim is to give General Course students. of three semesters background and very high grades in the relevant field. balance of your proposed course you full access to those courses that 100 level courses are taught to interests and the demand for places you wish to pursue. Thus, whilst LSE LSE’s first year degree seeking The online course descriptions in particular departments from one cannot commit itself to guarantee the students. They are introductory should be read carefully as many year to another. The key issue is availability of course selections, every level courses that have no specific courses assume a level of aptitude that you have the right to choose effort is made to do so. Again, there prerequisites in their own subject in the subject. We also encourage the courses you wish to follow – the are more than 250 courses available but may require some mathematics new students to sample a range departmental assignment does to General Course students and you or other related subjects. General of courses in the first four weeks not restrict your right to pursue have the right to change your course Course students normally select of the session and to discuss their courses in other fields of study. selections up to the end of the fourth these courses when they have no own level of skill and the course Please note, once accepted, you week of the first term. In more than 99 previous background in the subject, expectations with lecturers and have every right to change your per cent of cases, students get all of ie, they want to gain experience of a class teachers before confirming course choices, but it is not possible the courses that they want – and time new academic field. their course choices for the year. to change your departmental to explore and to change their minds. allocation without the permission 200 level courses are taught to The majority of General Course Whilst we are unable to guarantee LSE’s second year degree seeking students find they are sufficiently of the Associate Dean for the the availability of any course, the General Course. students. They are intermediate level stimulated by one (or at the very Course List that follows represents courses that have prerequisites in the most two) 300 level courses when what was taught in 2010-11. A form of university level introductory combined with those offered at the full Course Guide (naming the courses in the same, or a closely 200 and 100 levels. The optimum key academic responsible for related, subject. These courses are combination for a serious student each course, a description of its the equivalent of Junior year courses is usually one 300 level and three coverage, basic bibliographies at four year degree institutions and, as 200 level courses. Unless you have and any pre-requisites) is available such, are usually the most appropriate declared your major sometime ago for General Course students. 23
and have a very strong background Accounting (AC) AN102 Reading Other Cultures: to determine national output, the Anthropological Interpretation of Text in the subject, it is unwise to take Accounting at LSE is known for balance of payments, inflation and Film more than one 300 level course. pioneering new approaches to and unemployment. It reveals why AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex purely self-interested behaviour In the listing that follows, (H) the study of cutting-edge financial and Gender may nevertheless produce a designates a half-unit course and, management practices in private and AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology desirable outcome for society as therefore, one that counts for public organisations. AN227 The Anthropology of a whole. But it also reveals how only half the ‘weight’ of a full-year AC100 Elements of Accounting Economic Institutions and their Social easily this process can go awry, course: typically, all of its teaching and Finance Transformations justifying government intervention. is contained in just one term and AC211 Managerial Accounting AN231 The Anthropology of China (H) A case in point is the need for students would take two half-units AC310 Management Accounting, AN235 The Anthropology of Southern instead of one full year course. All Financial Management and Organisational Africa (H) coordinated international action courses, including half-unit courses, Control AN237 The Anthropology of to limit environmental pollution. Development (H) are examined at the end of the AC340 Auditing, Governance and Above all, the study of economics Risk Management AN238 Anthropology and Human Rights Summer Term. develops a mental approach (H) suitable for analysing a whole range Anthropology (AN) AN240 Investigating the Philippines: New of problems, often well outside what Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts Social anthropology is concerned is conventionally thought of as the (H) with the variety of human societies domain of economics. AN241 Anthropology of India and cultures. Social