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entrance U Senior Common Room, Staff Dining Room O Photography: hidden Clement • Excellent graduate career prospects H UK universities from view House Fifth floor, Old Building Nigel Stead, LSE Photographer A L D experience industrial entrance disabled access D W Shaw Library • Public lectures delivered by eminent bridge Y C Printer: Belmont Press action by staff which H Sixth floor, Old Building outside speakers may prevent the full range Acknowledgments: Student Common Room • International and cosmopolitan of services, including teaching, AH Aldwych House, Aldwych M 50 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, R Lionel Robbins Building, Thanks to all the students who gave Ground floor, King’s Chambers environment being offered to students. Portsmouth Street Library and LSE Research Lab permission for us to publish their B Columbia House, Aldwych If services are affected by Student Services Centre • Central London location N The Anchorage S St Clement’s, Clare Market photographs in this prospectus. 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TT-COC-002168 L Lincoln Chambers, Portsmouth Street or other services. lse.ac.uk About the prospectus Term dates 2011/12 Health and safety This prospectus is for people interested in Michaelmas term LSE is generally a low risk environment. applying for graduate study at LSE. The Thursday, 29 September to You can find information on our safety first section provides a general introduction Friday, 9 December 2011 policy at lse.ac.uk/healthAndSafety to the School and the programmes we with details of the measures we take to offer, life at LSE, the student and academic Lent term ensure the health, safety and welfare of support services, fee and financial support Monday, 9 January to everyone involved with the School. information, and tells you how to apply for Friday, 16 March 2012 admission. The next section contains more Open Evening Summer term detailed descriptions of our master’s, research To find out more about studying at LSE, Monday, 23 April to and graduate diploma programmes. please come along to the LSE Graduate Friday, 29 June 2012 We make every effort to ensure that Opening Evening. programmes and courses are offered Term dates 2012/13 Wednesday, 3 November 2010 as described here and that any Michaelmas term This is your opportunity to: subsequent changes would add to, rather Thursday, 4 October to than detract from, your opportunities. • find out more about LSE Friday, 14 December 2012 However, certain circumstances may • discover the wide range of taught and occasionally make this impossible, and Lent term research degrees available at LSE we reserve the right to alter or withdraw Monday, 14 January to particular programmes or courses, to adjust Friday, 22 March 2013 • attend specific subject talks the level of fees and to review and amend Summer term • meet LSE academics and current arrangements for the provision of financial Monday, 29 April to graduate students help. Subsequent changes deemed Friday, 5 July 2013 seriously to affect course and programme • meet admissions, financial support and provision are indicated on LSE’s website Equality and diversity careers staff (please see lse.ac.uk/calendar). For further information and to book a We will promote equality of opportunity place, please visit lse.ac.uk/study/ You are strongly advised to visit the for students and staff from all social, openDaysAndEvents LSE website for the most up to date cultural and economic backgrounds and information on teaching provision in your ensure freedom from discrimination on chosen department. the basis of disability, gender, race, age, religion or belief and sexual orientation. Equality and diversity are integral to the School’s priorities and objectives. We will support inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogue and understanding and engage all students in playing a full and active role in wider engagement with society. A message from the Director

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is the leading social science institution in the world. At LSE are to be found many of the world’s leading experts in their fields. The School offers the best education there is in the major areas of the social sciences. It is a place of genuine intellectual excitement and cutting edge research. LSE is global in outlook and cosmopolitan in character. The School has major advantages over rival universities and colleges: it offers a stimulating environment for academic work, and at the same time, situated as it is in the heart of London, it gives access to what is probably the most diverse and lively city in Europe. Many world leaders in politics, industry and finance have studied at LSE. If you would enjoy the challenge and opportunities that we offer, then we look forward to welcoming you.

Howard Davies Director, LSE Contents graduate prospectus 3

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4 and 45 14 Helping you choose 22 Careers and alumni 39 Applying to LSE Departments, 14 Email a student 22 Careers Service 39 How to apply Institutes, Centres 14 Email an alum 24 LSE Volunteer Centre 41 Submitting your application form 4 and 99 14 Maintaining quality 24 Alumni 42 When to apply/deadlines Taught programmes 15 Course capping 42 Tracking your application and 25 Life at LSE 15 Bologna Process contacting us 6 Why LSE? 26 Living in London 43 The selection process 6 The heart of London 16 Student services 26 Living costs 44 Applying for a student visa 6 A world centre of research 16 Health Service 26 Accommodation 44 Our database and you and teaching 16 Disabled students 26 Food and drink 6 Scholarships and financial support 248 Index 16 Early Years Centre 27 Living in halls 8 HEFCE Research 16 Chaplaincy Assessment Exercise (2008) 28 Students’ Union inside front cover 8 The student community 16 Advice and counselling 28 Sustainability at LSE Campus map 17 Students’ Union Advice and 9 Types of study Counselling Centre 29 Fees and 252 London map financial support 9 Diploma 17 Adviser to Women Students 29 Tuition fees 9 Master’s 17 Adviser to Male Students 30 Financial help from LSE 10 Research 18 Academic 31 Other sources of financial support 10 Opportunitites to study abroad support services for UK/EU students during your MPhil (PhD) programme 18 Advice and support 32 Other sources of financial support 11 Double and joint master’s for overseas students programmes 18 The Library 32 Useful resources 11 Opportunities to link your LSE 18 Information technology master’s with study abroad 20 LSE Language Centre 33 Entry requirements 12 Part-time study 21 Study skills and 34 Equivalence of non-UK qualifications professional development 14 Visiting students and staff 36 English language requirements 14 LSE Executive Education 37 GRE and GMAT 14 Summer Schools 4 graduate prospectus Contents

Departments, Institutes, Centres 90 Social Policy 112 MA Global Studies: A 132 MSc Comparative Politics (Research) European Perspective 46 Accounting 93 Social Psychology 133 MSc Criminal Justice Policy 113 LSE-PKU Double MSc Degree in 47 Anthropology 94 Sociology 134 MSc Culture and Society International Affairs 49 Cities 97 Socio-Legal Studies 135 MSc Development Management 115 LSE-Columbia University Double 50 Urban@LSE 97 Statistics Degree in International and 136 MSc Development Studies 50 Climate Change and the Environment World History 136 MSc Development Studies (Research) Taught programmes 51 Economic History 118 LSE-PKU Double Degree in Public 138 MSc Diplomacy and International Diploma programmes Administration and Government NEW Strategy NEW 52 Economics 100 Diploma in Accounting 119 LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in 140 MSc Econometrics and 55 Europe and Finance Urban Policy Mathematical Economics 57 Finance 101 Diploma in Sociology 121 TRIUM Global EMBA 140 MSc Econometrics and Mathematical 59 Gender MPA programmes Taught master’s programmes Economics (Research) 61 Geography and Environment 102 MPA Public and 122 MSc Accounting and Finance 140 MSc Econometrics and Mathematical 64 Government Economic Policy Economics (two year programme) 123 MSc Accounting, Organisations 102 MPA Public Policy and Management 67 International Development and Institutions 141 MSc Economic History 103 MPA International Development 69 International History 125 MSc Anthropology 143 MSc Economic History (Research) 70 International Relations 103 MPA European Public and and Development 144 MSc Economics Economic Policy 74 Law 126 MSc Applicable Mathematics 144 MSc Economics (Research) 103 MPA Public and Social Policy NEW 76 Management 127 MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience 144 MSc Economics (two year programme) MRes/PhD Political Science and Society 78 Employment Relations and 146 MSc Economics and Philosophy 104 MRes/PhD Political Science 128 MSc China in Organisational Behaviour 147 MSc Empires, Colonialism Comparative Perspective 80 Information Systems and Innovation Double and Joint master’s and Globalisation programmes 129 MSc City Design and Social Science 81 Management Science 148 MSc Environment and Development 106 LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree 130 MSc Comparative Politics 82 Managerial Economics 149 MSc Environmental Economics and in Affaires Internationales and (Conflict Studies) Climate Change NEW and Strategy either International Relations or 130 MSc Comparative Politics (Democracy) 83 Mathematics International Political Economy 150 MSc Environmental Policy 130 MSc Comparative Politics and Regulation 85 Media and Communications 107 Joint Environment Master’s Plan (Latin America) 151 MSc European Political Economy 86 Methodology 108 LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree 130 MSc Comparative Politics in European Studies 152 MSc European Social Policy 88 Philosophy, Logic and (Nationalism and Ethnicity) Scientific Method 109 MSc Double Degree in Global Media 153 MSc European Studies: Ideas 130 MSc Comparative Politics (Politics and Communications with Annenberg and Identities 89 Regional and Urban Planning and Markets) School, USC or Fudan University 154 MSc European Studies (Research) Contents graduate prospectus 5

155 MSc Finance (full-time) 179 MSc International Health Policy 208 MSc Media and Communication 230 MSc Regional and Urban (Media and Communication Planning Studies 156 MSc Finance (part-time) 179 MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) Governance) 231 MSc Regulation 157 MSc Finance and Economics 180 MSc International Management 209 MSc Media, Communication 231 MSc Regulation (Research) 157 MSc Finance and Economics (Research) and Development 181 MSc International Political Economy 233 MSc Risk and Stochastics 159 MSc Finance and Private Equity 211 MSc NGOs and Development 181 MSc International Political 234 MSc Social Anthropology 161 MSc Financial Mathematics 211 MSc Organisational Behaviour NEW Economy (Research) 235 MSc Social Anthropology (Learning 162 MSc Gender 182 MSc International Relations 212 MSc Organisational and and Cognition) 162 MSc Gender (Research) Social Psychology 182 MSc International Relations (Research) 236 MSc Social and Cultural Psychology 163 MSc Gender, Development 213 MSc Philosophy and Public Policy 183 MSc International Relations Theory 237 MSc Social Policy (Research) and Globalisation 215 MSc Philosophy of Science 184 LLM 238 MSc Social Policy and Development 164 MSc Gender, Media and Culture 216 MSc Philosophy of the 188 MSc Law and Accounting 239 MSc Social Policy and Planning 165 MSc Gender and Social Policy Social Sciences 190 MSc Law, Anthropology and Society 240 MSc Social and Public Communication 167 MSc Global History 217 MSc Political Economy of 191 MSc Local Economic Development Late Development 241 MSc Social Research Methods 168 MSc Global Politics 192 MSc Management 218 MSc Political Science and 242 MSc Sociology 168 MSc Global Politics (Global Political Economy Civil Society) 195 MSc Management and Economics 242 MSc Sociology (Contemporary 219 MSc Political Sociology Social Thought) 169 MSc Health, Community 197 MSc Management and and Development Human Resources 220 MSc Political Theory 242 MSc Sociology (Economic Sociology) 170 MSc Health Economics, Policy and 199 MSc Management, Information 220 MSc Political Theory (Research) 242 MSc Sociology (Research) Management (modular) Systems and Innovation (MISI) 222 MSc Politics and Communication 243 MSc Sociology of Crime, Control 171 MSc Health Policy, Planning 200 MSc Management, Organisations 223 MSc Politics and Government in the and Globalisation and Financing and Governance European Union 244 MSc Statistics 172 MSc Health, Population and Society 202 MSc Management and Regulation 225 MSc Population and Development 245 MSc Theory and History of of Risk 173 MA/MSc History of 226 MSc Public Management International Relations International Relations 203 MSc Management Sciences and Governance 247 MSc Urbanisation and Development (Decision Sciences) 174 MSc Human Geography (Research) 227 MSc Public Policy and Administration 203 MSc Management Sciences 175 MSc Human Rights (Operational Research) 227 MSc Public Policy and 177 MSc International Development and Administration (Research) 205 MSc Management and Strategy Humanitarian Emergencies NEW 228 MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post 206 MSc Media and Communications 178 MSc International Employment Colonial Studies Relations and Human Resource 206 MSc Media and 229 MSc Real Estate Economics Management Communications (Research) and Finance 6 graduate prospectus Why LSE?

Why LSE?

The London School of Economics and Political Science – LSE – A world centre of research national and international media on the offers a unique opportunity to study the social sciences in a and teaching economy, financial markets and regulation. Professor Nicholas Stern (climate change), Our research informs and constantly university institution with a worldwide academic reputation, Professor Conor Gearty (human rights), invigorates our teaching. Graduate while enjoying the cultural, social and recreational facilities Professor David Held (globalisation), students also play a valued and important of one of the world’s greatest capital cities. Many influential Professor Dominic Lieven (Russia), role in the School’s contribution to Professor Anne Power (housing policy), developments in thinking about society, economics and politics scholarship, through the research they Professor Tony Travers (London and local undertake during their studies. LSE have originated in work carried out at the School, including government) and Professor Danny Quah supports the research of its staff through the basis of the modern welfare state and the development (the weightless economy) will all be familiar academic departments and institutes, and of free-market economics. names to the average news addict. also through a range of interdisciplinary research centres. Some 97 per cent of For a guide to staff research and Debate on the proper place of the state in stands at the crossroads of international LSE academics are actively engaged in consultancy experience, and their leading the promotion of prosperity and welfare debate, fundamental to our identity as an research. Staff are regularly sought out as publications, please see lse.ac.uk/experts has been a recurrent theme throughout outward looking institution with an active advisers, consultants and commentators, LSE’s history. LSE aims to be the place involvement in UK and world affairs. becoming involved in the practical impact Scholarships and where these issues, and the solutions to financial support LSE is stimulating, cosmopolitan and very of the subjects they teach and research. the questions they pose, are debated. much a part of the ‘real world’. These Many past and present members of staff LSE makes available over £12 million in These include: intensifying globalisation; qualities derive from the variety of its staff act as expert advisers to political parties, scholarships each year to its students. the changing nature of the nation state; and students, from its active academic the Civil Service and policy pressure Graduate students can apply for funding new opportunities and problems for and political concerns, and from the easy groups such as Professor David Metcalf, from the Graduate Support Scheme. global business; the transformation of interchange of ideas between the School chair of the independent UK Migration There are also scholarships for students world financial markets; the emergence and the world outside – Government, Advisory Committee. Emeritus Professor from specific regions and awards for of new ethnic divisions and conflicts; Parliament, the business and financial Lord Desai is a regular speaker in House students studying specific subject shifts in geopolitical power; the impact of institutions of the City, the Law Courts and of Lords debates and Emeritus Professor areas. In addition there is funding from climate change. We study not only British media are all on the School’s doorstep. Lord Wallace is a government whip departments. As well as School funds, areas of interest but also those of other in the coalition government. Emeritus students can also access awards from Each year, there are many influential countries, many of them in a comparative Professor Lord Layard, founder of the the Research Councils and from external outside speakers at the School (national and interdisciplinary perspective. Few Centre for Economic Performance, is organisations and governments around and international politicians, business institutions in the world are as truly a prominent expert on happiness and the world. Further details about financial leaders, industrialists and civil servants) international as LSE. well being. Peter Sutherland, chairman aid can be found on page 29 and at lse. as well as leading academics from all of Goldman Sachs International and UN ac.uk/financialSupport The heart of London around the world who visit to participate Special Representative for Migration and in teaching, to give public lectures and to The character of LSE is inseparable from Development, is chairman of LSE. pursue their own research. LSE is compact its location. Situated in the heart of and full to the brim with students and The School’s international reputation central London, the School is located in staff – this contributes to the vitality and and London location ensure that in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the friendliness of the place. times of crisis it is to LSE that the media world. Only a short distance from Europe’s turn first for a response. LSE director financial, legal and cultural centres, LSE Howard Davies is a regular contributor to Why LSE? graduate prospectus 7

Dr Alex Voorhoeve Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

I have lectured on moral and political philosophy, the philosophy of economics, and philosophy and public policy at LSE since 2004, with the exception of 2008/9, when I was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at Harvard’s Centre for Ethics. I am programme director of the MSc Economics and Philosophy and have been heavily involved in building our very successful MSc Philosophy and Public Policy. My research focuses on three liberal egalitarian ideals: a conception of well-being that respects state neutrality between differing conceptions of the good life; citizens’ responsibility for their own fate; and equality. The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method stands out for its interdisciplinary approach to philosophical questions, such as ‘What is a fair allocation of health care resources?’; ‘What is a good measure of well-being?’; and ‘What use are scientific models – including models of climate change, or of financial markets – that depend on false assumptions?’ In addition to their training in philosophy, all of our staff have a good grounding in a social or natural science: I trained as an economist, and colleagues hold degrees in physics, mathematics, and sociology, to name a few disciplines. Our students also come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from philosophy, through the social and natural sciences, to mathematics and statistics. This means that besides studying the works of Aristotle, Hume and Kant, we also study leading thinkers from economics, political science, and the natural sciences. At the graduate level, we take LSE’s mission of research-led teaching seriously: as far as possible, each of us teaches topics on which we are currently engaged in research. This makes for exciting debate in the classroom, as lecturers and students are together engaged in exploring cutting-edge ideas. One of the joys of teaching here is being challenged to defend my ideas against unforeseen objections, or to revise them in the light of students’ arguments in seminars or essays. Our Department is a lively place: the Philosophy Society puts on conferences and runs a student journal. We also have a lot of fun together during our annual weekend away and the departmental parties that are enlivened by our staff-student rock ‘n’ roll band. Our students go on to successful careers in think tanks, government, journalism, investment banking and consulting. Many also pursue PhDs in philosophy or the social sciences at top universities. 8 graduate prospectus Why LSE?

HEFCE Research More information about the RAE and The student community full time and 800 part time, 55 per cent of Assessment Exercise (2008) individual subject areas can be found whom are studying at graduate level. Students who choose LSE are intent at lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/ The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) on experiencing an active and varied A degree from LSE is widely recognised RAE2008 is a UK-wide assessment of research programme. The structure of our degrees internationally – the School is heavily excellence at universities undertaken by Using various ranking schemes, LSE emphasises the need for self-study and targeted by employers, and graduates Europe the Higher Education Funding Councils has calculated which universities are rigorous intellectual skills where an from LSE are in great demand. All every five to seven years. The most recent in the top five in the UK for research individual student’s opinion matters. graduates are surveyed six months after Australasia RAE took place in 2008 and the results excellence. The table below ranks they leave LSE and, even at this early stage The student community at LSE is one confirmed LSE’s position as a world universities by institutional GPA, but the in their career, the employability of LSE Norh America of the most internationally diverse in leading research university, with the School same five universities remain in the top graduates is evident. the world, with students from over 145 topping or coming close to the top of a five when assessed by percentage 4* or south America countries living and studying on campus. For more information about recent number of rankings for research excellence. by percentage 4* and 3*. This mix encourages a truly global and graduates please visit lse.ac.uk/ Individual subject areas at LSE also head international approach to intellectual graduateDestinations UK LSE is the institution with the greatest national tables of excellence. LSE comes discovery and academic life at LSE, which percentage of 4* research attributed to If you are the kind of student who enjoys top nationally by grade point average in cannot be matched elsewhere. The total asia the academics submitted to the RAE. being challenged – intellectually, socially Economics, Law, Social Policy and European student population at LSE is around 8,600 and personally – then choose LSE. Studies, with Anthropology coming second. africa

Top five universities by various rankings Graduate students by domicile

Rank Instituition Total FTEs GPA %4* %4* or Africa 1.8% Europe submitted for the 3* for the Asia 25.5% institution institution Australasia Europe (non UK) 28.9% 1 University of Cambridge 2040.39 2.98 32 71 2= London School of Economics 490.36 2.96 35 68 Norh America and Political Science south America 2= University of Oxford 2245.83 2.96 32 70 Australasia 1.2% 4 Imperial College London 1224.57 2.94 26 73 North America 19.3% UK 5 University College London 1792.68 2.84 27 66 UK 20% South America 3.3% asia Key: africa FTEs – full time equivalents 4* – World leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour GPA – Grade Point Average, taking into account the relative size of Unit of 3* – internationally excellent in terms of Assessment submissions within an institution originality, significance and rigour Types of study

LSE’s graduate programmes have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background. It is also possible to join LSE for short periods as a visiting research student. Many programmes also offer a part-time option, allowing you to work alongside your studies. A unique feature of many LSE programmes is the opportunity to link your studies with other institutions around the world, giving you a truly international perspective.

Diploma your analytical and critical capabilities; alternatively, a master’s degree Diploma programmes have two key programme could serve as a conversion purposes. If the level of your previous course from your degree subject, so that qualification or its subject content you can acquire a different set of skills does not permit progression directly or knowledge at a much higher level. A to a master’s, you can use a diploma master’s degree can also act as research programme as a conversion or refresher training to lay the foundations for more course. A diploma is also a qualification advanced work in a specialised field. in its own right, which extends the range and depth of your undergraduate studies. Many of the programmes we offer blend practical experience with rigorous academic Diploma students attend specially arranged analysis to help broaden the knowledge of classes and tutorials; in most, but not all practitioners in certain fields. cases you would attend lectures from undergraduate courses. Most diplomas are Taught programmes involve lectures assessed by formal written examinations, and seminars each week in addition to though a number have assessed work students own self-study and preparation. attached to certain courses. On most programmes there are also individual tutorials. The number of contact Master’s hours you have as a student varies from programme to programme. LSE offers a wide range of taught master’s programmes (see page 4). A master’s On most taught master’s programmes, degree can serve different purposes and students are assessed by a formal written offers many benefits. You can study a examination at the end of the year, subject in depth which you have taken coursework and research assignments and enjoyed at degree level and extend 10 graduate prospectus Types of study

associated with each taught course and a web pages and in the School’s Programme you through your studies. During your period of study at another institution. long essay, report, project or dissertation. Regulations Handbook. first year you will attend and contribute These arrangements are usually in the to departmental research seminars, form of a Research Exchange Programme You will register for the MPhil in the TRIUM EMBA workshops and research training courses. with an overseas institution affiliated first instance, which has a minimum These are designed to strengthen your with the School. Exchanges or other The LSE MBA is a global executive registration period of two years full-time methodological skills, language skills or similar opportunities are only available MBA aimed at experienced senior level or four years part-time. The time taken to background knowledge of specific topics within certain academic departments and executives (see page 121 for details). complete any research degree depends related to your research. students must be registered within the on your progress and individual needs appropriate department in order to be Research and you must remain registered with By the end of your first year you will considered for an exchange arrangement. A PhD offers the chance to undertake a the School until your thesis has been be required to present a more detailed substantial piece of supervised work that submitted. The maximum period allowed project proposal. The proposal, which These exchanges offer students an is worthy of publication and which makes to complete your PhD is four years should illustrate your command of opportunity to visit another institution, to an original contribution to knowledge in full-time, or eight years part-time. An the theoretical and empirical literature benefit from additional research resources a particular field. Research programmes assessment of your work, which usually related to your topic, will need to be a (archival and advisory) and to introduce (leading to a PhD) are designed to occurs between 12 and 18 months from clear statement of the theoretical and them to the academic culture and produce professional social scientists your start date, will allow us to appraise methodological approach to be taken. It professional contacts of the other country. well versed in a range of social science your aptitude for original research at will also need to include a draft outline Current opportunities include: techniques and methods, in addition doctoral level. If you have progressed and work plan, which should identify any to having an in-depth knowledge of a satisfactorily you will be upgraded to periods of fieldwork necessary to your GPPN scheme particular area. PhD status. Your study will, however, be research. This should demonstrate the LSE is a founding member of the Global continuous with no duplication of work coherence and feasibility of the proposed Full-time students studying for an MPhil Public Policy Network (GPPN), a network between the two levels. research and dissertation. or a PhD are required to carry out research of institutions offering teaching and (both from documents and in the field) MPhil/PhD programmes normally start in Students are invited to submit applications conducting research in a range of global and collect data from which they must late September each year but with the that complement the academic interests policy-orientated disciplines. The GPPN write a thesis of approximately 100,000 permission of the relevant department you of members of staff at the School. You will funded Exchange Scheme will provide words. In addition, they will normally be may start in January (Lent term) or April find staff areas of interest under the subject successful LSE applicants with flat rate required to attend certain taught courses. (Summer term). This largely depends on information in the Departments, Institutes, bursaries of £2,500 to conduct research Although each student’s method of the availability of methodology courses Centres section of this prospectus (page at Columbia University (two places), the research will be different, the amount of that your department and academic 45), which provides an insight into National University of Singapore (two time spent on their studies will be broadly supervisor decide that you will have to the current research interests of each places) or Sciences Po, Paris (two places). equivalent to that required to pursue an take. Most of those courses are held department/institute. For more information Each exchange will be limited to three undergraduate course or undertake full- in the Michaelmas term, so there is a relating to staff research interests visit months maximum (and two months time employment – ie in excess of 30 hours preference for research programmes to lse.ac.uk/experts minimum). LSE students who are pursuing per week. The work-load of part-time start in September. a PhD in any policy related discipline and students would be approximately half that Opportunities to study You will be assigned a supervisor (or who have already been upgraded to of full-time students. More information on abroad during your MPhil/ possibly two) who is a specialist in full doctoral student status are eligible. the requirements of research students can PhD programme your chosen research field, though not Calls for applications will be advertised be found on the relevant departmental necessarily in your topic. Supervisors guide Students may have the opportunity to internally at the end of Lent term for the link their LSE research degree with a short following academic year. Erasmus Mundus Double Degree in Affaires Internationales University, Shanghai www.fudan.edu. and International Relations or cn/englishnew (page 109) Erasmus enables higher education International Political Economy with students, teachers and institutions in 31 Joint Environment Master’s Plan with Sciences Po, Paris www.sciences-po.fr/ European countries to study for part of Columbia University, New York www. english/index.html (page 106) their degree in another country. Further columbia.edu (page 107) information on current opportunities Double Degree in European Studies with Joint MSc Health Policy, Planning and can be accessed at: lse.ac.uk/study/ Sciences Po, Paris www.sciences-po.fr/ Financing with London School of Hygiene erasmus/Home.aspx english/index.html (page 108) and Tropical Medicine www.lshtm.ac.uk Double Degree in International and World (page 171) Other opportunities History with Columbia University, New Double Degree in International Affairs There are a number of other York www.columbia.edu (page 115) with Peking University, Beijing www.pku. arrangements in place in academic Double Degree in Urban Policy with edu.cn/eindex.html (page 113) departments: up-to-date information Sciences Po, Paris www.sciences-po.fr/ on these can be accessed via lse. Double Degree in Public Administration and english/index.html (page 119) ac.uk/intranet/LSEservices/ Government with Peking University, Beijing divisionsAndDepartments/ERD/ Double MPA Public and Economic Policy english.pku.edu.cn (page 118) academicPartnerships / MPA Public Policy and Management / Joint TRIUM Global Executive MBA with MPA International Development / MPA NYU Stern School of Business and HEC Double and joint master’s European Public and Economic Policy / School of Management, Paris www.hec. programmes MPA Public and Social Policy with Sciences edu (page 121) LSE offers the following programmes Po, Paris www.sciences-po.fr/english/ which give students the opportunity index.html, Columbia University, New Opportunities to link your to study both at LSE and at partner York www.columbia.edu, Hertie School LSE master’s degree with institutions in London or overseas. of Governance, Berlin www.hertie- study abroad school.org or National University of Double degree programmes are normally As well as the joint and double degree Singapore www.spp.nus.edu.sg/home. of two years’ duration with students programmes that LSE offers, you may aspx (page 102) studying one year at LSE and one year at also have the opportunity to link your LSE the partner institution. Upon successful Double Degree in Global History and master’s degree with graduate studies at completion of the programme, a student Global Studies: A European Perspective another institution. These schemes typically is awarded a master’s degree or equivalent Erasmus Mundus Programme with Leipzig involve the studying of two separate, existing of both institutions. www.uni-leipzig.de/english/index. programmes, which when combined html, Vienna www.wu.ac.at/start/en, together allow the student to obtain both Joint degree programmes are offered Roskilde magenta.ruc.dk/ruc_en and qualifications in a shorter period. jointly with one or more partner Wroclaw universities international.uni. institution(s) and may last one or more wroc.pl (page 112) LSE master’s / HEC MBA scheme years. Upon successful completion of the programme, a student receives a single Double Degree in Global Media and This scheme offers students the master’s degree which is awarded jointly Communications with Annenberg School, opportunity to study an MBA at HEC by LSE and the partner institution(s): USC annenberg.usc.edu or Fudan School of Management in Paris in the 12 graduate prospectus Types of study

reduced time frame of 12 months (usually George Washington University’s Elliott CEMS Master’s in International spend the Lent term abroad and take 15 months) when combined with any School of International Affairs in the Management courses from MBA programmes. For master’s degree at LSE. The programme shortened time frame of one year (usually more information, please see www.lse. LSE students on the 22-month MSc is designed to train leaders from two years) after their LSE master’s. ac.uk/collections/MES/programmes/ Management programme can apply to international careers in both the private The MIS is a unique programme open mastersProgrammes/imex/Default.htm do an optional term abroad at a CEMS and public sectors. It brings together to students and recent alumni from a partner school. CEMS (www.cems.org) is the contemporary subject areas of social select number of institutions around LSE LLM / JD (Columbia or USC) a global alliance of academic and corporate sciences and management studies in the world, including LSE. Whether institutions dedicated to educating and This scheme consists of two years of study order to provide participants with a your interests are in global trade, the preparing future generations of international on a JD (Juris Doctor) programme at the global perspective and the contemporary developing world, international public business leaders. The CEMS academic and University of Southern California (USC) techniques which will help their health, security and conflict resolution, or corporate members work collectively to Law School or the Columbia University organisation to compete effectively and other global and regional issues, the MIS develop knowledge and provide education Law School followed by one year of study flourish in a complex and ever evolving programme prepares students for careers that is essential in the multilingual, on the LLM (Master’s of Law) at LSE. The international setting. in diplomacy, public service, international multicultural and interconnected business exchange scheme is only open to JD (Juris and non-governmental organisations. The application process to each degree world. In addition to completion of academic Doctor) students already registered at For information, please visit www.gwu. is independent. Moreover, acceptance studies on the LSE MSc, CEMS students USC or Columbia. Upon the successful edu/~elliott/academics/grad/mis into one institution does not in any way must also participate in further compulsory completion of the three years of study, guarantee entry into the other. The components, including proficiency in two participants will receive a JD from USC or European Master’s in Labour Studies scheme allows applicants to study the foreign languages, in order to obtain the Columbia and a LLM from LSE. For more HEC MBA or LSE master’s in either order. LSE students on the MSc International Financial Times top-ranked CEMS Master’s information please visit: weblaw.usc.edu/ However, applicants can only apply to Employment Relations and Human in International Management (MIM) degree. how/gip/studyAbroad/jdlseinfo.cfm (for the second programme once they have Resource Management, or the MSc For more information on the CEMS option, USC) or www.law.columbia.edu/center_ commenced studying for the first. For Management and Human Resources can including how to apply, please see program/intl_progs/Double_degrees/ entry to LSE master’s programmes, the spend a further semester studying at a www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ JD_LLM_Program (for Columbia). standard application process and entry partner university within the EU to gain management/MiM/CMS.html requirements apply. All accepted students the European Master’s in Labour Studies. Part-time study will follow a standard master’s programme Students would apply for places on the MSc International Management (IMEX) Many graduate programmes are available programme in the Lent term of their MSc at LSE and will be awarded the LSE students on the 12-month MSc in part-time mode. For master’s degrees and are selected by the academic organiser corresponding LSE master’s degree upon International Management (IMEX) or diplomas, the usual arrangement is to within the Department. This selection is successful completion. For information programme have the opportunity to take half the programme over one year based on language skills and academic on the HEC MBA, including application spend a period of study abroad by way and half in the following year. Tuition takes capabilities. For more information, please details, please visit www.mba.hec.edu of reciprocal exchange programmes place during the day, normally at the same visit www.emls.unimi.it/ing/index.htm with five top business schools in the time as for full-time students. The detailed LSE master’s / Master of International United States, namely: Graduate School timetable is available just before the start of Studies at George Washington University of Business (Chicago), Fuqua School the session. LSE master’s graduates (who have of Business (Duke), Kellogg School of If you wish to be a part-time research completed within the last three years) Management (Northwestern), Stern School student, you must discuss with us the are eligible to study the Master of of Business (New York University) and nature and hours of your employment. International Studies (MIS) degree at School of Management (Yale). Students Work commitments should amount to at

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least 15 hours per week and be in the institute/centre activities. Enquiries about are undergraduates but courses are events and hold a Graduate Open Evening London area and during conventional opportunities should be made to the also attended by professionals, both (see page 1). working hours. relevant academic department or institute from private sector and government Full and up to date information about in the first instance. organisations, which helps make the You should be aware that part-time study LSE visits and events, both in the UK and Summer School a unique and rewarding alone is usually insufficient to obtain entry overseas, can be found at lse.ac.uk/ LSE Executive Education learning experience. clearance to the UK on a student visa. See study/openDaysAndEvents www.ukvisas.gov.uk for more details. LSE Executive Education offers a range of Summer School courses are offered in training and educational programmes for the following disciplines: accounting and Email a student Visiting students and staff executives and managers in both private finance; economics; English language; and public sectors based upon the latest The Email a student service gives you the Visiting Research Student (VRS) status international relations, government and thinking and research from LSE. opportunity to contact current LSE students allows research students at other society; law; management. For more and find out more about LSE from a universities to spend up to one academic Options include: information, please see lse.ac.uk/ student’s perspective. Student profiles and session at the School at the discretion of summerSchool • Tailor-made training programmes contact information can be found at the department concerned. A supervisor LSE Executive Summer School lse.ac.uk/emailAStudent: is assigned to every VRS, and you can • Open enrolment courses take up to four full-unit taught courses. • Fully customised learning solutions LSE launched an Executive Summer Email an alum Examinations are optional, and grades School in 2009. The programme aims to For further information please see lse. The Email an alum service gives you the do not contribute towards a degree or deliver cutting edge research to global ac.uk/executiveEducation opportunity to contact recent graduates diploma. A full transcript of studies can professionals from both the private and and find out more about LSE from those be produced at the end of the period of public sectors. Summer schools with first-hand experience. Our former study. Other graduate students may also For more information visit lse.ac.uk/ students are in a unique position to answer seek registration as a VRS to take graduate LSE runs three summer schools, two in study/executiveSummerSchool your questions on their experiences prior level courses without the commitment of London and one in Beijing. to, during and since their time at the registering for a degree programme. LSE-PKU Summer School LSE Summer School School. Featured alumni can be found at The Visiting Fellow Scheme is aimed at LSE also runs a two-week Summer School lse.ac.uk/emailAnAlum The LSE Summer School, based on the scholars (pre-Major Review equivalent/of with Peking University in August, based LSE campus in London, provides an post-doctoral status), persons/practitioners at PKU campus in Beijing. Courses Maintaining quality opportunity to share in our tradition of of equivalent standing in an appropriate are offered in finance, management, academic excellence with members of LSE LSE seeks to maintain the standards of its profession/occupation, and researchers in economics, international relations, faculty. The Summer School programme teaching and research by reference to the the early stages of their career. international law and media. Further takes place between July and August, highest possible national and international The status of Visiting Fellow is given information can be found at lse.ac.uk/ offering three week intensive courses, comparators. We do this in a number to individuals from outside the School LSEPKUProgramme which are taught and examined to LSE of ways: associated with School departments/ standards and based on the regular Helping you choose institutes/centres. It recognises the undergraduate courses. Internal systems contribution from those in government To help all potential students make an In 2009 around 3,500 students from • All proposals by departments for new service, in professional practice, in the informed choice about coming to LSE, over 120 countries and a wide range of graduate courses and programmes are private sector, or in other appropriate we organise visits by academic and backgrounds attended the programme. reviewed by a central committee. fields, to research and other departmental/ administrative staff to UK and overseas The majority of students each year • The relationship between student and Course capping (master’s supervisor is shaped by School-wide and diploma courses) Codes of Good Practice. To keep within School guidelines on • Courses and programmes undergo graduate class size (a preferred maximum monitoring and review by departments. of 15) and/or in the event of demand • Departments undergo regular review by exceeding departmental expectations, the the School. School may limit the number of places on certain optional courses. For further details • Students’ views and experience are please see lse.ac.uk/coursecapping an important part of the process of maintaining teaching quality. Reviews Bologna Process include confidential questionnaires, The United Kingdom is signatory to the meetings to hear students’ views, and Bologna Declaration, which was designed each department also convenes a staff/ to facilitate greater comparability and student committee. compatibility between higher education • The Dean of Graduate Studies chairs a systems across a European Higher forum of research students and a forum Education Area of some 55 countries by of master’s students to discuss School- 2010. The action lines include developing wide issues affecting them. easily readable and comparable degree The School seeks to use these processes systems and adopting a common three not just to maintain teaching quality but cycle system of degree levels. LSE has been also to improve it. monitoring developments in the Bologna Process closely, and has already introduced Independent examiners and advisers the Diploma Supplements (enhanced As with all universities in the UK, experienced transcripts) which form part of it. examiners from outside the School help set Some of the School’s master’s programmes examinations for taught programmes, review are nine or ten months in duration; and the results and decide on the award of degrees School is currently reviewing how these fit and diplomas. These examiners report to the in relation to the Bologna expectations on School, and their comments and suggestions degree lengths and credits. The position is still on examinations, course content and unclear. However, if you are applying to these structure are taken very seriously. Similarly, programmes, and in particular if you wish to external experts examine and report on proceed from them to higher study in EHEA theses for research degrees. countries other than the UK, you should be aware that recognition of these programmes for such purposes is not guaranteed. 16 graduate prospectus Student services