anthropologists AN300 Advanced Theory of Social EC100 Economics A try to explain the causes of this Anthropology EC102 Economics B ‘You don’t just read the variation and also to understand AN301 The Anthropology of Religion EC201 Microeconomic Principles I what it means to belong to societies EC202 Microeconomic Principles II most cutting edge and and cultures which, at first sight, Economics (EC) EC210 Macroeconomic Principles appear very foreign to ours. Study of influential books at Economics is the systematic EC220 Introduction to Econometrics the subject should help you see what study of questions such as: how EC221 Principles of Econometrics LSE, you learn about is universal to all human societies much of its income a household EC230 European Economic Policy and what is variable, and help you to them from the authors chooses to save and what goods it EC301 Advanced Economic Analysis understand the dilemmas of society chooses to buy; how many people EC302 Political Economy whose opinions shape in the modern world. a business chooses to employ EC303 Economic Analysis of the the way contemporary AN100 Introduction to Social and how it sets its prices; how the European Union global leaders think’ Anthropology price system in a market economy EC307 Development Economics AN101 Ethnography and Theory: allocates resources and incomes; EC309 Econometric Theory Selected Texts Chris Bostock and how all the households and EC311 History of Economics: How Trinity College, Hartford, CT businesses in the country interact Theories Change 24
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EC313 Industrial Economics EH207 The Evolution of Economic Policy ID301 Leadership in Organisations: GV100 Introduction to Political Theory EC315 International Economics in Advanced Economies Theory and Practice GV101 Introduction to Political Science EC317 Labour Economics EH220 Comparative Economic ID316 Managing Diversity in GV225 Public Choice and Politics Development: Late Industrialisation in Organisations EC319 Economic Theory and its GV227 The Politics of Economic Policy Russia, India and Japan Applications (new title) GV262 Contemporary Political Theory EH225 Latin America and the Finance (FM) EC321 Monetary Economics International Economy GV263 Public Policy Analysis EC325 Public Economics Finance students examine the theory EH236 The Integration of Europe’s GV264 Politics and Institutions in Europe EC331 Quantitative Economics Project and practice of many aspects of the %CONOMY GV265 States, Nations and Empires field that are key to understanding EC333 Problems of Applied Econometrics EH240 Business and Economic GV302 Key Themes in the History of Performance since 1945: Britain in how financial institutions and markets Political Thought Economic History (EH) International Context operate around the world. GV310 Democracy and Democratisation GV350 Theories and Problems of Economic and social history is FM212 Principles of Finance Employment Relations and Nationalism concerned with understanding the FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments Organisational Behaviour (ID) GV351 Government, Politics and Public process of change in the past. It and Financial Markets Policy in the European Union uses the skills of the economist, the Traditionally, study of employment FM320 Quantitative Finance statistician and the sociologist, as relations has focused on trade Geography and Environment (GY) well as those of the historian. Typical unions and their activities. More Government (GV) recently, interest in the management The focus of geography at LSE issues which the subject addresses Politics is about power and ideas, and government perspective is on the economic, social and are: economic globalisation in a and it determines the public life of HAS GROWN 3INCE THE S IN environmental outcomes and historical perspective, the effect of society. It encompasses a broad particular, the study of managerial problems which have resulted from business organisation on economic spectrum of activities relating to strategies and techniques in location and spatial interaction. As we performance, the economic public affairs, from the competition selecting, motivating, developing attempt to improve human welfare and and social effects of wars, the of political parties to the operations and rewarding employees has environmental quality in a sustainable importance of education and human of public bureaucracies. In earlier flourished as part of the growth manner, it is vital that we have a good capital in economic change, change centuries, politics was largely carried in social behaviour in the past, the in business education. understanding of the social, political on by a relatively small elite, but history of economic development in and economic forces that shape ID100 Employment Relations modern democracy involves the the third world, and the causes of development and social change in ID200 Organisational Theory whole population. Because it is