Student services

LSE graduate students are of different ages and come from a wide Facilities at LSE include: Early Years Centre range of backgrounds. To help students reach their full potential, • An accessible library with two study The School provides an Early Years Centre the School has in place a range of student services to ensure that rooms and 13 computers reserved for (EYC) for children between the ages of six the whole experience is as rewarding and enjoyable as possible. disabled students; lockers; a book fetch months and five years. There are places service and photocopying assistance for 63 children of students and staff of the Please see lse.ac.uk/studentServicesCentre for more information. where required School. From year to year, there may be a • Specialist software and IT support waiting list. The EYC is open for 50 weeks of the year including all term time. Further • A number of accessible and adapted information about EYC is available at Health Service opportunities for disabled people to play a rooms in most halls of residence lse.ac.uk/nursery full role in community life. Most buildings The School is preparing to relocate are now accessible and hearing support • All lecture theatres and some medical services at present delivered from Chaplaincy systems are installed in most large lecture classrooms are fitted with infra-red the St Philips Building to other locations. rooms. hearing support systems The Chaplaincy offers a welcome and Currently, the LSE Medical Centre provides • Readers, note-takers and support hospitality to all, as well as the opportunity full NHS services to registered patients The Disability and Well-being Office provides assistants can be arranged as part of the to talk to a chaplain at any time. and medical care to anyone who becomes a first point of contact for prospective and LSE Circles Network of peer/staff support ill or needs medical advice while at the current students who need the School to It provides a focus for information LSE campus. The Centre also includes make reasonable adjustments in order for • A community service volunteer (CSV) and support for students interested in dental and counselling services. Overseas them to access their programme of study. can provide practical assistance spiritual issues as well as those already students on full-time courses lasting six Prospective students are encouraged to committed to a particular faith. It works • A rest room, with a bed and easy chairs months or longer are eligible to use the make early contact with the advisers to with an ecumenical Christian team National Health Service on the same terms disabled students and students with dyslexia UK students may be eligible for a Disabled and representatives of various religious as UK residents. Others are advised to or mental health and well-being issues and, Student Allowance to fund disability societies of the Students’ Union such maintain private insurance. where possible, make a preliminary visit to related costs of study. as the Islamic, Jewish, Sikh and Hindu societies, as well as societies for different the School. An Individual Student Support Further details are available at direct.gov. Students will be advised of changes Christian denominations. The Chaplaincy Agreement (ISSA) can be put in place, which uk/studentfinance and it is advisable to affecting the delivery of medical services embraces religious diversity, and the records the ‘reasonable adjustments’ agreed start the process as early as possible. Please at the School when arrangements have School has appointed an inter-faith adviser for individual students, including any special inform the Disability and Well-being Office been finalised. in recognition of this. exam arrangements, and the information is if you are in receipt of the DSA. circulated with the student’s signed consent The Chaplaincy can be found in Room G9, Disabled students and LSE’s Disability Equality Scheme to the appropriate parts of the School. 20 Kingsway, opposite the Peacock Theatre. students with long-term as required by the Disability There are also Muslim Prayer Rooms in the medical conditions and/or You can contact the Disability and Well- Discrimination Act 2005 can be viewed basement of King’s Chambers. specific learning difficulties being Office by telephoning +44 (0)20 at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ (dyslexia, dyspraxia etc) 7955 7767 or by emailing Disability- planningAndCorporatePolicy/pdf/ [email protected] and there is more Advice and counselling LSE welcomes the challenge of the duties disabilityEqualityScheme.pdf information at lse.ac.uk/disabilityOffice introduced in the Disability Discrimination LSE Student Counselling Service Act (2005) to eliminate disadvantage on The LSE Student Counselling Service is grounds of disability, anticipate changes free of charge for all current students at which need to be made and to improve LSE. It aims to enable students to cope Student services graduate prospectus 17

more effectively with any personal or study Adviser to Women Students Kati Balazs difficulties that may be affecting them A member of the academic staff acts as while at LSE. There are eight professionally the Adviser to Women Students. She is BA Social Anthropology qualified and experienced counsellors in available to discuss in confidence all issues the service, and we offer about 80 sessions London, UK of concern to women students in the of counselling each week. Each session School, including sexual harassment, and lasts for 50 minutes. The service is part of to offer advice and support to women the Teaching and Learning Centre (lse. students with personal problems. ac.uk/TLC). The website has detailed information about the service, together The adviser has a positive commitment with a wide range of advice and self-help to increase awareness in the School of I am the Circles Network Coordinator for the Disability and Well-being Office resources. More information can be found matters that concern women students (DWO). I can act as an adviser or as someone to listen; sometimes people find a at lse.ac.uk/studentCounselling and to take new initiatives which may student more approachable. I also put people in touch with others who have similar improve the quality of life for women disabilities/special needs if they want, hence the name “Circles” – circles of support Students’ Union Advice and students in the future. networks are set up. I also organise Pilates once a week for Circles members – this Counselling Centre is particularly beneficial as the teacher is a physiotherapist. Last year I also taught Adviser to Male Students Professional advisers in the SU offer help sign language classes. for students with legal, financial and A member of the academic staff acts as the I am a user of DWO support as well: because I am deaf, and lip-read, I cannot take welfare issues. Adviser to Male Students. He is available to notes in lectures/seminars without missing what is being said. I also miss things if discuss all issues of personal or academic The SU advisers can help with a range I cannot see what people are saying, eg if they look away from me, or cover their concern with male students in the School, of issues including landlord and tenant mouth. I have a support system of three note takers, set up by the DWO, who are all including sexual harassment, and to offer contracts; immigration, including student visa graduate students in Anthropology (therefore they know the content of the stuff advice and support to male students with extensions; post study work visas, academic being taught). They have a laptop on which they type everything that is said. That personal problems. appeals, and general welfare advice. means that I don’t have to worry about writing anything down, and I can focus on what is being discussed. It also means that if I miss something, I can look at the notes The Centre offers advice on debts, grants, (the note taker sits next to me). The system works really well. The DWO allowed me loans and council tax. Hardship funds are also to pick the note takers I liked the best, so I have ones who can type really quickly available to help with unexpected medical and make very good notes. I also have library privileges like extended loans and costs, homelessness, disability, council tax, free printing/photocopying as I need to print more stuff off due to the notes being repeating students’ costs, women’s right to taken. The DWO also send round an ISSA to all the lecturers/teachers who have choose and childcare costs. contact with me, which explains my needs, so they know who I am. A counsellor is also available for students For my degree, I have studied various ways of life and world views in different societies who are concerned about their emotional and this has given me a better understanding of just how diverse cultures can be. I am and mental welfare or who are feeling particularly interested in the public sector and, once I graduate, would ideally work stressed or depressed. in the Civil Service or in the Human Resources section of the NHS. All services are free of charge and advice and counselling are provided in strict confidence. 18 graduate prospectus Academic support services

Academic support services

LSE offers a comprehensive range of services to help you each student has their own designated student you will also have access to most succeed in your studies. These range from your academic liaison librarian (based on department). libraries of other colleges of the University Additional assistance is provided for of London and universities nationwide adviser to the world-renowned British Library of Political disabled students, on application to the through the SCONUL Access scheme, and Economic Science, as well as the LSE Language Centre, IT service counter or via email to library. which also includes borrowing rights for Services and specialist study skills and professional development [email protected]. There part-time students. is a web based catalogue to help you find opportunities offered by the Teaching and Learning Centre. To find out more about the Library, visit us the information you need in this Library, on the web at library.lse.ac.uk elsewhere in the University of London, and through an increasing number of Advice and support information provision. The course Information technology online databases such as the Social collection houses multiple copies of books services At LSE, every graduate teaching and Sciences Citation Index. on the assigned reading lists. IT Services provides a wide range of research programme is managed within The main stock of the Library covers services, facilities and support, including the framework of a Code of Good The Library is more than a book and the social sciences in the widest sense; high speed network access, high Practice, which is designed to ensure that journal collection. There are hundreds collections are particularly strong in specification PCs and high quality help, staff and students clearly understand of study spaces and IT workstations, as economics, sociology, political science and advice and training. their obligations to each other. You can well as laptop points, wireless access, the social, economic and international view a copy of this online at lse.ac.uk/ rooms for group study, social space for aspects of history. Primary materials IT facilities on campus resources/schoolRegulations students and DVD/video viewing and supporting graduate study and original photocopying facilities. The Library’s There are around 1,000 PCs available for You will have an academic adviser who research are one of the Library’s greatest course collection contains books on your taught students to use in open access can advise and help you on any academic, strengths. There are rich collections of reading lists and electronic resources are areas around the School and in the administrative or personal issues that may government publications from nearly all accessible from PCs on and off campus, computer classrooms. Over 450 of these arise during your time at LSE. the countries in the world, a wealth of providing access to thousands of full-text PCs are located in the Library and there is statistical materials, important collections The Dean of Graduate Studies is available electronic information resources such as 24-hour PC availability on campus during of manuscripts and rare books and long to any graduate student who wishes to newspapers, journals and useful websites. term-time. Research students also have runs of a large number of journals. raise any problem, academic or otherwise. The Library has long opening hours, access in their departments, providing at Archives can advise on archive materials In particular he is available for the including 24 hour opening during the least one PC per three research students. suitable for graduate research. The Library counselling of individual students who Lent and Summer terms. All student computer areas have laser also offers a data advisory service to experience difficulties. printing facilities. As a new student, you can use an graduates and researchers, with a data The Library audio tour to familiarise yourself with librarian providing one to one support in Specialist facilities are available for the Library layout and facilities – this the use of a wide range of datasets held disabled students, including dedicated LSE’s Library, also known as the British is also available as a podcast from the locally and via external data centres. For computer workstations around campus. Library of Political and Economic Science, Library website. Training sessions in the material not available at LSE we offer an Screen reading software is available for is the major international library of use of different information resources inter-library loan service via our web based blind and visually-impaired students and the social sciences. It has about four are run throughout the year or you can Library catalogue. voice recognition software is available million separate printed items, including follow the online tutorials. Staff are on for students affected by repetitive strain The School also has a separate collection 32,000 past and present journal titles hand to answer enquiries at the Help injury (RSI). for general literature and music, which and subscribes to approximately 30,000 Desk on the first floor in the Library and e-journals as part of its electronic is housed in the Shaw Library. As an LSE

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All networked PCs on campus provide Using your own computer complete a suite of IT courses can apply All our language courses utilise the access to common desktop applications for an LSE training certificate. Training specialist talents of our lecturers who Computer ownership is not obligatory, and specialist software, including: workshops run during the Michaelmas relate their own expertise to the teaching but if you do bring your own computer, and Lent terms and online computer of languages for specific purposes. No • Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, IT Services provides information and help based training is also available. other language centre can match our Excel, Access) with connecting to the LSE IT environment experience in this developing field. and accessing services and resources both • Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer Lecture capture on campus and off site. On campus, there The LSE Language Centre is constantly • Mozilla Firefox web browser is an extensive wireless network from A fully-automated lecture recording reviewing its provision and delivery, so system is installed in all of the main • Windows Live Messenger and Skype which you can gain access to the internet the best way of finding out how we can and email. In addition, there are over lecture theatres, and in many of the support you is to contact us directly. For • Quantitative analysis software 200 laptop data points in the Library for classrooms and smaller lecture rooms. If more information, please see lse.ac.uk/ (eg SPSS, SAS, STATA) students to use. Students can also print a lecturer has opted-in to use this service, languages • Qualitative analysis software to LSE printers from their own computers. the system records audio, video (where (eg ATLAS.ti, NVivo) Off campus, students can connect via cameras are installed) and whatever is Before your programme the Remote Desktop or a virtual private displayed on the projector. Content is then • Geographical and mapping software (eg Students can take advantage of the network (VPN). synchronised into a web page, which is ArcGIS, Google Earth) following pre-sessional courses automatically uploaded for distribution via • Computer based training IT support and training the School’s virtual learning environment • An EAP Language Foundation Year (VTC video tutorials) (Moodle), by email or online. – three modules which can be booked IT support is available 24 hours a day, together or separately PCs on campus also provide access to 365 days a year. Hardware and software For more information see lse.ac.uk/ the Library catalogue and a wide range support for taught graduate students itservices • A Pre-sessional EAP programme – for of electronic databases and datasets (eg is provided by the IT Help Desk in the students who need to develop their census, financial information). Library. Research graduates receive LSE Language Centre English language skills before starting their degree programme, or who have an offer first and second line IT support, as well The LSE Language Centre is unique – IT facilities in residences conditional on their English proficiency as specialist advice and assistance for no other centre specialises in creating All residences are wired for direct research and teaching software from one courses targeted to the needs of students During your studies connection to the School network. There of three academic support teams. One-to- and practitioners in the field of social are a small number of open access PCs one support and training on the use of IT science and related areas of study. All our Our institution-wide language programme and a printer in each residence computer is available for students with disabilities, teachers are native speakers who combine gives students who do not have a room, which are available 24 hours a and the Laptop Surgery provides support extensive teaching experience with an language component on their course, the day, and students may use their own for all students with personally-owned educational background in one or more of chance to learn or improve a modern computer in their study bedroom or in laptops. An out-of-hours helpline provides the subject specialisms offered at LSE. foreign language. the wireless zone, located in the social IT assistance when staffed support Whether you are going to study a modern • Languages currently offered: French, and recreational areas in residences. services are closed: overnight, weekends foreign language or need to improve your German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Every student staying in an LSE residence and public holidays. A wide range of IT English for Academic Purposes (EAP), our Mandarin, Portuguese, Turkish, Japanese receives a network cable and a guide to guides are available online. aim is to provide you with the highest • EAP Insessional academic language connecting their computer to the internet All IT training is provided free of charge level of language support throughout support and LSE resources. for students who wish to improve or your studies. extend their IT skills. Students who Academic support services graduate prospectus 21

• Study skills support in liaison with the an extensive central PhD development Thais Narciso LSE Careers Service and the Teaching and programme that supports students Learning Centre with the process of researching, writing LSE-Sciences Po Double and managing a PhD, and develops Degree in International Additional services participants’ techniques in communicating • Proofreading, translation and document research findings to a broad audience. Affairs and International authentication The Disability and Well-being Office Political Economy • One to one tuition (lse.ac.uk/disabilityOffice) and Niterói, Brazil Student Counselling Service (lse.ac.uk/ • Language learning support studentCounsellingService) are also part I was at LSE as an undergraduate and decided to come back because I was of the Teaching and Learning Centre. Study skills and professional keen on studying IPE, and the British approach to it was more in tune with my development priorities; namely, less focus on quantitative skills and greater emphasis on history, The School’s Teaching and Learning Centre norms and critical thinking. Moreover, I really like the flexibility the programme (TLC) offers a range of study support gives you of choosing courses in different departments. facilities and professional development The Double Degree is unique in that it exposes you to two very different systems. On opportunities for graduate students. It the one hand you have Sciences-Po, with its strong emphasis on oral presentations, runs special workshops for MSc students long coursework hours, and the practical approach of a professional master’s. On the as part of the integrated academic and other hand, you have LSE and its emphasis on academic research and independent professional development programme study. In brief, what I most like about this programme is that it has allowed me to organised with the Language Centre and develop a multiplicity of skills and a more flexible approach to learning. The many Careers Service. TLC also offers a one to compulsory subjects I took at Sciences-Po were instrumental in deepening my analysis one study support service (appointments at LSE. Besides, living in Paris and London is great! can be made via studentsupport@lse. ac.uk), which is open to all graduate The best thing about being at LSE is that it gives you so many opportunities as long as students. This includes a specialised you are ready to go for them. I have really profited from one-on-one meetings with quantitative support facility. professors in their office hours as well as from numerous public lectures with experts in their fields. Finally, interacting with people from so many different nationalities TLC provides a wide range of is definitely an enriching experience. development activities for PhD students. Those who choose to develop their HE The focus on independent study at LSE has allowed me both to explore my interests teaching skills while studying will receive in greater depth and develop time-management skills. I would also highlight the initial training and support, and may Language Centre resources. I started learning French and Spanish as an undergraduate choose to work towards a Postgraduate here and have now managed to attain a proficient level in both languages. During Certificate in Higher Education. The this master’s, I am studying Chinese and Spanish and I take great advantage of the PGCertHE programme is managed by Centre’s parallel activities such as film screenings and public debates. TLC and participants achieve a recognised In the future I would like to work with policy analysis in the nexus between teaching qualification (see lse.ac.uk/ environment, energy and development either in a think-tank, international TLC/whatWeDo/teachingSupport for organisation or the private sector. more information). TLC also organises 22 graduate prospectus Careers and alumni

Careers and alumni

Of course, your relationship with LSE doesn’t end once you have graduated. As an alumnus you PhD students will be strongly encouraged to stay in touch with LSE to ensure you make the most of the full range The LSE Careers Service has a of alumni services offered by both the Careers Service and Alumni Relations. The Careers Service dedicated careers adviser with specific in particular is always looking for LSE alumni to get involved in careers events and activities; from responsibility for providing one to one careers advice and developing and speaking at one of our careers forums to completing a graduate profile for our website. We’ll also delivering careers resources and events be in touch with you six months after you graduate, in order to find out what you’re up to, be it for PhD students. In partnership with work or study, for the national Destinations of Leavers of Higher Education survey which forms the the Teaching and Learning Centre, the basis of the Graduate Destinations website. service contributes to the Academic and Professional Development Programme for PhD students, ‘Authoring a PhD and Developing as a Researcher’, • Careers fairs, attracting top Read more about the services available and Careers Service which involves a series of seminars and recruiters across a diverse range of key view the LSE Careers welcome video at The LSE Careers Service provides a workshops held throughout the year. employment sectors lse.ac.uk/careersService comprehensive careers guidance Further details can be found at www. • One to one careers consultations with a teaching.lse.ac.uk service for students and alumni seeking The Careers Service online information on graduate employment and team of specialist careers advisers The extensive Careers Service website LSE Internships further study. An extensive programme of • Individual interview practice sessions provides an innovative range of events, including forums, fairs, seminars The LSE Careers Service works closely • Careers forums and employer online resources including videos, and workshops, runs throughout the with organisations in London to source presentations, with first-hand insights online psychometric tests, free books year enriched by our strong working internship opportunities for LSE students. from leading figures in their fields for download and extensive careers relationships with top graduate recruiters. Current internship schemes include: information resources. We are leading the • Interactive careers seminars and Careers advisers work in consultation way in the use of emerging technologies Parliament, Policy and Public Affairs – workshops running throughout the year, with academic departments to deliver a in providing careers information and this initiative, founded in 1998 with the covering CVs, applications, interviews, career programme tailored to the needs advice via Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and support of the LSE Public Policy Group and presentations and group work skills of LSE students. From your induction, a range of expert careers blogs; see our Barry Sheerman MP, places approximately we will advise on how to research your • Skills sessions programme, designed website for further details. 75 graduate students from all disciplines career, how to stay informed about jobs, and delivered by employers with UK parliamentarians and ‘My Careers Service’, a web based careers internships and careers events relevant organisations working on public policy. • Recruiter in residence sessions to your interests and how to develop database, allows students to book careers providing one to one appointments Corporate Social Responsibility and Media and promote the employability skills you events and appointments and keep up with graduate recruiters Policy internships - based on the success need in a competitive graduate market. to date with events that match their of other programmes we now offer a Our extensive core programme of services • Venture@LSECareers, an entrepreneurial requirements and interests. ‘My Careers small number of positions with small and events runs alongside departmental support zone, holds a masterclass Service’ incorporates an exclusive online organisations in these sectors such as work, focusing on industry sectors and programme for budding entrepreneurs vacancy board where you can search for full-time, voluntary and internship pressure groups, research organisations, employability skills, including: • Personality and careers choice workshops, positions and use JobShop, our dedicated charities and consultancies. using the MBTI personality questionnaire part time vacancy service for students. See lse.ac.uk/internships for further information. Careers and alumni graduate prospectus 23

Dr Clare Hemmings Gender Institute Director

I have been teaching at LSE in the Gender Institute for ten years, after working at Goldsmiths College and London Metropolitan Universities shortly after completing my graduate studies. The Gender Institute has changed enormously in that time. We’ve gone from 25 to 85 master’s students a year, and from four to nine permanent faculty and staff at the Institute. The growth reflects the Institute’s commitment to transnational gender scholarship that is theoretically informed and policy attuned. I feel like I’ve grown along with the Institute in those ten years, shifting my own research focus from sexuality and gender in Anglo-American and French theories to a more global set of concerns, and learning to leave my comfort zones of literary criticism and narrative analysis for a fuller range of interdisciplinary approaches to research and pedagogy. My teaching focuses on transnational gender theories, interdisciplinary epistemology and methodology, and globalisation and sexuality at master’s level, and I’m also currently PhD programme director (with a cohort of 15 innovative new scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds). I love teaching, and have spent a lot of time thinking about how students learn best: participation; group project work; space and time to think. In 2007 I won a National Teaching Fellowship for my work in international pedagogy, and an LSE Teaching Excellence Prize. Students come to the Gender Institute from all disciplines, many with no prior background in the field. The students also come from all over the world, and have often worked before arriving at LSE. Similarly, when they leave LSE, our students move into a diverse range of employment areas, but particularly equal opportunities, media research and production, non-governmental agency research and practice (often internationally), further academic or policy research, teaching or creative arts. We’re delighted that so many ex-students stay in touch and form part of our vibrant alumni network. LSE Volunteer Centre relationships between LSE and its alumni. those in the USA and Germany, to smaller, Staying in touch and engaging recently more informal groups in countries with The Volunteer Centre is a resource for graduated alumni is a priority for us. fewer alumni – but just about wherever current LSE students, members of staff, you are in the world, you’ll be able to find and local community organisations, Benefits and services LSE alumni to meet up with. creating opportunities for members of the School to be socially engaged and make a • Houghton Street Online web Groups organise a wide range of intellectual, difference to the world. community, including online email networking, social and cultural events, such directory, email forwarding service and as receptions at the local British Embassy, The Volunteer Centre offers students updating your details lectures from visiting LSE academics and pre- the opportunity to get involved whilst departure events, at which alumni are able gaining experience and skills that will • Bi-annual LSE Magazine and monthly to offer advice to students about to leave for be invaluable in their future careers. alumni email newsletters LSE for the first time. Many students find volunteering to be • Extensive events and reunions an important part of their experience programme, on campus and overseas UK based groups at LSE and a great source of personal • Alumni groups and contact networks in satisfaction. It also provides great Our UK based alumni groups offer events 70 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia opportunities to meet new people, get to and networking opportunities based and Europe know communities around London and around a specific business sector or gain hands-on experience to complement • Alumni Professional Mentoring Network interest – most events are held at LSE, but groups such as the Global Real Estate academic studies. • Access to the LSE Careers Service Group (GREG) have a global reach, and The Volunteer Centre helps students • Access to the Library, including some a regional remit. find suitable placements with a range borrowing rights of voluntary organisations across In addition, many LSE academic departments London. We strive to offer a range of • Discounts on graduate and Language and centres organise alumni events and send opportunities, including one-off events Centre courses regular newsletters to their own alumni, keeping you in touch with the latest in the and short-term projects, to suit students • Membership of the LSE Alumni academic areas that interest you. with various time commitments and Association, representing your views to demanding academic workloads. The the School’s governing bodies Alumni Association Centre also offers support in setting up • Termly LSE Events leaflet student-led projects. The LSE Alumni Association was (UK addresses only) established to provide alumni networks For more information about the • Discounts on Students’ Union and give alumni a voice in the School. It Volunteer Centre, please visit lse.ac.uk/ Gym membership aims to strengthen the links between the volunteerCentre School and alumni. • Accommodation discounts on LSE halls Alumni of residence and local hotels Further information LSE’s global network comprises more International groups For further information about all alumni than 96,000 alumni. The goal of the activities, please visit alumni.lse.ac.uk or LSE Alumni Relations programme is to Alumni groups around the world range email [email protected] build lifelong and mutually beneficial from large, established groups such as Life at LSE

London is an exciting, vibrant and colourful city. Whatever your interests or appetite you will find something to suit your palate and pocket in this truly international capital. Whether you are into art, architecture, dance, film, music or theatre, sport, shopping or even green spaces and the great outdoors, 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. A short journey by bus, tube or even river boat will bring you to the wide open spaces of the Royal Parks or Hampstead Heath, to the homes of internationally renowned sporting events such as Wimbledon and to the many unique and varied parts of London – whether your taste is for chic boutiques and bright city lights, or quirky cafés and a village atmosphere. It is truly one of the most dynamic and exciting cities in the world. International in flavour, London offers students an unparalleled environment in which to live and study. It is a centre for government and law, Europe’s leading financial market and a style-setting centre of cultural life. Educational benefits include libraries, professional institutes and all the resources of the University of London. 26 graduate prospectus Life at LSE

Living in London Living costs Accommodation Private accommodation Studying at LSE puts you right in the heart The perceived cost of living and studying LSE and University of London Both LSE and the University of London of London, with many places of interest in London is a concern for many students, accommodation Accommodation Offices offer a within easy walking distance. A map of however it is possible to live economically comprehensive support service to students If we offer you admission, we will send the local area is on page 252. in the capital by taking advantage of seeking housing in the private sector. you full details on how to apply for a reduced price services and facilities on This might be a room in a family house, a In any one week, London’s listing study bedroom in LSE or University of campus and beyond, making the most studio/flat or a share in a flat or house. magazines are likely to tell you about: London accommodation. Application of student discounts and concessions materials and further details are available Further information and advice about the • over 300 venues for all kinds of music in shops, restaurants and bars, and by online at lse.ac.uk/accommodation services offered can be found online at including: classical/opera; roots; folk and avoiding touristy areas of the city. In fact, lse.ac.uk/accommodation country; rock, reggae and soul; jazz and Latin a survey conducted by the Royal Bank of Further information is available from the LSE Accommodation Office (open from Unlike many other European cities, central • over 100 theatres (and over Scotland found that London is actually 10.30am-4.30pm weekdays) London mostly contains offices and shops. 30 fringe events) one of the most cost-effective places to It is not uncommon to spend up to 45 study in the UK because of the range of Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7531 • over 100 comedy venues including the part-time work opportunities available in minutes travelling between the School LSE Students’ Union’s own Chuckle Club Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7717 the capital and the higher rates of pay and private accommodation. on offer. • over 100 clubs and a wide variety Email: [email protected] Food and drink of nightlife Information on how to find part-time work LSE offers a variety of styles of Our catering facilities offer a wide range • events in nearly 25 different sports can be found at lse.ac.uk/careersService/ accommodation within a choice of of food and drink together with the infoForProspectiveStudents ten residences. Detailed descriptions • over a dozen dance performances opportunity to socialise with friends of each can be found at lse.ac.uk/ and courses LSE makes broad estimates of the cost and colleagues. There are numerous accommodation. In all residences there of living in the London area and these restaurants and cafés on the campus, The School itself offers a wide range of will be a varied mix of students, home and are available on the School’s website. which provide quality food at affordable activities to its students. LSE’s weekly overseas, men and women. Each residence For 2011/12, the School estimates that prices, together with two student pubs; Student News lists many public lectures, has an elected student committee that students should allow about £1,000 per the George IV and the Three Tuns. films and concerts. The Students’ Union organises regular events, such as film month for living costs, in addition to has its own newspaper, The Beaver, and evenings, quizzes and term parties. LSE Catering Services have been awarded tuition fees. supports the lively variety of affiliated Fair Trade Status for our commitment to The University of London also has social, political and ethnic clubs and We advise that the total for a nine month offering products and services from fairly intercollegiate halls which provide LSE with societies: there are many social events and academic year = £9,000 and the total for traded sources. For more information, a quota of study bedrooms in each. There entertainments through the year, at little a twelve month academic year = £12,000. please see lse.ac.uk/cateringServices are seven mixed halls: Commonwealth or no cost. How much you spend in addition to your Hall, Hughes-Parry Hall, International Hall, tuition fees is your decision and these Nutford House, College Hall, Canterbury figures are only intended as a guide. The Hall and Connaught Hall. Lillian Penson most important consideration is that you accepts graduate students only. must satisfy yourself and the relevant The School offers a limited number of authorities that you have sufficient funds spaces for students accompanied by a to cover your entire period of study. spouse or partner. Life at LSE graduate prospectus 27

Living in halls LSE Halls Intercollegiate Halls Bankside House Butlers Wharf Hall Carr-Saunders Grosvenor House High Holborn Lilian Knowles Northumberland House Passfield Hall Rosebery Hall Sidney Webb House Canterbury Hall College Hall Commonwealth Hall Connaught Hall Hughes-Parry Hall International Hall** Lillian Penson Hall (postgraduate only) Nutford House

Number of places 617 281 156 220 448 360 370 197 315 450 228 270 414 207 300 410 330 199 Single room rate (weekly)* £ 135- 105- 107 N/A 169- 132- 168- 137- 97- 113- 143- 176- 143- 126- 143- 151 133- 142 150 112 179 145 194 167 122 119 175 211 175 145 175 153 Shared room rate (weekly)* £ 81- 77 70- N/A 109 N/A 99- 79- 69- N/A 119- N/A 119- 120 119- N/A 94 123 93 79 £ 110 115 82 141 141 141 Single studio (weekly)* £ N/A N/A N/A 190- N/A 144- N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 178 N/A N/A 255 203 Double studio (weekly)* £ N/A N/A N/A 200- N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 201 171 N/A 360 Self catering + Yes + Yes Yes Yes Yes + + Yes No No No No No Some Some No Meals provided Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Games room Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Common room/Bar Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Launderette Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Central heating Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Parking + No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No No Time to LSE on foot 25 25‡ 25 5 10 25‡ 20 20 25 30‡ 20 20 20 20 20 15 25‡ 25‡

+ Limited facilities are available LSE Halls • Passfield Hall provides brunch on Saturdays Intercollegiate Halls and dinner every day except Saturday * Weekly rates quoted are approximate for • Meals provided are dinner every day, • Room rates include breakfast and dinner the 2011/12 session breakfast on weekdays (not Carr-Saunders or • All halls provide vegetarian food each day for all halls (except Lillian Penson) Passfield Hall) and lunch at weekends ‡ By public transport • All halls provide vegetarian food • Meals are paid for separately, except ** International Hall has a number of self • The University also has self-catering flats to at Passfield Hall where the rates shown contained flats available. Please contact them accommodate 570 students in various parts include meals. direct for further details of London 28 graduate prospectus Life at LSE

Students’ Union issues of the day. Few students can resist raise tens of thousands of pounds for various also administers a number of welfare and this hotbed of revolution, reaction and charities every year. emergency funds, together worth over LSE Students’ Union is the representative intrigue – something which is completely £100,000, to help students in need. campaigning body that speaks on behalf unique to LSE. Students’ Union buildings – The Quad, of all LSE students. Run by students for Three Tuns and Underground Bar Further information students, the Students’ Union campaigns Societies, the Athletics Union, Media One of the most visible aspects of the For more information on the activities and on student issues, supports and funds Group and RAG over 200 societies and sports clubs, and Students’ Union is its building, one of services provided by the Union, visit www. provides vital welfare services for the LSE With nearly 200 societies supported and the central social spaces on campus. The lsesu.com community. The Union is located at the funded by the Students’ Union, you can Quad café and venue is at the core of Sustainability at LSE heart of the School, offering cafés, bars, be sure that there is something to cater to the School, acting as an affordable, high shops, a gym and other enterprises that your interests. From Knitting to the Business quality food outlet in the day and a venue LSE recognises that its activities, products provide central social space on campus and Society, there are a range of national, for entertainments and events in the and services have environmental, social and fund the Union’s core activities. cultural, religious, political, career-based and evening. Two bars – the Three Tuns and economic impacts. LSE is committed to acting other societies that together provide the the Underground – are lively social spaces responsibly to minimise its environmental In essence, the Students’ Union is responsible sense of community and vibrancy unique to offering cheap, friendly and convenient impact through the following aims: for almost every aspect of the student the LSE campus. food and drink. The Union operates two • Reducing the use of natural resources experience at LSE and supports the activities shops, including a Print Shop that offers the For sports enthusiasts, the Athletics Union that have made LSE famous for being the cheapest photocopying in central London. • Preventing the physical degradation (AU) is a key part of the Students’ Union, most active campus in the world. The Union’s Gym also provides fitness and of ecosystems offering over 30 clubs for a wide range exercise facilities for the School community. Campaigns of sports. Standards range from casual to • Preventing pollution from emissions and highly competitive teams, with LSE clubs All the money generated by our commercial discharges, in particular those that directly The Students’ Union aims to improve the regularly reaching the final stages of the services is reinvested in our campaigns, contribute to climate change lives of students through campaigning for national British Universities and Colleges student activities and welfare services – the positive change, on and off campus. Recent • Providing leadership in the field Sport (BUCS) leagues. Many teams use the Union is not for profit, just for students. campaigns include improving the teaching of sustainability School’s sports ground, Berrylands (located experience, extending Library opening in New Malden, Surrey), which is a short Welfare services • Creating a vibrant community in which staff, hours, and defending the Early Years Centre students and visitors have the opportunity to train journey from campus. Clubs range from The combination of living in London and from closure. individually and collectively support the School football and rugby, to martial arts, sailing and studying at a world class institution can at in protecting the environment LSE is famous for the activity of its even ‘Ultimate Frisbee’! On campus, there times be a stressful business. The Union’s students. Passionate debate is part and are facilities for martial arts, table tennis, Advice and Counselling Centre (ACC), LSE’s environmental policy achieved national parcel of the LSE student experience; floorball, a gymnasium and squash courts. located on the second floor of the East recognition in 2010 when it attained a ‘first’ former students often comment that Nearby, there are facilities for basketball, Building, offers free, confidential advice so in the People and Planet Green League. We they learned just as much outside the rowing, tennis, cricket and swimming. that if the worst happens, you can get help. intend to continue to build on this success, classroom as inside the classroom during The Students’ Union runs an active Media ensuring that all students at LSE understand their time at the School. The crucible The ACC’s legally trained, professional Group, made up of a weekly newspaper sustainability and contribute to creating for debate on campus is the weekly advisers specialise in immigration and (The Beaver), Pulse Radio, Loose TV and the a global sustainability culture. For more Union General Meeting (UGM), open housing issues, but can also advise on Clare Market Review journal. Charitable information about sustainability at LSE visit to all Union members, where students employment, consumer and other areas. fundraising activities are also undertaken by lse.ac.uk/sustainableLSE come together to debate and vote on Our counsellor is there if you ever need the Raising and Giving (RAG) group, who the campaigns of the Union and the key help coping with student life. The centre Fees and financial support The School recognises that living and studying in London can be expensive. The information here provides prospective students with details of scholarships and awards that are available both from LSE and from external sources. LSE makes available over £12 million annually in financial aid for its students. Around one quarter of graduate students receive financial support from the School. In addition, external funding is also available for graduate students from sources such as the UK Research Councils and overseas governments. For the most up to date information please check lse.ac.uk/ financialSupport

Tuition fees The School offers a range of discounts for all self-financed students based on when payments Fees cover registration, teaching, first entry are received by the School. For the latest to examination, the use of the Library and information please see lse.ac.uk/tableOfFees membership of the Students’ Union. They also normally cover teaching and the use of Tuition fees for master’s and student common rooms at other colleges of diploma programmes the University of London, if your programme has intercollegiate arrangements. The fees for each master’s and diploma programme are listed in the individual Fees are fixed annually, normally in the programme entries. spring prior to the start of the programme. Students are informed of the relevant Tuition fees for MPhil and PhD programmes fee level in the offer letter. Please see and visiting research students lse.ac.uk/tableOfFees for the most up to date information. The likely fee for 2011/12 will be: UK and other Overseas Fee reductions and discounts EU students students LSE undergraduates starting taught graduate MPhil and PhD £3,552* £13,620 study at the School are eligible for a fee reduction in the region of ten per cent of the Visiting research £8,232 £15,888 fee. These reductions are available for UK, EU students and non-EU students. *Please note that this fee is provisional. We advise you to check the fees website at lse.ac.uk/ tableOfFees from January 2011 onwards. 30 graduate prospectus Fees and financial support

Aleksis Razmuss MSc Finance Riga, Latvia Lord Dahrendorf Scholar Fee status from the UK Council for International Student Affairs (www.ukcisa.org.uk). If you are offered admission to the School I have long aspired to be a student at LSE, which is a truly outstanding you will be advised of your fee status. Financial help from LSE academic institution. It equips students with knowledge, skills and importantly – Fee status is assessed according to also the mindset, necessary to succeed in today’s turbulent times and the tough LSE makes available over £12 million guidelines provided by the Department of job market. Moreover, its urban location in the heart of Europe’s capital makes it annually in financial support for its students. Education: Education (Fees and Awards) unique, offering the vibrant lifestyle of a Londoner, exceptional links with employers The Financial Support Office offers help and Regulations 1997. and a truly multi-cultural perspective. The blend of knowledge, experiences, advice on financial support and scholarships relationships and career opportunities I have gained during my programme have The Education (Fees and Awards) to applicants and existing students. While made me realise – nothing is impossible. Regulations 1997 state that to be the information here is correct at the time of considered for ‘Home/EU’ fee status, a going to press, circumstances occasionally I would like to thank everyone at Deutsche Bank and LSE who made possible student must demonstrate: require us to change the terms of awards, this scholarship, which now also includes a mentorship scheme and internship and new awards may also become available. opportunities. I think it is a truly exceptional initiative, which hopefully, will • that s/he was settled in the UK/EU For up to date information, please always continue to exist and have a tremendous impact in the coming years. within the meaning of the Immigration refer to lse.ac.uk/financialSupport Act 1971 on the first day of the first academic year of the course (settled, LSE Graduate Support Scheme meaning ordinarily resident in the UK/EU without any restriction); AND Around £2 million is available annually in the form of awards from the Graduate Harriet Nakaggo • that s/he has been ordinarily resident Support Scheme (GSS). This scheme is in the UK/EU for a specified three years designed to help students (from the UK, the MSc Social Policy and preceding the commencement of their rest of the EU and Overseas) who do not course (ordinarily resident, meaning Development have the necessary funds to meet all their habitually resident in the UK/EU); AND Kampala, Uganda costs of study. It is available only for study • that no part of this period of residence of taught graduate programmes at LSE. Firoz and Najma Lalji was wholly or mainly for the purpose of Once you apply for admission for a diploma/ Foundation Scholar receiving full time education. master’s programme, you will be able to apply to the Graduate Support Scheme You may be asked to provide documentary online via a link which we will send to you evidence of your status/residence. The origin of my interest in studying in a developed country, particularly in our acknowledgement email. You must Note: It is important to note that once you at LSE, happened during my undergraduate studies back at home in Uganda. The complete this application as soon as possible register for your degree, your fee status relatively backward education concepts and teaching methodologies have made it after you receive the link in order to have will only change in highly exceptional inevitable that Ugandan education as a whole remains out of pace with international the best chance of securing funding. GSS circumstances (either a change in the law educational development – we were taught to be job seekers but not creators. awards range in value from £3,000 to a or if you become an EU national; or if you The reason why I applied for graduate study at LSE was that it is a university with a maximum of £10,000, and have an average are granted Refugee Status, Exceptional time-honoured history and academic reputation in the world. value of £6,000. You are encouraged to Leave, Humanitarian Protection or apply as early as possible because funds are It is as a result of the impact of my scholarship that I want to become a development Discretionary Leave). limited. You do not need to wait for an offer activist in Uganda immediately after my programme, mostly geared to helping If you would like guidance on your status of admission to be made. vulnerable children fulfil their dreams of life. for fees, independent advice is available Fees and financial support graduate prospectus 31

The information provided on this form There is no standard amount awarded from countries or regions. In 2009, scholarships Economic and Social Research will also be used to put you forward for this fund – values may vary – but the award were available for students from Europe, Council (ESRC) any other LSE scholarships and awards for usually takes the form of a contribution North America, South America, the Middle The ESRC currently funds programmes of which you are eligible. towards fees. Application forms for the East, Africa, Asia and Australasia. up to four years. These usually consist of a LSE Research Studentship Scheme will be Your financial information will not be For further details, please refer to lse. one year research training master’s linked available on the application tracker system for considered as part of your application for ac.uk/financialSupport. Application to a three year PhD, and three year PhD all applicants offered admission, and should a place at the School. will be via the Graduate Support Scheme programmes. be completed and returned to the Financial application form. You must have an offer Support Office by 11 June 2011. Forms At the time of going to print, the School LSE PhD Scholarships of admission by the time the awards are are considered by the relevant academic has applied for recognition as an ESRC Funding for PhD level study is usually decided (unless otherwise stated this is in department. All research programme offer Doctoral Training Centre (DTC). If awarded on the basis of academic May 2011). holders (from the UK, the rest of the EU and successful, the School will be awarded a merit and research potential. When you Overseas) are eligible to apply. Other sources of financial number of studentships by the ESRC to submit your application for an MPhil/PhD support for UK/EU students offer to incoming MSc, MRes and MPhil/ programme, your academic department Other LSE scholarships and awards PhD students. will decide whether to nominate you for Research Council awards for UK and LSE offers a wide range of scholarships LSE is also expected to be able to nominate an LSE PhD Scholarship. EU students awarded on the basis of academic candidates for the ESRC Open competition. The LSE PhD Scholarship is a full fees and merit and financial need, country of Awards are offered for graduate If you are nominated for the Open maintenance award, tenable for a total domicile and subjects studied. We programmes (taught master’s and research) competition, you will compete against of three years, subject to satisfactory offer scholarships for UK, other EU and by a number of research councils. Research candidates from across the country for a academic performance. Academic Overseas students. The terms and value of Council awards normally cover fees up to number of limited studentships not allocated departments are able to nominate a the awards vary; applicants should check the level stipulated by the government. via the Doctoral Training Centre scheme. limited number of candidates only. the eligibility criteria which are listed at LSE charges graduate fees which are When you submit your application for an Departmental nominations will be lse.ac.uk/financialSupport sometimes above this level. Therefore, MPhil/PhD programme, your academic considered by a panel. if you are awarded a studentship via a From time to time, new awards become department will decide whether to Research Council, the School will make up Early application is essential. To increase available or existing scholarships nominate you for an ESRC studentship. the difference between the published fee your chances of being nominated by your are discontinued, so applicants are and the amount awarded via the Research Information about 2011/12 funding is academic department for an LSE PhD encouraged to look at the website for the Council. There is no application procedure expected to be available from the ESRC in Scholarship, the School recommends that most up to date information. However, at for the top up awards as the School will late 2010, with an anticipated LSE deadline you submit your complete application the time of going to press, the following be aware of who has obtained a Research for applications in January 2011. More for admission, including references, awards are available for LSE applicants. Council award and top up awards will be information is available at www.esrc. transcripts, research proposal etc, by • Departmental awards: awards made to allocated accordingly. ac.uk and lse.ac.uk/financialSupport 10 January 2011. applicants intending to follow particular Each Research Council has its own programmes of study. The value of Arts and Humanities Research LSE Research Studentship Scheme regulations and closing date for applications. the awards range from £2,000 to full Council (AHRC) If you apply for and are offered admission to For more information about these awards scholarships covering fees and expenses. LSE is in receipt of a Block Grant an MRes/MPhil/PhD programme by 31 May please refer to lse.ac.uk/financialSupport Partnership Award, offering studentships 2011 you will be invited to apply for funding • Regional and country based scholarship in both one year Research Preparation from the LSE Research Studentship Scheme. awards, made to applicants from particular Master’s programmes and PhDs. In 2011 Other sources of financial Useful resources studentships are available in the subject support for overseas students The brief list below contains details of areas of history, law and philosophy. External organisations, agencies and resources for those seeking financial Students will be nominated by relevant government bodies also offer scholarships help from education trusts, charities or departments of the School, and applicants for students planning to study in the UK. foundations. Copies of paper publications in the appropriate subject areas should may usually be found in British reference discuss the possibility of nomination A selection of these external organisations libraries or British Council offices. with their departmental contact. More can be found below. Please refer to lse.ac. information is available at lse.ac.uk/ uk/financialSupport for information about • Commonwealth Universities Yearbook financialSupport and www.ahrc.ac.uk funding for overseas students. 2008. Published by the Association of Commonwealth Universities, John • British Marshall Scholarships Career development loans Foster House, 36 Gordon Square, London www.marshallscholarship.org If you live or intend to train in the UK WC1H 0PF • British Chevening Scholarships you can apply for a loan to improve your • For information about international www.chevening.com employment prospects. The maximum loan scholarships and scholarships to British available is £10,000. Details are available • Commonwealth Scholarship universities, refer to www.unesco. from banks or www.direct.gov.uk/cdl Commission in the UK www.cscuk.org. org/education/studyingabroad/ uk/apply/postgraduate_study.asp networking/studyabroad.shtml Disabled student’s allowance • Joint Japan Graduate Scholarship • The Educational Grants Directory. A disabled student’s allowance, available Programme/World Bank Graduate Lists educational charities in England for UK students, may help with costs Scholarship www.worldbank.org/wbi/ and Wales giving support to students you incur for the duration of your course scholarships in need. For further information please as a direct result of your disability. • Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial refer to www.dsc.org.uk/Publications/ Information and a copy of the booklet Scholarships www.rotary. Fundraisingsources/@2647 Bridging the Gap: a guide to the disabled org/en/StudentsAndYouth/ students’ allowances (DSAs) in higher • The Grants Register 2010. Lists EducationalPrograms/Ambassadorial education can be ordered from 0800 worldwide graduate funding Scholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx 731 9133 or accessed from www. opportunities. Published by Palgrave direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/ • UNESCO Fellowships portal. Macmillan. For further information refer EducationAndTraining/ unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID= to www.palgrave.com/reference HigherEducation/index.htm 7972&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_ Information can also be obtained by SECTION=201.html telephoning the free information line on 0845 300 5090. Copies of the guide are also available in Braille, audio cassette and Welsh language. A minicom service is available on 0845 604 4434. Entry requirements graduate prospectus 33

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Each level of graduate study (diploma, master’s, MPhil/PhD) has Any offer of a place would depend on: followed by PhD study. A 2+2 programme is a linked programme of a two year particular minimum entry requirements which you must have in • the quality and feasibility of your master’s followed by PhD study. order to be considered. These consist of your degree(s) and your research proposal For information on ESRC studentships, proficiency in the English language. Please consult individual • your academic qualifications, and please see www.esrc.ac.uk (click on relevant professional or other experience, programme entries as well as reading the information below. the ‘Academic’ link, then the funding if appropriate opportunities icon), which also includes • the ability of the department to provide the ESRC application form and lists of Your application will be considered on its level in particular disciplines. Competition adequate and appropriate supervision eligible programmes. academic merits. An offer of a place may be varies between programmes and the level The total duration of ESRC funding for conditional on attending additional courses of grades/marks required will vary. Popular MRes/PhD full-time programmes is four years and and/or passing qualifying examinations at a programmes will often look for a first class Your entry qualification determines which for part-time, seven years. If you wish suitable standard, in addition to your degree. honours degree or its equivalent. track you will follow if your application to study part-time, you must check that You should note that there are always many is successful. For entry onto either track, The minimum entrance requirements your chosen programme is one of those more applications than places available at candidates should have a first or upper for each type of programme are normally that have been specifically recognised LSE and possession of the minimum entrance second class honours degree, or equivalent, as follows: by the ESRC for part-time study. Some requirements does not guarantee that you in a closely related discipline. Track 1 students programmes have been recognised will be offered admission. It is therefore in fulfil the entry requirements for a master’s Diploma on a 2+2 basis – a two year master’s your interests to apply as early as possible. degree and follow the 2+2 structure laid out A degree or equivalent qualification and programme followed by two years of below. Track 2 involves an exemption from experience. You will not normally be further study for the PhD. Applications open on 11 October 2010 the first year of taught courses and will only accepted for a diploma programme similar If you are taking, or have taken, a be recommended by the course conveners Admission to 1+3 or 2+2 programmes in content to one that you have already recognised degree programme outside if, in their judgement, a student already has taken at the School. If you wish to be considered for a 1+3 or the UK you will need to have obtained, appropriate prior training in quantitative 2+2 programme – usually listed as MSc or expect to obtain, at least 70 per cent methods and has already completed an MA Master’s degree (Research) in the prospectus – you must of the available marks in your final year or MSc in a relevant discipline. Upgrade to A first or upper second class honours (2:1) include an outline research proposal with examinations. If your institution uses the the PhD depends on successful completion of degree from a UK university or a non-UK your application. This proposal should be cumulative grade point average (GPA) the MRes in either track. equivalent in a subject appropriate to the a brief description of the research topic system you should normally have obtained, programme to be followed. you are considering pursuing during your or expect to obtain, a GPA of at least 3.5 MSc (Research) 1+3/2+2 programmes PhD and should explain why you are (out of 4) or above. For a table of equivalent These programmes are structured MPhil/PhD interested in this area of research. As your qualifications from around the world please to comply with the requirements for research interests will develop further over see lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries and Normally a UK taught master’s degree financial support from the Economic and the year of your master’s training your lse.ac.uk/study/informationfor with merit or a non-UK equivalent in a Social Research Council (ESRC), which is proposal need only be indicative. InternationalStudents subject appropriate to the research to be available only to those applicants from undertaken. The most appropriate supervisor If your application is successful you will be Summary information is given overleaf. the European Union. The programmes for your work will be allocated with particular themselves are open to students from any offered admission either: Most graduate programmes assume that reference to your research proposal. part of the world. A 1+3 programme is a you will have prior knowledge to degree linked programme of a one year master’s 34 graduate prospectus Entry requirements

• to the master’s programme only, with Armenia: Magistros with overall mark of Canada: Honours bachelor’s degree with Ethiopia: Master’s degree with overall no commitment at this stage to the PhD 80% or GPA of 3.5 B+/77%/GPA 3.3/ GPA 7.0 mark of B+ or GPA of 3.5 programme, or Australia: Upper second class honours Chile: Licenciado with a minimum overall Fiji/University of the South Pacific, • to the master’s and PhD programme, with bachelor’s degree mark of 5.0 or 70% overall Vanuatu: Master’s degree entry to the PhD subject to you achieving Austria: Diplomstudium, bachelor’s China: Bachelor’s degree from a Finland: Kandidaattii with good grades. specific marks/grades in your final master’s degree or Magister with 2.2 or better prestigious university with an overall mark Students graduating between 1993 and examinations and/or other conditions. of 85% 2005 are required to hold the Magister Azerbaijan: Specialist Diploma with with good grades Visiting research students grades of 9 or above Colombia: Licenciado or Professional Title with overall mark of 4.0 France: Licence with 13/20 Visiting research students attend for one or Bahrain: Degree from Arabian Gulf more terms and study up to four graduate University or Bahrain University with 90% Costa Rica: Licenciado with four years’ Georgia: Magistris Khariskhi with overall or undergraduate courses. Examinations or 4.0GPA study and an overall mark of 85% or 8.5, grade of 5 are optional, but students wanting to sit or a Maestría with five years’ study and Bangladesh: Master’s degree with Germany: Diplom, Staatsexamen, the examination in a course must have marks of 80% or 8.0 overall exceptional grades Bachelor’s or Magister with good grades attended the course for the full year. Croatia: Baccaleureus (completed after (2.2 or better). We will consider you if Belarus: Specialist Diploma or Master’s 2005) with a mark of 4 or above you have taken the Vordiplom or other Equivalence of non-UK degree with overall marks of 4 intermediate qualification, provided that qualifications Cyprus: Bachelor’s degree or a Ptychion Belgium: Licence/ Licenciaat/ Maîtrise or you have also taken a third year (at least from the University of Cyprus, with 7.5/10 Simply having a first degree from bachelor’s degree (since 2004) with 70% two semesters) of substantive study your country may not be sufficient for or avec distinction Czech Republic: Pre-2001, the Magistr beyond that point admission to LSE. with ‘velmi dobre’. Post-2001, a Bachelor’s Bolivia: Licenciado with overall Ghana: Honours degree from prestigious degree with velmi dobre, B or 1.5 overall The following list shows the minimum entry ‘distinguido’ or 77% institution wih grades of 65%, B+ or a requirements we would normally expect Denmark: Bachelor’s degree with an Bosnia-Herzegovina: Diploma Visokog GPA of 3.75 in terms of the qualifications offered in a overall mark of 10. Alternatively, a Obrazovanja with grades of at least 9 Greece: Ptychion awarded by an AEI, with number of countries. If you cannot find your Master’s or Candidatus Magisterii with an marks not below 7 out of 10 qualification below see www.naric.org.uk Brazil: Bacharel, Licenciado or average mark of 9 or go to your local British Council Office for professional title with 8 or ‘muito bom’ Guatemala: Licenciado obtained after Dominican Republic: Maestria with more information. four years with overall mark of 85% Brunei: Four year Bachelor (Honours) grades of B, 80% or 3 out of 4 Afghanistan: Master’s degree with degree from the University of Brunei Honduras: Licenciado or Professional Title Ecuador: Licenciado or Professional Title 85% (a GPA of 3.5). Bachelor of Science Darussalam with a second class honours with an overall mark of 90% or 4/5 or Maestria with 80% or 8.0 (Engineering) from Kabul University will be (upper division) Hong Kong: Bachelor’s (Honours) degree considered in exceptional circumstances Egypt: Bachelor’s degree with 85% in Bulgaria: Bachelor’s degree (started after with 2:1 science disciplines or 90% in others. From Albania: Kandidat I Shkencave with an 2001) or Master’s degree with grades of the AUC we require a minimum GPA of 3.5 Hungary: Alapfokozat (started after overall mark of 8 5 or above 2004) with cum laude Estonia: Bakalaurusekraad (started after Argentina: First degree with average Cameroon: Diplôme d’Ingénieur or 2005) with grade of 5,A or suureprärane India: Bachelor’s degree with high First marks of 8 or 9 depending on Maîtrise with overall mark of Très Bien or a Magistrikaad/master’s with ‘väga Class Honours. Overall grade in excess undergraduate institution hea’, 4 or very good of 60% or a GPA of above 5/7, 6/8, 7/9, Entry requirements graduate prospectus 35

or 8/10 (with attention paid to the AIU Lebanon: Maîtrise with overall mark of Dr Bremley WB Lyngdoh recognised undergraduate institution and 85% or above subject studied). Honours and special Lithuania: Four year Bakalauras (started Founder and CEO, courses are advantageous but not essential after 2000) with grades of 9/Excellent or a Worldview Impact Indonesia: Sarjana (S1) with an overall Magistra/master’s degree grade of A/4/Excellent MPhil Development Luxembourg: Bachelor’s degree (when Iran: Licence or Karshensai with overall started after 2003) from the University of Studies 2007 grade of A, 4 or 17/20 Luxembourg with 50-60 or Très Bien Iraq: Master’s degree with 85% from a FYR Macedonia: Magistar with overall university grades of 9 I started my journey in sustainable development back in 1992 at the Rio Earth Summit. That experience left me convinced that working towards helping Ireland: Bachelor’s Honours degree with Malaysia: Bachelor’s degree from a public people build a better life through social, environmental and economic development 2:1 or above university with grades of 2:1, B+ or 3.5 was what I wanted to do. I was later appointed by the prime minister of India to GPA. Applications from students from Israel: Bachelor’s degree with overall represent my country at the historic United Nations Millennium Summit. After private universities will be considered on a marks of 85% graduating from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in case-by-case basis 2002 with a Master of International Affairs in Environmental Policy Studies, I moved Italy: Laurea with 106/110 Malta: Four year Bachelor’s degree with to Washington DC and joined the Environment Department of the World Bank Jamaica: Bachelor’s (Honours) degree 70%, 2A or Upper Second Class overall working on linking poverty reduction and environmental management funded by with 2:1 or above DFID, EU, UNDP and World Bank. I moved to London to complete my MPhil at LSE Mexico: Licenciado with very good grades in 2007 and then completed my PhD on analysing the impacts of climate change Japan: a good first degree with a GPA of (muy bien+) 3.3, B+, 76% or above on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples in Meghalaya at the Intercultural Open Netherlands: Second level doctoral University in the Netherlands in 2009. Jordan: Bachelor’s degree from University programme (drs/ir/mr) or bachelor degree of Jordan with overall grade of A (when started after 2002) with grades of My reason for applying to LSE was to conduct further research on the complex issues of forestry and governance in my homeland Meghalaya in North East India and also Kazakhstan: Magister with an overall 7, good or goed raise the profile of my part of forgotten and forbidden India. My time at LSE was grade of 4 New Zealand: Upper Second Class a great learning experience where I was able to develop strong friendships with Kenya: Bachelor’s (Honours) degree with Honours Bachelor’s degree both faculty and fellow students from around the world. Thanks to the findings a 2:1 or above Norway: Bachelor’s degree with B/Very of my research thesis at LSE, I was influenced to put it into practice on the ground Kuwait: Master’s degree with very good Good or Candidatus/Candidata Magisterri by converting it into a business plan and establishing my own LSE incubated Social grades with 2.5 Enterprise – Worldview Impact. As its Founder and CEO I am now creating a sustainable business for a sustainable future by mitigating climate change at the grassroots Pakistan: Four year Bachelor’s degree Kyrgyzstan: Magister/Specialist Diploma level, through the creation of sustainable livelihoods for the poor in order to reduce with overall marks of 75%, GPA 3.5 with an overall mark of 4.0 or above poverty. I am also the co-founder of the Global Youth Action Network and sit on the Latvia: Four year Bakalauras (started Palestine (West Bank, East Jerusalem Board of Directors of Media Impact, Humanitad and Forestry for Life. after 2000) with grades of Excellent/9 or and Gaza): Master’s degree from a a second cycle Magistrs/master’s degree recognised institution with a minimum with 8/Very Good GPA of 3.5 36 graduate prospectus Entry requirements

Peru: Licenciado (four years) with grades Switzerland: Bachelor’s degree, Diplom English language in the paper test or 107 in the internet of 15 or above or Lizentiat or Staatsdiplom/Diplôme requirements based test d’Etat with grades of 5/6, 2.2/5, 8 out of Philippines: Master’s degree with grades If your first language is not English or if the IELTS (International English Language 10 or gut, bien, bene, good of 1.75 or A- language of instruction of your previous Testing System) with a minimum score Taiwan: Bachelor’s degree with overall of 7.0 Poland: Bachelor’s degree (when started degree is not English, we ask you to provide marks of 80% or a GPA of 3.7 for after 2006) or the Magister with overall evidence of your command of English. You applicants from a ‘National’ university. From Law programmes grade B/4+ should include your test scores, if available, in other institutions, we require a master’s the relevant section of the application form. TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Portugal: Licenciado/Licenciatura/DESE Thailand: Bachelor’s degree from a If you receive an offer of admission, it will be Language) with a minimum score of 109 normally with average marks above 16 prestigious institution with grades of B+, subject to proof of your score. English tests in the internet based test with at least 24 Romania: Diploma de Licenta (when 3.5/4 or very good must be less than two years old at the time in both listening and writing elements started after 2005) with grades of 9/10 or of application. If you have not yet taken the Turkey: Lisans Diplomasi with an average IELTS (International English Language the Diploma di Studii Aprodundate with test, your application can be considered in its mark of 70% or a GPA of between 3.4 Testing System) with a minimum score of 9 or above absence, but any offer will be conditional on 7.5 and at least 7.0 in both listening and and 3.5 your achieving the required score. Russian Federation: Magistr with good writing elements Ukraine: Dyplom Magistra with grades of grades (4/5) Each programme in the prospectus lists Other test scores may be acceptable if you 4 or above the level of English required for admission; Saudi Arabia: Master’s degree or a have already obtained them. You should United Arab Emirates: Master’s degree either Standard or Higher. Programmes Bachelor’s degree (started after 2004) supply evidence of your English test with with overall marks of 85% or a GPA of 3.5 in the Law Department have yet higher with 85% your application and if you are made an requirements. Uruguay: Licenciado with an overall mark offer we will indicate whether we will Serbia: Diploma Visokog Obrazovanja of 8.0 accept your score or if we require one of from recognized university with marks of 9 Standard the tests above. You may be required to or Magistarska Dimploma with 8 or above USA: BS, BA or JD with a GPA of 3.5 TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign achieve a higher score at the discretion Singapore: Bachelor’s degree with 2:1 Uzbekistan: Magister/Specialist Diploma Language) with a minimum score of 603 of the selectors. If you have not yet taken with an overall mark of 4.0/5 or 80% in the paper test or 100 in the internet Slovak Republic: Magister with good any English test, we recommend that you based test. For full information on TOEFL grades (vel’ mi dobrý) Venezuela: Licenciado with an overall take the IELTS, TOEFL or LSE test. and testing centres worldwide, please see mark of 8.0 Slovenia: Univerzitetni Diplomant or www.ets.org/toefl Please see the Admissions Enquiries Univerzitetni Diplomirani with six years’ Vietnam: Master’s degree/Thac si with an System – lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries IELTS (International English Language study and grades of 9/10 overall mark of 7.0 – for further information. Testing System) with a minimum score South Korea: Bachelor’s degree (Haksa) Yemen: Master’s degree with a mark of of 6.5. For full details about the British These are minimum requirements. You from a prestigious institution or a master’s 90% overall/A/4/Excellent Council’s English tests, please see www. may need additional language instruction degree (Suksa) from other institutions. We before you register to be confident that you Zambia: Master’s degree from the ielts.org require an overall GPA 3.5/4 or 3.8/4.3 can participate fully in your programme. University of Zambia with marks of A or 2.0 Higher Experience has shown that students who Spain: Licenciado, normally with a grade Zimbabwe: Bachelor’s (Honours) degree are fully proficient in English are best placed of 8, or 2.5 on the 0-4 scale TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign with 2:1, 65% or B++ to make the most of all that LSE has to offer, Language) with a minimum score of 627 Sweden: Magisterexamen with at least 90 both academically and socially. Please refer credits at VG to lse.ac.uk/languages Entry requirements graduate prospectus 37 J ason C larke P hotography

for further information about our • 23 October 2010 Niamh Gallagher Language Centre. • 11 June 2011 MSc Comparative GRE and GMAT You must take the first of these two tests in order to be considered for 2011/12 Several programmes, notably in the Politics, 2005 entry. The final date for registration for Accounting, Economics and Finance Dublin, Ireland the paper based test is 18 September Departments, the Department of 2010, so all applicants from China, Management and the MSc Real Estate Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea who are Economics and Finance, require GRE planning to take the GRE must arrange (Graduate Record Examination) or GMAT to do so in good time. It is not possible to (Graduate Management Admissions Part of my rationale for moving to London to do a master’s was not just to develop take the computer based part of the test Test) scores and you should complete all academically, but also to gather some more practical policy experience in a new, vibrant after the paper based sections. three sections of the test in addition to environment. When I learned of the LSE Internships Scheme, I was immediately keen your other supporting documents. This to take part. I interned at the New Local Government Network (NLGN), a think tank is indicated in the ‘key facts’ box at the which focuses on local government policy and issues in the UK. NLGN was a small but start of each programme entry. Your very active organisation, and a lot was expected of me from the outset. Like many of score should be less than five years old the students who interned in Parliament, my experience gave me the chance to apply at the time of application. You should theoretical knowledge gleaned at LSE to the real world. I got a sense of how politics arrange for an official certificate of and policy works in the UK from day to day – what’s the best way to influence policy, your score to be sent to LSE from the where do the best ideas come from, and who’s who in politics – there’s no way I could Educational Testing Service (ETS) as well have learned half of what I did from a book. The experience proved invaluable to me as entering your scores in the relevant in getting my next job as a researcher at Demos, where I worked for almost three years, section of the application form. The LSE working on projects focused on designing more tailored public services for citizens. institution code for the GRE is 0972; no Demos gave me a real sense of how policy affects people’s daily lives, and taught me department code is required as the scores how to develop and frame policy ideas in a way that appeals to politicians, civil servants are processed centrally. The LSE institution and voters. I left Demos two years ago and moved back to Dublin to work as a policy code for the GMAT is HMT 86-56. For analyst at the Children’s Rights Alliance, an umbrella body representing over 90 NGOs more information about the tests, please working with and for children in Ireland. The Alliance produces the Irish NGO Shadow see www.gre.org or www.gmac.com Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and an annual Report Card on or contact ETS, Box 6000, Princeton NJ Government policy as it is impacting on children’s lives, as well as representing children at 08541, USA. Tel: +1 609 921 9000, or see national level through Social Partnership. Alongside this, I have stayed active in politics, www.ets.org and last year co-founded Women for Europe – a pro-European civil society group – to campaign for a Yes vote in the Lisbon treaty referendum in October 2009. In China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea ETS have introduced ‘split administration’ of the GRE using a computer based analytical test, followed by a paper based verbal and quantitative test. This will be repeated in the coming year. According to ETS the paper based test dates are:

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We understand that the application process can be an anxious If you choose to complete the paper form as part of the online process. This is a time. Please read carefully the information in this section and please ensure that you write clearly. secure and confidential service for referees and helps speed up the decision making follow the instructions given; this will help to ensure that B. Application assessment fee process. If you are offered a place at LSE everything runs quickly and smoothly. You will be able to Please note that the application your referee may be asked to supply an track the progress of your application on the web. assessment fee is not refundable. You original reference on headed university must check that the programmes you are notepaper, and you will be informed in You must apply early, as competition for programmes at LSE is applying for have places available before your offer letter if this is the case. If you or intense. Applications open on 11 October 2010. In addition to submitting your application. Programme your referees prefer, you may submit your the minimum entry requirements some programmes require availability can be found on the Graduate references by post as listed below. the submission of additional test scores. See programme Admissions webpage. By post: References must be signed documents on headed university/ entries for details. Online: You must pay by credit card institution notepaper (not the only when you submit your application. supplementary form), and should be typed Full details can be found on the website. in English. We discourage the submission The fee is £50. Last year 95 per cent How to apply We strongly recommend that you apply of handwritten and photocopied directly to LSE. of applicants chose to apply online – it Please see lse.ac.uk/graduateAdmissions references. If your application is is faster, allows you to submit all your for up to date and comprehensive successful, we must receive original A. Application form documentation securely and is cheaper information about graduate programmes. or certified signed documents prior to than applying by post. The site contains links to other sources There are two ways to apply: registration. For further guidance, please see lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries. We of information regarding all aspects of Online via a link on the LSE website By post: We accept a cheque made will accept a translation, but only if it has the application process, including our (please see apply.embark.com/Grad/ payable to LSE, drawing on a UK an official stamp from your university or dedicated online enquiries system lse. LSE). This service includes online reference bank; travellers’ cheques; bank draft; a translation service and if the original ac.uk/admissionsenquiries. If you cannot requests and transcript uploading. We GB£ sterling money order; GB postal document is also supplied. We will not find the answer to your questions online, recommend this option as it is cheaper order; or Visa, MasterCard or Maestro, accept an unofficial translation. The LSE you can use the same system to contact us than applying by post and guarantees by completing the section on the Language Centre (lse.ac.uk/languages) by email. secure delivery. supplementary application form. We offers a translation service. To be considered for admission, all applicants By post using the LSE application pack. cannot consider applications until must supply the documents A to E below, You can download the application pack, payment is received. The fee is £75 for a Current students and applicants and F to H where applicable. Programmes which consists of an application form, paper application. who graduated after January 2006 administered jointly by LSE and other academic reference form, transcript must supply two academic references. Via the British Council: Applications institutions may have specific requirements; request form and payments of application References should be from a teaching submitted on your behalf by a British please consult individual programme entries. form (in pdf format). See lse.ac.uk/ member of your current (or, if you have Council Office do not require a fee. All documents are treated as confidential and graduateHowToApply graduated, from your most recent) are non-returnable. university department. Alternatively, you can request a paper copy C. Two academic references Please note: Unlike other universities LSE Applicants who graduated before of the forms by telephoning the Graduate Online: When applying online you can does not work with recruitment agencies. Admissions Office: +44 (0)20 7955 7160 January 2006 may supply one non- supply your academic references (from academic reference in place of one of tutors who have taught you at university) 40 graduate prospectus Applying to LSE

your academic references. This should translated as described below. If your Qualifications held: The transcript application cannot be processed until this normally be a reference from your most application is successful, we must receive should include the information above, is received, as the GRE/GMAT is often a recent employer (in standard professional original or certified signed documents plus your final overall grade and the date vital deciding factor. If you receive an offer reference format). prior to registration. From the outset on which your qualification was awarded. of admission, you will have to submit you may also choose to supply these You should supply this information for proof of your score. If your scores are Applicants who graduated before documents by post. If you submit scanned all university level study. If your transcript not available at the time you apply, you January 2001 may supply two or photocopied transcripts/marksheets does not include your final mark and date should supply them as soon as possible professional references if they are unable you must ensure that the information of award, you should send a certified copy using the online form at lse.ac.uk/ to provide academic references. However, in the document is clear and legible. of your degree certificate as well. Do not graduateHowDoI it is in your interests to supply academic Failure to do so may result in delays to the send your original degree certificate, as references wherever possible. processing of your application. You should documents cannot be returned. G. Research proposal Applicants for Law programmes should also scan the reverse of your transcript if Applicants currently or formerly MPhil/PhD, MRes/PhD Economics ask at least one referee to indicate their the mark scheme is explained there. registered at LSE do not need to supply overall ranking in class either for the final (Track 2) transcripts of their LSE qualifications as year or, preferably, for the whole degree. If By post: We require original or certified You should state your research topic as these are generated internally. an exact ranking is not possible the referee copies of all documents in English. We accurately as possible on a separate sheet. should be asked to give an approximation, will accept a translation, but only if it has E. Personal statement Your research proposal should address the for example, ‘top ten per cent’. an official stamp from your university or following questions: a translation service and if the original You must submit a personal statement Applicants for MSc Statistics and MSc 1 What is your general topic? document is also supplied. We will not with your application form. This should be Risk and Stochastics are not required to accept an unofficial translation. If you between 1,000 and 1,500 words. It should 2 What questions do you want to answer? submit references with the application, cannot supply original documents at the describe your academic interests and your however you must submit the name and 3 What is the key literature and time you submit your application, we will purpose and objectives in undertaking email address of one referee. its limitations? accept photocopies at that stage, but graduate study. If you are applying for Applicants currently registered at original documents are preferred. If your two programmes please ensure that your 4 What are the main hypotheses of LSE need only supply a single reference application is successful, we must receive personal statement addresses why you are the work? if they intend to remain within the same applying for each programme. original or certified signed documents 5 What methodology do you intend to use? department, and two references if they wish prior to registration. to be admitted to a different department. F. Graduate Record Examination 6 What are your case studies, if any, and Qualifications pending: The transcript (GRE) general test and Graduate what are your case selection criteria? Applicants who have graduated from or mark sheet is a list of subjects studied Management Admissions Test (GMAT) LSE must supply two academic references MPhil/PhD applications that are received and the grades obtained to date. If you even if they intend to study in their former If GRE or GMAT scores are required by without a research proposal that address- are at a university that does not supply department. your chosen programme(s) it is essential es these questions will not be considered. transcripts or mark sheets, please ask your that you supply them at the time you Your proposal should be approximately D. Transcripts/mark sheets and proof academic referees to comment in detail apply. You should include your test scores 1,500 words in length (outline proposals of existing qualifications on your progress, including your marks in the relevant section of the application for MRes programmes can be shorter). obtained in all years of study. You may form, stating the percentile and marks You should also indicate if you have Online: You may submit scanned apply if you are awaiting any examination obtained for all three sections of the discussed your proposed research with versions of your transcripts with your results. You must have fully graduated by test. The test scores should be less than any member of the LSE academic staff online application, in English or officially October 2011. five years old at the time you apply. Your and the name of that person. Applying to LSE graduate prospectus 41

MSc (Research), MRes/PhD Economics Houghton Street Professor Charles (Track 1) or MRes/PhD Political Science London WC2A 2AE Stafford You must include an outline research If you are sending your paper application proposal with your application – see above. package or other documents by courier Professor of service, omit PO Box 13420 from the H. English test scores above address. All post is received by Anthropology If you have already taken the TOEFL or our central post room. We do not accept IELTS at the time you apply, you should application forms sent by fax. include your most recent test scores and Please do not send supporting documents score report form number in the relevant directly to the academic department as I have been teaching anthropology at LSE for about 15 years. section of the application form. this will delay your application. LSE is undoubtedly a famous place within the world of anthropology – the home of English tests must be less than two years Wherever possible, please send all Malinowski, Maurice Bloch and other well-known figures; but we try hard not to be too old at the time of application. supporting documents in a single package complacent about this distinguished past. For me personally, what is more important is (with your application form if you are not I. Miscellaneous supporting documents that we continue to attract great students and staff, such as Heonik Kwon, a recently- applying online). If this is not possible (for hired specialist on Vietnam, Korea and the process of post “Cold War” remembrance If you are applying for a programme in a example where your referee is sending and reconciliation. His work is truly fascinating, and I think our students at all levels – BA/ different field from that of your principal/ a reference to us directly) please ensure BSc, MSc and MPhil/PhD – will enjoy being taught by him. major degree subject, you may wish to that all documents bear your full name supply additional material supporting your as it appears on the application form and My own special interest is in the anthropology of learning and cognition. This is, in fact, application; for example if you hold a your date of birth or programme choice(s). a rather niche subject within our discipline, but also an exciting one – closely linked to degree in engineering and are applying for Please note that we will acknowledge recent developments in cognitive science. Working with colleagues from other units MSc Human Rights on the basis of your documents when they are processed rather at LSE, we’ve established a Programme in Culture and Cognition (PCC). This year we’re current employment, a supplementary than when they are received. Current hosting a series of lectures by leading psychologists, anthropologists and neuroscientists professional reference would be helpful. processing dates will be available on lse. in our field. My colleague Rita Astuti, also a founding member of the PCC, has done Do not send non-documentary materials ac.uk/graduateAdmissions. Please some remarkable work in rural Madagascar on cognitive development, and we have a such as DVDs, CDs or large publications, check the current processing date before growing cohort of research students with learning/cognition interests. as we do not have the facilities to include contacting us regarding your documents. Since the mid-1980s I’ve carried out anthropological research in rural China and Taiwan these with your application file and they Please remember that it is your on topics including childhood, schooling, and economic psychology. Right now, I’m will be discarded. responsibility to ensure that your developing a new project with colleagues from China and the USA, looking at economic Submitting your application is complete, including psychology in a comparative perspective. One of these colleagues is, in fact, a former application form all references, the transcript and student in our Department, now a professor of anthropology at Nanjing University. the fee, and where applicable GRE/ Many of our graduate students go on to pursue careers in academia and research, but Paper application forms and GMAT scores and research proposal. anthropology – in simple terms the comparative study of human societies and cultures – is documentation should be sent to: You should also be aware that all undoubtedly relevant to many walks of life. Perhaps more importantly, a good number Graduate Admissions Office documents are non-returnable. of our students find studying anthropology a truly transformative experience. The London School of Economics Programme selectors will not consider and Political Science incomplete applications. If you PO Box 13420 apply without the full supporting 42 graduate prospectus Applying to LSE

documentation your application form When to apply/deadlines and Management, require attendance system also provides you with links to your will not be passed to the academic at Summer School or pre-sessional financial support application, individual You must apply early in the application selector until we receive the outstanding courses in the July-September months LSE for You account, and links to apply for cycle. Applications open on 11 October documentation. before the main programme begins. accommodation, choose courses/modules 2010. Departments will begin to consider Research (MPhil/PhD) programmes may and pay your tuition fees online. these applications from 1 November Duplicate forms additionally start in the Lent (January) and 2010. The first decisions will be released • To inform us of any changes to your summer (April) terms at the discretion of Do not submit more than one application from January 2011 onwards. There application, to send additional information or your department. Please see individual form. If you are applying via a British is intense competition for admission, to inform us of your decisions regarding your departmental entries for start dates on Council Office do not send a separate therefore early applications have a application, you should use the online forms page 45. application to the School. greater chance of being successful and of available at lse.ac.uk/graduateHowDoI Likewise, if you are applying online, do meeting financial support/scholarship and, Tracking your application • Telephone +44 (0)20 7955 7160 either not send a separate postal application to where applicable, visa deadlines. Please and contacting us to speak to a member of the Graduate the School, and do not submit more than check the availability of programmes at Admissions Team, Monday to Friday 9.45am- We aim to keep you fully informed of one form online. lse.ac.uk/graduateAdmissions before 5.15pm (local time), or to access automated the progress of your application through you apply. summary information at any time. You may only apply for two programmes, the LSE website. For information on any which will be considered sequentially in Only a limited number of programmes delays or special factors affecting the • All of your personal data is kept the order of preference. If you send a have deadlines by which you should apply admission process, please see lse.ac.uk/ confidential, and we are therefore not second form with further choices, this will – decisions are mostly considered on a graduateAdmissions able to discuss your application with any delay your application. rolling basis and programmes close once all third party unless specifically nominated places have been filled. Please be aware, Once you have been allocated your It is not possible to hold more than one by you on your application form. however, that many scholarships, especially unique application number, you can check offer of a place at LSE. for research programmes, have early the progress of your own application, and The website and admissions enquiry inform us of any changes by using our system are the quickest and most Joint programmes deadlines. Please see programme entries and Fees and financial support lse.ac.uk/ automated online and telephone systems. comprehensive ways of answering any LSE has developed a number of questions you may have. Please visit these financialSupport for details. • Make a note of your application number programmes which are administered sites before contacting the Graduate and use it when checking your status and jointly with other institutions such If you applied for the 2010/11 session, Admissions Office. If your question cannot in all correspondence with the Graduate as Peking University in China and we will be able to re-use your application be answered by reference to online Admissions Office, including by telephone. the University of Southern California in documents as long as you contact the resources, you can contact us by email via the USA. Any additional requirements for Graduate Admissions Office before • To see the current status of lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries these programmes will be listed under 12 November 2010 and submit a new your application, go to lse.ac.uk/ If you write to or email us, your enquiry their individual entries in the prospectus. application assessment fee of £50. All old graduateTrackYourApplication – this will be dealt with in strict rotation and it Your application will be considered by application documents will be destroyed information is linked directly to our may take us some time to reply, though selectors from both institutions, and this immediately after this date. computer system. What you see here is we shall try to do so within one working means that it may take much longer the same information we hold centrally. Most taught master’s (MSc/MA/MPA) week. Please do not repeat the enquiry for a decision to be made on these If you need to advise us of a change of programmes start in the Michaelmas term until after this time has elapsed as this programmes than on the single centre address, you should use the link on the (October 2011). Some programmes, diverts staff from other work and delays programmes. We will advise you of the tracking system to do so. Later in the particularly those in the Departments the admissions process. decision as soon as possible. of Economics, Accounting, Finance admissions process, the online tracking The Graduate Admissions Office is closed decision can be made. The first offers will conditions are given in the offer letter and for ten days over Christmas and New be released from January 2011 onwards. may include tests such as English language Year and for a week over the Easter If you apply after January the decision as well as degree results, or attendance at period. This results in a backlog of time increases. Please check the LSE pre-sessional or Summer School courses. correspondence and increased processing website before asking us for information. • You are on a waiting list. In this case times during January and April especially. For further information including news we need more time before making a full about events affecting decision times, as Please check the current processing dates at decision. We shall make that decision by well as a link allowing you to track your lse.ac.uk/graduateNews before contacting the end of April 2011. At that stage we application, please see www.lse.ac.uk/ us to enquire whether your documents have may be able to offer you admission, a place graduateNews been received. As soon as your documents on the reserve list, or, depending on the are processed they will appear on your record • For research programmes, the decisions level of competition, we may be unable to on the tracking system. are made by panels of selectors at offer you a place. meetings throughout the year – you • You are on the reserve list. In this The selection process should apply at least six months before case you will only be made an offer if the start of the term in which you wish to When we process your application we an additional place becomes available commence your study. Please be aware add it to our database and send you on your chosen programme. Final that the allocation of a suitable supervisor an email acknowledgement with your confirmation of the reserve list will take may take some time. We rarely hold application number and details of any place by 31 July 2011. missing documents, if applicable. 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Your application will only on admissions are made on the basis be considered for your second choice if of academic merit and the availability Applying for financial support your first choice application is unsuccessful of places on specific programmes. or if the first choice programme has You will be sent a link to the online The decision sent to you will be one already closed. For a more comprehensive application form for the Graduate Support of these: overview of the decision making Scheme when we acknowledge your process, please follow the link lse.ac.uk/ • An unconditional offer. You satisfy all of application. You should complete this as soon graduateAdmissions the academic conditions required before as possible – see page 30 for more details. entry and we are offering you a place. There is considerable additional financial The timetable You may still need to supply originals or support available. 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Departments and institutes 70 Department of Research centres and groups Financial Markets Group (FMG) International Relations ments46 Department of Accounting institutes centresLSE is home to a large number of departmentsHealth and Social Care (LSEHSC) 74 Department of Law interdisciplinary research centres 47 Department of Anthropology International Growth Centre (IGC) 76 Department of Management concentrating expertise on a wide 49 Cities Programme range of subjects. Each has its own LSE Cities 81 Management Science Group institutes50 Urban@LSE centres departmentsprogramme of events which can be LSE Global Governance institutes 82 Managerial Economics and found at lse.ac.uk/intranet/directions 50 Grantham Research Institute LSE IDEAS: International Affairs, Strategy Group AndMaps/researchCentres on Climate Change and Diplomacy and Strategy Asia Research Centre the Environment 83 Department of Mathematics Spatial Economics Research centres departmentsCentre for the Study institutes of Bioscience, Centre (SERC) centres 51 Department of Economic History 85 Department of Media and Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Communications The Suntory and Toyota International 52 Department of Economics Society (Bios) 86 Methodology Institute Centres for Economics and Related 78 Employment Relations and Centre for Analysis of Risk and Disciplines (STICERD) departmentsOrganisational Behaviour Group 88 Department ofinstitutes Philosophy, Logic Regulation (CARR) centres depart- and Scientific Method 55 European Institute Centre for Analysis of Social 89 Regional and Urban Planning 57 Department of Finance Exclusion (CASE) 90 Department of Social Policy ments59 Gender Institute institutes centresCentre for the Analysis of departments 93 Institute of Social Psychology Time Series (CATS) 61 Department of Geography Centre for Civil Society (CCS) and Environment 94 Department of Sociology Centre for Climate Change Economics 64 Department of Government 97 Socio-Legal Studies (Mannheim institutes centres departmentsand Policy (CCCEP) institutes Centre for Criminology) 80 Information Systems and Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) Innovation Group 97 Department of Statistics Centre for Philosophy of Natural and 67 Department of International Social Science (CPNSS) centresDevelopment departments institutes centres Centre for the Study of Human Rights 69 Department of departmentsInternational History institutes centres 46 graduate prospectus Accounting