at the population change and migration. and Behaviour our interdependent global economy. junction of power and morality, politics ID204 Capitalism, Democracy and Work Current patterns of population growth, EH101 Internationalization of has always attracted the attention in Comparative Perspective industrial development, urbanisation, Economic Growth of philosophers and historians, and ID222 Managing Employment Law (H) and the use and consumption EH205 Towns, Society and Economy its study, originating in Athens in the in England and Europe, 1450-1750 ID290 Human Resource Management of resources are resulting in fourth century BC, is the seed bed of environmental changes on all scales, EH206 The Making of an Economic ID300 Selected Topics in all the social sciences. 3UPERPOWER #HINA SINCE Employment Relations from the local to the global. Major 25
issues include pollution, soil erosion GY300 Theories of Regional HY206 The International History of the HY312 From Suez to the Six Day War; and desertification, loss of biodiversity, Development and Change Cold War, 1945-1975 Britain, the United States and Arab Nationalism, 1952-1970 ozone depletion and global warming. GY301 Political Geography of HY208 The History of the United States Development and the South HY313 The International History of East Although such environmental changes SINCE Asia, 1914-1945 manifest themselves as physical GY302 Urban Development: Politics, HY209 Democracy, Civil War and Policy and Planning Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Spain HY314 Representing the Past: problems, the processes which drive GY303 The Geography of Gender: Global HY216 Four Reichs: Austria, Prussia and Historiography and Historical Methods the changes are economic, social Perspectives THE #ONTEST FOR 'ERMANY SINCE HY315 The European Enlightenment, and political. Therefore, any attempts GY305 Applied Location and Spatial HY221 4HE (ISTORY OF 2USSIA C to manage the use of environmental Analysis HY226 4HE 'REAT 7AR HY319 Napoleon and Europe resources to achieve more sustainable GY321 Environmental Politics and Policy HY230 Early Colonial Empires: Europe HY320 The Cold War Endgame forms of development have to begin GY323 Environmental Assessment and and the World 1400-1750 with a clear understanding of the Management HY232 Frontiers of Nationalism, International Relations (IR) socio-economic processes involved. Statehood and Independence: the History International Relations is the International History (HY) of South-Eastern Europe 1914-190 GY100 Environment, Economy and study of an international system HY233 Empire and Nation: Britain and Society History is a wide-ranging and composed of territorial states which India since 1750 GY103 Contemporary Europe challenging subject to study. It acknowledge no superior authority HY234 Muslims, Christians and Jews in GY120 Environmental Change: Past, seeks to understand the past and to the Early Modern World over matters which they consider of Present and Future (new title) make sense of the present, adding HY235 Modernity and the State in East vital interest. It deals with the nature GY121 Sustainable Development (new an important dimension to the !SIA #HINA *APAN AND +OREA SINCE of the changing relations between title) understanding of many aspects of HY237 Western Intellectuals and the states and with non-state actors GY140 Methods in Spatial and Social human society. Challenge of Totalitarianism: Thinkers and and it studies the functioning of the Analysis Themes international system – the forces, GY200 Economy, Society and Space HY101 4HE %UROPEAN #IVIL 7AR 1990 HY238 The Cold War and European factors and interests, the customs, GY201 Location and Spatial Analysis Integration, 1947-1992 HY113 From Empire to Independence: rules, institutions and organisations GY202 Introduction to Development in the Extra-European World in the HY239 Latin America and the United the South from which the theory and history of Twentieth Century 3TATES SINCE GY205 Political Geographies, Policy and its development are formed. HY114 War and Society from the HY300 Dissertation Space Renaissance to the Napoleonic Era, HY302 Anglo-Spanish Relations in the IR100 The Structure of International GY220 Environment: Science and C Age of Elizabeth I Society Society HY116 )NTERNATIONAL (ISTORY SINCE HY303 Russia in Revolution, 1914-1921 IR200 International Political Theory GY222 Applied Environmental Economics HY117 Rule Britannia: Britain and Empire HY304 Germany’s New Order in Europe, IR202.1 Foreign Policy Analysis 1 GY240 Research Techniques (Spatial, FROM TO THE 0RESENT $AY 1939-1945 IR202.2 Contemporary Foreign Policy in Social and Environmental) HY203 The Arab-Israeli Conflict: HY311 Limited War During the Cold War Practice GY244 London’s Geographies: Nationalism, Territory, Religion Era: The United States in Korea (1950-53) IR203 International Organisations An Introduction to Cultural and and Vietnam (1954-75) IR302 The Ethics of War Historical Geography 26