students, together with our links with and politics of accounting standard setting Department of Accounting professional and practitioner communities and harmonisation. ensure that our faculty continue to work at In management accounting and control, we the cutting edge of new developments and have unique strengths in the organisational that their output is widely disseminated. and social analysis of management Taught programmes lse.ac.uk/accounting Our faculty are members of, and involved accounting systems. This includes: studies Diploma in Accounting and Finance in, the Centre for Analysis of Risk and of accounting innovation in organisations; MPhil/PhD Accounting (see page 100) Regulation (CARR), as well as LSE Health. strategic approaches to management Visiting Research Students They contribute to public debate in both accounting and control; cost management, MSc Accounting and Finance (see page 122) the academic and professional domains. We performance measurement and incentive Application code: N4ZB, N4EA (VRS) MSc Accounting, Organisations and have close links with several international systems; the impact of organisational and Start date: 29 September 2011 Institutions (see page 123) journals, such as Accounting, Organizations technological change on management Duration: MPhil/PhD 3 to 4 years MSc Law and Accounting (see page 188) and Society, Contemporary Accounting accounting; accounting in the public sector, (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months (with the Department of Law, see page 74) Research and Management Accounting with particular reference to health care; and Research. Faculty also have close associations historical and international differences in Entry requirement: Taught master’s MSc Management and Regulation of Risk with several research and professional practices of organisational control. degree in relevant area (see page 202) (with the Department of institutions, including the European Institute Finance, see page 57) Dr Vasiliki Athanasakou: Financial English requirement: Standard (see for Advanced Studies in Management accounting and financial reporting; page 36) (EIASM), the European Accounting About the Department earnings management, earnings forecasts Association (EAA) and the American GRE/GMAT requirement: None and disclosure. The Department of Accounting is widely Accounting Association (AAA). Fee level: See fee table page 29 recognised for its excellence in accounting Professor Al Bhimani: Management Faculty continue to play key roles in a range and financial management research and accounting in the digital economy; Financial support: LSE scholarships of professional and regulatory bodies. teaching, as well as its leading role in public international comparative management and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU These include: the Chartered Institute of policy issues. In the 2001 review of university accounting; strategy and cost students may apply for ESRC funding Management Accountants (CIMA); the research by the Higher Education Funding management; the socio-cultural analysis (see www.esrc.ac.uk). The Department Monopolies and Mergers Commission; Council for England (HEFCE), the Department of accounting systems. holds a small number of ESRC awards. the Centre for Business Performance of was awarded 5* – the highest possible Some other awards (eg from the the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Dr Pascal Frantz: Securities analysis; rating and one of only two departments Worshipful Company of Chartered England and Wales (ICAEW); the Institute economics of disclosures and auditing. in its category to receive this award. The Accountants) may be available for MPhil/ of Actuaries; and the Accounting Standards Department was similarly successful in the Dr Lisa Goh: Mergers, executive PhD Accounting students. Departmental Board. Members of the Department also 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, on remuneration and governance. doctoral scholarships may also be have advised the International Accounting this occasion as part of the ‘Business and Dr Matthew Hall: Management available to applicants from the UK/EU Standards Board. Management Studies’ Unit of Assessment. and overseas accounting, management control systems The Department of Accounting provides Staff and their and performance measurement; behavioural Application deadline: None, but an outstanding international and academic interests accounting; the role of accounting in applicants wishing to be considered interdisciplinary environment, based on managerial work. for LSE studentships and scholarships The Department of Accounting has expertise a mix of departmental activities, close must ensure that they have submitted in a wide range of areas. In financial Dr Liisa Kurunmäki: Accounting in the links with other departments, as well as a complete application (including accounting and corporate reporting, new public sector, with special reference to strong connections with research centres. references) by 10 January 2011 particular strengths include debates around healthcare. Each year, over 200 graduate students audit and financial regulation, comparative Professor Richard Macve: Conceptual are admitted into its taught graduate and historical studies of financial accounting, framework of financial accounting; financial programmes. Our research seminars and reporting and auditing, and the economics reporting, accounting and auditing regulation workshops, visitors and visiting research Anthropology graduate prospectus 47

in insurance; history of accounting; School’s own MSc programmes can meet the environmental accounting. entrance requirements. Department of Anthropology Dr Andrea Mennicken: International The PhD in Accounting is a formally accounting and auditing; sociological studies structured programme that has received of audit regulation and harmonisation; research training recognition from the ESRC. processes of professionalisation. The programme aims to produce students lse.ac.uk/anthropology whose research is of the highest international Professor Peter Miller: Investment quality and is designed to provide a appraisal; accounting and ‘New Public MPhil/PhD Anthropology comprehensive training in theoretical and Management’; accounting as social and Visiting Research Students empirical research in accounting. institutional practice. Application code: L6ZA (MPhil/PhD), The student’s individual programme of Dr Yuval Millo: Corporate networks and L6EA (VRS) study is designed in collaboration with the interlocking directorships; institutional Start date: 29 September 2011 supervisor to reflect the specific needs and analysis of financial markets. interests of the student. In the first year, Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years Professor Michael Power: Internal and you will normally attend the main research (minimum 2), (VRS) up to 9 months external auditing in corporate governance; seminar in Accounting, in addition to a (renewable) internal control systems and corporate risk maximum of three taught graduate courses Entry requirement: 2:1 bachelor’s management; financial regulation and in areas related to your field of research. The degree or higher standard MA/MSc security. Taught programmes aim is to both broaden and deepen students’ in social anthropology from a British MSc Anthropology and Development Dr Rita Samiolo: Institutional analyses of risk understanding of their area. One further university. If you do not have these (see page 125) management; auditing. course or part-course may be taken in the qualifications you should apply for an second year. MSc China in Comparative Perspective (see Dr Ana Simpson: Accounting disclosures; MSc in the first instance. (Please note page 128) analyst forecast efficiency; earnings We encourage our research students to that, for students currently registered on management. participate fully in the intellectual life of the the Department’s MSc Anthropology and MSc Law, Anthropology and Society Department. Students are required to make Development, MSc China in Comparative (see page 190) Dr Kazbi Soonawalla: Financial accounting; a seminar presentation each year, and Perspective or MSc Law, Anthropology international accounting; joint ventures; MSc Social Anthropology (see page 234) to attend the Department’s Accounting and Society programmes, specific corporate social responsibility. Research Forums which provide exposure additional conditions apply.) MSc Social Anthropology (Learning and Professor Wim A Van der Stede: to the work of leading academics English requirement: Standard (see Cognition) (see page 235) Management control systems: budgeting, worldwide. Students are also encouraged page 36) performance measurement, and incentive to attend any relevant seminars in related About the Department GRE/GMAT requirement: None systems; corporate governance: executive areas elsewhere in the School, such as In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, compensation, boards of directors, and those offered by the Centre for Analysis Fee level: See fee table page 29 LSE’s Anthropology Department obtained the internal controls. of Risk and Regulation (CARR), as well as Financial support: LSE scholarships and highest proportion of 4* rated submissions other research centres and departments studentships (see page 30), ESRC funding (the highest ranking) in the country. Opportunities for research as appropriate. These seminars provide (see www.esrc.ac.uk), AHRC block Staff interests span nearly all the major You should have a substantial academic an opportunity to hear presentations not grant partnerships (see www.ahrc.ac.uk) theoretical spheres of modern social background in accounting, typically at only from academics, but also from policy anthropology – from learning and cognition, to master’s level, although we are able to makers and business practitioners. Application deadline: None – rolling industrialisation and globalisation, mythology consider students with a more general admissions. However if you wish to be and religious symbolism, temporality and graduate training in the social sciences. considered for LSE studentships and history, development and human rights. Our Strong performance in the Department’s or scholarships, you must apply by 10 January 2011 range of regional interests is equally wide. 48 graduate prospectus Anthropology

We place the highest priority on the training Dr Laura Bear: South Asia; anthropology Professor Charles Stafford: China and be held only for a research degree and not and professional development of doctoral of the state; temporality; neo-liberalism; Taiwan; learning; schooling and child for the MSc degree, you should write directly students; each year a new cohort of research globalisation; labour. development; cognitive anthropology; to the Department’s graduate selectors to students begins fieldwork in locations around the relationship between learning and discuss this in relation to your individual Dr Fenella Cannell: Lowland Philippines; the world. economic life. circumstances. (Please note that special United States; anthropology of regulations apply to admission to the MSc We have a strongly international character Christianity; healing and mediumship; Dr Harry Walker: Lowland South America; Law, Anthropology and Society.) – the majority of our graduate students are gender; Mormonism and kinship. sociality and relatedness; materiality; ritual from outside the UK. We also host many language; symbolic ecology. The first year of our graduate research Dr Matthew Engelke: Zimbabwe; distinguished foreign anthropologists as programme focuses on fieldwork preparation England; Christianity and the Bible; See also the departmental pages for academic visitors. In recent years they have and training in research methodologies. semiotics; materiality; public religion; staff of the Department of International included Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley), Students take courses and seminars based in history of anthropology; human rights. Development (page 51) and the Department Yunxiang Yan (UCLA), André Béteille the Department of Anthropology. Depending of Law (page 74). (Delhi), Webb Keane (Michigan), Chris Professor Stephan Feuchtwang: China on your qualifications and background, Gregory (ANU), David Graeber (Yale), Emily and Taiwan; Germany; Chinese popular Opportunities for research you will also be asked to take additional Martin (Princeton), Gananath Obeyesekere religion; the anthropology of history; coursework in social anthropology by Our graduate research programme, (Princeton), Terao Sekimoto (Tokyo), Dan life stories; family myths and responses attending lecture courses in, for example, which is central to the life of the Sperber (Paris), James and Rubie Watson to catastrophic loss; comparison of kinship or religion. Throughout the pre- Department, is built around long term (Harvard), Sherry Ortner (California), Dipankar civilisations and empires. fieldwork year, your main task is to prepare participant observation fieldwork. In Gupta (JNU, Delhi), Philippe Descola (Paris), Professor Deborah James: South – in close consultation with your two recent years, doctoral students have Marshall Sahlins (Chicago) and many others. Africa; political economy; civil society supervisors – a formal research proposal (with conducted fieldwork – related to a broad Our international links bring a special quality and the state; land reform and property a 10,000 word limit). This is formally assessed range of contemporary themes in social to the Department’s research culture, and are regimes; development and migration; by the Department. Students are normally anthropology – in many different countries, of great educational and professional benefit ethnicity; ethnomusicology; HIV/AIDS and upgraded from MPhil to PhD registration if especially in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, to students. reproductive health. their proposals have been approved, and if South America and the Pacific. We invite they have achieved the required marks on The Department has a long and Dr Heonik Kwon: Southeast Asia; applications for research, particularly on their methodology coursework. They are distinguished history. It originated with Northeast Asia; religion and politics; topics which are linked to the interests and then allowed to proceed to fieldwork. the work of Bronislaw Malinowski kinship in political theory and history; expertise of our members of staff. who arrived in 1910 and developed Cold War culture; global ecology. During fieldwork – depending on the In order to be considered for direct admission the distinctive features of British social practicalities of communication – students Professor Martha Mundy: Arab societies; to the MPhil/PhD programme, you must anthropology. Many of the most famous are expected to maintain close contact law; agrarian systems; sociology of Islam; have gained at least an upper second class figures in this tradition have been students with their supervisors about the progress of historical anthropology; kinship. honours degree in social anthropology from and teachers in the Department. their work. Most of our students carry out a British university, or have completed an MA Dr Mathijs Pelkmans: Caucasus (Republic fieldwork for approximately 18 months. or MSc in social anthropology at a British Staff and their academic of Georgia); Central Asia (Kyrgyz university to a high standard. If you do not After fieldwork, doctoral candidates begin interests Republic); anthropology of borders; have these qualifications, you will be asked to writing their PhD dissertations under the Dr Catherine Allerton: Eastern Indonesia; political anthropology; anthropology register for one of our MSc programmes first. close supervision of members of staff. place and landscape; houses; kinship and of religion. While studying for the MSc, you may apply During this period of their studies, they marriage; childhood and schooling. Dr Michael Scott: Melanesia; ontology; for admission to the MPhil/PhD programme attend weekly thesis writing seminars, and Professor Rita Astuti: Madagascar; comparative cosmology; models of in the following year, although satisfactory fortnightly seminars on recent developments kinship; gender; anthropology of sociality; Christianity; ethnogenesis and completion of the MSc (obtaining a ‘Merit’ in anthropology as well as departmental death; cognitive development and postcolonial transformations of the classification or higher in the MSc overall) is seminars on anthropological theory. Most cultural transmission; ethnographic and nation-state; space and place. required before an offer of admission to the students complete their dissertations experimental research methods. MPhil/PhD can be confirmed. However, if you between one and two years after their will be supported by a scholarship which can fieldwork has ended. Cities graduate prospectus 49

LSE Cities research centre, which sponsors expertise. In considering your application, Cities Programme numerous public lectures, seminars and we may request submission of one or two events on urban issues; hosts international pieces of written work that you feel reflect scholars and speakers, and is linked into your academic interests and abilities, and national and international urban networks. invite you for interview (including telephone interview where appropriate). If accepted lse.ac.uk/cities Opportunities for research onto the programme, you will be initially MPhil/PhD Cities The MPhil/PhD Cities Programme offers an registered for the MPhil. You may transfer to excellent environment for innovative and PhD registration when you have completed Application code: L4ZB interdisciplinary graduate research on cities, preliminary written work of sufficient quality Start date: 29 September 2011 space and urbanism. Students come to the and quantity, usually within two years of full- programme from a range of academic and time registration. Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2) professional backgrounds, sharing an interest In the first year, you will be expected to take Entry requirement: Taught master’s in linking the social and physical study of a range of methods and specialist courses. degree in a related discipline; a high urban issues. The doctoral programme These are selected in discussion with your 2:1 undergraduate degree may includes training in research design, practice supervisor, dependent on your research be considered for candidates with and presentation in the first year, together needs and interests, and may include qualifications in architecture or design; with a dedicated research seminars for courses from other institutes or departments relevant professional experience will also About the Cities Programme students at all year levels, and a range of at LSE. You must attend the first year be considered student-led and international collaborations The Cities Programme is an innovative centre research classes for MPhil students taught and initiatives, and opportunities for English requirement: Higher for teaching and research on urban issues. within the Sociology Department and, exchange through Erasmus and other (see page 36) The programme studies the relations between unless you have already successfully studied international partnerships. Research focuses the physical and social organisation of cities research methods at master’s level, you will GRE/GMAT requirement: None on the academic expertise of staff within the and urban space. We see design as a mode normally be expected to complete graduate Fee level: See fee table page 29 Cities Programme, Department of Sociology, of research and practice that shapes urban course units in methodology, on the advice and LSE in general, addressing the spatial, Financial support: LSE scholarships environments, responds to urban problems, of your supervisor. social, economic, visual and environmental and studentships (see page 30); UK/EU and connects social, spatial and material forms At the end of your first year, you will produce aspects of cities and urban life. students are eligible to apply for research in the city. The Cities Programme takes a multi- for assessment a 5,000 word research council funding (see www.ahrc.ac.uk or disciplinary approach to these issues, drawing You should usually have a master’s degree proposal, outlining the aims and methods www.esrc.ac.uk) on expertise and insights from the social or a first or high upper second class of your thesis. Successful completion of this sciences, architecture, urban design, planning honours degree from a British university Application deadline: None, however, assessment is the condition for progress to and environment, and other fields. or its equivalent in another country, in a the first full round of applications will the second year. relevant discipline within the social sciences, be considered in March, and potential PhD students researching in the fields of cities, After the first year you will spend more time architecture and urban design, or related candidates are encouraged to submit space, architecture and urban studies are on independent study under the guidance of fields in the humanities. When you apply their applications in advance of this central to the culture of the Cities Programme. your personal supervisor/s. This will involve for an MPhil/PhD, you will need to develop period. If you wish to be considered for Our faculty and students come from a range the collection, organisation, analysis and a research proposal that sets out clearly the LSE studentships or scholarships you of national as well as disciplinary contexts, writing up of data and ideas. You will also research problem you wish to investigate, should apply by 10 January 2011 enhancing the Programme’s vibrant research attend regular dedicated Cities Research potential research contexts or case studies, and teaching environment. Seminars, and specialist workshops and and describe the methods of research seminars related to your interests. You will be Our community is broad and includes social you propose to use. This will help us to expected to make an active contribution to Taught programme scientists, architects, urban designers, evaluate your potential to embark on a these by presenting papers and/or taking part engineers, policy makers and private sector research degree, and to identify a supervisor MSc City Design and Social Science in general discussions. leaders. The Cities Programme is part of the with similar interests and the appropriate (see page 129) 50 graduate prospectus Urban@LSE / Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Urban@LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

As an international centre of excellence MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Opportunities for research in the social sciences, LSE has a long- (see page 230) Change and the Environment is the new There are opportunities across many standing commitment to an innovative home to climate change and environment MSc Social Policy and Development departments at LSE for research on the understanding of urban society. LSE has a research at LSE. (see page 238) social science aspects of climate and distinctive concentration of urban specialists The Institute, funded by the Grantham environmental change, and the Institute in a number of disciplinary areas, and is MSc Social Policy and Planning Foundation for the Protection of the houses a growing number of research an unrivalled centre for graduate study in (see page 239 ) Environment, is chaired by Lord Stern of students working in these areas. Cutting the area of city design, urban and regional MSc Urbanisation and Development Brentford, author of the 2006 Stern Review edge research in this area requires planning, urbanisation and development, (see page 247) (www.occ.gov.uk/activities/stern.htm), interaction and collaboration across the and the economic, social, political and policy and brings together high quality research disciplines and the Institute is working in aspects of contemporary urban life. Opportunities for doctoral on climate change and environmental issues partnership with departments and other research Our aim is to apply social scientific from across the social sciences, supporting research centres, including the Departments disciplines to better understand cities LSE has an exciting interdisciplinary policy development, raising public awareness, of Geography and Environment, Economics, and the contribution they make to network of urban researchers, and there and contributing to business strategy. Statistics, International Relations, Philosophy are opportunities for doctoral research on economic, social and cultural life. LSE The Institute also hosts the ESRC Centre and centres such as CEP, Financial Markets, aspects of cities and urban development urban programmes bring together a for Climate Change Economics and Policy. CATS and Human Rights. Students in Development Studies, Geography and range of disciplinary expertise to link the This is a research partnership between LSE receive research training in the relevant Environment, Social Policy, and Sociology. urban social sciences with the design and and the University of Leeds to advance departments and where appropriate are Further details of doctoral studies and governance of cities, urban infrastructure, climate change policy by improving both the affiliated to the Institute. programmes in this field can be found at environment and development, with a evidence and the tools available to decision www.lse.ac.uk/UrbanAtLSE Members of the unique concentration of urban specialists makers. The Centre also benefits from Institute include: in different subject areas – Development an additional programme, Evaluating the Studies, Economics, Geography and Economics of Climate Risk and Opportunities Nick Stern: Chair of the Institute, IG Patel Environment, Social Policy, and Sociology. for the Insurance Sector, which is funded by Professor in Economics and Government, Our scope is not only ‘global cities’, but Munich Re. Director of the Asia Research Centre. also smaller and medium sized cities; and Judith Rees: Institute Director, Professor of cities of the global South as well as those The Research agenda of the Institute and Environmental and Resource Management of the global North. Centre covers five broad themes that are supported across all three sources of funding: in the Department of Geography and Environment. Taught programmes • Climate science and decision-making Lenny Smith: Director of CATS, Professor MSc City Design and Social Science (see • Mitigation of climate change – carbon in Statistics. page 129) markets and technology Simon Dietz: Deputy Institute Director, Double Degree in Urban Policy (LSE and • Adaptation to climate change, and Lecturer in the Department of Geography Sciences Po) (see page 119) development and Environment. MSc Local Economic Development (see • Governance of climate change page 191) More information on the Institute, its aca- • Management of forests and ecosystems demic members and current activities can be MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance found at lse.ac.uk/granthamInstitute (see page 229) Economic History graduate prospectus 51

agencies, such as the World Bank and Professor Mary Morgan: History and Department of Economic History International Monetary Fund, government philosophy of economics. departments and local communities. Our Professor Albrech Ritschl: Economic faculty have included among their research growth; fluctuations and economic policy commitments the editorship of The in the 19th and 20th centuries. MA Global Studies: A European Perspective Economic History Review, The Journal of lse.ac.uk/economicHistory (see page 112). A two year (full-time) African History and The European Review Dr Tirthankar Roy: The industrialisation of Erasmus Mundus programme. Students colonial and post-colonial India. MPhil/PhD programmes of Economic History. spend a year at each of two participating Dr Max-Stephan Schulze: European Visiting Research Students Staff and their universities. EU financial support is available economic history, particularly the Application code: V3ZE (MPhil/PhD) academic interests MSc Political Economy of Late Habsburg Empire; growth and V3EE (VRS) Development (see page 217) Dr Gareth Austin: Economic development convergence. Start date: 29 September 2011 of Asante/Ghana and Africa generally, Dr Roman Studer: Comparative economic About the Department c1700-2000. Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years development; globalisation; international (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months Following in a long and distinguished Dr Gerben Bakker: The historical analysis of trade; well-being and living standards; (renewable) tradition, research in the Department of the interaction between markets, industries, corporate strategy and organisation. Economic History uses concepts and theories firms and strategies and their impact. Entry requirement: Taught master’s Dr Huei-Chun Su: The history of from the social sciences as a starting point for degree in Economic History. Other Dr Kent Deng: Pre-modern Chinese economic thought. studying the development of real economies students should apply for MSc in economy (particularly the role of the and understanding them in their social, Dr Oliver Volckart: Late medieval Economic History (Research) Literati and maritime history) and long- political and cultural context. and early modern economic history; term Chinese economic history. English requirement: Higher (see constitutional history; monetary and The Department is home to by far the page 36) Dr Peter Howlett: British economic financial history. largest group of researchers in economic history; war economies; labour markets. GRE/GMAT requirement: None history in the UK and probably the world. Dr Patrick Wallis: History of medicine and Professor Janet Hunter: Japanese disease, particularly epidemics, pharmacy Fee level: See fee table page 29 The composition and international diversity of its staff, academic visitors and research economic development; gender issues; and medical practice; the early modern Financial support: LSE scholarships students mean that its interests range Anglo-Japanese relations. economy; cities, particularly London. and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU from the medieval period to the current Dr Tim Leunig: British and American students may apply for ESRC funding (see Opportunities for research century, from Latin America to China via business and industrial history. www.esrc.ac.uk) Africa and Europe, from questions about To undertake research you should have Dr Colin Lewis: Economic and social Application deadline: None but the institutions of economic change to ones completed a taught master’s degree in history of Latin America, especially the applicants wishing to be considered for on technology and finance, and from the economic history, economics or a closely Argentine and Brazil. an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a history of economic ideas and policy to the related subject. Other students will be complete application by 10 January 2011 measurement of past human well-being Dr Debin Ma: Long term determinants expected to take the MSc Economic and explanations for global trade patterns. of economic growth and comparative History (Research) as the first year of their Research and teaching are particularly economic history with a focus on programme. Incoming students may also be Taught programmes vigorous in the international economic east Asia; technology, institutions and required during the first year of the MPhil/ MSc Economic History (see page 141) history of the 19th and 20th centuries; the productivity changes in Chinese and PhD to take one or more examined MSc economic history of the less developed Japanese silk sectors. options related to the provision of core MSc Economic History (Research) (see world; and global economic history. knowledge and individual research interests. page 143) Dr Chris Minns: Economic history and Those entering from the master’s degrees We particularly value a comparative labour economics, with focus on North MSc Global History (see page 167) in the Department are required to achieve outlook on research, and the fruits of our American labour markets in the early a merit overall and 65 per cent in the research have been used by international 20th century. 52 graduate prospectus Economics

dissertation to qualify for entry to the MPhil/ are therefore regularly expected to attend PhD programme. and participate in departmental workshops Department of Economics and seminars, as well as other seminars All research students who have not already in the University of London. Advanced taken the MSc in Economic History in the research students are expected to present Department are expected to attend the research papers at conferences and MSc (Research) core courses, Historical econ.lse.ac.uk seminars, and many also act as teaching Analysis of Economic Change and Research assistants on undergraduate courses. Design and Quantitative Methods in MRes/PhD Economics Economic History. These courses provide a All students have one main supervisor, and Visiting Research Students basic awareness of historical methodology in some cases a second supervisor. The Application code: L1U4 (MRes/PhD and central themes in economic history; supervisor is the student’s most important Track1), L1U5 (MRes/PhD Track 2) introduce important analytical tools used academic link with the Department. The L1EC (VRS) by economic historians and consider how research student tutor is responsible for Start date: Introductory Course in these have and can be applied in research; the overall research programme, and chairs Mathematics and Statistics begins 2 and examine how statistical techniques the Graduate Review Committee which September 2011 and inference procedures can be used in oversees the progress of research students. Duration: MRes/PhD Track 1: 4 years; the study of economic history. In addition, All students are reviewed at the end of their MRes/PhD Track 2: 3 years; VRS: up to 9 all first year research students attend a first year of research, and registration for months (renewable) Taught programmes compulsory course, which provides a forum the second year depends on a satisfactory Entry requirement: Track 1 – First for the discussion of general issues and outcome. Students are reviewed again when class degree with exceptional grades in MSc Econometrics and Mathematical problems relating to PhD research, as well as they upgrade from MPhil to PhD status, economics, econometrics, mathematics Economics (see page 140) assisting students to clarify their topics and normally at the end of their second year and other quantitative subjects. Track 2 – MSc Economics (see page 144) research strategies through the examination of study, when they are expected to have Exceptional marks in graduate economics of texts related to their proposed thesis produced around half the thesis in draft. programme The Department also contributes to: areas. Supervisors may also require students The Department has a large body of research English requirement: Standard (see MSc Economics and Philosophy to take additional taught courses in the first students drawn from every continent, page 36) (see page 146) year of study. who join with staff members to form a GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates MSc Finance and Economics (see page 157) A thesis workshop for all graduate research vigorous research community. A significant of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE students is held weekly during term, and number of research students trained in the score no more than five years old MSc Management and Economics (see page 195) all students are expected to attend. This Department are now employed at institutions Fee level: Track 1, year 1, £19,224; Track provides a forum for students to chair all over the world in teaching and research 2 and subsequent years of Track 1 follow MPA Public and Economic Policy seminars, present papers, and act as posts. Students leave the Department the MPhil/PhD fee structure (see page 29) (see page 102) discussants, and as such constitutes a central equipped for any profession that requires Financial support: LSE scholarships part of the graduate training programme. intellectual judgement, the ability to assess MPA Public Policy and Management and studentships (see page 30). UK/ and analyse evidence and ideas, and good (see page 102) The main goal of research students in EU students may be considered for communication skills. Graduates of the the Department is the researching and ESRC funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk). MPA International Development programme have gone on to university writing of a thesis. Students are, however, Departmental scholarship funds may (see page 103) teaching or research posts, into jobs in expected to do much more than just thesis be available to UK/EU and overseas MPA European Public and Economic Policy international economic agencies (such as research. Most doctoral students go on to applicants unable to obtain external (see page 103) the Asian Development Bank and the World academic or academic related jobs which financial support. There are also Bank), and to a variety of other positions (for require a broader knowledge of the subject numerous opportunities to earn support example, museum director ... to pig farmer!) than can be gained from intense but via teaching and research assistantships narrow thesis research. Research students Application deadline: 4 January 2011 Economics graduate prospectus 53

About the Department Former students are employed as application to human capital investment Professor Gilat Levy: Applied economists in a wide range of national and incentives; game theory. microeconomic theory; political economy; The Department is one of the largest in and international organisations, in information economics. the world, and offers an unusually rich Dr Greg Fischer: Development; applied government, international institutions, choice of courses. It is also one of the microeconomics; experimental economics. Professor Oliver Linton: business and finance. Econometric theory. leading research departments: in the 2008 Professor Maitreesh Ghatak: review of university research by the UK Staff and their Development economics; economics of Professor Alan Manning: Labour Higher Education Funding Councils, the academic interests organisation; contract theory; economics; minimum wages; wages Department came top, whether ranked by public economics. councils; low pay. grade point average or by the percentage of Dr Kosuke Aoki: Monetary research receiving the top 4* grade. 60 per economics; macroeconomics; Dr Bernardo Guimaraes: International Dr Alex Michaelides: Saving and portfolio cent of our research activity was considered international macroeconomics. economics; currency and financial crisis. choice; applied econometrics. world-leading and a further 35 per cent Professor Oriana Bandiera: Dr Vassillis Hajivassilou: Applied and Dr Guy Michaels: Labour considered internationally excellent. Development economics; international theoretical econometrics; simulation economics; economic development; Nine former members of staff and students trade; public sector. based inference. economic geography. have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Dr Gianluca Benigno: International Professor John Hardman Moore: Dr Pascal Michaillat: Macroeconomics; Economics including Friedrich von Hayek macroeconomics; monetary economics. Economic theory. contract theory; game theory; psychology and Amartya Sen. Important figures in the and economics. Professor Timothy Besley: Public Professor Javier Hidalgo: Time series discipline such as Atkinson, Besley, Layard, economics; development economics; analysis; semiparametric estimation; Dr Francesco Nava: Economic theory; King, Sutton and Stern are, or have been, political economy. specification testing; econometric theory. contract theory; political economy; members of the Department. industrial organisation; Dr Margaret Bray: Portfolio theory; Dr Ethan Ilzetzki: International finance; In rankings of departments, based on computational economics. agency problems in financial markets; macroeconomics. publications in leading journals and peer expectation formation. Dr Rachel Ngai: Development economics; review, the Department is consistently Dr Radha Iyengar: Labour economics; macroeconomics; labour economics. placed in the top 20 worldwide, far ahead Professor Robin Burgess: Development development economics. economics; public economics; Professor Albert Marcet: Econometrics; of any other department in Europe. The Professor Richard Jackman: Economics of political economy. macroeconomics, financial economics; Journal of Economic Literature (1994) the labour market; unemployment; wage economic dynamic theory. investigated institutional affiliations of Professor Francesco Caselli: determination; local government finance; authors in some top journals. Of the top 30 Macroeconomics; development labour markets in eastern Europe. Dr Gerard Padro I Miquel: Economic schools, LSE is the only non-US institution economics; economic growth; economics development; conflict; economics of Dr Keyu Jin: International finance; to feature in every list. A recent ranking and politics. institutions; political economy. by Tilburg University of publications in top macroeconomics; finance; the economics journals 2004-2009 places the Professor Frank Cowell: Income and Chinese economy. Professor Martin Pesendorfer: Industrial wealth distribution; inequality and organisation; auctions; information Department equal 8th worldwide. Members Dr Henrik Kleven: Public economics; labour poverty; issues in taxation. economics; strategic interaction. of the Department are current or former economics; applied microeconomics. editors of some of the leading journals, Dr Swati Dhingra: International economics; Dr Barbara Petrongolo: Labour economics; Dr Tatiana Komarova: Econometric including the American Economic Review, trade policy; industrial development applied econometrics; search theory. theory; applied econometrics. Review of Economics Studies, the Economic Dr Christopher Dougherty: Professor Michele Piccione: Journal and Economica. Dr Jonathan Leape: Capital flows in Planning of education and training; Microeconomic theory; game theory; emerging economies; financial regulation; There is a cosmopolitan feel to the manpower analysis. bounded rationality. regional integration; economies of Africa; Department as well over half the members Dr Erik Eyster: Behavioural economics; economics of public policy; taxation; Professor Jörn-Steffen Pischke: Labour of staff were born or educated outside the political economy. savings and portfolios. economics; applied econometrics; UK and nearly three-quarters of graduate economics of education. students come from overseas. Professor Leonardo Felli: Contract theory; theory of the firm; labour economics and 54 graduate prospectus Economics

Professor Christopher Pissarides: Dr Daniel Sturm: International trade; working on distributional analysis, economics microeconomics, macroeconomics and Macroeconomics; unemployment; growth. economic geography; political economy; of industry, econometrics, economic theory, econometrics, to equip you with the environmental economics. economic organisation and public policy; the theoretical knowledge and analytical Professor Andrea Prat: Centre for Economic Performance, looking techniques necessary for research. Microeconomic theory; public economics; Professor John Sutton: at technology and growth, globalisation, political economy; game theory; Theories of industrial structure and In the second year, you will take a course labour markets and financial stability; and organisation theory. empirical implementation. and write a research paper in your major the Financial Markets Group, specialising field; students making good progress will Professor Danny Quah: Economic Professor Balazs Szentes: in risk management, asset pricing, financial also take their minor field course in this growth; income inequality; new technology; Microeconomic theory. institutions and corporate finance. year. Currently, there are field courses intellectual assets; information technology; Dr Silvana Tenreyro: Macroeconomics; During the past two decades, LSE has covering: microeconomics, macroeconomics, the weightless economy. international economics. developed a remarkable record of placing its econometrics, financial markets, and Dr Ronny Razin: Political economy; applied Professor John Van Reenen: Productivity; PhD students in academic positions in the international, labour, public, industrial, and microeconomics; industrial organisation. innovation; public policy; labour, industrial United States, as well as in the best research development economics. From the second Professor Peter Robinson: Econometrics; organisation; competition policy. universities in Europe. A 2005 study by the year onwards, you will also participate in a time series analysis; nonparametric Université Catholique de Louvain ranked departmental research seminar and a work in Dr Georg Weizsacker: Experimental inference; semiparametric inference. LSE 10th worldwide for placing students progress seminar allied to your research field. economics; game theory; applied in prestigious economics departments. For Dr Marcia Schafgans: Theoretical microeconomics. An MRes (Master of Research) degree details of recent placements, see econ.lse. and applied microeconometrics; will be awarded to students who pass Professor Christine Whitehead: Housing ac.uk/phdc semiparametric and nonparametric the three core courses, the field course economics and finance; urban economics; estimation techniques; limited dependent A PhD in Economics from LSE consists of and the research paper. Those who privatisation and regulation. variable models; sample selection. six coursework credits, largely completed perform well enough in all five elements Professor Alwyn Young: Growth in over two years, followed by a thesis which will progress to PhD registration at the Professor Mark Schankerman: East Asia; cross-country comparisons of is expected to take either two or (more start of year three. Students are required Research and development; patents, productivity growth; international trade usually) three years. There are two routes to complete their minor field course by intellectual property rights; regulation and specialisation; the economics of AIDS by which the coursework requirement can the end of year three but will otherwise in telecommunications; capital growth; in Africa. be completed; direct entry to the MRes/PhD be involved in research full-time for the applied microeconometrics. programme (Track 1), or entry via one of our remainder of the programme. Dr Pasquale Schiraldi: Industrial Opportunities for research prestigious MSc degrees (Track 2). organisation; microeconomic theory; MSc plus MRes/PhD (Track 2) Our Department pioneered the development An overview of the two routes is given applied econometrics. of systematic research training in economics below. Detailed information coursework This route is recommended by selectors for Dr Philipp Schmidt-Dengler: Industrial in Britain and our PhD programme aims requirements and financial support is applicants who would first need to take our organisation; applied econometrics; for the highest international standard of available at econ.lse.ac.uk/study/ core courses at MSc level before moving on technology adoption. achievement and professional competence. programmes/apply/applyphd.html to the advanced MRes/PhD core courses. The intellectual climate created by a Students take either the MSc Economics or Dr Myunghwan Seo: Econometric theory; substantial number of able and enthusiastic Direct entry MRes/PhD the MSc Econometrics and Mathematical time series analysis; bootstrap. students, along with the input of an (Track 1) Economics in their first year. Both Dr Kevin Sheedy: Macroeconomics; encouraging and skilled staff are the most programmes are long-established and highly Direct entry to the MRes/PhD programme monetary economics; applied econometrics. important assets of the programme. prestigious degrees in their own right. (Track 1) is aimed at students with Dr Johannes Spinnewijn: Public Many research students are associated with exceptional undergraduate grades in Students on these programmes have a finance; theory; behavioural economics, the work of one of LSE’s research centres. economics, mathematics, econometrics and conditional offer of admission to Track 2 of organisational economics. The largest are: the Suntory and Toyota other quantitative subjects. the MRes, subject to meeting progression International Centres for Economics and requirements. MSc Economics graduates Professor Nicholas Stern: the economics In the first year of the programme Related Disciplines, with major groups can carry a credit for their MSc field of climate change. you will take advanced core courses in European Institute graduate prospectus 55

course to the MRes. MSc Econometrics All students are required to attend the and Mathematical Economics graduates Introductory Course in Mathematics European Institute can carry credits for their compulsory and Statistics. econometrics paper and any MRes core See also: econ.lse.ac.uk/study/ course taken as part of their MSc. programmes/apply/applyphd.html Taught programmes An MRes (Master of Research) degree lse.ac.uk/european is awarded to students who pass the Institute MSc European Political Economy required four coursework elements. Those (see page 151) who perform well enough will progress MPhil/PhD European MSc European Studies: Ideas and to PhD registration, at which stage any Studies Identities (see page 153) outstanding coursework requirements Visiting Research Students must be completed. MSc European Studies (Research) Application code: M1ZE (MPhil/PhD), (see page 154) Applying M1EU (VRS) LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in European Start date: 29 September 2011 Admission to these programmes is highly Studies (see page 108) selective. Applicants are therefore advised Duration: MPhil/PhD 3-4 years MSc Politics and Government in the to choose only the route best suited to their (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months European Union (see page 223) academic qualifications and to consider (renewable) carefully their second choice selection. Other programmes with a focus on Europe, Entry requirement: Taught master’s or that (through options) provide an Students interested in the MSc plus degree in related discipline opportunity to study related topics: Track 2 route should apply either to the English requirement: Higher MSc Economics (Research) or the MSc MSc Comparative Politics (see page 130) (see page 36) Econometrics and Mathematical Economics MSc Economic History (see page 141) (Research). A place on one of these GRE/GMAT requirement: None MSc Economic History (Research) programmes will include a conditional offer Fee level: See fee table page 29 (see page 143) of progression to Track 2 of the MRes/PhD, Financial support: LSE scholarships subject to the attainment of a Distinction MPA European Public and Economic Policy and studentships (see page 30). UK/ grade in the MSc. (see page 103) EU students may apply for ESRC/AHRC Admission to Track 2 for applicants with an funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk or www. MSc European Social Policy (see page 152) existing graduate qualification in economics ahrc.ac.uk) MA/MSc History of International Relations is restricted to those who have demonstrated (see page 173) exceptional performance. Any credit for Application deadlines: 10 January coursework is given at the discretion of the 2011. Further applications can be MSc International Relations (see page selectors. These applications are automatically considered until 2 May 2011, but 182) candidates are advised that places considered for Track 1 if the selectors decide LLM (see page 184) that Track 2 is not appropriate. for late admission are limited and late applicants are not eligible for MSc Local Economic Development All graduates of non-UK institutions must consideration for LSE/ESRC/AHRC (see page 191) have taken the GRE General Test no more funding or for LSE PhD scholarships than five years before applying, and must MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies include the test score with their application. (see page 230) Most successful MRes/PhD applicants have scores of 800 in the quantitative section. 56 graduate prospectus European Institute