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IR304 The Politics of International Law (LL) LL275 Property II LN131 French Language and Society 1 Economic Relations (Beginner) The study of law involves examining LL278 Public International Law IR305 Strategic Aspects of International LN132 French Language and Society 2 and analysing the rules and LL284 Sentencing and Treatment of Relations Offenders (H) (Intermediate) institutions that society establishes IR306 Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: LL293 Taxation LN200 Russian Language and Society 4 Issues in IPT to promote justice and order. In (Proficiency) LL295 Media Law IR308 Systemic Change in the Twentieth addition to being a preparation for LN210 German Language and Society 4 LL300 Competition Law Century: Theories of the Cold War the legal profession, knowledge of (Proficiency) LL305 Jurisprudence IR309 International Security law and the analytical and logical LN220 Spanish Language and Society 4 IR311 Europe’s Institutional Order reasoning skills it develops will be (Proficiency) Language Studies (LN) IR398 Dissertation valued by many employers. LN230 French Language and Society 4 Although the School does not offer (Proficiency) LL104 Law of Obligations Information Systems (IS) full degrees in languages, the LSE LN250 English Literature and Society LL105 Property I (H) Language Centre runs a successful LN251 Comparative Literature and Information technology is absorbing LL106 Public Law programme of courses in English Society an ever-increasing proportion of LL108 Criminal Law Literature and Society, Russian LN252 Contemporary Literature and the resources of organisations LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (H) Language and Society, German, Global Society and governments, both in terms LL201 Administrative Law French and Spanish. LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 of money and human resources. LL203 Law of Business Associations (Mastery) LN100 Russian Language and Society 3 Consequently, there is a need LL205 Medical Law LN330 French Language and Society (Advanced) for people who are educated to LL207 Civil Liberties and Human Rights (Mastery) LN101 Russian Language and Society 1 understand and assess the complex LL209 Commercial Law (Beginner) interactions between information Mathematics (MA) LL210 Information Technology and the LN102 Russian Language and Society 2 technology and people. To do Law (Intermediate) Discover how modern advances this it is essential to look beyond LL212 Conflict of Laws LN110 German Language and Society 3 in economic theory are made the technologies themselves and LL221 Family Law (Advanced) possible by use of techniques investigate the rich social and LL232 Law and Institutions of the LN112 German Language and Society 2 drawn from mathematics. European Union (Intermediate) organisational contexts in which MA100 Mathematical Methods LL241 Introduction to Civil Law LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 they are deployed. MA103 Introduction to Abstract LL242 International Protection of Human (Advanced) IS143 Information Technology and Society Mathematics Rights LN121 Spanish Language and Society 1 IS340 Information Systems in Business MA107 Quantitative Methods (Beginner) LL251 Intellectual Property Law (Mathematics) (H) LN122 Spanish Language and Society 2 LL257 Labour Law MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (Intermediate) LL259 Legal and Social change since MA200 Further Mathematical Methods LN130 French Language and Society 3 1750 (Calculus) (H) (Advanced) LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology 27
MA201 Further Mathematical Methods confronted with difficult decisions OR202 Operational Research Methods PH221 Problems of Analytic Philosophy (Linear Algebra) (H) and need a rational basis on which OR301 Model Building in Operational PH299 Essay on an approved subject in MA203 Real Analysis (H) to make them. The management Research Philosophy MA207 Further Quantitative Methods sciences are a range of methods OR304 Decision Sciences in Theory (Mathematics) (H) used to assist managers through and Practice Social Policy (SA) MA208 Optimisation Theory (H) applying scientific and quantitative OR307 Simulation Modelling Social Policy examines the making and Analysis (H) MA209 Differential Equations (H) approaches to the management of and implementing of policy in almost MA210 Discrete Mathematics (H) organisations, often involving the every field of ‘social provision’ Philosophy (PH) MA211 Algebra and Number Theory construction of computable models of including health care, education, MA300 Game Theory the key features in decision-making. What is knowledge and how is it housing, social security, and MA301 Game Theory I (H) acquired? Can we hope to have personal social services (such as MN200 The Process of Management MA303 Chaos in Dynamical Systems (H) as exact a knowledge of humans child protection and care for the MN201 