About the Institute Greece, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden and Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece: Nationalism, Dr Waltraud Shelkle: Evolving Estonia; the Portuguese and Turkish religion, ethnic conflict, minority rights and economic governance of EMU; welfare The European Institute is a leading economy ministers, the Albanian, FYROM, multiculturalism in Europe. state reforms in EU member states; international centre for the study of Norwegian and Romanian foreign theories of political economy. contemporary Europe from the perspectives Dr James Ker-Lindsay: Conflict, peace and ministers and eight commissioners. of economics, political economy, political security in South East Europe and the Eastern Dr Marco Simoni: Comparative political science, international relations, law and Staff and their Mediterranean; EU enlargement in Europe’s economy, comparative industrial relations, philosophy. In the most recent (2008) academic interests South East and Eastern Mediterranean. economic policy-making. Research Assessment Exercise, the European Dr Mareike Kleine: Theories of Dr Eiko Thielemann: EU and comparative Institute’s research was ranked first in the UK. Dr William Bartlett: Economic development; social welfare; health care international cooperation and international European politics and policy; asylum and The role of the European Institute within reform; regionalisation and decentralisation; political economy; informal and formal immigration; regionalism and devolution; LSE is to be a primary focus for the multi- regional integration; institutional reform and governance; the interplay of domestic politics regional and state aid policy; German disciplinary study of processes of integration labour markets – all with a focus on South and international institutions; negotiation politics and policy. and fragmentation in contemporary Europe. theories; normative questions of global Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. Professor Helen Wallace: Politics of To this end it has prioritised the following governance; qualitative methods. European integration; European regulation themes: European Union governance; Professor Iain Begg: Economic governance Dr Jan Komarek: Comparative institutional and governance; enlargement of the European political economy; and European of the European Union; EU budget and the analysis and its application to problems of the European Union. ideas and identities. Lisbon strategy. EU and global constitutionalism (courts and Professor Damian Chalmers: EU law. Dr Jonathan White: Political sociology of With our emphasis on a pan-European other judicial institutions). European integration; democratic theory focus and a multi-disciplinary perspective, Dr Joan Costa-i-Font: Political economy; Dr Sara Hagemann: EU politics and the EU; social theory. each theme is placed in a distinct context devolution; economics of the welfare and governance; EU treaty reforms identifying patterns of change and continuity state; behavioural economics; health Dr Christa van Wijnbergen: Comparative and enlargements; transparency and in the new Europe of the 21st century. and pharmaceutical economics; Euro- political economy; models of capitalism; accountability in representative democracies. Moreover, individual themes provide the basis Mediterranean economy. EU governance structures; labour and for the Institute to work with other parts of Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis: Greece and reform politics in continental Europe. Dr Spyros Economides: European foreign the School. The Institute collaborates closely Southeast Europe (Balkan development and defence policy; international relations of in its teaching with the Departments of Associated staff and their the Balkans; Europeanisation of foreign policy. and EU accession, regional cooperation, Government and International Relations. inter- and intra-regional trade, Greek academic interests Professor Kevin Featherstone: Director The Institute offers a vibrant research economic policy); Labour market policy Richard Bronk: History and philosophy of of the Hellenic Observatory: EU politics, climate. It hosts a number of research and performance (labour market flexibility, political economy; role of metaphor and Europeanisation; Contemporary Greece units: The Cañada Blanch Centre for EMU and labour market reform, wage imagination in economics; European models and Cyprus. Contemporary Spanish Studies; The disparities, unemployment); Regional policy of capitalism; EU enlargement. Catalan Observatory; The Forum for Maurice Fraser: The idea of Europe; and performance (regional policy in NMS, Dr Anne Corbett: French administrative European Philosophy; and The Hellenic European and Western values; the centre- regional labour markets, spatial economics). reform; national higher educational policies; Observatory; and LSEE (LSE Research on right in Europe; history of the European Professor Sevket Pamuk: Economic history EU policy making; EU higher education South East Europe). The Institute also Union; France. of Turkey; southeastern Europe and the policy; EU education policy; UK higher has a very active programme of public Dr Simon Glendinning: Director of the Middle East since 1500; economic growth, education policy; French politics. lectures, seminars and conferences on Forum for European Philosophy: European institutions, monetary history, wages, prices, issues relating to contemporary Europe. Dr Marco Dani: EU constitutionalism, philosophy and philosophy of Europe. standards of living; political economy of We host over 50 events a year with comparative constitutional law, law of contemporary Turkey. a wide range of public and academic Dr Robert Hancké: European monetary free movement. speakers: high level speakers since union; comparative economic performance. Professor Paul Preston: Contemporary Dr Florence Deloche-Gaudez: EU 2005 have included the presidents of Spain; the history of the European left Dr Abigail Innes: Political sociology; political institutions and EU constitutional politics; Italy and Lithuania; the president of the and Fascism. economy of transition from communism; France’s EU policy. Commission; the prime ministers of varieties of capitalism in Europe. Finance graduate prospectus 57

Dr Effie Fokas: Religion and nationalism; cent or above on the dissertation. Students the politics and sociology of immigration in who have not taken a master’s level course Department of Finance Greece and Europe in general; the sociology equivalent to the appropriate LSE option of religion in a European perspective, with a relevant for their theme will normally be special focus on Islam. recommended to apply for the MSc in European Studies (Research). Students Dr Claire Gordon: Politics in Eastern Europe, lse.ac.uk/finance should submit a short research proposal EU enlargement and conditionality; the EU’s (not more than 2,000 words) outlining their relationship with the wider Europe; post- MPhil/PhD in Finance main research question(s), methodology, communist conflicts and minority rights. and sources with their application. This Application code: N4ZC Prof Anke Hassel: EU labour relations; proposal will allow us to assess the potential Start date: 29 September 2011 welfare and labour market reforms. of the proposed project and especially the Duration: MPhil/PhD 4 years Philippe Legrain: Globalisation, migration availability of appropriate supervision within and related European issues; EMU; the Institute. The Institute may subsequently Entry requirement: Taught master’s EU constitution. request applicants to submit a sample of degree in relevant area written work or to come for interview. Dr Iyiola Solanke: EU Governance; English requirement: Standard EU court system; judicial power and All students are initially registered for the (see page 36) politics; legal Institutions and diversity; EU MPhil degree and every student must GRE/GMAT requirement: None MSc Finance and Private Equity citizenship and free movement of persons; follow the Research Design and Methods Fee level: See fee table page 29 (see page 159) multiple discrimination; comparative in European Studies course. On the advice anti-racial discrimination law; EU anti- of their supervisor, some students will be Financial support: LSE scholarships MSc Management and Regulation of Risk discrimination law; cause lawyering; encouraged to take relevant course(s) in the and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU (see page 202) Methodology Institute. empirical socio-legal research methods. students may apply for ESRC funding MSc Accounting and Finance (see page (see www.esrc.ac.uk). Departmental Some 65 other members of LSE staff, In their second year, all PhD students must 122) (Joint degree with Department of doctoral scholarships may also be in other departments, are conducting follow the Research Workshop in European Accounting, see page 46) Studies. In addition, students working in available to applicants from the UK/EU research on Europe. Diploma in Accounting and Finance (see themes in European Political Economy are and overseas page 100) (Joint degree with Department of Opportunities for research required to take the European Political Application deadline: None but Accounting, see page 46) Economy Seminar. Applications for research in three broad applicants wishing to be considered themes are welcome: European political Every student must conduct research for funding must submit a complete About the Department application by 4 January 2011 economy; European governance and under the guidance of their supervisor(s), The Department of Finance is devoted to politics; and European ideas and identities. regularly submit written work to their excellence in teaching and research in the supervisor(s) and provide the materials We encourage applications to our MPhil/ Taught programmes full range of subfields of finance including PhD programme in European Studies required for annual reviews. corporate finance, asset pricing theory, risk from outstanding students who wish to MSc Finance (Full-time programme) The degree is awarded on the basis of management, empirical analysis of capital undertake interdisciplinary research that falls (see page 155) a thesis of not more than 100,000 markets, behavioural finance, portfolio within the expertise of at least one of our words or a series of three connected MSc Finance (Part-time evening analysis, derivatives pricing, microstructure permanent faculty members and within the publishable articles on an approved topic, programme) (see page 156) and financial econometrics. The Department themes listed above. has grown in recent years to become one of and an oral examination. MSc Finance and Economics Admission to the MPhil/PhD is conditional the largest and most highly regarded finance There is an Erasmus doctoral research (see page 157) on obtaining a good merit on a previous groups in the UK and Europe. It is closely exchange with the European University MSc degree, normally defined as an overall MSc Finance and Economics (Research) associated with LSE’s Financial Markets Institute, Florence. average of 65 per cent or above and 65 per (see page 157) Group which regularly hosts a wide variety of 58 graduate prospectus Finance

seminars, conferences and public addresses Dr Maria Cecilia Bustamante: Lecturer in nonparametric methods and statistical intermediation and delegation; continuous by leading academics and practitioners. Finance. Dynamic corporate finance; asset inference for dynamic models in finance. time asset pricing; herding, market With over 250 graduate students selected pricing implications of corporate decisions; crashes; foundations of arbitrage. Dr Philippe Mueller: Macro-finance, from a pool of top applicants worldwide, a real options; game theory. empirical asset pricing, fixed income, faculty recruited from the best departments Opportunities for research Dr Georgy Chabakauri: Lecturer in financial econometrics. internationally, and a steady flow of Finance. Asset pricing; portfolio choice; You should have a substantial academic distinguished visitors, we have a stimulating Dr Yves Nosbusch: Empirical asset risk management. background in finance or economics, typically pricing; credit risk; debt management; environment for research and learning that is at master’s level. Satisfactory performance in Dr Vicente Cunat: Corporate finance; intergenerational risk sharing. on a par with the best worldwide. the Department’s own MSc programmes may applied theory; applied econometrics; LSE’s reputation with employers opens Dr Andrew Patton: Financial econometrics; meet the entrance requirements. industrial organisation; labour and up a broad range of career opportunities. forecasting; volatility and dependence personnel economics. The Department has a formally structured modelling; copulas; hedge funds. The critical and analytical skills you will PhD Finance programme which has received Dr Jon Danielsson: Financial risk analysis; develop are attractive to investment banks, Professor Christopher Polk: Asset research training recognition from the ESRC. value at risk; volatility modelling and commercial banks, fund managers and the pricing; corporate finance; hedge The programme aims to produce students forecasting; extreme value theory; financial financial services sector generally as well as funds; macroeconomics. whose research is of the highest international engineering; regulation; financial crises. in management consulting. A number of quality, and is designed to provide a broad Dr Rohit Rahi: Arbitrage in segmented graduates continue with further graduate Dr Amil Dasgupta: Information economics based training in theoretical and empirical markets; financial innovation and security study or take up top academic appointments. and game theory with applications to research methods in finance. design; asset pricing with asymmetric finance; the theory of financial crises; Staff and their information; general equilibrium theory; The PhD in Finance programme has two delegated portfolio management. academic interests incomplete markets. routes – Route 1 is for students coming Dr Jack Favilukis: Consumption based from relevant master’s degree programmes Professor Ronald Anderson: Dynamic Professor Dimitri Vayanos: Liquidity asset pricing; incomplete markets; (such as the MSc Finance, MSc Accounting corporate finance; contingent claims and asset pricing, information in asset heterogeneity and inequality; limited and Finance or MSc Management and analysis, risk management; financial market markets, delegated portfolio management, participation and participation costs. Regulation of Risk programmes at LSE, or structure and regulation; structuring financial behavioural finance. equivalent elsewhere) and Route 2 is for those contracts and institutions. Dr Stephane Guibaud: International Dr Michela Verardo: Empirical asset students who have already completed the macro and finance; asset pricing; Dr Ulf Axelson: Reader in Finance. Private pricing; market efficiency and investment Department’s MSc Finance and Economics yield curve, recursive contracts; optimal equity; financial innovation and security anomalies; trading behaviour of or MSc Finance and Economics (Research) debt management. design; corporate finance; auction theory; institutional investors; behavioural finance. programmes or equivalent elsewhere. During Dr Christian Julliard: Macroeconomics, and financial intermediation. Professor David Webb: Financial economics; their first year, Route 1 students will take finance, applied econometrics, international courses in Theories of Finance, Advanced Dr Elisabetta Bertero: Budget constraints monetary theory, specifically analysis of economics, real estate economics. Microeconomics, Financial Econometrics and and state-owned firms; French and Italian bankruptcy and financial contracts. Dr Xiaoji Lin: Theoretical and empirical Forecasting Financial Time Series to build their financial systems; interdependence of Dr Kathy Yuan: Bubbles and crises, asset pricing in connection with corporate core knowledge in these areas. In their second equity markets; international finance; sub- liquidity, heterogeneous information, finance; and macroeconomics. year, Route 1 students will take a course in sovereign debt. mutual funds, hedge funds, network Empirical Finance together with an optional Dr Dong Lou: Lecturer in Finance. theory, short-sale and margin constraints, Professor Sudipto Bhattacharya: course. Route 2 students will take Theories Empirical asset pricing; behavioural global games, asset pricing. Corporate finance and governance; of Finance, Empirical Finance and an optional finance; empirical corporate finance. models of research and development Dr Kostas Zachariadis: Market course. Route 1 and Route 2 students attend and the dissemination of proprietary Dr Antonio Mele: Stock market volatility microstructure, information economics, a PhD seminar in Finance throughout their knowledge; financial intermediation; and the business cycle; the term structure and corporate governance. PhD studies. contract theory; regulation. of interest rates; information networks Dr Jean-Pierre Zigrand: General To progress at the end of each year, in financial markets; simulation based equilibrium asset pricing; financial students in both programmes must pass Gender Institute graduate prospectus 59

their examined courses at grades specified by the Department and make satisfactory Gender Institute progress in their research. Progress is regularly monitored by the Department’s Graduate Assessment Review Panel. approach or perspective, and as a way of We encourage our research students to lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute thinking across disciplinary boundaries participate fully in the intellectual life of the Department, and in the research seminar and MPhil/PhD Gender MSc Gender (Research) (see page workshop programmes of the Department Visiting Research Students 162) – emphasising research design, and related research centres such as the epistemology, methodology and research Application code: Y2ZG (MPhil/PhD) Financial Markets Group (FMG) fmg. methods Y2TA (VRS) lse.ac.uk. The weekly Capital Markets MSc Gender, Development and Start date: 29 September 2011 Workshops provide exposure to the work of Globalisation (see page 163) – leading academics from the UK and overseas. Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years understanding how gender is theorised, In addition, the FMG hosts a number (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months understood and incorporated into of conferences each year with leading (renewable) development analysis, practice and policy researchers and practitioners. Entry requirement: Taught master’s MSc Gender, Media and Culture (see page degree with a high merit or equivalent 164) – critically interrogating aspects of overall (65+), including a minimum of a contemporary media and culture high merit in the dissertation (65+), in a MSc Gender and Social Policy (see page related discipline 165) – using gender theory to interrogate English requirement: Higher social policy, planning and practice (see page 36) About the Institute GRE/GMAT requirement: None The Gender Institute was established in Fee level: See fee table page 29 1993 to address the major intellectual Financial support: LSE scholarships challenges posed by contemporary changes and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU in gender relations. students may apply for ESRC funding in The Institute’s graduate students come the open competition (see www.esrc. from all corners of the globe and enter ac.uk). The Gender Institute is able to gender studies from a diverse range of offer one PhD studentship per year disciplinary backgrounds, ranging from Application deadline: No specific English or literature to political economy deadline but early application and development studies. This range of recommended. Applicants wishing to be disciplinary backgrounds is also reflected considered for an LSE PhD scholarship in the background of permanent staff at must submit a complete application by the Institute, who come from geography, 10 January 2011 English and French literature, political theory, cultural studies and sociology. We Taught programmes run a large master’s programme, with five separate degrees, and a PhD programme. MSc Gender (see page 162) – treating Each programme is characterised by its gender as an object of study, an analytic interdisciplinary and transnational approach 60 graduate prospectus Gender Institute

to gender studies, and both students and The general areas are indicated first and methods might be adapted in light of shifts the Institute, build expertise in presenting staff work exceptionally hard to maintain related funding or consultancy areas listed in global formations. and evaluating their own and other people’s this two-pronged direction to maintain a afterwards. See our staff pages for details of work, and confidence to edit and revise PhD applications are welcome in any of the creative, distinctive and innovative edge. individual research profiles. drafts of their work. It also generates a sense above areas. The combined master’s degrees welcome of a shared project and cohort identity, between 70 and 80 students annually, and Globalisation, work and care Opportunities for research particularly since students are encouraged the PhD programme has up to 20 students at This work focuses on the economic and to focus on common problems such as Opportunities for research in the a given time. social implications of accelerated global methodological or design problems as well as pioneering field of gender studies are integration, for paid employment and the textual issues. In research and teaching terms, the unparalleled. Students participate in Institute is unique, bringing together social social reproduction of daily life. seminars and workshops, as well as GI400 and GI402 sciences and humanities approaches in following a research training programme Multiculturalism and democracy Students take a core gender theories and order to address key problems in gender within the Institute. Our key research a core epistemology and methodology studies transnationally. We provide a This broad area takes in the development of areas are feminist epistemology and course in their first year which are intended leading role internationally in combining normative political theories of equality and methodology; Women in South Asia and to build theory and research practice skills. innovative theory and epistemology with democracy, insisting on the importance of a Diaspora, gender and peacekeeping; The core course introduces students to the policy concerns. Our research-led approach gendered perspective. feminist political economy, globalisation, range of theoretical frameworks available results in a vibrant research environment gender and inequality; transnational Security, development and rights to gender studies experts, and asks what it and a unique teaching programme that sexuality studies, economic restructuring, means to use theory to explore key debates prepares research students for various This work emphasises the importance of new economy, work and care; feminist and problems (eg human rights) rather than careers within and outside of academia. gender in understanding power relations political theory; normative political approaching theory in an abstract way. The We train the largest number of graduates globally, particularly with respect to access to theory; egalitarianism; multiculturalism; theory course proves invaluable in training qualifying in gender studies anywhere in development and rights. gender and autonomy; gender, sexuality students to think about how theory travels Europe. We run a series of high profile and ageing; cultural memory and time; and what it means to take a particular events at the Institute, including public Representation and memory feminist film theory. lectures, workshops and conferences, position in theoretical debate. Both courses Colleagues engaged in this theme are Research students are exceptionally well and host international scholars who are allow students to think creatively about the concerned both with the lived experiences of catered to at the Gender Institute, and their integrated into the life of the Institute. how to of research, not just in relation to their women and men in the ageing process, and PhD programme is tailored both to their own project but as a central feature of all Research with representations of these processes and individual needs and to general needs, such research (thus preparing them for the future). their social and cultural significance. as methodology training and engagement Research currently covers six main themes in professional academic life. All research Progression relating to each of the core staff members’ Sexuality and culture students at the Institute receive core training particular research expertise. They comprise First year students will be assessed during the Work in this theme focuses on the in their first year to prepare them for their both a thorough grounding in existing first year by means of a draft chapter and a relationship between gender and sexuality, research and writing, and ongoing training research and strong emphasis of the research proposal. The research proposal will with a particular emphasis on local and across the period of the studies within and development of innovative, original research follow a given template and will include the transnational spaces and flows. outside the Institute. The aim is to enable findings andprocesses. Each theme focuses research objectives, the methodology and students to complete a PhD thesis within on both inequalities and possibilities for a short research rationale to be evaluated Transnational epistemology and three years, or an MPhil thesis in two years. by a review panel which will include the social and theoretical transformation. Each methodology supervisor. Students have to pass their theme includes more than one person within PhD programme workshops and outside the Institute, offers research This theme connects all those working at the upgrading of registration within 15 months, All PhD students attend fortnightly PhD opportunities to early career researchers or Institute, providing a common concern across and are subsequently reviewed annually. all research projects. What links work in all workshops from the start of their time at research students, and comprises individual Further information can be found on our areas is an interest in how ideas and methods the Institute. These are intended to provide and co-operative research leading to web page: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ in gender studies travel across time and students with continuity across their time at seminars, conferences and publications. genderInstitute/study/phdProgramme/ space, as well as how our own theories and applyingForAdmission.htm Geography and Environment graduate prospectus 61

Full details of all programmes are available The Department currently runs PhD Department of Geography at lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAnd programmes in Human Geography, and in Environment Regional and Urban Planning (with new PhD and Environment pathways in economic geography and spatial About the Department economics, and environmental economics and policy planned for 2011-12, in line with lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd The Department was ranked amongst the ESRC’s new training guidelines). There is Environment the leading departments in the country in the 2008 Research Assessment Excercise. one research-orientated master’s degree (in MPhil/PhD Geography It has for many years been a recognised Human Geography (Research)) and a range Visiting Research ESRC research training outlet (full-time and of others focused on developing the ability Students part-time). to integrate theoretical developments with practical experience. Staff come from a wide The Department is distinctive in that it Application code: L8ZG (MPhil/PhD), range of subject backgrounds. Most of those concentrates on the socio-economic aspects L8EG (VRS) involved in teaching graduate students have of the subject, places great emphasis on Start date: 29 September 2011. a wealth of experience in working for, or multi-disciplinary teaching and research and For January/April start, contact the acting as advisers to, a range of international focuses strongly on policy relevant work. Department agencies – including the World Bank, United Our research primarily takes place in Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2), VRS Taught programmes three cluster groups which focus on: United Nations Environment Programme up to 9 months (renewable) economic geography and regional science; (UNEP), the European Commission, MSc Environment and Development (see Entry requirement: Taught environmental economics and policy; and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and page 148) master’s degree in related discipline globalisation, cities and development. Development (OECD), and the World Wide and a background in geography or MSc Environmental Economics and Climate The first two research clusters are closely Fund for Nature – and governmental bodies related subject Change (see page 149) associated with two major externally- in Great Britain, South Africa, China and funded research centres: The Grantham throughout the European Union. English requirement: Standard MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation Research Institute on Climate Change and (see page 36) (see page 150) the Environment (incorporating the ESRC Staff and their GRE/GMAT requirement: None MSc Human Geography (Research) Centre for Climate Change Economics and academic interests (see page 174) Fee level: See fee table page 29 Policy) and the ESRC Spatial Economics Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt: Urban economics MSc Local Economic Development (see Research Centre (SERC). Staff in each of and land development, external effects Financial support: LSE scholarships page 191) these groups have responsibility for teaching of the built environment; economic impact and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU specialist master’s courses, ensuring that of accessibility. MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance students may apply for ESRC funding (see students benefit from the most up to date (see page 229) Dr Giles Atkinson: Environmental policy www.esrc.ac.uk) understanding of the issues involved. and economics; sustainable development; Application deadline: None but MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies Departmental staff are also actively involved green accounting. (see page 230) applicants wishing to be considered for with the School’s other interdisciplinary an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a Professor Sylvia Chant: Development MSc Urbanisation and Development institutes and research centres (including complete application by 10 January 2011 geography, especially Mexico, Costa Rica, (see page 247) the Centre for Economic Performance, the Philippines; gender; poverty; migration; Department of International Development, The Department runs a joint degree with women’s employment; masculinities. LSE London, Media@LSE, Gender Institute, Sciences Po, Paris: and Urban@LSE, the Spatial Economics Dr Sharad Chari: Historical ethnographies LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy Research Centre (SERC)) and undertake of capitalist development; politics of work, (see page 119) collaborative research with colleagues in social space; ‘race’ and the commodity other disciplines. detritus; social theory; India; South Africa. 62 graduate prospectus Geography and Environment

Professor Paul Cheshire: Spatial aspects industry linkages; new technology and Dr Henry Overman: Location theory of economics, particularly urban economic labour productivity, multinationals, and urban economics; models of growth in Europe; urban land and housing technology and cluster evolution. economic geography with emphasis on markets; land use regulation. cities and regions; national and European Professor David Jones: Socio-economic regional policy. Dr Riccardo Crescenzi: Economic growth; activity; environmental change and innovation; regional and local economic environmental hazards; hazard and risk Dr Richard Perkins: The relationship development; regional policy of the assessment; environmental risk management. between globalisation and environmental European Union. change; corporate environmentalism; Dr Gareth Jones: Access to land and environmental leapfrogging and Dr Simon Dietz: Environmental equity; market deregulation; housing finance energy transitions. sustainable development; climate and NGOs; conservation and identities, change and public perceptions of especially Latin America, southern Africa. Professor Diane Perrons: Economic environmental issues. geography, particularly cohesion in Dr Murray Low: Political geography, Europe, focusing on region and gender; Dr Salvatore Di Falco: The intersection especially spatial aspects of democracy; urban flexible working. between environmental and development politics, and geography of political parties. economics; econometric analysis of the Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose: Dr Michael Mason: Environmental contribution of natural resources such Economic growth, regional and local geography; theory and application as biodiversity. development, and global restructuring of transnational environmental in Europe and Latin America; regional Dr Steve Gibbons: Spatial issues in labour accountability; Canadian environmental devolution and regional disparities and and education economics; econometric policy; urban regeneration. policy in Europe. methods and their application to the Dr Carmen Marchiori: Environmental analysis of spatial relationships; the Dr Hyun Bang Shin: Contemporary urban economics and development; water resource valuation of school quality, community (re-)development; urban governance; management and climate change. human capital and neighbourhood crime. housing and social change; social welfare; Dr Claire Mercer: Postcolonialism and transitional cities, especially in China; Professor Ian Gordon: Spatial labour development; diasporas; civil society and Korea; East Asia. markets and migration, urban and regional NGOs; sub-Saharan Africa; Tanzania. development, particularly in relation to Dr Olmo Silva: Spatial issues in the metropolitan regions, urban policy and Dr Giordano Mion: Regional and urban economics of education (such as school spatial modelling. economics; international economics; accessibility, school competition and heterogeneous firms models; labour neighbourhood effects); urban economics; Dr Christian Hilber: The role of markets; applied micro-econometrics. issues in applied growth; entrepreneurship. housing supply for investment in local public schools and social capital; the Dr Susana Mourato: Environmental Professor Michael Storper: Economic determinants and consequences of economics; environmental and health geography; globalisation, trade, location home ownership; the determinants and valuation (methods and applications); and specialisation; regional development consequences of land use regulation or markets for ecosystem services; demand in Europe, North America, Brazil. the determinants of firm and household for low-carbon energy technologies; life Dr Andrew Thornley: Urban planning; location choices. satisfaction and the environment globalisation, world cities; city Dr Nancy Holman: Urban regeneration, Dr Eric Neumayer: Trade and environment; competition; Olympic Games. social capital, and network analysis. sustainable development; green accounting; climate change; quantitative analysis of Opportunities for research Dr Simona Iammarino: Economic environment, development and governance. geography of innovation and technological We welcome applicants with good change; spatial profile of university- master’s degrees to study for a PhD. We Geography and Environment graduate prospectus 63

only accept PhD topics that are close to graduate programme may be obtained if you staff interests, so you should check our have already undertaken recognised research staff publications and current research training. Currently, ESRC funded students will agenda (our departmental web pages list take the MSc Human Geography (Research) key research topics). Broadly, this covers as part of their 1+3 programme of study. regional development, spatial economics, Most elements of the graduate programme Dennis Kumetat globalisation, geographies of development, are completed in the first year. Students take urbanisation, and environmental core seminar courses in human geography MPhil/PhD Geography economics, policy and regulation. or planning and relevant specialist MSc level and Environment You should have a good master’s degree courses to take them to the leading edge of (or equivalent) in a cognate field of study to their chosen discipline and topic. Students Dinslaken, Germany your proposed research topic, with strong can also select from courses offered by performance in the dissertation element, and LSE’s Methodology Institute. In addition, have a background in geography, economics throughout the programme, we offer a or allied subjects such as sociology, series of study skills workshops, research anthropology, planning, environmental seminar series where graduates present their For me as a PhD student, the availability of world-class research facilities studies or regional science. current research to staff and colleagues, and the opportunity to work with an established expert in my field was the key and Departmental seminars where visiting reason for choosing LSE. In addition to that, the generous financial support Selection is based upon the quality of speakers and staff present their work. provided by the PhD scholarship of the LSE Kuwait Programme on Development, your research proposal, references, prior Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States enables me to fully dedicate my achievement, and the appropriateness of We emphasise supervisors and students time to my doctoral research. your research to the Department’s research working together on research design, focus. We do not normally interview strategy and methodology, and the timetable My doctoral programme has so far given me the freedom I need to develop as an prospective research students so your written and plans for dissemination of the work. You independent researcher while at the same time offering me the necessary guidance proposal is very important. Your proposal will receive regular feedback on your work to identify the next steps for my work that hopefully lead to me graduating in should be three to four pages long (excluding and your progress will be monitored by an due time. references and appendix) and can be emailed annual review. In my first year at LSE I made extensive use of the Language Centre and the free to the Department for informal comment IT training courses. In addition to that, my supervisor allowed me to host an prior to your formal application. international energy workshop about a topic closely related to my own research. It is essential that your research proposal I benefited a lot from organising it; it improved my professional networks and I addresses: research question; relevant am now editing a follow-up publication. literature and previous research in the field; potential contribution to knowledge; In my second year, I started teaching an undergraduate course. While this has likely methods and theoretical approaches equipped me with hands-on teaching experience, LSE’s Postgraduate Certificate to be adopted; likely information sources for Higher Education has added important additional conceptual inputs and and an assessment of their suitability and teaching feedback. This is an additional, free of charge qualification that is vital availability. An outline three year research for a broad variety of jobs. timetable must be included as an appendix. LSE’s Global Public Policy Network (GPPN) doctoral exchange programme will enable Applications that fail to address these points me to conduct three months of doctoral research at Sciences Po, Paris. During that will not be considered. stay I intend to improve my French language skills, conduct important interviews and Currently, there are compulsory graduate cooperate with various scholars working on North Africa and the Gulf. programmes for new MPhil/PhD researchers in human geography or regional and urban planning. Exemption from parts of the 64 graduate prospectus Government

LSE-PKU Double Degree in Public Staff and their Department of Government Administration and Government (see academic interests page 118) Professor Sumantra Bose: Ethnic conflict MSc Public Policy and Administration and democratisation; national self- (see page 227) determination; peace building; politics in lse.ac.uk/government MSc Public Policy and Administration India, Kashmir, former Yugoslavia. MPhil/PhD Government (Research) (see page 227) Professor John Breuilly: Nationalism Visiting Research Students MSc Regulation (see page 231) and ethnicity, modern German history; comparative European history especially Application code: M1ZG (MPhil/PhD), MSc Regulation (Research) (see page 231) labour movements, bourgeoisie; urban M1EG (VRS) MPA Public and Economic Policy cultural history in 19th century Europe; Start date: 29 September 2011 (see page 102) modern liberalism. Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (minimum MPA Public Policy and Management Dr Michael Bruter: European Union; 2), VRS up to 9 months (renewable) (see page 102) European identity; elections; political Entry requirement: Taught master’s behaviour; research methods; degree in related discipline About the Department European politics. English requirement: Higher The Government Department is one of the Dr John Chalcraft: Popular history of Taught programmes (see page 36) largest in the UK and covers almost all areas the Middle East and the global south; GRE/GMAT requirement: None MSc Comparative Politics (see page 130) of politics. We offer a comprehensive range issues of hegemony and resistance; of academic approaches, from political political contention; Eurocentrism; uneven Fee level: See fee table page 29 MSc Comparative Politics (Research) theory and philosophy to public choice and (see page 132) capitalism; imperialism. Financial support: LSE scholarships comparative government, and the history of Professor Janet Coleman: Ancient/ and studentships (see page 30). UK/ MPA European Public and Economic Policy institutions and policy. EU students may apply for ESRC or (see page 103) medieval political theory including Being based within the only UK institution AHRC funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk property; theories of knowledge, MSc Global Politics (see page 168) that specialises solely in the social sciences is a or www.ahrc.ac.uk). The Government historiography, genesis of the early great benefit and our graduate programmes Department also offers 2 scholarships MSc Global Politics (Global Civil Society) modern state. involve close collaboration with other that cover home/EU fees for the first year (see page 168) Dr Philip Cook: Contemporary political departments and institutes in the School. and 1 scholarship that covers overseas MPA International Development theory, especially Scanlon’s contractualism; In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, fees for the first year (see page 103) moral psychology; buck-passing accounts the Government and International Relations Application deadline: 10 January 2011. of value; transcendental arguments in MRes/PhD Political Science (see page 104) Departments together with the Institute of Successful candidates will be notified contemporary analytical philosophy. Development Studies were assessed as one in March. In exceptional cases, late MSc Political Science and Political Economy unit. The majority of the research was graded Dr Torun Dewan: Public choice; party applications can be considered until 29 (see page 218) in the world leading and internationally strategy; ministerial and legislative April 2011, but candidates are advised MSc Political Theory (see page 220) excellent categories. behaviour; political economy. that places for late admission are limited MSc Political Theory (Research) and late applicants are not eligible for We currently have students from all Dr Vesselin Dimitrov: Eastern Europe, (see page 220) consideration for LSE/ESRC/AHRC and corners of the globe researching across the government and politics; communism and government department funding MSc Politics and Government in the whole field of politics. post-communism; democratisation. Notes: Applicants must submit either European Union (see page 223) Professor Patrick Dunleavy: Electoral two master’s degree essays of 5,000 systems; voting behaviour, parties; words or a master’s dissertation government structures; executive budgeting; Government graduate prospectus 65

new public management and globalisation; Herzegovina; foreign policy of Serbia and Dr Paul Mitchell: Party competition; urban politics, political sociology. Montenegro, and the Albanian diaspora coalition governments; electoral systems; in the United Kingdom. Irish politics. Dr Katrin Flikschuh: Kant’s political philosophy; contemporary liberalism; Professor Chandran Kukathas: History of Professor Ed Page: Comparative public global justice; history of political thought. liberal thought; contemporary liberal political administration and policy; British theory; multiculturalism. government. Dr John Gledhill: Global politics. Dr Valentino Larcinese: Public choice; Dr Francisco Panizza: Democracy and Dr Nilima Gulrajani: Performance voting; information; mass media; human rights in Latin America; politics management and aid effectiveness; redistribution; public economics. and economy of MERCOSUR countries. organisational dynamics in development; comparative public administration and Mr Alex Leveringhaus: Political and legal Professor George Philip: Latin American development policy. philosophy, ethics; contemporary theories politics and oil politics; Mexican, Venezuelan of rights of justice and their implications and Peruvian politics and economy. Professor David Held: Democracy; for political violence and war; problems in democratisation; globalisation; global Professor Anne Phillips: Feminist political non-consequentionalist ethics (‘harming politics; modern political and social theory. theory; normative political theory; and saving from harm’); theories of democracy, political representation, Professor Simon Hix: EU politics and complicity and collective responsibility; especially representation of gender, policy; the EU legislative process and intergenerational justice. ethnicity and race; multiculturalism. the European Parliament; parties and Professor Dominic Lieven: Russian elections; rational choice theory. Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey: Political government, history; empires; German and economy; agricultural politics; trade Dr Jonathan Hopkin: West European English aristocracy before 1914. policy; public choice; American politics. politics and political economy; political Dr Chun Lin: Post WWII cultural radicalism; parties; political decentralisation; corruption. Professor John Sidel: International politics Marxism; communism and post-communism; of South East Asia, Indonesia, Philippines; Professor James Hughes: Post-communist modern China; patterns of history and Islam and international relations. transitions; elites; federalism, regionalism development; women, work, citizenship. and nationalism in FSU; Russian politics. Professor Mark Thatcher: Comparative Professor Christian List: Political theory, public policy; information and Dr John Hutchinson: Theories of formal and normative; social choice theory communications technology in Europe; nationalism; cultural nationalism. and its foundations; theories of democracy British, French, EU policy. Professor Paul Kelly: Modern political and deliberation; philosophy of science and Dr Eiko Thielemann: EU and comparative theory; history of political thought; social science. European politics and policy; asylum, philosophy of Jeremy Bentham and Dr Martin Lodge: Comparative regulatory immigration and citizenship; regionalism Ronald Dworkin. regimes and policies; institutional analysis; and devolution; regional and state aid German, British, EU public policy. Dr Bill Kissane: Nationalism; democratic policy; German politics and policy. theory and Irish politics. Dr Kate Macdonald: Global political Dr Joachim Wehner: Public sector economy; global governance (particularly Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi: budgeting and comparative federalism. labour and social governance); global Globalisation; global governance; African politics. European political integration. poverty and social exclusion; fair trade; corporate accountability; globalisation and Dr David Woodruff: Politics and Dr Denisa Kostovicova: Democratic the developing world; non-state actors in economics of Russia and other post- transition in former Yugoslavia; regional world politics. socialist countries; political economy of security and stability in the post- capitalist institutions, international trade Professor Maria Mendras: Russian politics, Milosevic Balkans; the impact of the UN and capital flows; qualitative methods and European politics. protectorates in Kosovo and Bosnia- philosophy of social science. 66 graduate prospectus Government

Opportunities for research Supporting documentation In addition, you should describe your Macmillan, 2003); E M Phillips and D S Pugh, reasons for selecting your topic. Why How to Get a PhD (Open University Press, We aim to create a sense of community We require a personal statement, a research do you want to spend four years on this 2005, 4th edition). among our research students, encouraging proposal, samples of written work, two particular topic? What is particularly you to appreciate the variety within political academic references and degree/language- interesting about it? Is it a new topic? A Written work science by engaging in discussion with test transcripts. much researched topic which requires a colleagues whose research topics are different Applicants must submit either two master’s new approach? You should also indicate from your own. If you join the Department Personal statement degree essays of 5,000 words or a master’s why, in your view, your proposed work to undertake research you will have both a dissertation. Researching for, and writing, a doctoral will make a significant and original supervisor and an adviser, or if appropriate, thesis is an enjoyable intellectual experience, contribution to the field. Finally, you References two supervisors. Your adviser provides an but also a demanding one. It is crucially should be able to complete your thesis alternative source of advice and also gives you You should nominate two referees who are important, therefore, that you embark on within four years. While your proposal wider contact with the Department. familiar with your academic work and, ideally, this process, starting with the application, may evolve in the course of your research, who know of your proposed field of research. In the first year of your research programme with realistic views of what doing a PhD you should endeavour to present a It is your responsibility to make contact you attend the Department’s doctoral actually consists of, as well as with a good project which will be feasible within the with your referees promptly to allow your programme seminar. The Department is sense of what your reasons are for doing it. framework of a three to four year MPhil/ application to be completed in time. Please closely associated with the work of the Your personal statement should state clearly PhD programme. note that outside term time many academics School’s Methodology Institute. We will advise your motivation, academic interests and your The selection panel places great importance may be away from their department and you about additional methodological training purpose and objectives in applying for the on the originality, substance and feasibility therefore difficult to contact. Referees can appropriate to your project. MPhil/PhD in the Government Department. of your proposal. Moreover, the proposal The statement should be between 1,000 complete their references online. Complete There are regular graduate seminars in must fall into a research area in which the and 1,500 words. We do not require or applications must be received by the deadline, each of the Department’s subject areas. Department is able to offer supervision. consider CVs. and it is the candidate’s responsibility to From the second year onwards you attend Candidates are encouraged to study the ensure their completeness. one of the following workshops: Political Department’s webpages carefully and to Research proposal NB: see also MRes/PhD Political Science Theory, Political Economy and Public Policy, take due care in the preparation of the The research proposal, which should be of (page 104). Comparative Politics, European Politics and proposal, to consult former academic approximately 1,500 words, is absolutely Policy, or Ethnicity and Nationalism. You may advisers and to make contact with potential crucial to the success of your application. also attend a workshop in your first year. supervisors in the Department for advice To be eligible for admission as an MPhil/ We review your progress annually. If you on preparing a proposal. You will find a list PhD student, you need to have more than successfully pass your review in the Summer of members of staff, with their research a vaguely defined research topic. Your term of your first year you will be upgraded interests, at lse.ac.uk/government proposal should be written as clearly and to PhD status. concisely as possible and should address the If you have discussed your proposed The application deadline is 10 January following questions: research with a member of the Department’s 2011. Successful candidates will be academic staff, you should indicate their 1 What is your general topic? notified in March. In exceptional cases, name in your proposal. late applications can be considered until 2 What questions do you want to answer? For a good overview of what a PhD consists 29 April 2011, but candidates are advised 3 What is the key literature and its limitations? of, the good and bad experiences that that places for late admission are limited doctoral students often have, and for advice and late applicants are not eligible for 4 What are the main hypotheses of the work? on how to formulate a research question and consideration for LSE/ESRC/AHRC funding. 5 What methodology do you intend to use? plan a doctorate, you may wish to consult the What are your case studies, if any? following two books: P Dunleavy, Authoring 6 What are the limitations of your a PhD: how to plan, draft, write and finish proposed research? a doctoral thesis or dissertation (Palgrave International Development graduate prospectus 67

Department of International Development (formerly known as the Development Studies Institute (DESTIN))

About the Institute Staff and their lse.ac.uk/international academic interests Development The Department of International Development (formerly known as DESTIN) Professor Tim Allen: Complex MPhil/PhD Development was established in 1990 to promote emergencies; ethnic conflict; media and Studies interdisciplinary graduate teaching and war; forced migration; health and healing; research on processes of social, political and development/aid agencies; ethics of aid; Application code: Y2ZD economic development and change. The East Africa; HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical Start date: 29 September 2011 Department is dedicated to understanding diseases, the International Criminal Court, Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2) problems of poverty and late development and humanitarianism. within local communities, national Professor Jo Beall: Cities and Entry requirement: Strong academic political and economic systems and in the development; urban poverty and social record and graduate training or work international system. experience demonstrating a high level exclusion; local government and urban of achievement, including grounding Taught programmes All faculty members are associated with top governance; conflict cities and crisis states; in social science and in languages ranked departments in the 2008 HEFCE gender and international development MSc Development Management relevant to the proposed research Research Assessment Exercise. Members policy; Southern Africa and South and (see page 135) of the Department have considerable West Asia. English requirement: Standard (see experience of living and working in the MSc Development Studies (see page 136) Dr Mayling Birney: Comparative politics page 36) developing world and most have engaged in MSc Development Studies (Research) and political economy; authoritarian GRE/GMAT requirement: None policy relevant research and consultancy work (see page 136) politics; institutional development and with international development agencies or Fee level: See fee table page 29 democratisation; governance and rule MSc International Development and non-governmental organisations. of law; decentralisation; state-society Financial support: LSE scholarships Humanitarian Emergencies (see page 177) Students in our MSc and research relations; China. and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU MPA International Development programmes come from all over the world students may apply for ESRC funding Professor Stuart Corbridge: Development (see page 103) and have found employment in a wide (see www.esrc.ac.uk). Department theory; history of development studies; variety of government, non-government, doctoral scholarships may be available In addition to the programmes listed political economy of development in academic and private sector organisations to EU/UK and overseas applicants. above, the institute contributes to: India; civil and political society in India; working in the developing world. CASE studentship right to information; accountability and MSc Anthropology and Development There are four clusters of interdisciplinary governance; political ecology. Application deadline: 10 January (see page 125) research expertise within the Department of to be considered for the LSE PhD Professor Tim Dyson: Fertility and MSc Environment and Development International Development: scholarships, otherwise 1 April 2011 mortality trends – determinants and (see page 148) • Complex Emergencies and consequences; changes in population MSc Political Economy of Late Humanitarian Responses size, and age and sex composition; world Development (see page 217) food prospects; famine demography; • Development Management MSc Population and Development population and development interactions; • Governance (see page 225) the demography of the Indian • Political Economy subcontinent, past, present and future; MSc Urbanisation and Development causes and consequences of climate (see page 247) change; mortality trends in Iraq. 68 graduate prospectus International Development

Dr Jean-Paul Faguet: Political economy political entrepreneurship; policy making Dr Diana Weinhold: growth, trade PhD students should have completed their and development economics; institutional incentives; human development; aid and and FDI; land use, environment and dissertation or be near to completion. economics; comparative politics; public other development capital flows; education. development; applied econometrics. Students participate together with faculty economics; violence and development; Dr Shirin Madon: IS in developing countries; in regular research seminars where ongoing governance and decentralisation; foreign Opportunities for research e-government and telecentre projects for work is presented and debated. aid effectiveness and institutional reform; development; integrated health information The Department of International economics and politics of Latin America; Research students have linked their systems in developing countries. Development has established a vibrant projects to work with the UN Development ‘Q2’ methods of social research. research students’ programme with students Dr Kate Meagher: Informal economies, Programme, the World Bank and other Dr Tim Forsyth: Environment and employing a variety of disciplinary and social networks, informal institutions; bilateral and multilateral development development; environmental governance; interdisciplinary approaches to research internal associations and political voice; agencies, as well as with leading non- science and technology studies; climate across Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle vigilantism and organised crime; rural social governmental organisations. change policy; community forestry; civil East and internationally. The Department and economic change, non-form activities; society and public-private collaboration; hosts ESRC graduate and Centre for Analysis new religious movements; Nigeria, West South and Southeast Asia. of Social Exclusion (CASE) studentships and Africa; East Africa, Southern Africa. current students have secured scholarships Dr Lloyd Gruber: Globalisation, inequality, Professor Thandika Mkandawire: from a wide variety of sources. and redistribution; international and Development theory; social policy and comparative political economy; global Prospective students should have a strong development, political economy of governance; regional integration; institutional academic record and graduate training development in Africa; democracy, design; US foreign economic policy. or work experience demonstrating a high governance and economic policy. standard of achievement. This includes Dr Nilima Gulrajani: Organisational Professor James Putzel: Politics of grounding in one of the social science dynamics and international development; development; crisis states and state disciplines and languages necessary for the performance management and aid building; agrarian institutions and change; proposed research. effectiveness; comparative public political dimensions of the HIV/AIDS administration and development During the first year, students acquire further epidemic; Southeast Asia, especially the policy making. methodological training, language skills, Philippines; Central and East Africa. and background knowledge of specific Professor Jude Howell: Politics of civil Dr Sandra Sequeira: Corruption; topics related to their research by following society and international development; infrastructure; experimental economics; graduate courses at the Department or in the security, civil society and aid post-9/11 private sector development; corporate School. Students who have not taken their (Afghanistan, Kenya, India, US and UK); social responsibility. MSc in the Department may be required to comparative politics; governance and civil study, and to qualify in, courses from The society in China; labour organising and Dr Kenneth Shadlen: Political economy Department of International Development trades unions in China and India; female of development; international and (formerly known as DESTIN)’s MSc political participation in China. regional trade and investment; intellectual programmes. All students work closely with property; international debt; international Professor Mary Kaldor: New wars; human a faculty supervisor to develop a detailed institutions; Latin America. security; global civil society; oil wars; proposal for their dissertation project, which Balkans, Caucasus, Iraq and Afghanistan. Professor Robert Wade: Globalisation; is examined at the end of the academic year. economic growth and world income By the end of the second year, MPhil students Dr David Keen: Conflict and complex distribution; multilateral regimes for trade will have completed their research and emergencies; contemporary civil warfare; and finance; multilateral organisations, written up their dissertation, while students disaster zones; Africa; ‘war on terror’; especially World Bank and WTO; capital working on a PhD will have completed ex-combatants. markets and financial crises; east Asia; all research. By the end of the third year, Dr Stephen Kosack: Comparative political politics of environmental protection; how economy of development; collective action; economists think. International History graduate prospectus 69

East, Africa, western and eastern Europe Dr Steven Casey: American public opinion Department of (including Russia) and the USA. and Nazi Germany; President Franklin D Roosevelt – administration and foreign policy; Research focuses on the history of American public and the Korean war. International History international relations. Staff have expertise in the economic, strategic, and ideological Professor Janet Hartley: Russian history lse.ac.uk/international aspects of international relations, as well as in 18th and 19th centuries; Russian and History in the domestic roots of foreign policy. The Soviet archival materials in Great Britain. Department has particular expertise in the Dr Tim Hochstrasser: Early modern links between domestic, political and social MPhil/PhD International cultural and intellectual history; European history and international relations. In its History Enlightenment; social history of music. Visiting Research Students teaching and its practice of history it ranges widely from political and diplomatic history Dr Heather Jones: First World War, history Application code: V1ZH (MPhil/PhD), through to political thought and social and of prisoner of war treatment. Weimar V1EH (VRS) economic trends and including the history Germany: Irish politics. Start date: 29 September 2011 of mentalities. Dr Paul Keenan: The Napoleonic Empire: Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (minimum Our staff and students come from a the making of modern Europe. 2), VRS up to 9 months (renewable) wide range of countries, giving a truly Dr Joanna Lewis: Africa and Asia in the Entry requirement: Taught master’s LSE-PKU Double MSc Degree in International international flavour to the Department. Imperial Age from 1800; colonialism degree in related discipline. Applicants Affairs (see page 113) (Over half our graduate students are from and development in eastern and central should have obtained an overall 67 overseas, not only from Europe, but also Africa; politics and government in Britain, LSE-Columbia Double MA Degree in per cent or over and 67 per cent on from Japan, Korea, Australia, the USA, Africa 1900 to the present. International and World History (see their dissertation and the Middle East). We have a large, Dr Piers Ludlow: Western Europe since page 115) vibrant and diverse graduate community as 1945; history of European integration; English requirement: Higher (see well as a regular sprinkling of distinguished About the Department Britain and Europe since 1945; the cold page 36) foreign visiting scholars. The Department is one of the world’s war in Europe. GRE/GMAT requirement: None Current departmental staff, like their leading centres for the study of the history Professor Anita Prazmowska: Fee level: See fee table page 29 predecessors, have a distinguished of international relations. It has developed International relations in central and record of publications across the globe Financial support: LSE scholarships since the foundation of the Stevenson eastern Europe, 1930s and 1940s; and regularly participate in international and studentships (see page 30). EU/UK Chair in the 1930s into one of the strongest Poland; beginnings of Communism in conferences and workshops. They have applicants may apply for AHRC funding concentrations of experts in international central Europe. links to many learned societies and have (see www.ahrc.ac.uk) history. In the review of research by the received notable prizes and honours. Professor Paul Preston: Spanish Civil Higher Education Funding Council for Application deadline: 10 January 2011 War; Spanish Army in politics; transitions to England (HEFCE), the Department was Staff and their democracy; European Left; European fascism. awarded a 5* for the excellence of its academic interests Taught programmes research, and has also been judged excellent Professor Mía Rodríguez-Salgado: Anglo- in its teaching quality. Dr Nigel Ashton: Anglo-American relations Spanish relations; Philip II and Charles V MSc Empires, Colonialism and since 1945; Britain and the Middle East, and their empires; Spain, England, Italy, We offer master’s degree courses as well Globalisation (see page 147) 1945-62; United States and the Cold War; France, north Africa and the Ottomans in as supervision for MPhil and PhD research, MA/MSc History of International Relations 20th century Anglo-Dutch relations. 16th and 17th centuries. covering a time span from the Renaissance (see page 173) to the present day, and a very broad Dr Antony Best: Anglo-Japanese relations, Dr Joan-Pau Rubiés: European travel MSc Theory and History of International geographical area that includes Asia (China, 1850-1960; history of East Asia in 19th and ethnography 13th to 17th century; Relations (see page 245) India, Japan, the Pacific Islands), the Middle and 20th centuries; Pacific War. European expansion in India and America; 70 graduate prospectus International Relations

constitutional theories and political where members of the Department thought in Europe. present practical issues of relevance to new Department of researchers in the Michaelmas term and Dr Kirsten Schulze: 20th century Middle students make presentations of preliminary East politics; Arab-Israeli conflict; Northern International Relations findings in the Lent and Summer terms. Ireland; ethnic conflict and democracy in It also includes introductory seminars at Indonesia. lse.ac.uk/international at the latest. Please check lse.ac.uk/ the Institute of Historical Research and Relations financialSupport for up to date Dr Taylor Sherman: History of South Asia. attendance at a specialised research seminar funding deadlines Dr Alan Sked: British and European as well as elements tailored specifically MPhil/PhD International Note: Your application should include a history, 1789 onwards, especially for your requirements, including courses Relations detailed research proposal, along with Habsburg monarchy; Britain since 1945. in computing and foreign languages. In Visiting Research Students the second and subsequent years you a short abstract (200 words maximum). Dr Kristina Spohr Readman: International will continue your research training by, Application code: M1ZR (MPhil/PhD), Applicants are expected to look at History of Germany since 1945; 20th among other things, participating in the M1ER (VRS) the research interests of staff on the century Baltic and Finnish history in the Department’s web pages to ensure that Department’s advanced workshop and at Start date: 29 September 2011. For international context; post-Cold War their proposed area of research coincides least one specialised research seminar while January start, contact the department. No security developments. with that of at least one member of staff you are in London, and by developing other April intake Professor David Stevenson: History of skills specific to your needs. Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (minimum international relations in Europe since The LSE Library is an outstanding resource 2), VRS up to 9 months (renewable) 1900, especially First World War. for the history of international relations, with Entry requirement: Normally a master’s Taught programmes Professor Arne Westad: Cold War; East substantial printed primary and secondary degree with an overall merit or its MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy Asia; Chinese foreign policy; third world source materials, journals, IT and computing equivalent and a strong merit or its (see page 138) revolutions including US relations; Soviet facilities. Students will also be able to draw equivalent in the master’s dissertation in a MSc International Political Economy foreign policy history since 1945. on an unparalleled diversity of other library subject relevant to proposed research and archival resources in London, often close (see page 181) Opportunities for research English requirement: Higher (see to LSE. These include libraries in the University MSc International Political Economy page 36) Research students will initially be registered of London, the School of Oriental and (Research) (see page 181) for the MPhil. In June of the first year you African Studies, and the Institute of Historical GRE/GMAT requirement: None Research (whose collections cover all major MSc International Relations (see page 182) will produce an extended written submission. Fee level: See table page 29 If this demonstrates satisfactory progress in types and areas of manuscripts), the German MSc International Relations (Research) Financial support: LSE scholarships your research you will be able to register for Historical Institute, and the National Archives (see page 182) and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU the PhD. We will continue to monitor your (formerly the Public Record Office) as well as students may apply for ESRC funding. MSc International Relations Theory progress each year. a number of more specialised archives. You should indicate in your application (see page 183) As a research student you will be able to In addition to research involving the more if you wish to be considered for this and LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Affaires attend meetings of the History Society and common European languages, we can will be contacted by the Department Internationales and either International use the Department’s computer rooms. also supervise work drawing on materials directly if selected Relations or International Political Economy in Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and You will also be encouraged to participate Application deadline: There is a rolling (see page 106) Japanese, among others. in the lively series of lectures and seminars admissions process but candidates are organised in the Department itself, LSE and About the Department Throughout your registration as an MPhil/ at other, nearby specialist institutes related to advised that places for late admission are limited. If you wish to be considered PhD student you will undertake a research your research. International relations has been taught at LSE training programme as well as working on for LSE and/or ESRC (see www.esrc. since 1924. The Department was the first of your thesis. In your first year the training ac.uk) studentships and scholarships, its kind, and has remained a world centre for programme includes a preliminary workshop you must apply by 10 January 2011 the development of the subject ever since. In the 2001 Higher Education Funding Council International Relations graduate prospectus 71

for England (HEFCE) RAE, the International Dr Kirsten Ainley: International political with particular reference to Islam; and (very Relations and Government Departments theory; international ethics; the politics of selectively) international relations theory were assessed as one unit, together with international law, in particular international with emphasis on the just war tradition and the European Institute and the Institute of criminal law and war crimes trials; human rights. Development Studies and was awarded a 5 humanitarian intervention; human rights. Dr Spyros Economides: European foreign rating. Similarly, in the 2008 RAE, 30 per cent Dr Roy Allison: Russian and Eurasian foreign policy; European security and defence; of the work of this group was described as policies, security policies and international International politics of Southeastern ‘world leading’, with a further 30 per cent relations; comparative regionalism and the Europe; ex-Yugoslavia; US foreign policy and described as ‘internationally excellent’. relations of international institutions with European security; foreign affairs of Greece. The Department is sometimes associated with Russia, Ukraine, South Caucasus, Central Asia Dr Robert Falkner: International political the development of a specifically ‘English’ and Afghanistan. economy, especially global environmental school of international relations and a number Dr Federica Bicchi: European foreign policy; politics, risk regulation, multinational of its leading figures have taught at LSE, EU relations with Mediterranean countries corporations and global governance. including Wight, Bull, Vincent, Donelan and and the Middle East; constructivism and Mayall. But many other developments in the Professor Fawaz A Gerges: US foreign negotiation theory; the role of knowledge in subject have been pioneered here including policy towards the Middle East and the policy-making within the EU. aspects of regional integration and politics, Muslim world; Islamist and jihadist groups foreign policy analysis, strategy, international Professor Chris Brown: Classical and and movements; genealogy of Al Qaeda security, post-positivist international contemporary international political theory; and the global jihad, Islam and politics; theory, normative international theory, the international ethics; cultural diversity; human the international relations of the Middle international impact of revolutions, which nature and international political theory; East; Arab politics in the 20th century; the owes much to the work and inspiration of the ethical foreign policies. Arab-Israeli conflict; authoritarianism and democratic transition. late Fred Halliday and international political Dr Jeffrey Chwieroth: International political economy led by the late Susan Strange. economy of money and finance, specifically Dr Jurgen Haacke: Security and The Department is strongly international in international organisations – especially the international politics of Southeast Asia, character, both in its staff and its students; International Monetary Fund and the World ASEAN, Asia-Pacific political and strategic graduate students are drawn from all over the Bank – financial globalisation, sovereign affairs; East Asian regionalism; Burma/ world and many undergraduates come from wealth funds, hedge funds, economic norms Myanmar; foreign policy analysis. and ideas, and emerging markets. outside Britain. Mr Mark Hoffman: Contemporary We are proud of our role in training future Professor Christopher Coker: US foreign international relations theory; third party university teachers. A large number of policy; Atlantic Alliance and UK defence policy mediation in international and civil conflicts; former students teach international relations in the 1990s; war and civil conflict. issues and dilemmas surrounding post-conflict peacebuilding. in universities in Britain and abroad. Most Professor Michael Cox: US foreign policy; research students aim to enter the academic history of the Cold War; transatlantic Professor Christopher Hughes: Asia- profession in their own countries, although a relations; the world after September Pacific international politics; Chinese foreign significant number go on to work in national 11; Northern Ireland; EH Carr and policy and international relations; Chinese or international bureaucracies, banking, the international relations. nationalism; PRC-Taiwan relations. corporate sector and in research institutes. Dr Katerina Dalacoura: Democracy and Professor Kimberly Hutchings: Staff and their human rights in the Middle East, with International relations theory, including academic interests particular focus on Egypt, Iran, Turkey; feminist, critical, post structuralist and Western policy and the Middle East postcolonial theory; international ethics; Kant Dr Chris Alden: Foreign policy analysis; including democratisation; political Islam; the and Hegel; gender and war. African inter-state relations; south-south international politics of culture and religion relations; post-conflict peace building. 72 graduate prospectus International Relations

Dr John Kent: History and theory of Cold Dr Karen Smith: International relations programme upon completion of the master’s Millennium: Journal of International Studies, War; British and French decolonisation; of the EU; the EU and the UN; human at a satisfactory level. the student-run journal. Britain and Middle East, 1945-56; British rights and foreign policy; EU enlargement; In the first year of your research you Your progress is reviewed by a Research foreign and defence policy, 1945-70; US international cooperation and international attend the International Relations Research Panel and you would normally be upgraded foreign policy especially towards black organisations; political conditionality. Methods Training Seminar which explores from MPhil to PhD status by the end of your Africa,1945-76. Dr Andrew Walter: Political economy the theoretical and practical problems second year. This requires submission of Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi: of money and finance in the world associated with a piece of major research. an outline and three draft chapters of your International relations theory; European economy, with a particular interest in Study concentrates on epistemological and thesis to your supervisor and the subsequent political integration; globalisation and global East Asia; capital mobility and the politics theoretical issues, with special reference to approval of your supervisor and the Panel. governance; international health governance; of financial regulation and compliance; the context and literature of international You need to make sufficient progress to be international labour standards. political aftermaths of financial crises. relations, and time is also devoted to allowed to re-register. problems arising from source materials, Dr George Lawson: International relations Dr Peter Wilson: History of international methodology and normative dilemmas. First Applications and supporting theory, historical sociology, processes of thought, especially EH Carr, Leonard year research students are also expected documentation radical change including revolutions and Woolf, Gilbert Murray, inter-war idealism, to attend the International Relations democratic transitions. post-war American realism, the English An offer of admission is based upon the Research Design Workshop; this is to help school of international relations, especially quality of your research proposal, references, Dr Mark Manger: International political you in designing a well thought out and institutions, international law, the prior academic and/or professional economy, especially trade policy; trade manageable thesis. contribution of CAW Manning. achievement, and the relevance of your and investment agreements between You will also have access to courses in proposed research topic to the research developed and developing countries; Dr Stephen Woolcock: Regional trade general social science methodology offered interests of members of the Department. Japanese and East Asian regional political and integration agreements; European by LSE’s Methodology Institute. One of these economy; quantitative methodology. trade policy; economic diplomacy; Personal statement forms part of the two International Relations international trade and investment policy Dr Lauren Phillips: International research master’s courses: Foundations of Researching for, and writing, a doctoral and the World Trade Organisation. political economy; financial market Social Research, comprising three modules thesis is an enjoyable intellectual experience, performance; political risk; emerging Opportunities for research in Quantitative Analysis, Fundamentals of but also a demanding one. It is crucially powers; Latin America. Research Design and Qualitative Research. important, therefore, that you embark on We provide supervision for research Dr Razeen Sally: Trade policy: World Trade If you have not already taken a Research this process, starting with the application, leading to a PhD degree across the range Organisation; preferential trade agreements; track master’s degree you will need to with realistic views of what doing a PhD of international relations fields. You should east and south Asia; EU trade policy. History attend Authoring a PhD and Developing as a actually consists of, as well as with a good define your research interest as precisely of thought in political economy, particularly Researcher and Information Skills. sense of what your reasons are for doing it. as possible when you apply. MPhil/PhD the classical liberal tradition. Your personal statement should state clearly International Relations applicants are During the course of your research we your motivation, academic interests and your Dr Ulrich Sedelmeier: Theories of normally required to have a master’s degree require that you take part in at least one purpose and objectives in applying for the international institutions; theories in a subject relevant to their proposed of the Department’s thematic research MPhil/PhD in the Department of International of European integration, especially research. In exceptional circumstances, if you workshops and attend the International Relations. The statement should be between constructivist analysis; EU enlargement; have achieved first class honours from a UK Relations Seminar for Staff and Research 1,000 and 1,500 words. the EU’s external impact and institution, we may consider your application. Students. Presentations at the latter are primarily by established researchers and conditionality; EU foreign policy; (new) UK/EU students may wish to apply for the Research proposal member states’ compliance with EU law. MSc International Relations (Research) or MSc provide a means for placing your research To be eligible for admission to the MPhil/PhD International Political Economy (Research), as within the wider context of disciplinary Professor John Sidel: Southeast Asia, programme, you need to have more than a appropriate, with a view to applying for an debates and concerns. especially Indonesia and the Philippines; vaguely defined research topic. Your research ESRC 1+3 research studentship. If successful You will also find it beneficial to attend Islam in world politics; religious violence; proposal should be written as clearly and in obtaining an ESRC grant, a student would the weekly editorial board meetings of local politics; transnational social concisely as possible and should address the be entitled to continue to the MPhil/PhD movements; nationalism. following questions: International Relations graduate prospectus 73

• What is your general topic and how are all distinct departmental entities. is it located within the study of Therefore, it is unlikely that arrangements international relations? for joint supervision with members of staff across those departments will take • What question do you want to answer? place. If the relevant potential supervisor • What is the key literature and for your proposed research is located in Meera Sabaratnam its limitations? a department other than International • What are the main hypotheses you wish Relations you should make your application MPhil/PhD to explore and the argument you intend to their doctoral research programme. International Relations to develop? References London, UK • What methodology do you intend to use? You should provide two references from • What are your case studies, if any, and people who are familiar with your academic what are your case selection criteria? work and, ideally, who are able to comment • Which member(s) of the Department might on your proposed field of research. It is your be suitable supervisors and why? responsibility to make contact with your Having done my master’s programme here, I knew that this would be a referees promptly to allow your application to good environment for the research questions that I was interested in, particularly This proposal will allow us to assess the be completed in time. as I wanted to see what was going on at other relevant departments such as potential of the proposed project and The Department of International Development (formerly known as DESTIN) and especially the availability of appropriate Note: The International Relations Anthropology. My research is about the politics of international peace building supervision within the Department. As Department only admits part-time and state building in Mozambique. The diversity of the research interests of we do not interview prospective research research students on an exceptional staff and students alike in the Department has made it an exciting place to work students the quality of your written basis. However, it may be possible intellectually. Collectively we have a rich dialogue about distinct but interlinked proposal is very important. to transfer to part-time registration during the course of study, subject questions, and I think this shows in the quality of research that emerges. We have The length of your research proposal to the approval of the supervisor. many opportunities to present and discuss our work and that of faculty, which is should be between six to eight pages. Applicants who wish to register very useful and can be fun. I have had very strong academic support from not just In addition, you should include a brief part-time from the beginning of their my supervisor but a number of different people in relevant research areas in the abstract (200 words maximum) of your registration will need to have a strong Department. The opportunity to edit a cutting-edge and highly ranked journal in proposed research topic. case for doing so which is supported by the discipline – Millennium: Journal of International Studies – has been invaluable You may wish to contact a member of the prospective supervisor. in shaping my ideas. The sheer number of PhD students around also makes it a staff by email prior to your application very friendly and sociable atmosphere. First year research students are expected to discuss your research proposal and its to register from the beginning of the Alongside my doctorate I have been teaching two courses and studying for the relevance to their research interests, though Michaelmas term in order to attend Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, fully funded and supported by the the Department cannot guarantee that all compulsory research training courses. School. This has been a good way to develop my teaching skills and to get to know members of staff will be able to respond. If Applicants who wish to register from the other teachers around the School. It has also supported me in doing new things you have discussed your proposed research beginning of the Lent term will need to have such as lecturing and course design. with a member of the Department’s a strong case for doing so which is supported academic staff, you should indicate their I am aiming to stay in academia after I graduate and hope to continue doing by the prospective supervisor. name in your proposal. research and teaching in international relations. I feel that altogether I’ve had You may find it helpful to read the a really good start. It is worth noting that there is no ‘political International Relations Department’s FAQs science’ department at LSE. International web page for prospective research applicants Relations, Government, The Department of at lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations International Development (formerly known as DESTIN) and the European Institute 74 graduate prospectus Law

other teachers drawn from legal practice EU; EU external trade law; EU law and Department of Law participate in teaching and research. the environment. Students come from all over the world. Professor Christine Chinkin: Demand greatly exceeds the number Public international law; UN matters; of places available and we have to be international rights of women; international Taught programmes lse.ac.uk/law very selective. dispute resolution. LLM (see page 184) Professor Hugh Collins: Individual MPhil/PhD Law Staff and their We also take part in a number of employment law; law of contract; legal Visiting Research Students academic interests interdisciplinary programmes including: theory; social and political theory. Application code: M3ZL (MPhil/PhD), Eduardo Baistrocchi: Taxation; international MSc Criminal Justice Policy (see page 133) Professor Neil Duxbury: Jurisprudence; M3EL (VRS) tax law; corporate accountability legal history; and law and economics. MSc Human Rights (see page 175) Start date: 29 September 2011 Professor Robert Baldwin: Regulation; Professor Vanessa Finch: Company law, MSc Law and Accounting (see page 188) public law; harmonisation in Europe. Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2), VRS especially company directors and corporate up to 9 months MSc Law, Anthropology and Society (see Anne Barron: Legal theory; intellectual governance; corporate insolvency law; page 190) property law and aspects of public law. personal insolvency law. Entry requirement: LLM or equivalent with an average of 70 per cent. MSc Regulation (see page 231) Dr Joanna Benjamin: Internet and financial Dr Tatiana Flessas: Legal theory, in markets; computerisation and substantive Applicants who have performed MSc Sociology of Crime, Control and particular heritage law. exceptionally well in their dissertation or financial law; cross-border securities collateral; Globalisation (see page 243) Dr Julian Fulbrook: Personal injury who have outstanding undergraduate legal risk in financial markets. litigation; health and safety at work; industrial qualifications will be considered About the Department Dr Chaloka Beyani: Public international diseases; social security law. English requirement: A minimum As a Department, we are committed to the law and human rights; legitimacy of states; Dr Dev Gangjee: Intellectual property law, score of 7.5 in the IELTS (TOEFL iBT 114), view that an understanding of law can be human rights; constitutional reform; refugees; in particular trademarks. with a minimum of 7.0 (TOEFL iBT 27) in achieved only by examining it in its social, African legal systems. Professor Conor Gearty: Human rights; civil both the listening and writing elements economic and policy context. This approach Professor Julia Black: Regulation; financial liberties; terrorism. (see page 36) builds upon our distinctive strength of being services; public law and company law. situated in a school of social sciences with an Dr Carsten Gerner-Buerle: Corporate law GRE/GMAT requirement: None Dr Jacco Bomhoff: Conflict of laws, international reputation. and securities; corporate finance; corporate Fee level: See fee table page 29 comparative constitutional law, and 20th governance, corporate accountability. These qualities are reflected in the Research century history of legal thought. Financial support: LSE scholarships Assessment Exercise 2008 in which the Dr Veerle Heyvaert: Environmental law and and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU Dr Jo Braithwaite: Diversity theory, Department did exceptionally well, with 75 regulation and European Community law. particularly in the context of the legal students may apply for AHRC funding per cent of its research rated either world- profession, socio-legal insights into financial Dr Florian Hoffmann: The relationship (see www.ahrc.ac.uk). Law Department class or of international renown. It is rated law and lawyering. between human security and human rights, Scholarships and LSE Fellowships the best law department in the UK, both rights-based approaches to development Application deadline: 7 March 2011. on grade point average and on proportion Professor Michael Bridge: Domestic and in the domestic and international sphere, Applicants wishing to be considered for of 4* research. international sale of goods; international collective knowledge and international an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a trade law; personal property; contract; The Law Department is the second normativity, postnational global governance, complete application by 10 January 2011 commercial credit and security; banking law; largest department at the School with and new theoretical foundations of insolvency; comparative private law. 20 professors and over 35 other full-time international law. academic staff. In addition, a large number Professor Damian Chalmers: Free Dr Stephen Humphreys: Public of emeritus and visiting professors and movement of goods and services within the international law, in particular risk and Law graduate prospectus 75

security in the areas of criminal law, Dr Eva Micheler: Comparative law; Professor Robert Reiner: Policing; environmental law, investment and trade law. company law; securities regulation as well as criminology; criminal justice. private international law. Professor Emily Jackson: Medical law, Anthea Roberts: The adjudication of reproduction and medical ethics. Dr Kai Moller: Human and constitutional international law before international courts rights law and theory. and tribunals; comparative approaches to Professor David Kershaw: Corporate law international law before domestic courts; and accounting regulation. Professor Linda Mulcahy: Dispute re-theorising the doctrine of sources resolution; medical regulation; legal Dr Claire Kilpatrick: Labour law, in of international law, particularly with architecture; administrative justice. particular the relationship between labour respect to the role of custom and general law and social security; EU law and in Professor Niamh Moloney: EC’s regulation principles and the challenges posed by the particular EU employment policy. of financial markets and services from work of international organisations; and institutional, substantive, and contextual Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp: International extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction. perspectives; the EC’s harmonisation of contracts, with special emphasis on Dr Ian Roxan: International taxation; trusts. company law. arbitration and conflict of laws; comparative Dr Kristen Rundle: Jurisprudence and law in the field of international contracts; Dr Jo Murkens: German and British legal theory. the legal problems of the international constitutional law, theory and history; dimension of trade. recurrent patterns of legal (and quasi- Dr Margot Salomon: Human rights in legal) argument, and the relevance for the relation to global poverty; the rights of Dr Andrew Lang: Sociological and European and international context. minorities and indigenous peoples; and the constructivist approaches to the study of protection of human rights in Africa. international organisations (focusing on Professor Tim Murphy: Law and social the WTO); the design of global governance theory; legal history; property law; computers Dr Andrew Scott: Media law and institutions in conditions of pervasive and law. regulation; constitutional law and uncertainty; the interaction between competition law. Andrew Murray: Information technology, international trade law and other sub-fields particularly legal and regulatory structures of Dr Fauzia Shariff: Legal pluralism within of international law (particularly human the internet. the nation state; rights of minorities and rights law); the General Agreement on Trade importance of power relations in access in Services; and the impact of WTO legal Professor Jill Peay: Mental health review to justice issues; rights of indigenous and obligations on domestic regulatory decision tribunals; disordered offenders; prosecution ethnic tribal peoples; governance aspects of making processes. and sentencing. development; forced marriage. Professor Martin Loughlin: Public law; Dr Thomas Poole: Conceptual foundations Dr Umberto-Igor Stramignoni: Private law, administrative law; environmental, planning of constitutionalism; legitimacy of judicial particularly UK, France and Italy; theoretical and local government; methodologies of review; new jurisprudence of rights. foundations of comparative method. public law. Alain Pottage: Property law; evidence; Dr Siva Thambisetty: Intellectual property Professor Susan Marks: Public international theories of property; psychoanalytical theory law, particularly biotechnology law and law and human rights law. and law; feminist theory and law. related issues. Julie McCandless: Medical law, Dr Peter Ramsay: Criminal law and criminal Dr Stephen Watterson: Banking / financial reproduction and medical ethics. justice; legal and social theory. law; commercial law; unjust enrichment. Dr Manolis Melissaris: Theories of legal Professor Mike Redmayne: Evidence; Dr Charlie Webb: Contract law; restitution; discourse and legal reasoning; legal pluralism; criminal procedure; criminal justice. trusts and private law theory. law and time; philosophy of criminal law. Helen Reece: Family law Dr Grégoire Webber: Comparative constitutional law and theory; human 76 graduate prospectus Management

rights law and rights theory; legal and departmental level, through the Law political theory. Department research seminar. This consists Department of Management of presentations concentrating on the Dr Michael Wilkinson: European methodological problems of legal and constitutionalism and the theoretical socio-legal research, by members of staff, dimensions of constitutionalism beyond the visiting speakers and research students. state; legal and political theory. lse.ac.uk/management You are expected to attend the seminar Professor Sarah Worthington: Personal and give presentations on your work. Some MPhil/PhD Management property law/securities; company law; students are given the opportunity to teach Visiting Research Students restitution; equity; insolvency law. undergraduates. Doctoral students are also invited to staff seminars and seminars Application code: N1ZM (MPhil/PhD), Opportunities for research given by other PhD students. N1EM (VRS) We are keen to encourage the development Registration as a visiting research student Start date: 29 September 2011 of research in socio-legal studies and invite is for those who do not wish to proceed Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years applications for research in areas of staff to a higher degree, but want to pursue (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months interest and expertise. The PhD has always their own research with a supervisor (renewable) been of high quality and many outstanding who can act as a sounding board and PhD theses have been published. Entry requirement: There are two make some of the necessary contacts for distinct academic tracks on this The normal entry requirement for the MPhil/ empirical research. Applicants wishing to programme: Economics before being accepted on undertake some aspect of their research in PhD programme is an average of 70 per the programme cent on the LLM or equivalent qualification. the UK must be doctoral students currently • Management (standard track) The requirement will be applied flexibly, in registered for the PhD degree at another English requirement: Higher • Management (business particular to candidates who have performed university. Some seminars and classes can (see page 36) economics track) exceptionally well in a dissertation or be attended, subject to the advice and GRE/GMAT requirement: All who have an outstanding undergraduate approval of the supervisor and teachers Applicants should indicate which track applicants must submit a GRE or qualification. The number of students we concerned. No degree or diploma is they are applying for in their personal GMAT score accept is limited. With your application you awarded, but an appropriate certificate of statement. Please see the Department Fee level: See fees table page 29 should give the title of a broad general area attendance can be provided on request. of Management website for more in which you wish to undertake research, and information on these tracks Financial support: LSE scholarships The main resources for research students a detailed outline (three or four pages) of a and studentships (see page 30). ESRC are the LSE Library, the Library of the Applicants for the Management specific topic within that field indicating the funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, other (standard track) should have a merit or ways in which you consider that extended University of London college libraries and higher from an MSc programme in a Application deadline: None – rolling scholarly research and analysis in the field will the University Library. social science discipline, however we admissions. However if you wish to be make a significant and original contribution will also consider applicants who can considered for an LSE PhD scholarship, to knowledge. You should also give some Computer facilities are provided for doctoral demonstrate evidence of exceptional you must apply by 10 January 2011 students on the sixth floor of the New indication of the materials you expect to academic ability and/or outstanding Academic Building. use, where you expect to find them and the business achievement methods of analysis you propose to use. If The application deadline for the MPhil/PhD in Applicants for the Business Economics the proposal takes the form of a theoretical Law is 7 March 2011. track will need a merit or higher in an hypothesis, you should indicate how you MSc Economics programme or in a propose to test it. related discipline. Students without the You will have research training through appropriate background are expected LSE’s research methods courses run to take the MSc Management and by the Methodology Institute, and at Management graduate prospectus 77

About the Department • Employment Relations and exchange via CEMS: the Global Alliance in Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Management Education. Organisational Behaviour We produce world-class research on (see page 78) • Information Systems and Innovation management issues and provide our students MSc Management, Organisations Information Systems and Innovation with a deep insight into the functioning of • Management Science and Governance (see page 80) the global business environment. Our vision (see page 200) • Managerial Economics and Strategy is to be recognised as the premier provider Management Science (see page 81) An accelerated 12 month degree programme of management education and research in Their expertise covers all aspects of for graduates with a background in the Managerial Economics and Strategy Europe, and one of the best in the world. contemporary management research social sciences wishing to focus on the social (see page 82) including accounting, comparative We currently have around 70 faculty, 350 context of organisations and how they are employment relations, decision sciences, undergraduates, 750 master’s students and structured, governed and managed. Global Executive MBA 80 PhD students. e-business, entrepreneurship, finance, government and business relations, human This programme (see page 121) is MSc Management and Economics Our reputation, research and networks are resource management, information designed to meet the business-learning (see page 195) what sets us apart. LSE is one of the world’s systems, leadership, management of needs of today’s entrepreneurial and leading social science institutions and is one innovation, managerial economics, A ten month degree programme, taught globally minded senior level executives. of the few institutions with a truly worldwide marketing, negotiation, operations in conjunction with the Department of It is run jointly with NYU Stern School of reputation. Our faculty, many of whom have management, operations research, Economics, for students with a strong Business and HEC School of Management joined us from top-ranked business schools, organisational behaviour, pensions, public analytical and quantitative background and draws on the specific strengths of produce cutting-edge research across the management and strategy. who wish to combine economics at the each of the three universities to deliver management disciplines and work as advisers master’s level with analytical courses in a tailor-made international curriculum to business, industry and governments Programmes the management area. The programme that combines a rigorous global business alike. Our community and our networks are combines the same level of analytical training curriculum with a unique socioeconomic We offer 11 MSc programmes – four uniquely international and globally diverse. as the MSc Economics degree with the more and sociopolitical context. general management programmes applied scope and coverage characteristic of We offer a unique business education within the central Department and master’s degrees in management schools. Information sessions experience. Our programmes are top-ranked seven specialist programmes through by the Financial Times and combine the our academic groups. We also offer If you are interested in finding out more MSc Public Management academic rigour of a typical master’s with the TRIUM Executive MBA for senior about any of our programmes then please and Governance the practical application of a top-ranked executives, in partnership with NYU Stern see our website for details of future (see page 226) MBA. We bring alumni, senior business and HEC Paris. information sessions. people and senior civil servants directly into A 12 month degree programme designed the classroom to talk to students. We teach General management for graduates seeking to enter or advance Opportunities for research our students both the fundamental theories MSc programmes: in careers in public sector management. Please see our academic groups for a list of The programme integrates specialised of management and the skills to critically MSc Management (with CEMS option) the research interests in the Department. fields of management around leading, evaluate current and future management (see page 192) problems. Students will continue to managing, and overseeing ambitious draw from this learning throughout their An innovative and flexible two-year publicly-organised undertakings. professional career. degree programme for graduates with strong academic backgrounds in any Specialised MSc Our students find employment across a wide discipline seeking management positions programmes range of sectors including finance, banking at a higher level and on a faster track than For further information on our seven and professional services firms, as well as undergraduate recruits. The programme specialist programmes please see roles in industry and the public sector. includes a customised professional the following profiles of our four development programme, company Our faculty are divided among a central core academic groups: group and four academic groups: internships and optional international 78 graduate prospectus Management