Economics for Management MA305 Optimisation in Function Spaces and human society as scientists elderly and people with disabilities). MN203 Social Science Research (H) seem to have of electrons and It also covers policies that affect Methods for Management MA310 Mathematics of Finance and planets; and can the methods of society in broader ways, like those Valuation (H) MN302 International Marketing: A Strategic Approach the physical sciences be applied to on race relations, social exclusion, MA313 Probability for Finance (H) MN303 International Context of psychology, sociology, etc? Or does the family, urban regeneration, and MA314 Theory of Algorithms (H) Management (H) the existence of consciousness and deviance and control. MA315 Algebra and its Applications (H) MN304 Strategy (H) free will call for a different kind of SA100 Foundations of Social Policy MA316 Graph Theory (H) MN307 Aspects of Marketing knowledge and special methods SA101 Sociology and Social Policy MA317 Complex Analysis Management (H) of investigation when dealing with SA104 Social Economics and Policy humans? These are just a few SA105 Crime and Society Managerial Economics Operational Research (OR) examples of the type of problems SA201 Research Methods for and Strategy (MN) Managers in industry, business, that fascinate philosophers. Social Policy Effective management is based on SA213 European Social Policy government and defence are often PH101 Logic understanding how organisations SA217 Psychology of Crime and Criminal confronted with difficult decisions PH103 Reason, Knowledge and Values: Justice and markets work. We focus and need a rational basis on which An Introduction to Philosophy SA218 Criminological Perspectives on helping you achieve this to make them. The management PH201 Philosophy of Science SA221 Poverty, Social Exclusion and understanding through the analysis sciences are a range of methods PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences Social Change of key disciplines like economics, used to assist managers through PH211 Philosophy of Economics SA222 Principles of Social Policy finance, statistics, law, psychology applying scientific and quantitative PH213 Scientific Revolutions: SA250 Demographic Description and sociology rather than by approaches to the management of Philosophical and Historical Issues and Analysis teaching you specific techniques. organisations, often involving the PH214 Morality and Values SA309 Criminal Justice Policy Managers in industry, business, construction of computable models of PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic SA349 A Long Essay on an government and defence are often the key features in decision-making. PH220 Evidence and Scientific Method Approved Topic 28
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Social Psychology (PS) SO110 Key Issues in Contemporary ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory Societies: An Introduction to ‘LSE gave me the Most challenges and bottlenecks ST103 Statistical Methods for Social Contemporary Sociology Research intellectual firepower to in managing systems such as SO201 Sociological Analysis ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) corporations or cities are not critique and question SO203 Political Sociology ST108 Probability and Statistics for the technical, but rather psychosocial, SO208 Gender and Society Social Sciences academic material.’ for instance solving inter-group SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control ST201 Statistical Models and Data conflicts, overcoming resistance SO211 Sociology of Health and Medicine Analysis (H) Andrea Gallego to change, fostering constructive SO212 Work, Management and Globalisation ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory Stony Brook University decision-making, avoiding exclusion, and Inference SO215 Evolution and Social Behaviour etc. Social Psychology provides ST203 Statistics for Management SO221 Issues and Methods of Social psychological science and tools to Sciences Research future managers and professionals; it ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments SO224 The Sociology of Race and Ethnicity trains the new generation of leaders (H) SO250 Multi-Culture and Multi- ST211 Applied Regression (H) who will face the acute problems Culturalism (H) ST212 Applied Statistics Project (H) of governance foreseeable around SO305 Environmentalism: theory, politics 2030-2050. and practice (H) ST218 Projects in Applied Statistics ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial PS102 Self, Others and Society: SO306 Atrocity, Suffering and Human (H) Perspectives on Social and Applied Rights (H) Psychology ST227 Survival Models (H) PS203 Societal Psychology: Statistics (ST) ST300 Regression and Generalized Linear Models (H) Theory and Applications The Department offers expert ST302 Stochastic Processes (H) teaching and supervision in time Sociology (SO) ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (H) series, stochastic