Employment Relations MSc Management and Human Resources a great many others, achieving a fair deal Staff and their and Organisational (see page 197) depends on a framework of employment academic interests Behaviour Group law and on collective representation, for MSc Organisational Behaviour (see Professor Sarah Ashwin: Comparative example, through works councils or trade page 211) employment relations especially Russia unions. These frameworks play a key role in and Eastern Europe; gender and lse.ac.uk/EROB the success or otherwise of different human About the Group employment in Russia. resources (HR) policies. MPhil/PhD Employment The Employment Relations and Professor Harry Barkema: Innovation; Our graduate degrees embrace not only Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group is based strategy; teams. Organisational Behaviour within the Department of Management. strategy and policy within the firm but also Visiting Research Students The subject examines how organisations the national and international regulation Dr Alexandra Beauregard: Work-life manage people, as well as the wider social that shapes the relationship between conflict and facilitation; diversity; family- Application code: N6ZD (MPhil/PhD), and economic context in which they operate. managers and workers around the world. friendly work practices; personality in N6ED (VRS) It has a triple emphasis: We encourage our students to develop the workplace. Start date: Intake is at the start of the a critical approach and to value rigorous • Human resource management focuses on Dr Jonathan Booth: Workplace Michaelmas, Lent or Summer terms empirical research. Good empirical research how organisations develop and motivate violence and aggression (cognitive and requires clear concepts and a mastery of Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2), VRS their employees to achieve the high emotional appraisal and coping processes; the relevant theory and knowledge. We up to 9 months (renewable) standards of performance required in today’s team, leadership, and organisational want our students to develop an intellectual competitive markets. climate influences); employer-supported Entry requirement: Taught master’s confidence and independence of judgement volunteering, volunteer labour, and corporate degree in related discipline to enable them to deal with difficult • Employment relations explores the social responsibility (relationships among employment issues. English requirement: Higher (see wider relations between employer and employers, employees, non-profits, and employee organisations, and the structure page 36) The high quality of our research and training the community); union membership, of labour markets. GRE/GMAT requirement: None is demonstrated by the excellent results participation and dispute resolution. • Organisational behaviour examines we achieved in the government’s Research Fee level: See fee table page 29 Dr Daniel Beunza: Financial exchanges; Assessment Exercise in 2008. individual perceptions, attitudes, behaviour socially responsible investment; network Financial support: LSE scholarships and performance and the effects of group Our subject lies at the intersection of theory; identity in organisations. and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU and organisational context on the individual. many social science disciplines: economics, students may apply for ESRC awards Dr Marta Coelho: Behavioural economics LSE has a long and proud tradition in the sociology, psychology, organisational (see www.esrc.ac.uk). All these are and decision making; experimental study of employment and organisations. studies, law and political science. We have highly competitive economics; strategy and entrepreneurship; a particular strength in comparative analysis More than a century ago, two of LSE’s applied industrial economics; public policy. Application deadline: None, but founders, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, that is nourished by the international application by end of March 2011 pioneered the first great social science training of our academic colleagues and by Professor Jacqueline Coyle-Shapiro: advised. Applicants wishing to be studies of the labour and management the large number of different nationalities Employment relationship: social exchange considered for an LSE PhD scholarship problems of their day. They did so in the among our students. theory, psychological contracts and perceived must submit a complete application by belief that efficient management and social organisational support; organisational We have strong links with the human 10 January 2011 justice went hand in hand. These two justice, organisational change; organisational resource management profession as one of principles lie at the heart of our subject. citizenship behaviour; retaliatory behaviour the few designated Centres of Excellence Modern high performance work systems in organisations. of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Taught programmes function best when employees believe they Development. Many of our former students Dr Virgina Doellgast: Comparative are being treated fairly. For highly qualified MSc International Employment Relations now occupy leading positions in human employment relations; comparative human workers with skills that are in strong and Human Resource Management (see resource management and consultancy resource management; work organisation demand, it is often possible to achieve a fair page 178) and are enthusiastic supporters of the and teams; special interest in service work deal by individual negotiation. However, for Group and our current students. restructuring in the US and Germany. Management graduate prospectus 79

Dr Eddy Donnelly: Comparative and signals in markets; social status; in relevant employment relations topics employment relations; employment relations; financial markets. (the precise programme is defined in light employment regulation; collective bargaining of your previous training) and work on Professor David Marsden: Comparative systems; trade unions. A Seear Fellow a detailed research proposal. When this employment systems; pay inequality who coordinates the Business Links Scheme. has been successfully defended in a major and economic performance; incentives, review (normally within 12 months of entry), Stephen Dunn: The role of the state; the performance related pay, industrial relations your registration will be upgraded to PhD. impact of employment law; metaphor and training in Western Europe; integration and employment relations; employment of European labour markets. It is possible to study for a PhD part- relations systems in transforming time although we do expect you to spend a Sandy Pepper: Impact of incentives economies; comparative models of reasonable amount of time at LSE. and reward on the motivation of senior employment relations; industrial relations executives; strategic planning, structures, If you wish to take the MPhil route you in the 1950s; and worker representation. governance and operations of networked should submit an outline research proposal Sue Fernie: Call centres; human resource organisations; the relationship between on a topic which a member of staff is willing management in China; performance-related management theory and practice. to supervise. You may wish to discuss your pay; private security industry. plans informally first, either with the relevant Dr Fei Qin: Transnational labour member of staff, or with the doctoral Professor Carola Frege: Comparative markets; international migration and programme director. industrial relations (in Europe, in entrepreneurship; careers and mobility; particular Germany); industrial democracy; social networks and job search; employment Doctoral researchers are encouraged to works councils; history and theory of relations in global supply chains. participate in the intellectual life of the group. industrial relations. In many cases they are able to collaborate Dr Sylvia Roesch: Research methods; with staff on joint research. After upgrading Dr David Henderson: Leadership; cross- human resource management; there are opportunities to undertake part- cultural management; group and team management of NGOs. time teaching on our undergraduate courses. process; organisational communication; Dr Emma Soane: Leadership; personality; In addition to general sources of finance for interpersonal relationships. employee engagement; decision making; risk; research students in the School, we have Dr Caneel Joyce: Creativity; problem solving, personal development. modest funds available within the group. and innovation; idea selection; new product Linda Walker: Flexible working, especially Students registered for a PhD at an development teams; decision making; part-time working; volunteering for overseas university may register for a cognitive style; cognitive aspects of culture; charities and employability skills in period as a visiting research student, if the group norm formation; group conflict; education; a Seear Fellow who coordinates area of their research matches the interests interpersonal perception; leadership. the professional skills workshops. of a member of staff who is willing to act Dr Hyun-Jung Lee: Workplace diversity; Professor Paul Willman: Employment as supervisor. Before formally applying you cross-cultural management; acculturation regimes; regulation of employment; collective should discuss your plans informally with a and identification process; happiness and action; risk seeking behaviour. potential supervisor. well-being. Dr Connson Locke: Leadership; Opportunities for research followership; communication; power; voice We welcome applications for doctoral and silence; upward influence; gender research from those with a strong stereotypes; participative decision making. academic background. Dr Daniela Lup: Inter-personal and Applicants register initially for the MPhil. In inter-organisational networks; uncertainty your first year you attend a general doctoral seminar and classes in methodology and 80 graduate prospectus Management

Information Systems and About the Group Processing, the Association of Information emerging organisation forms; technology Innovation Group Systems, British Computer Society, various and social structure; information growth. The Information Systems and United Nations, European Union and other Innovation Group of the Department Dr Ela Klecun-Taylor: Health information national and international bodies. is.lse.ac.uk of Management is one of the largest systems and telehealth; evaluation of and most well established groups of Our strong research base feeds into information systems; application of critical MPhil/PhD Information information systems (IS) researchers and graduate teaching to produce up to date, theory in information systems. research led courses that prepare students Systems and Innovation teachers in Europe. In the 2008 Higher Professor Frank Land: Information for careers in the information society. Visiting Research Education Funding Council for England management; applications of IT; investments There are numerous opportunities for Students (HEFCE) Research Assessment Exercise, the in information systems; technology transfer Group formed part of the Business and people with information technology skills Application code: G5ZC (MPhil/PhD), and management of change; policy issues; Management Group at LSE, which was with industries that supply information G5EC (VRS) knowledge management; ethics and technology and those that use it. Research ranked joint 5th in the UK overall. information systems. Start date: 29 September 2011 students generally move on to an We have expertise across a broad academic or research career. Dr Shirin Madon: IS in developing Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years range of areas within the information countries; e-government and telecentre (minimum 2),VRS up to 9 months systems field, with a particular focus on Staff and their academic projects for development; integrated health (renewable) social and organisational issues related interests information systems in developing countries. Entry requirement: Taught master’s to information and communication Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou: Dr Nathalie Mitev: Information degree in a related discipline normally technology (ICT) innovation. Information systems development and technology and organisational change; at distinction level ICT is absorbing an ever-increasing proportion management; information systems strategic information systems; information English requirement: Standard (see of the resources of organisations and in developing countries; IT and systems failures; electronic markets; page 36) governments. Consequently, there is a need organisational change. global distribution systems; computerised for people in all professions to understand reservation systems; air, rail transport and GRE/GMAT requirement: None Dr James Backhouse: Managing and assess the complex interactions between tourism; sociology of technology. information risks in the digital age; Fee level: See fee table page 29 information technology and people. To do this it is essential to look beyond the information risk and assurance; Dr Susan Scott: Strategic use of information Financial support: LSE scholarships technologies themselves and investigate power, politics, and institutionalisation; systems in financial services; organisational and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU the social and organisational contexts in identity management, privacy and risk and IT-enabled risk management; students can apply for ESRC funding (see which they are constructed and which they security; certification and security enterprise information systems. www.esrc.ac.uk) management standards. continuously influence. Dr Steve Smithson: IS evaluation; Application deadline: None, but Our research and teaching emphasise Dr Antonio Cordella: Relationships e-commerce; IS management and use applicants are encouraged to apply the need to continuously explore the between IT and organisations, forms within organisations. before April 2011. Applicants wishing to and behaviours; information systems opportunities the technology provides. Dr Carsten Sørensen: Information services be considered for an LSE PhD scholarship infrastructures; actor network theory We seek to understand the technological, and organisational innovation; mobile and must submit a complete application by and information systems; electronic organisational, social and economic factors ubiquitous technology; internet technology; 10 January 2011 commerce; e-government. that influence successful innovation. Using a computer supported collaborative work; Note: Applicants must include a research variety of approaches from management and Dr Tony Cornford: IS implementation; IT software engineering. Professional services proposal of approximately 3,000 words the social sciences, we explore the current in health care; socio-technical and socio- automation; interaction management; problems of developing and managing cognitive approaches to IS; open source information overload. information systems in organisations and software process. Taught programmes Dr Will Venters: Information systems developing appropriate policy responses. Professor Jannis Kallinikos: Information development; software engineering; MSc Management, Information Systems Members of staff are active in the and communication technologies and socio-technical approaches to information and Innovation (MISI) (see page 199) International Federation of Information Management graduate prospectus 81

systems; knowledge management; Management Science Group Assessment Exercise, the Group formed part Dr Barbara Fasolo: Behavioural decision action research. of the Business and Management Group making; interactive decision aids; trade- at LSE, which was ranked joint 5th in the offs; multi-attribute decision analysis. Dr Edgar Whitley: Identity cards/identity lse.ac.uk/management UK overall. management; actor network theory; Science Dr David Lane: System dynamics for privacy; research methodology. Our emphasis is primarily on graduate work group decision support; social theoretic and our MSc programme, with its two foundations of ‘soft operational research Professor Leslie Willcocks: ICTs and MPhil/PhD Management streams in Operational Research and Decision (OR)’; synthesis of ‘soft OR’ approaches; innovation; IT and business process Science Sciences, reflects our interests in both ‘hard’ applications of system dynamics to outsourcing; social theory and philosophy Visiting Research Students optimisation techniques and ‘soft’ problem strategy and healthcare policy. for IS; IS human capabilities and skills; Application code: N2ZR (MPhil/PhD), structuring methods, including decision information management, technology N2ER (VRS) Dr Gilberto Montibeller: Links between analysis and system dynamics. work and globalisation. problem structuring methods and Start date: Intake at the start of the Our particular strengths lie in the well decision analysis; research frameworks for Michaelmas and Lent terms Opportunities for research established school of mathematical facilitated decision analysis interventions; A comprehensive programme of research Duration: 3/4 years (minimum 2), VRS programming, and decision sciences and decision support under uncertainty; real- methods training is mandatory for students up to 9 months (renewable) applied research in public policy. The students world applications of decision analysis in in the Group come from a wide range of strategic decision making. in the first year and consists of four half unit Entry requirement: Taught countries, giving a highly international flavour modules: 1. Foundations of Social Research master’s degree Dr Alec Morton: Decision analysis; problem to the study environment. in Information Systems: Paradigms and structuring methods; decision support for English requirement: Higher (see Traditions, 2. Qualitative Research Methods Graduates from the Group generally find dynamic decisions; complementarity in static page 36) in Information Systems, 3. Interpretations of ready employment in financial institutions, and dynamic models. Information, and 4. One further option to GRE/GMAT requirement: None consultancies, government departments Dr Katerina Papadaki: Discrete stochastic be agreed with the candidate’s supervisor and software houses. Recent commercial Fee level: See fee table page 29 dynamic programming; online estimation and PhD Programme Director. Candidates employers of our students include Financial support: LSE scholarships and of discrete monotone functions; price are normally expected to pass these Accenture, Arup, BAE Systems, Barclays, studentships (see page 30). Some Group directed methods. courses with a merit grade or above. In BNP Paribas, The Boston Consulting Group, funding may also be available addition, students are expected to attend British Airways, Citigroup, Debenhams, Emeritus Professor Larry Phillips: Decision and participate in the regular Information Application deadline: None but Dresdner Bank, Elexon, El Paso Europe, analysis; group processes in decision Systems research seminars. applicants wishing to be considered for Ernst & Young, Federal Express, Goldman making; cultural differences in dealing with uncertainty. Weekly PhD seminars in the Michaelmas and an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Lloyds Lent terms. These seminars discuss seminal complete application by 10 January 2011 TSB, Logica, London Stock Exchange, Professor Gregory Sorkin: literature and emerging issues of relevance Morgan Stanley, PA Consulting, Pfizers, Random structures and algorithms; to the research domain of the Group. PhD PWC Consultants, Proctor & Gamble, combinatorial optimisation. Taught programmes Conference Day: all students are required Rothschilds, Royal Bank of Scotland, Professor Richard Steinberg: to attend a PhD Conference day once per MSc Management Science (see page 203) Schroeders, Virgin Holidays and equivalent Combinatorial auctions and mechanism term. Students present work in progress organisations overseas. Some students go design; internet economics; the and discuss methodological problems and About the Group on to pursue academic careers. marketing/manufacturing interface; interpretations. Staff research is presented Management Science (formerly known as Staff and their transportation networks. and new approaches are routinely analysed Operational Research) has been taught at LSE academic interests and criticised. for over 50 years. Although relatively small, Professor Detlof von Winterfeldt: The Dr Nikolaos Argyris: Multi-objective foundation and practice of decision and In addition students are strongly advised the Group maintains useful links in both optimisation; mathematical programming; risk analysis as applied to technology; to attend courses run by the Methodology teaching and research with related disciplines. multi-criteria decision analysis; data environmental and security problems. Institute and other departments. 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Dr Giacomo Zambelli: Polyhedral Managerial Economics and entrepreneurship; finance and insurance gaps combinatorics; integer programming; Strategy Group in theory and practice; incentive schemes. combinatorial optimisation, 0/1 matrices; Professor Saul Estrin: Labour and graph theory. lse.ac.uk/MES industrial economics; transition economics Opportunities for research and economic development; privatisation; competition and foreign direct As well as the PhD Programme offered by the Taught programmes investment; private sector development; Department of Management, students can business opportunities in emerging also apply for an MPhil/PhD in Management MSc Management and Strategy markets; privatisation in central and Science. Applicants should usually have done (see page 205) eastern Europe. well at MSc level, at LSE or elsewhere, in an MSc International Management Professor Luis Garicano: Economics appropriate subject. (see page 180) of acquisition and transmission of As is usual at LSE, you would be registered knowledge; organising professional in the first instance for the MPhil from About the Group service firms; specialisation; culture, which you may be transferred to the PhD Established in October 1990, under the language and codes in organisations; depending on the progress of your research. directorship of Professor Peter Abell, the incentives; organisation and strategy. You should define your research interest as Group, (formerly the Interdisciplinary Institute Dr Satoshi Kanazawa: Evolutionary precisely as possible when you apply so that of Management) is part of the federated psychology; sex differences in behaviour; appropriate supervision can be ensured. Department of Management and promotes intelligence; physical attractiveness. Applications for research in any of the areas teaching and research into management. The covered by the Group’s staff are welcome. Group is now more focused on economics Dr David Lane: System dynamics All our graduate students are encouraged to related research. simulation modelling; strategic decision participate in the intellectual life of the Group making; health management; social theory In the most recent UK government- and the Department. of systems approaches; problem structuring sponsored Research Assessment Exercise methods; group decision support. Students registered for a PhD at an (2008) 70 per cent of our research overseas university may register for a was judged to be world leading or Dr Kristof Madarasz: Strategic period as a visiting research student, if the internationally excellent in terms of communication; psychology and area of their research matches the interests originality, significance and rigour. economics; decision making; contracts. of a staff member who is willing to act as Dr Emanuel Ornelas: International trade; supervisor. Before applying formally, you Staff and their academic political economy; industrial organisation. should discuss your plans informally with a interests potential supervisor. Professor Ignacio Palacios-Huerta: Dr Jordi Blanes i Vidal: Economics of Applied microeconomics; financial organisations; information economics; markets; investments in education and financial economics; public economics; labour economics; individual decision law and economics. making; experimental and empirical Dr Marta Coelho: Behavioural economics game theory. and decision making; strategy and Dr Joaquin Poblete: Economics entrepreneurship; industrial economics of organisations; contract theory; and applied microeconomics; public policy. entrepreneurship; industrial organisation; Professor David de Meza: The property development economics. rights theory of the firm; optimism and Mathematics graduate prospectus 83

Professor Diane Reyniers: Managerial we are an integral part of the mathematical economics; behavioural and Department of Mathematics community of the University of London. experimental economics. The Department provides a friendly and Dr Jorn Rothe: Decision and game theory; supportive environment; students are economic theory; industrial organisations. part of a community of scholars, and are lse.ac.uk/maths well placed to pursue a career building Opportunities for research on their research accomplishments. We invite applications for research which MPhil/PhD Mathematics Further information on the Mathematics closely match our research interests. Visiting Research Department can be found on our website: Students will usually have completed a Students lse.ac.uk/maths taught master’s degree as a condition of Application code: G1ZM (MPhil/PhD), Staff and their admission, obtained a GRE score and are G1EM (VRS) academic interests normally registered for the MPhil in the first Start date: Intake at the start of instance. Our MPhil/PhD programme is now Professor Steve Alpern: Mathematical Michaelmas, Lent and Summer terms part of the Department of Management’s ecology (mate selection games, predator MPhil/PhD Management programme (see Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years search problems, cacheing behaviour), page 76). A limited number of scholarships (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months search games, accumulation games, are available for outstanding applicants. (renewable) copying games. About the Department Entry requirement: Taught master’s Professor Martin Anthony: Mathematical The Mathematics Department is an degree in a relevant area, exceptionally an aspects of machine learning, particularly internationally leading research unit in undergraduate degree in mathematics probabilistic modelling of learning the mathematics of social science. The English requirement: Higher (see and discrete mathematical problems Department is well known for its research page 36) in the theory of learning, data mining excellence in discrete mathematics and artificial neural networks; Boolean GRE/GMAT requirement: None and algorithms, game theory, financial function classes and their representations. Fee level: See fee table page 29 mathematics, and probability. Dr Tugkan Batu: Algorithms and theory All staff in the Department were entered Financial support: LSE scholarships of computation, particularly randomised for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and studentships (see page 30). UK/ computation, (sublinear) algorithms on (RAE): 45 per cent of the work submitted EU students may apply directly to massive data sets, property testing, and was deemed to be either internationally the Mathematics Department for computational statistics. Engineering and Physical Sciences excellent or world-leading, with almost all the Research Council (EPSRC) (see www. remainder being internationally recognised. Professor Graham Brightwell: Combinatorics in general, especially epsrc.ac.uk) and other funding We run weekly research seminars covering finite partially ordered sets, probabilistic the Department’s research interests, which Application deadline: None but methods, and algorithmic aspects. applicants wishing to be considered for are attended by many people from both an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a inside and outside LSE. We also host informal Dr Albina Danilova: Stochastic complete application by 10 January 2011 lunchtime seminars and reading groups, on calculus and financial mathematics, a weekly basis. The Department regularly in particular: filtering, enlargement of attracts eminent visiting academics. filtrations and stochastic control and Taught programmes optimisation; derivatives pricing and The Department has close ties with other hedging in incomplete markets and/ MSc Applicable Mathematics departments at LSE, such as Statistics, or under asymmetric information, utility (see page 126) Finance, Economics and Management, and maximisation and equilibrium. MSc Financial Mathematics (see page 161) 84 graduate prospectus Mathematics

Dr Pavel Gapeev: Stochastic analysis and theory, combinatorial games and topics in the equivalent, will be accepted, provided its applications in financial mathematics, theoretical computer science. there is evidence of sufficient competence in and optimal stopping problems arising relevant areas of mathematics. Dr Konrad Swanepoel: Combinatorial in mathematical statistics and finance, and discrete geometry; axiomatic Students have access to the School’s library in particular optimal stochastic control, geometry; finite geometries; geometry and to the libraries of other colleges of interest rate models, and credit risk theory. of finite-dimensional normed spaces; the University of London, and also benefit Professor Olivier Gossner: Game theory, geometric shortest networks, such as from the School’s and the Department’s theoretical economics, and statistics. Steiner minimal trees and the Fermat- comprehensive computing and information More specifically, games with incomplete Torricelli problem; extremal combinatorics. facilities. Mathematics PhD students attend information, entropy and codification, and appropriate taught courses provided by Professor Bernhard von Stengel: Game repeated games. either the London Taught Course Centre for theory (efficient computation of equilibria, PhD students in the mathematical sciences, Professor Jan van den Heuvel: Discrete theory of online algorithms), extensive or the London Graduate School in Financial mathematics in general, in particular form games, correlated equilibria, pivoting Mathematics, depending on the focus of graph theory, algorithmic aspects of graph algorithms in linear programming and their research. theory, applications of graph theory, and in linear complementarity problems; matroid theory. polytope theory. Applicants are invited to follow the advice offered on our website at lse.ac.uk/maths/ Dr Arne Lokka: Stochastic analysis, Professor Mihail Zervos: Stochastic Research Malliavin calculus for pure jump processes, analysis, stochastic control and filtering, optimal stopping problems, optimisation, optimal stopping problems, valuation of investment decisions, valuation of investment decisions and derivative pricing and hedging in investments in real options, options incomplete markets. of American type, derivative pricing in incomplete markets, weather derivatives. Dr Malwina Luczak: Probability theory, combinatorics, phase transitions, applications More information on our research, to queueing and telecommunications. including a number of research papers, can be found in the ‘Research’ section of Dr Adam Ostaszewski: Applicable our website: lse.ac.uk/maths/Research mathematics (mathematical finance, with a particular interest in real options and Opportunities for research accounting theory, including corporate disclosure policy; bargaining theory) and Supervision for MPhil and PhD research is pure mathematics (set-theoretic topology, available in: combinatorics, combinatorial and regular and analytic variation). optimisation, theory of computation and algorithms, computational learning theory, Dr Robert Simon: Stochastic games financial mathematics, game theory, graph and dynamic systems, games of theory, probability theory, search theory, and incomplete information, ergodic theory in the applications of mathematics in areas and topology, matroids and other such as telecommunications and economics. shellable simplicial complexes. Our typical entry requirement is at least Dr Jozef Skokan: Various topics in an MSc in a relevant area of mathematics combinatorics and graph theory. In or a good four-year degree equivalent particular, extremal set theory, quasi- to a master’s; exceptionally an excellent random structures, probabilistic undergraduate degree in mathematics, or combinatorics, discrete geometry, graph Media and Communications graduate prospectus 85

ranked third in the UK on grade point quantitative methods in media and Department of Media and average. The aim of the Department is to communications research. bring together teaching and research in Professor Sonia Livingstone: Social media and communications from across the Communications contexts and consequences of new media; social sciences, with a strong focus on media, media audiences (uses, reception, effects); communication and technological change lse.ac.uk/media@lse children and young people’s use of the and their implications for social, economic internet; media literacy. MPhil/PhD Media and and political life, as well as for media and Professor Robin Mansell: Information and Communication communications policy. communication technologies and services; MPhil/PhD New Media, The Department benefits from LSE’s social exclusion, policy and regulation of Innovation and Literacy geographical location at the heart of one of older and newer media. Visiting Research Students the world’s media capitals, and has excellent links with media and communication Dr Linje Manyozo: Media, Application code: P4ZM (MPhil/PhD), industries and policy makers in the UK. communication and development; P4E1 (VRS) communication for development; Our PhD programme and our MSc Media Start date: 29 September 2011 participatory research methods. and Communications (Research) programme Duration: MPhil/PhD 3-4 years are recognised by the Economic and Social Dr Bingchun Meng: Political economy (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months of media and information industries; MSc Media and Communications (see Research Council’s 1+3 and +3 schemes and (renewable) copyright regulation and creative page 206) by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. activities; new media. Entry requirement: Taught master’s Home and EU offer holders may be eligible MSc Media and Communications (Media degree in social science or humanities for nomination for ESRC or AHRC funding. Dr Shani Orgad: Media and everyday life; and Communication Governance) (see media and globalisation; narrative and English requirement: Higher (see page 208) Demand for programmes is high and we media; health and new media; internet page 36) have to be selective when offering places. MSc Media and Communications We recommend that you apply early. and computer mediated communication. GRE/GMAT requirement: None (Research) (see page 206) Professor Terhi Rantanen: Globalisation Staff and their Fee level: See fee table page 29 MSc Media, Communication and and media; media history; international academic interests Financial support: LSE scholarships Development (see page 209) news; media in post-communist countries. Dr Bart Cammaerts: Participatory and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU MSc Politics and Communication (see Dr Damian Tambini: Media and democracy, globalisation/ students may be nominated for funding page 222) communications regulation and policy. from the ESRC (see www.esrc.ac.uk) or transnationalisation; public sphere, the AHRC (see www.ahrc.ac.uk) About the Department power, social change; counter-hegemonic Opportunities for research strategies of resistance. Application deadline: None. Deadline The Department of Media and We welcome applications from well- for LSE PhD Scholarship application, Communications is interdisciplinary and Professor Lilie Chouliaraki: Social qualified students for admission as an 10 January 2011 draws upon resources and support from the and cultural theory; ethics and political MPhil/PhD student. Candidates should have Departments of Sociology, Geography and philosophy; corporate communication; a good pass in an appropriate master’s Environment, Government and Law, the communication theory and discourse studies. degree from a British university or equivalent Taught programmes Information Systems and Innovation Group, Dr Myria Georgiou: Diaspora, migration qualification. You will need to have a clear and the Development Studies, Gender and MSc Gender, Media and Culture and transnationalism, identity, community sense of your research topic so that we can Social Psychology Institutes. (see page 164) and the media. match your interests with supervisors. We In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise encourage you to discuss your application MSc Double Degree in Global Media and Dr Ellen Helsper: Social and digital carried out by the Higher Education Funding in advance of formal submission. Formal Communications (see page 109) exclusion; mediated identity and Council for England, the Department was relationships; cross-cultural comparisons; 86 graduate prospectus Methodology Institute

applications must be accompanied by a science; social representations, attitudes 2,000 word research proposal. Methodology Institute and public opinion; cultural indicators of science; psychology of action/activity; On admission you are allocated a principal continuous measurement of moods, supervisor, a second supervisor, and a thesis happiness and stress; computer-assisted committee. You initially register for the MPhil content analysis; Eurobarometer surveys. and follow a taught programme which lse.ac.uk/methodology involves coursework that is formally assessed. Institute Professor George Gaskell: Social This normally includes Theories and Concepts and ethical impacts of technological in Media and Communications, Research MPhil/PhD Social Research innovation; risk and trust; qualitative Seminar in Media, Communications and Methods and survey research methods; cognitive Culture, and a broad training in research Visiting Research Students aspects of survey methodology. methods together with specialist courses Application code: L9ZM (MPhil/PhD), Dr Jonathan Jackson: Fear of crime; selected in discussion with your supervisors. L3EH (VRS) trust and confidence in the police; public Towards the end of your first year you will attitudes towards punishment; the produce a 10,000 word research proposal. Start date: 29 September 2011 psychology of fairness, legitimacy and This paper will include a substantive Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years punishment; cognitive aspects of survey statement of the aims, theories and methods (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months research; quantitative methods. proposed for the thesis, a tentative chapter (renewable) outline, an indicative bibliography and a Social Policy, Philosophy, Government, Dr Jouni Kuha – director of MSc timetable for its completion. Evaluation of Entry requirement: An upper second Management, Decision and Policy Sciences, programme: Statistical model selection; this paper, together with an oral examination class bachelor’s degree and a merit in an Development Studies or Population models with measurement error; based on the thesis proposal and the MSc broadly similar to the MSc Social misclassification and missing data; latent About the Institute submission of satisfactory coursework, will Research Methods variable models; social statistics. determine whether students are permitted English requirement: Higher (see The Methodology Institute is an Dr Paul Mitchell: Building democracies to upgrade from MPhil to PhD and continue page 36) interdisciplinary group with joint from conflict; institutional designs to into their second year. appointments in other departments in the GRE/GMAT requirement: Not required resolve ethnic and national conflicts; School. The disciplinary backgrounds of but will be considered if submitted party competition, electoral systems and the staff include statistics, sociology, social government formation. Fee level: See fee table page 29 psychology, management, political science and bioscience. Dr Ilina Singh: Empirical ethics; Financial support: LSE scholarships families and children; paediatric and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU In addition to the MSc Social Research psychiatry and psychology; culture students can apply for ESRC funding (see Methods, the Institute offers a variety and history of psychotropic drugs; www.esrc.ac.uk) of advanced level courses, seminars and neuroethics; enhancement; consent workshops in research design, quantitative Application deadline: None; and capacity; pharmacogenomics; analysis and qualitative methods. These candidates wishing to apply for an qualitative methodologies. are available for all PhD students in the LSE studentship are advised to apply School. Many departments in the School Dr Sally Stares: Public perceptions of before 10 January 2011 require students to take courses in the science; global civil society; surveys of Institute as part of 1+3 PhD programmes. public perceptions (opinions, attitudes, Taught programme values etc); attitude measurement; Staff and their comparative analyses of survey and MSc Social Research Methods (see page academic interests similar data; applications of latent variable 241) with one of the following options: models to survey data. Sociology, Social Psychology, Statistics, Professor Martin Bauer: Resistance in social processes; public understanding of Methodology Institute graduate prospectus 87

Dr Jen Tarr: Qualitative research both stand alone as well as interesting ways also take a portfolio of specialist courses as methods, especially visual and sensory of combining them. recommended by your PhD supervisor. methods and ethnography; sociology When you apply for an MPhil/PhD, you will During your second year of registration, you of health and medicine; visual imaging need to send us a brief research proposal will submit either three or four draft chapters technologies; somatic and movement (two to five pages) that sets out clearly the of your thesis (which normally includes an practices, including Alexander technique, research problem you wish to investigate, introduction and focused literature review) pilates and dance. explains why it is important, and describes or a short introduction, a literature review Opportunities for research the methods of research you propose to use, and one or two empirical papers (if you are and your particular ambition for developing pursuing the paper-based thesis). You should The Methodology Institute welcomes these. This will help us to evaluate your also provide a detailed plan for its completion applications from students for our research potential to embark on a research degree, for evaluation by an MPhil/PhD upgrading degree, both full-time and part-time. and to identify a supervisor with similar committee, who will recommend transferral For admission to the MPhil/PhD programme interests and the appropriate expertise. to PhD registration if your work is judged to be of sufficient quality and quantity. in the Methodology Institute, we normally It is expected that a PhD in the Methodology require a good grounding in research Institute will be completed in three years of After the first year you will spend more time methods at master’s level. You should have full-time study, with appropriate adjustment on independent study under the guidance an upper second class honours degree from made for part-time study. Two supervisors are of your supervisor. This will involve the a UK university or its equivalent abroad, normally assigned to each research student at collection, organisation and analysis of data, and an MSc at merit level that provides a the time an offer of admission is made. One and writing up the results. However, you will training broadly similar to our MSc Social of these supervisors may be from outside the attend the Institute’s research seminars and Research Methods. Gaps in training in Methodology Institute. other specialist workshops and seminars to methodology can be addressed in the first broaden your horizon as a social researcher. Supervisors may recommend or require year of registration. You will be expected to make an active that students take courses that are deemed contribution to these by presenting papers Applicants are advised to consult the essential for their research. These courses and joining in the discussions. Methodology Institute website and identify may be offered both within and outside the a member of staff who might supervise their Methodology Institute or the School, and project before submitting an application. may require examination. Any member of Methodology Institute All research students are initially admitted to staff will be helpful and discuss a potential the doctoral programme as MPhil students, application beforehand. until they are upgraded to PhD. Applications should primarily identify In the summer term of your first year, a substantive area of research and also you will produce a 10,000 word research demonstrate a particular methodological proposal, outlining the theoretical and interest, aiming at a methodological conceptual framework, the aims and development: constructing a new data methods of your thesis. You will also stream, new analytic techniques, method give a short oral presentation of your comparison, evaluation or validation, method proposal. The proposal will be assessed by critique, applying a new methodology, cost- the supervisor and two other academics, benefit analysis of methodologies. normally members of the Methodology The Methodology Institute at LSE is catholic Institute, who will judge the standard of with regard to methodology: we support the proposal to enable you to progress to both qualitative and quantitative research, the second year. In the first year, you will 88 graduate prospectus Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

of one of its particular specialities. The Guide 2009 the School was ranked 2nd Department of Philosophy, Logic MSc programmes are complemented by a for philosophy in the UK. PhD programme which creates an active and Scientific Method intellectual environment with students Staff and their working in philosophy of science, philosophy academic interests of physics, philosophy of economics, lse.ac.uk/philosophyLogic Note: If your first language is not English Dr J McKenzie Alexander: Evolutionary philosophy and public policy, rational choice you must submit a writing sample of five game theory; philosophy of science; social AndScientificMethod and scientific methodology. to ten typewritten pages and political philosophy. MPhil/PhD Philosophy The Department is closely associated Professor Luc Bovens: Ethics; philosophy Visiting Research Students with the Centre for the Philosophy of the of economics; philosophy of public policy; Taught programmes Natural and the Social Sciences which hosts Application code: V7ZP (MPhil/PhD), rational and social choice theory; philosophy leading visiting scholars and supports a V7EP (VRS) MSc Philosophy and Public Policy (see of probability; bayesian epistemology. page 213) range of research projects, seminars and Professor Richard Bradley: Decision Start date: 29 September 2011 lecture series and the Forum for European MSc Philosophy of Science (see page 215) theory; hypothetical reasoning; foundations Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years Philosophy which runs a full and varied of economic and social theory. (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences (see programme of philosophy and inter (renewable) page 216) disciplinary events in the UK. Professor Nancy Cartwright: History and philosophy of science (especially Entry requirement: Candidates MSc Economics and Philosophy (see The Department administers the physics and economics); causal inference; should have a good background page 146) (jointly with the Department prestigious Lakatos prize for an objectivity in science. in philosophy and ideally, but not of Economics) outstanding book in philosophy of science and hosts the annual Auguste Comte Dr Franz Dietrich: Social choice theory; necessarily, a taught master’s degree Philosophy is also available as a specialist field Memorial Lectures by a leading scholar in judgement aggregation; preference change; English requirement: Higher (see within the MSc Social Research Methods (see the philosophy of social science. decision theory; formal epistemology. page 36) page 241) London provides a philosophical environment Dr Roman Frigg: Philosophy of science GRE/GMAT requirement: None About the Department that is beyond compare. The Department is a (scientific representation, modelling, Fee level: See fee table page 29 The Department’s current strengths are member of the Institute of Philosophy of the explanation) and philosophy of physics School of Advanced Study of the University (quantum mechanics, statistical physics, Financial support: LSE scholarships the philosophy of the natural science (in of London, which organises a large number chaos theory). and studentships (see page 30). UK/ particular philosophy of physics, biology of conferences, seminars, and public lectures EU students may apply for Arts and and medicine), philosophy of social Professor Christian List: Formal every year, and which supports lecture series Humanities Research Council funding science and economics – most notably in epistemology; rational choice theory; such as the Logic and Metaphysics Forum (see Arts and Humanities Research methodology of the social sciences, rational philosophy of social science; social and the Aesthetics Forum. Other London Council www.ahrc.ac.uk). The choice theory and philosophy of public choice theory; group agency; theories of Colleges run seminars and lectures that are Department also offers a limited policy. We are committed to teaching and democracy and deliberation. open to LSE students, and the meetings of number of scholarships (including the research that makes a significant difference the Aristotelian Society, the Royal Institute of Dr Kristina Musholt: Philosophy of Lakatos scholarship) and supports not only in philosophy and the philosophies Philosophy, as well as the British Society for cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and successful applicants for funding from of the various sciences, but also in the the Philosophy of Science are held in London. philosophy of biology. various UK organisations practice of the sciences themselves – from economics and political science to physics, In the Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009 Dr Miklos Redei: Foundational and Application deadline: None , but biology and medicine. the Department was ranked: 1st in the world philosophical problems of modern applicants wishing to be considered for for philosophy of the social science; joint 2nd physics, quantum logic, general issues in an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a The range of graduate master’s degrees in the world for philosophy of science; joint philosophy of science. complete application by 10 January 2011 offered by the Department reflects its strengths: it offers four different MSc 3rd in the world for decision, rational choice, Dr Armin Schulz: Philosophy of biology programmes, each dedicated to the teaching and game theory. In the Good University and philosophy of economics. Regional and Urban Planning graduate prospectus 89

Dr Katie Steele: Rational choice; Mr Max Steuer: Methodology of the public policy. social sciences. Regional and Urban Planning Dr Alex Voorhoeve: Political philosophy; Opportunities for research rational and social choice theory; moral philosophy. We accept students for MPhil and PhD research programmes in any of the fields of research expertise. LSE’s programme is Dr Charlotte Werndl: General philosophy lse.ac.uk/regionalAnd in which the Department has special unique among graduate planning schools of science, philosophy of physics, UrbanPlanning expertise – including philosophy of in being based upon the disciplines of social philosophy of biology, and philosophy science, particularly economics, geography, science, moral philosophy, philosophy and MPhil/PhD programmes of mathematics politics and social policy. public policy, philosophy of social science, Visiting Research Students Professor John Worrall: Philosophy philosophy and foundations of physics, Our emphasis is on ‘understanding the Application code: L8ZR (MPhil/PhD), and history of science; rationality and philosophy and foundations of economics, causes of things’, to quote the School’s L8ER (VRS) theory change in science; methodology philosophy and foundations of decision motto, rather than on a narrow professional of medicine. theory, evolutionary and game theory, and Start date: 29 September 2011. For practice of town planning. Teaching is based philosophy of probability. January or April start, contact the primarily on lectures, seminars and tutorials. Associated staff and Department researchers We aim to produce philosophers with a The MSc programme enjoys an first rate thesis as well as excellent teaching Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years international reputation and has attracted Dr Catherine Audard: Hegel and skills. Students will do course work and (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months students from all over the world including continental philosophy; phenomenology attend seminars during the first two years (renewable) Japan, the USA, Canada and Europe. LSE and extentialism; Anglo-American moral and are expect to finish a dissertation in is a member of AESOP, the Association of Entry requirement: Taught master’s and political philosophy; problems three to four years time. European Schools of Planning and the US degree in relevant subject of contemporary citizenship and If your first language is not English, you Urban Affairs Association. multiculturalism. English requirement: Standard (see need to submit a sample of your work in The skills which our graduates have page 36) Professor Nick Baigent: Group and English (five to ten typewritten pages) with developed are suitable for many kinds of individual choice theory; game theoretic your application. GRE/GMAT requirement: None planning career in both the public and models of the family and philosophy. Fee level: See fee table page 29 private sector. For example: regional or Arts and Humanities Research Professor Ken Binmore: Evolutionary game urban policy formulation, advising on Council funding Financial support: LSE scholarships and theory; bargaining theory; experimental development matters in private sector studentships (see page 30) economics; political philosophy; mathematics Please check both lse.ac.uk/financial companies such as banks, advocacy and statistics. Support and www.ahrc.ac.uk for Application deadline: None but or research work for community information regarding AHRC funding. applicants wishing to be considered for organisations, interest groups or think Professor Wulf Gaertner: an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a tanks and advice on project appraisal Social choice theory; decision and game The Department will only accept candidates complete application by 10 January 2011 and economic evaluation. Many students theory; microeconomic analysis; ethics; for a Michaelmas term start. obtain work in international organisations health economics. and consultancy companies. Professor David Makinson: Logic, Taught programme particularly uncertain reasoning, belief MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies Staff and their change; input/output logics. (see page 230) academic interests Professor Michael Redhead: Conceptual Professor Ian Gordon: Spatial labour About regional and and methodological problems of modern markets and migration; urban and urban planning theoretical physics, particularly quantum regional development, particularly in mechanics; quantum field theory; statistical The study of regional and urban planning metropolitan regions; urban policy and mechanics and the theory of relativity. has a long tradition at LSE. We have a cross- spatial modelling. disciplinary teaching team with a wide range 90 graduate prospectus Social Policy