modelling, Sociology helps us to understand not financial mathematics, actuarial ST305 Actuarial Mathematics: Life only the unparalleled changes that are statistics, latent variable modelling ST306 Actuarial Mathematics: General (H) occurring throughout the world and and sample survey theory and ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H) the changing patterns of relationships methods. Actuarial science applies ST308 Bayesian Inference (H) between peoples, but also our own mathematical skills to a range of ST327 lives, predispositions, values and applied subjects, and helps to solve Market Research: An Integrated Approach expectations in a way which no other important problems for insurance, ST330 Stochastic and Actuarial Methods academic subject can rival. government, commerce, industry in Finance (in conjunction with ST302) SO100 Key Concepts in Sociology: and academic researchers. An Introduction to Sociological Theory 29
Life After LSE
Alumni relations Summer School courses are Graduate studies at LSE Whilst you are likely to be returning offered in Accounting and Finance; Although this brochure is written with to your home university at the Economics; English Language; potential General Course students end of your time on the General International Relations, Government in mind, a note on postgraduate Course, the School recognises its and Society; Law, and Management. opportunities at LSE could be of interest if you are thinking about ongoing commitment to current and For further information visit higher degree work in the longer former students, including those their website www.lse.ac.uk/ term. Just over half of our student on the General Course, through summerschool a highly effective alumni relations population is engaged in such work programme that is administered The LSE-PKU Summer School and LSE is one of the major world by School staff and a network of is run over two weeks in August centres for the advanced study of the volunteer alumni across the world. at PKU’s campus in Beijing. It is social sciences. The School offers a collaboration between two of tuition for postgraduate diplomas, For further information visit our the world’s leading institutions for for taught Masters degrees (MSc, website at: www2.lse.ac.uk/alumni teaching and research offering MA, MPA, LLM) and research or Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7361. recognised flagship courses from programmes (MPhil, PhD). the London Summer School, an LSE Summer Schools More information is available at: outstanding established course LSE runs two summer schools, www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ at Peking University and three one based in London and one graduateadmissions located in Beijing. new courses. Together these cover the fields of Accounting and The Summer School based in Finance; Management; Economics; London provides an opportunity International Relations, and Law. for students to share in LSE’s All courses are taught in English by tradition of academic excellence internationally renowned specialists over a short period of time. Two in the field. Summer Schools are offered in July and August each year delivering For further information visit three-week intensive courses that their website at www2.lse. are taught and examined to LSE ac.uk/study/summerSchools/ standards and based on regular LSEPKUProgramme undergraduate courses. 30
The essential General Course
A simple guide to the most s 9OU CHOOSE COURSES FROM A LIST OF important facts over 250 but need only take one from the department to which you s ,3% OFFERS NO SINGLE SEMESTER are assigned (two if in Economics). study options; you spend a full Your departmental choice need not academic year at the School reflect your major interest s 9OU MUST HAVE COMPLETED AT s !PPLICATIONS CAN BE SUBMITTED least two years of university level either on paper or online study prior to joining LSE (unless studying on the University of s !PPLICATIONS ARE CONSIDERED FROM London External Programme). January 2011 onwards and will continue to be looked at until all s )F YOU WISH TO STUDY QUALITATIVE the available places have been courses (eg, government, filled. The deadline for receipt of management, law) you should applications is 2 September 2011 have a GPA of 3.3 or above. If you wish to study quantitative subjects s 4HERE IS NO APPLICATION FEE WHEN (eg, economics, mathematics, applying directly to the School statistics) you should have a GPA of 3.5 or above in related subjects. s 4HREE ,3% 'ENERAL #OURSE Your grades should put you in the Scholarships, worth £7,000 top 10-15 per cent of each, are available to all your class accepted students. s )F YOUR TWO YEARS OF UNIVERSITY s 5NIVERSITY HOUSING IS GUARANTEED education prior to joining LSE to all General Course students. haven’t been undertaken in English, you are required to provide evidence of your proficiency in the English language 31
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