Dr Nancy Holman: Urban planning, interface between planning and the social governance, and sustainable development. sciences and in particular on regional policy, Department of Social Policy environmental issues, urban regeneration, Dr Gareth Jones: Access to land and globalisation and world cities, politics and market deregulation; housing finance and planning, economic aspects of housing and NGOs; conservation and identities, focus urban change. on Latin America and southern Africa. lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy You should have a master’s level qualification Dr Murray Low: Political geography, in a relevant subject. The programme MPhil/PhD Social Policy especially spatial aspects of democracy; particularly attracts candidates with planning MPhil/PhD Demography/ urban policy; geography of political parties. qualifications or experience. Population Studies Dr Diane Perrons: Economic geography, Visiting Research Students The programme includes research training. particularly cohesion in Europe, focusing This involves seminars, discussions on Application code: L4ZA (MPhil/ on region and gender; flexible working. current planning issues, and a range of PhD Social Policy), M9ZD (MPhil/PhD Dr Andres Rodriguez-Pose: Economic methodological courses. You will also take Demography/Population Studies), growth, regional and local development, relevant courses from the MSc in Regional L4EA (VRS) and global restructuring in Europe and and Urban Planning Studies if appropriate. Start date: 29 September 2011. For Latin America; regional devolution and You will normally be registered initially for the January or April start, contact the regional disparities and policy in Europe. MPhil. A progress review to consider transfer Department. VRS intake in all three terms Taught programmes Dr Hyun Bang Shin: Contemporary urban to PhD registration usually takes place after Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (re-)development; urban governance; the first year. Programmes on health and health policy (minimum 2), VRS up to 9 months housing and social change; social welfare; The LSE Library has extensive holdings of (renewable) MSc Health Economics, Policy and transitional cities, especially in China; planning literature from the turn of the Management (modular programme) (see Korea; East Asia. Entry requirement: Higher Merit century onwards. As well as keeping stocks page 170) in a master’s degree, preferably in Professor Michael Storper: Economic of all contemporary literature, it holds several social policy or public policy, plus 2:1 MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing geography; globalisation, trade, location archival collections of interest to planners, bachelor’s degree (see page 171) and specialisation; regional development including the papers of Charles Booth, WA MSc Health, Population and Society in Europe, North America, Brazil. Robson and Derek Senior. The professional English requirement: Higher (see page 36) (see page 172) Professor Andrew Thornley: Urban libraries of the Royal Institute of British planning; globalisation; world cities; Architects, the Royal Institute of Chartered GRE/GMAT requirement: None MSc International Health Policy city competition. Surveyors and the Royal Town Planning (see page 179) Fee level: See fee table page 29 Institute are close at hand. Professor Christine Whitehead: MSc International Health Policy (Health Financial support: LSE scholarships Urban economics; housing and land Organisations within 15 minutes of LSE Economics) (see page 179) and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU markets; privatisation. include the Town and Country Planning students may apply for ESRC funding (see Association, the Regional Studies Association, Programmes on population studies www.esrc.ac.uk) Opportunities for research the Bartlett School, the Development MSc Population and Development Planning Unit, the Department for Application deadline: None but We invite applications for MPhil and PhD (see page 225) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the applicants wishing to be considered for research in regional and urban planning International Institute for Environment and an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a Programmes on social policy studies on either a full-time or part-time Development, the Civic Trust and Friends of complete application by 10 January 2011 basis. Because of our interdisciplinary team, MSc Criminal Justice Policy (see page 133) the Earth. we can provide supervision in more than MSc European Social Policy (see page 152) one department at LSE. Applications are invited for research topics covering the MSc Gender and Social Policy (see page 165) Social Policy graduate prospectus 91

MSc Social Policy (Research) (see page 237) social policy, planning and related issues in identity; risk learning and health behaviour economics of health-related industries; developing countries. and regulation of pharmaceuticals. applied macroeconometrics; socio- MSc Social Policy and Development (see economic determinants of health. page 238) Our reputation is based on a history which Professor Hartley Dean: Poverty and dates back to 1912 when social policy was exclusion; welfare rights, citizenship and Professor Martin Knapp: Community MSc Social Policy and Planning first taught at LSE. This tradition, combining rights of redress; survival strategies of care; mental health policy and practice; (see page 239) action and research, continued with the marginalised social groups; discourses mixed economy of social care; economic Programmes on non-governmental contributions of LSE staff such as Richard of welfare. aspects of social policy; child welfare. Titmuss, Peter Townsend, Brian Abel-Smith organisations (NGOs) Professor Paul Dolan: Developing Dr Sunil Kumar: Housing in developing and David Donnison to the development of MSc NGOs and Development measures for subjective well-being; countries; urban change and social social policy and building of the welfare state (see page 211) applying lessons from behavioural development; participation and urban politics. in Britain and similar developments abroad. economics to understand and change Social Policy is also available as a specialist Professor Julian Le Grand: Social policy, We are actively engaged in local, national individual behaviour. field in the MSc Social Research Methods especially health and community care; and international policy debates, and (Social Policy) and MSc Social Research Dr Timo Fleckenstein: Comparative labour welfare reform; social justice in theory and provide policy advice to government bodies, Methods (Population) (see page 241). market and family policy; comparative practice; social exclusion; motivation and and assistance to international and local political economy of the welfare state; public policy. organisations. LSE is also home to Population About the Department politics of social policy. Studies, one of the world’s leading Professor David Lewis: Management of Crime, education, health care, housing, demographic journals. Dr Arjan Gjonca: Health transition in non-governmental organisations (NGOs); population, social care, social exclusion, developing societies; diet and longevity; social policy and development in south Study in this area leads to a wide variety social security, welfare: the problems ageing; demography of the Balkans. Asia, especially Bangladesh; civil society of careers that are challenging, socially and challenges in all these areas are as and development; rural development. important, intellectually demanding and Professor Stephen Jenkins: Income inescapable and relentless as they have personally rewarding. Students go on to inequality and poverty; income mobility Professor Jane Lewis: Gender and family ever been. We equip people who want to senior policy related and academic positions and poverty dynamics; household and policies, historically and comparatively; non- understand the causes of these problems and in countries throughout the world. families, the labour market and tax- profit sector; development of work/family the development of policy towards them. benefit system; quantitative analysis using reconciliation and work/life balance policies; The Department has consistently received Staff and their microeconometric methods. the conceptualisation of care work. the highest possible grade in the national academic interests Dr Anthony Hall: Impact of development Dr Bingqin Li: Social policy reforms in research assessment exercises. In the Dr Mrigesh Bhatia: Health policy issues policies in Brazilian Amazonia; China; social exclusion of rural to urban most recent RAE, the Department led the in low income countries; economic development and natural resource migrants in transitional urban China; field nationally when ranked by Grade evaluation of health care programmes. conservation; involuntary resettlement; urban policy and equality; housing and Point Average or by the percentage of social policy and the environment. urban growth. research receiving the top A* grade: Dr Tania Burchardt: Theories of social half of its research was recognised as justice including the capability approach; Professor John Hills: Social security; social Dr Steen Mangen: European social policy; world leading and 100 per cent ranked poverty and inequality; concepts and exclusion; welfare state; housing finance; German social state; German unification; at international level. measurement of social disadvantage; taxation; public finance. post-Franco Spain; urban regeneration in welfare and employment policy. Europe; cross-national research methods. Our research programmes and centres, Dr Armine Ishkanian: NGOs; civil such as the Centre for Analysis of Social Dr Ernestina Coast: Anthropological society; social policy; gender; globalisation; Professor Alistair McGuire: Econometric Exclusion (CASE), LSE Health and Social demography; demographic data collection in anthropological approaches to development analysis of NHS hospital costs; public and Care, the Centre for Civil Society, the developing countries; Maasai ethnic group. in post-socialist countries particularly in the private health care interaction; demand for Caucasus and Central Asia. private health care insurance; nursing labour Mannheim Centre for Criminology and the Dr Joan Costa i Font: Economics of markets in the NHS; regulation of health care Education Research Group, have outstanding European welfare states; welfare state Dr Panos Kanavos: International health technology through economic evaluation. national and international reputations. We federalism, integration and devolution; policy and reform; pharmaceutical have a long standing and deep interest in non-market welfare motivations and social economics and policy; industrial 92 graduate prospectus Social Policy

Professor Elias Mossialos: Comparative Dr Caroline Rudisill: Anti-competitive Opportunities for research Initially students are registered for an MPhil health policy; funding health care; behaviour; health system reform and degree. At the end of the first year on the We welcome applications from students for pharmaceutical policies, health care risk perceptions. MPhil programme, students submit a piece our research degrees, both full-time and part- reforms; private health care insurance; the of written work, of up to 10,000 words, Dr Rebecca Sear: Evolutionary time. The Department has approximately impact of EU law on health care systems. and if progress is satisfactory they transfer demography – using evolutionary theories 100 research students and is able to offer retrospectively to the PhD programme; Professor Eileen Munro: Risk to interpret demographic patterns; sub- supervision in a wide range of specialist alternatively, they continue with their MPhil management; social work with children Saharan Africa; importance of kin to child topics. Students are members of a vibrant registration, or their registration ends. and families; child protection; mental survival and other demographic patterns; and exciting research community. The LSE health and risk; nature of knowledge in the interactions between health, marriage Library has a full collection of UK, US and Certain UK/EU applicants may be eligible social work; evaluative research methods. patterns and reproductive success. EU public documents, parliamentary papers for the ESRC 1+3 programme (see www. esrc.ac.uk). Students on this programme Professor Mike Murphy: Population Dr Hakan Seckinelgin: International and statistical data. High class networked take a recognised MSc in their first year (see change in western societies; relations; management of non- computer facilities dedicated to research MSc Social Policy (Research) on page 241). intergenerational relations; household and governmental organisations (NGOs); students exist in the Social Science Research Transfer from the one year MSc programme family formation methods; the modelling NGOs and international health; Laboratory within the Department. A wide to the three year MPhil/PhD programme of kinship; the demography of developed environment; gender issues. range of computer packages for quantitative depends on obtaining high marks in the societies; genetic aspects of demography. and qualitative analysis are available. Dr Michael Shiner: Young people and MSc courses taken. Professor Tim Newburn: Crime and transitions to adulthood; drugs and drugs PhD students attend a seminar series run Registration as a visiting research student criminal justice policy; the sociology and policy; social exclusion, crime and crime by the research students’ tutor and are also is for those who do not wish to proceed governance of policing and security; prevention; ‘race’ and ethnicity; the role encouraged to take courses on research to a higher degree, but want to pursue disadvantaged and disaffected young people; of the community in social policy. methods in the Methodology Institute and their own research with a supervisor who youth crime and youth justice, drugs and on other areas of relevance to their thesis Dr Wendy Sigle-Rushton: can support them in their research. Visiting alcohol; hate crime; evaluation research. topic. Students have the opportunity to Family demography and family policy attend various courses related to carrying out research students include research and Dr Adam Oliver: Health care economics in industrialised countries; poverty; a PhD, and to present their research. doctoral students registered at overseas and policy; European health care policy intergenerational relationships universities wishing to undertake some Applicants for the MPhil/PhD programme reform; equity in health and health and fatherhood. aspect of their research in the UK. Certain care; the methods of health economic should have a good master’s degree, Dr Kitty Stewart: Poverty, inequality and seminars and classes can be attended evaluation; the theory of risk and preferably in social policy or public policy, social exclusion; early years education and subject to the advice and approval of the uncertainty with specific application to together with an upper second or first childcare; social security; employment and supervisor and teachers concerned. health outcomes. class honours degree from a UK university wage trajectories. or its equivalent abroad. Graduates will Dr Coretta Phillips: Race, ethnicity Dr Rebecca Tunstall: Housing policy; normally need a high merit or distinction and social policy (particularly crime social housing management; resident (or equivalent) in their MSc to be eligible for and criminal justice); multi-agency participation; urban regeneration; crime admission to the doctoral programme. partnership working; crime prevention; prevention; urban design; disorder. research methodology. For the MPhil/PhD programme, applicants Professor Anne West: Education policy should provide a written proposal of no more Professor David Piachaud: Poverty and and practice, in particular market reforms than 1,500 words, which gives details of the social security; unemployment and social and associated equity issues; financing proposed research question(s), the relevant exclusion; European social policy. education; education and training policy literature and previous research in the field, Professor Anne Power: Social exclusion; in a European context. planned research methods and theoretical/ housing policy and development; conceptual framework to be adopted. This international urban issues; European social will enable an informed decision about the housing; unpopular housing estates; inner proposal to be made and to establish if there city problems; communities. are appropriate supervisors for the research. Social Psychology graduate prospectus 93

psychology in the analysis of contemporary world, religious beliefs; philosophical Institute of Social Psychology social, economic and political issues. Among issues; evolutionary psychology. the current wide range of interests are Dr Lucia Garcia: Organisational theory social representations, beliefs and attitudes, and culture; communication and the interface cognition and culture, knowledge processes in organisations; MSc Social and Public Communication communication, health, community and lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology networking and organisational change; (see page 240) development, science and society, new collaborative work, new ways of technologies, multiculturalism, ethnicity and MPhil/PhD Social Social Psychology is also available as a organising; complexity theory and race, gender and social identities. Psychology specialist field in MSc Social Research research methods in organisations. Visiting Research Students Methods (see MSc Social Research Methods Former students include professors, Professor George Gaskell: Risk and trust, (see page 241) lecturers, researchers, and professionals in Application code: L7ZP (MPhil/PhD), economic values; ethical, legal and social media and business now working all around L7EP (VRS) aspects of genomics; science technology About the Institute the world. Many have entered a variety of and social values, qualitative and survey Start date: 29 September 2011. For occupations including local government, The Institute of Social Psychology at LSE is a research methods. January start, contact the Institute thriving centre for research for the study of international agencies, social research, Dr Derek Hook: Critical psychology; Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (minimum social psychology and has an international marketing, media and broadcasting, discourse analysis and theory; image analysis; 2), VRS up to 9 months (renewable) reputation for its research-led teaching in industry, personnel, consulting and a variety of fields. Founded in 1964 as the teaching. About one in five graduates from psychoanalysis as political criticism; theories of Entry requirement: Taught master’s Department of Social Psychology at LSE, the master’s programmes go on to complete communication; technologies of subjectivity, with merit and 2:1 bachelor’s degree in Institute is one of the largest concentrations higher degrees by independent research. governmentality and affect; postcolonial an appropriate subject of social psychologists in Europe with 12 full- theory; the critical social psychology of ‘race’, English requirement: Standard (see time academic staff and over 160 graduate Staff and their racism and resistance; space, power and page 29) students enrolled on four specialist master’s academic interests identity; the social constitution of subjectivity in post-apartheid southern Africa; critical GRE/GMAT requirement: None programmes and conducting research Dr Martin Bauer: Resistance to change; qualitative research methodology. towards PhD. organisational learning; biotechnology Fee level: See fee table page 30 The MSc degree in Social Psychology, now and society; public understanding of Dr Caroline Howarth: Contemporary Financial support: LSE scholarships called MSc Social and Cultural Psychology, science; science communication; science identities (particularly for children and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU established in 1964, was the first specialised and public relations; social influence and and young people); racialisation students may apply for ESRC funding, degree in social psychology in the UK. public opinion; motivation and stress; and multiculture; whiteness; social see (www.esrc.ac.uk) The MSc in Organisational and Social media monitoring; content analysis; representations; resistance; community; experience sampling and bemetology. inclusive practices at school; critical Application deadline: None but Psychology was launched in 1990, the psychology; qualitative research; visual applicants wishing to be considered for MSc in Social and Public Communication Professor Catherine Campbell: HIV/ research methods; participatory research. an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a in 2003, and the MSc Health, Community AIDS; health; community participation; complete application by 10 January 2011 and Development in 2005. The MSc Social partnerships; social development; public Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch: Social and Cultural Psychology is recognised by the health and health promotion; sexuality; representations; the social psychology Economic and Social Research Council as stigma; collective action; social change; of public life and community; dialogue Taught programmes providing research training. The MSc Social power and empowerment; social capital; and dialogical approaches to mind and MSc Health, Community and Psychology and MSc Organisational and social exclusion and social inequalities; development; participation; community Development (see page 169) Social Psychology were also evaluated by the health inequalities and social identities of development and health. Quality Assurance Agency in 1999-2000 and gender, ethnicity and age/youth; UK; Africa. Professor Saadi Lahlou: Social MSc Organisational and Social Psychology received a rating of ‘excellent’, scoring 23 Dr Bradley Franks: Cognitive and social sustainability; learning organisations; (see page 212) points out of a possible maximum of 24. psychology; meaning; cognition and the management of innovation; social MSc Social and Cultural Psychology (see As teaching is research led it emphasises culture; communication and pragmatics; representations; cognition and behaviour; page 236) the contribution of social and cultural representations of natural and social installations and technology. 94 graduate prospectus Sociology

Dr Jan Stockdale: Policing; crime reduction or all of these courses, depending on your and community safety; young people, qualifications. You must attend the Current Department of Sociology criminal activity and anti social behaviour; Research Seminar. social exclusion, deprivation and criminal At the end of your first year, progression will justice; violence and harassment; gender; be determined by an extended essay of around drug/alcohol use; process, outcome and 13,000 words, assessed by a thesis committee. lse.ac.uk/sociology economic evaluation. The thesis committee includes your supervisor Dr Andrew Wells: Cognitive science; and a member of staff whose research interests MPhil/PhD programmes psychological research methods; differ from your research area. During your Visiting Research Students philosophy of psychology; evolutionary second year, the decision on whether your Application code: L3ZS (MPhil/PhD), psychology; literacy. registration should be upgraded to PhD is made L3ES (VRS) by your thesis committee, based on reading Opportunities for research three draft chapters of your thesis, a plan for Start date: 29 September 2011 The Institute offers research opportunities completion, and a viva voce examination. You Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years (minimum in health, community and development; will be provided with detailed feedback on your 2), VRS up to 9 months (renewable) social and cultural psychology; organisational work and a tape recording of the examination. Entry requirement: Master’s or high 2:1 social psychology; and social and public We have excellent computing facilities in sociology or another social science communication. in the Institute. There are two purpose English requirement: Higher (see MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society The stream that a student belongs to built computing laboratories with a wide page 36) (see page 127) is flexible and open to negotiation and variety of software packages for data MSc City Design and Social Science (see depends largely on the topic of research and analysis and running experiments. Most GRE/GMAT requirement: None popular programming languages are page 129) the area of coursework. The streams overlap Fee level: See fee table page 29 and students are encouraged to develop available, including packages for multimedia MSc Culture and Society (see page 134) Financial support: LSE scholarships interdisciplinary approaches to research. development and CD-ROM authoring. and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU MSc Human Rights (see page 175) Other facilities for research include an Normally, you should have a high level of students may apply for ESRC funding (see MSc Political Sociology (see page 219) observation and audio-visual suite, professional pass at merit level or better in an appropriate www.esrc.ac.uk) master’s degree, together with at least an videotape editing facilities, video capture and MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post Colonial Application deadline: None – rolling upper second class honours degree in an image scanning for multimedia applications, Studies (see page 228) admission. However, applicants wishing appropriate subject from a UK university or its and computer assisted telephone interviewing, MSc Sociology of Crime, Control and to be considered for an LSE PhD equivalent abroad. and a number of rooms set aside for research. Globalisation (see page 243) scholarship must submit a complete There is a technical workshop which supports Initially you will register for the MPhil and application by 10 January 2011 Diploma in Sociology (see page 101) follow a programme which involves formally the teaching of research methods and the Sociology is also available as a specialist assessed coursework. This includes a broad work of graduates and staff. This includes field in MSc Social Research Methods (see training in research methods together with advice and assistance on a range of areas Taught programmes including audio-visual recording, editing, page 241) the core course from the corresponding MSc Sociology (see page 242) master’s programme (Contemporary Social multimedia production and analysis, and the MSc Sociology (Research) (see page 242) About the Department and Cultural Psychology, Organisational design and construction of apparatus for Social Psychology, Social Psychology of experimental and observational studies. MSc Sociology (Contemporary Social The Department of Sociology at LSE was the first to be established in Britain and Communication, Health and Community There are no facilities for Thought) (see page 242) Development). In addition you follow a has played a key role in establishing and animal experimentation. MSc Sociology (Economic Sociology) (see specialised option course appropriate to developing the discipline nationally and page 242) the topic of your research (assessed by internationally since 1904. Today the coursework). You may be exempt from some Department has around 25 teaching staff, Sociology graduate prospectus 95

together with a number of research fellows, including cities in global networks, and the encompasses the evolution and impact The Department supports and promotes visiting professors and visiting scholars from all emergence of cross-border criminal activity. of political ideas, including liberalism, academic diversity within the School over the world. The Department is committed socialism, conservatism, populism and through these programmes and through Economy, culture and society: the nature to empirically rich, conceptually sophisticated, environmentalism, as well as political and its central participation in BIOS (Centre of contemporary economic knowledges, and socially and politically relevant research economic democracy, ethnic violence and for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, including a critical engagement with and scholarship, building upon the traditions political repression, and fundamental social Biotechnology and Society), CARR (Centre both economics and economic sociology, of the discipline, and playing a key role in the and political change. for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation), the role of economic knowledges in development of the social sciences into the the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, economic life, and the reconstruction of Race, racism and ethnicity: the new intellectual areas, social problems, and the Methodology Institute, STICERD economic categories from within social social, cultural and governmental ethical dilemmas that face a globalised post- (Suntory and Toyota International Centre research. Transnationalism, development aspects of colonial and postcolonial modern society. for Economics and Related Disciplines), and globalisation, engaged through clear societies. Nationalism, challenges and and the Mannheim Centre for the Study Sociology at LSE is theoretically and empirical focuses (for example, development transformations in geo-politics, governance of Crime and Criminal Justice. methodologically diverse, but our research discourses and practices, creative industries and citizenship in an era characterised by priorities focus upon the following key areas: policy, corporations and regulatory bodies). migration, flight, asylum, multiculture, Staff and their Finally, the cluster has a strong track record cultural hybridity, cosmopolitanism and Biomedicine, bioscience and academic interests in several substantive areas that group supposed ‘civilisational’ conflict. biotechnology: the forms of social, political members in diverse ways, above all: work Dr Claire Alexander: Race and ethnicity and cultural change associated with the Crime and control: criminological theory, and employment, risk and regulation, money in Britain; masculinities and violence; rise of biotechnology, biomedicine and criminal cultures, organisations and markets, and value, consumption and market society, youth and gangs; identity and difference; bioscience are the subject of an extensive victimology, criminal investigation, the creative and cultural industries, technology urban ethnography. research programme within the BIOS Centre changing nature of crime, alcohol and and economy. for the Study of Biomedicine, Biotechnology, public disorder, punishment and control, Dr Suki Ali: Gender and sexualities; mixed Bioscience and Society. Key research themes Gender: analysis of gender relations and the relationship between privatised control race and new ethnicities; postcolonial include social aspects of synthetic biology, representations; transnational analyses strategies and urban regeneration, gender theory; families; education; visual culture. the neurosciences, reproductive and of gender, race, ethnicity and sexualities; and social control, the emergence of cross Dr Robin Archer: Political sociology, regenerative technologies, bioeconomics intersectionality and new forms of border criminal activity, violence. especially labour movements and the left; and biocapital, global ‘bio’ politics, changing discrimination; feminist pasts and futures; The Department of Sociology is recognised liberalism, socialism and conservatism; the definitions of life or ‘life itself’; the sociology gender and development; economic by the ESRC for 1+3 and +3 awards. As well social bases of American politics; political of bioethics, public engagement with science, inequalities, social and political rights. as research training in the Department, the institutions and political economy; and and biosecurity’. BIOS is a leader in both Human rights: dimensions of inequality Methodology Institute provides a range of comparative and historical approaches. theoretical and methodological innovation in and exclusion locally, nationally and specialised courses in quantitative and qualita- Dr Christopher Badcock: Autism research; these fields and has extensive PhD, MSc and internationally; gender and sexual tive research methods and statistics. evolutionary psychology; evolutionary post-doctoral training programmes. divisions; issues of human rights in a The Department is responsible for one of genetics; scientific and social theory. Cities and urbanism: the relationship global context; human rights as they arise the world’s leading specialist periodicals, Professor Chetan Bhatt – Director of the between social, spatial and physical in the context of biotechnology and bio- the British Journal of Sociology and also Centre for the Study of Human Rights: forms and processes in cities: urban ethics and in new forms of legal regulation houses the influential interdisciplinary social Modern social theory and philosophy, development and urban governance; urban associated with security, war and terror. science journal Economy and Society. romanticism, idealism, nationalism; the environments, mobility and morphology; BioSocieties publishes scholarship across Politics and society: the social, economic, religious right and religious conflict; racism social and spatial exclusion; privatised the social science disciplines, and represents institutional and ideological bases of politics, and ethnicity, South Asia, Middle East. control strategies and urban regeneration; a lively and balanced array of perspectives the interaction of states and societies, and urban economies, including criminal on controversial issues, demonstrating the Professor Ricky Burdett – Professor of comparative and historical approaches. organisations, markets and cultures; crime constructive potential of interdisciplinary Urban Studies, Director of LSE Cities: Topics of central interest are political parties and violence; transnational urbanism, dialogue and debate across the social and Urban design; urban regeneration and and social movements, especially the study natural sciences. planning policies; relationship between of labour movements and the left. The area 96 graduate prospectus Sociology

urban environment and urban society; melancholia; new world black music in developments in brain sciences; psychiatric two pieces of written work that you feel architecture and public space; sustainable the twentieth century. genetics and psycho-pharmacology. reflect your academic interests and abilities. design and communities; design You will be initially registered for the MPhil. Dr Ursula Henz: Social stratification; Professor Richard Sennett – School competitions and initiatives. At the end of your second year or early in modern family demography; and the Professor of Social and Cultural Theory: your third (full-time), you will be transferred Dr Alasdair Cochrane: Philosophical sociology of the life course. Changing nature of work; relationship to PhD registration upon successful justification of rights; contemporary between urban design, and urban society; Professor Dick Hobbs – Professor of completion of our ‘upgrade’ procedure political theory; environmentalism; animal history of cities. Sociology with special reference to (submission of three complete chapters, ethics and bioethics. Criminology: Professional and organised Dr Don Slater: Sociology of economic life; examined by viva voce). Dr Ayona Datta: Spatiality of crime; working class entrepreneurship; theories of market society and consumer In the first year, you will spend over half your homelessness and social agency; gender, violence; night-time economy. culture; sociology of the internet and new time taking a range of methods and specialist space, and power; architecture and media; visual culture. Dr Christopher Husbands: Politics of race; courses. These are selected in discussion with cultural identity. political asylum; extreme right; political Professor Robert Tavernor – Professor of your supervisor, dependent on your needs Dr Manali Desai: State formation; left systems of France, Germany and the Urban Design: Architectural history and and may include courses from other institutes parties and anti-poverty policies; ethnic Netherlands; assessment of teaching in theory; urban design; relations of body or departments at LSE. You must attend the violence; post-colonial studies. higher education; lexicography. and architecture. first year research class for MPhil students Dr Nigel Dodd: Sociology of money, Professor Bridget Hutter – Peacock Dr Fran Tonkiss – Director of LSE Cities and, unless you have already successfully politics of monetary and financial Professor in Risk Management, Programme: Economic sociology; markets studied research methods at master’s level, integration; consumerism; globalisation; Director CARR: Regulation and risk and marketisation; trust and social capital; you will normally be expected to complete modernity and post-modernity. management; regulation of economic life cities, space and urban theory. graduate course units in methodology, on particularly food, financial, occupational the advice of your supervisor. If you accept an Dr Janet Foster: Extensive experience Professor Judy Wajcman: Sociology health and safety; environmental offer of admission from us, we will send you as a qualitative researcher on crime, of work and employment; science regulation; social control. information on methodology requirements community and policing issues; conducted and technology studies; sociology and other relevant matters. an evaluation of the impact of the Dr Patrick McGovern: Economic of information and communication Stephen Lawrence Inquiry on policing. sociology, especially work and labour technologies, gender theory and At the end of your first year, you will produce markets; inequality at work; international organisational analysis. a 5,000 word research proposal, outlining Professor Sarah Franklin – Professor migration and social mobility. the aims and methods of your thesis. This has of Social Studies of Biomedicine: New Opportunities for research to reach an acceptable standard to enable reproductive and genetic technologies; Dr Claire Moon: War and genocide, you to progress to the second year. kinship; gender; science studies. political reconciliation, and human rights You should usually have a master’s degree from an interdisciplinary perspective that or a first or high upper second class After the first year, you will spend more time Professor David Frisby – Professor of draws upon sociology, critical legal studies honours degree from a British university, or on independent study under the guidance Sociology: Metropolitan modernity and and international relations. its equivalent in another country, in either of your personal supervisor. This will involve architecture; the detective novel genre sociology or another related social science. the collection, organisation, analysis and and detection; social theory; the history of Dr Paddy Rawlinson: Organised crime writing up of data and ideas. At least once German social theory in the late 19th and in former communist states, second When you apply for an MPhil/PhD, you a week you will attend a general research 20th centuries. economy, human trafficking. will need to send us a research proposal seminar and/or specialist workshops and that sets out clearly the research problem Professor Paul Gilroy – Anthony Professor Nikolas Rose – Martin White seminars related to your interests. You will you wish to investigate, explains why it is Giddens Professor of Social Theory: Professor of Sociology: Social and political be expected to make an active contribution important, and describes the methods of Race and social theory; predicament of history of human sciences; genealogy of to these by presenting papers and joining in research you propose to use. This will help Europe’s post-colonial peoples of colour; subjectivity; history of empirical thought the general discussion. us to evaluate your potential to embark on a cultural history of western hemisphere in sociology; changing rationalities and research degree, and to identify a supervisor The Department will only accept black populations; automotivity techniques of political power; social, with similar interests and the appropriate candidates for a Michaelmas term start. and consumer culture; post-colonial ethical, cultural and legal implications of expertise. We will also need to see one or Socio-Legal Studies (Mannheim Centre for Criminology) / Statistics graduate prospectus 97

Socio-Legal Studies (Mannheim Department of Statistics Centre for Criminology)

lse.ac.uk/mannheim lse.ac.uk/statistics

LSE’s distinctive specialisation in the social MPhil/PhD Statistics sciences and its interdisciplinary approach Visiting Research Students have created a number of opportunities to Application code: G4ZS (MPhil/PhD), study the interaction of law, other aspects of G4ES (VRS) social policy and their broader social context. Start date: Intake at the start of The Mannheim Centre for Criminology Michaelmas, Lent or Summer term brings together members of the Departments Duration: MPhil/PhD 3/4 years of Law, Psychology, Social Policy and (minimum 2), VRS for one term, two Sociology, to provide opportunities for the terms or up to a maximum of one advanced study of criminology and criminal academic year justice through courses at graduate level and They also work together on: Statistics is also available as a specialist to conduct and facilitate research in those Entry requirement: Taught field in MSc Social Research Methods fields, as well as to provide seminars and MSc Criminal Justice Policy (see page 133) master’s with a substantial statistical (see page 241) conferences for academics, students and The LLM (see page 184) also offers element, usually with a distinction, or criminal justice professionals. Members of opportunities for those with law degrees to equivalent experience About the Department the centre maintain close contacts with the extend their knowledge by incorporating the English requirement: Standard (see The Department has an international judiciary, legal practitioners, the police, prison insights of other social science disciplines. page 36) reputation for the development of statistical and probation services and other relevant methodology which has grown from its long MSc Sociology of Crime, Control and GRE/GMAT requirement: None agencies and individually offer expert advice. history of active contributions to research and Globalisation (see page 243) Fee level: See fee table page 29 teaching in statistics for the social sciences. The MSc Regulation (see page 231) and Financial support: LSE scholarships Many LSE staff have made significant the MSc Law and Accounting (see page and studentships (see page 30). UK/EU contributions to the development of statistics 188) are open to those with any relevant students may also be able to apply for including AL Bowley, Professors Sir Roy subject background to explore these ESRC funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk) or Allen, Sir Maurice Kendall, J Durbin, Sir Claus developing areas of study where law and be eligible for EPSRC funding (see Moser, DJ Bartholomew, AC Harvey, P Hall other disciplines meet. www.epsrc.ac.uk) and AC Atkinson. Application deadline: None but We offer expert teaching and supervision applicants wishing to be considered for in statistical theory, time series, stochastic an LSE PhD scholarship must submit a modelling, financial mathematics, actuarial complete application by 10 January 2011 statistics, industrial statistics, latent variable modelling and sample survey theory and methods. The LSE Centre for the Analysis Taught master’s programmes of Time Series (CATS) is based in the Department, as is the newly launched MSc Risk and Stochastics (see page 233) Decision Support and Risk Group (DSRG) and MSc Statistics (see page 244) Risk and Stochastic Group (RSG). 98 graduate prospectus Statistics

Graduate study of statistics is often stochastic point processes; mathematical support; systems monitoring; industrial vocational, though no progress can be made finance – path dependent options; models interpretation of forecasts and analysis. without a lively intellectual interest in both with jumps and stochastic volatility; Professor Qiwei Yao: Time series analysis; the methodological principles of statistical applications of doubly stochastic processes non-parametric regression; space time modelling and practical applications. The in finance, in particular credit risk. modelling; change point problems. Department provides a thriving, hard Dr Piotr Fryzlewicz: Time series, wavelets working, friendly environment in which these Dr. Hao Xing: Stochastic calculus; analysis and multiscale modelling and estimation, interests can be pursued. of differential equations, and their estimation in the ‘large p, small n’ application on finance and insurance; Employment opportunities for our graduates paradigm and statistics in finance. computational finance. are excellent. Former students find careers Dr Sara Geneletti: Causal inference, in the private sector, finance, survey graphical modelling (in particular directed Opportunities for research statistics and research, and are also to be acyclic graphs and their applications to You should already have studied a taught found teaching in universities and colleges social science and epidemiology) and MSc with a large statistics content or have throughout the world. Many graduates are Bayesian modelling. equivalent experience. You will be registered also employed by their national governments. Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos: Diffusion initially for the MPhil with transfer to PhD Staff and their processes; Bayesian inference; MCMC; high dependent on your successful progression. academic interests frequency finance; biomedical modelling. If you are accepted to undertake research in Dr Matteo Barigozzi: Dynamic Dr Jouni Kuha: Model selection; models the Department you will have a supervisor who factor models and spectral analysis; with measurement error and missing data; will monitor your work closely and provide nonfundamental representations of latent variable models; social statistics. detailed guidance on your choice of research time series models; evolutionary dynamic topic. We expect research students to present Dr Clifford Lam: Parametric and factor models. their work in seminars. Each year you will have semiparametric modelling, variables and a formal assessment of your progress made by Dr Pauline Barrieu: Illiquid and feature selection, regularisation methods, a group of at least two teachers. You may be incomplete financial markets; real options; high-dimensional data analysis. advised to take courses from the MSc Statistics insurance derivatives; weather derivatives; Dr Irini Moustaki: Latent variable models, and take exams in these at the end of your contract designing; environmental categorical data analysis, missing data, first year of registration. economics; risk measures. multivariate analysis. The most important resource for statisticians Dr Erik Baurdoux: Optimal stopping; Dr Thorsten Rheinlander: Risk is a computer. In addition to LSE’s computing stochastic games; Lévy processes; financial management in life and pension insurance resources, we have networked departmental and insurance mathematics. – optimal product design; securitisation workstations exclusively for research students. Dr Wicher Bergsma: Categorical data and hedging of unit-linked contracts; There is an extensive collection of software analysis: multivariate analysis; graphical valuation in incomplete markets – an available; both commercial packages and in- modelling; measures of association; non- exponential utility indifference approach; house products. parametric regression. utility maximisation in illiquid markets; The LSE Library has a good collection of diverse markets in stochastics portfolio Dr Umut Cetin: Stochastic calculus with research monographs and journals, and you theory, market microstructure models. applications to finance and insurance; may access databases of research information. portfolio optimisation in incomplete markets; Professor Leonard Smith: Predictability; There is a comprehensive assembly of liquidity risk; default risk; asymmetric analysis of non-linear time series; chaos worldwide official statistics. The Department information, market microstructure. in physical and mathematical systems; has a dedicated library with statistical journals probabilistic weather forecasting and and books, which is available to research Dr Angelos Dassios: Applied probability; climate modelling; decision and policy students. Regular research seminars are held insurance mathematics – ruin theory; doubly in the Department. mes taught programmes Anthropologytaught graduate prospectus pro 99 - grammes taught programmes taugh grammes taught programmes t aught programmes taught programm

Taught programmes es100 Diplomataught programmes programmes taught pro 102 MPA programmes 104 MRes/PhD Political Science taught106 Double and joint master’sprogrammes taught program programmes 121 TRIUM Global Executive MBA grammes122 Taught master’s programmes taught programmes taug ht programmes taught programmes taught programmes taught program mes taught programmes taught pro grammes taught programmes taug ht programmes taught programmes taught programmes taught programmes taught programmes taught programmes 100 graduate prospectus Diploma in Accounting and Finance

MSc level study within the Department, from the course leader. The following are Diploma in Accounting and Finance subject to satisfactory performance. Those some of the more popular courses selected Diploma students who wish to apply for the by students over the past five years: MSc Accounting and Finance in the following Applied Corporate Finance* year will not ordinarily be required to submit a GMAT test with their application. Auditing, Governance and Risk Management lse.ac.uk/accounting Further study, however, is not the only option Managerial Accounting (if not already Application code: N4ED offered by the programme. The Diploma in selected under course 2 above) or Start date: 29 September 2011 Accounting and Finance opens up a wide Management Accounting, Financial range of career opportunities. Over the past Management and Organisational Control Duration: 9 months full-time only five years, upon completion of the Diploma, or Management Accounting, Decisions Intake/applications in 2009: 31/207 one third of the students registered for and Control* (if not selected under course 2 above) Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 further studies at master’s level, with the degree in any discipline (see page 33) other two thirds going into professional Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation careers such as investment banking, (if not already selected under course 2 above) English requirement: Standard (see management consulting, and auditing. page 36) Commercial Law The Diploma programme consists of GRE/GMAT requirement: None Corporate and Financial Crime • Preparation for careers in the fields of examined courses to the value of four Fee level: £15,888 accounting, finance, consulting, and full units. Design and Management of Organisations* general management. Financial support: Graduate Support Course 1 European Models of Capitalism* Scheme (see page 30) Financial Risk Analysis* About the Diploma Choose one from: Application deadline: None – programme Game Theory I* rolling admissions Principles of Finance To be eligible to apply for the Diploma Industrial Economics Corporate Finance, Investments and programme, you should have obtained at Studying at LSE Financial Markets † Introduction to Econometrics least a good upper second class honours This programme is based in the Department degree from a UK university, or have reached Quantitative Finance † Macroeconomic Principles I or II of Accounting (see page 46) and offers the a similar standard with an overseas degree. Mathematics of Finance and Valuation* following benefits: Course 2 The Diploma in Accounting and Finance is Microeconomic Principles I or II • The opportunity to acquire a solid a qualification in its own right. It acts as a Choose one from: Organisational Theory and Behaviour foundation if you have little or no conversion course for students with little or Managerial Accounting background in accounting or finance, or to no background in accounting or finance, Quantitative Methods (Mathematics)* and Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation extend your knowledge in this area within a such as students with undergraduate degrees Quantitative Methods (Statistics)* or The flexible programme. in arts, economics, law, business, science, or Management Accounting and Financial Process of Management engineering. It also provides students with Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting • The opportunity to subsequently join the Valuation and Security Analysis* MSc Accounting and Finance (subject to some background in accounting and finance and Disclosure satisfactory performance in the Diploma the opportunity to extend their knowledge † By special permission Courses 3 and 4 programme). and understanding in areas of special interest within a flexible programme. The programme (* half unit) • Study in one of the most highly rated is deliberately kept small to facilitate the Any courses available from departments departments in the subject in the world, both learning experience. for its research and its institutional links. around the School to a total of two full units, For students studying on the Diploma subject to the approval of the Programme programme there is a clear route towards Director and, where applicable, permission Diploma in Sociology graduate prospectus 101

year and after passing the Diploma at an Diploma in Sociology acceptable level. • Knowledge of the ways in which societies work, and skills in critical social understanding, techniques of social enquiry lse.ac.uk/sociology and communication through systematic and lucid argument. The skills that you develop Application code: L3ED in research techniques and computing will Start date: 29 September 2011 enable you to assemble, interpret and use social statistics. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time • Students go into a wide variety of professions, such as teaching, research, Intake/applications in 2009: 0/7 politics, public administration, the Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in social and health services, advertising, any discipline (see page 33) journalism, other areas of the media, English requirement: Higher (see law, publishing, industry, accounting, page 36) marketing, personnel and management. genetics and psycho-pharmacology GRE/GMAT requirement: None About the Diploma (Nikolas Rose), reproductive technologies programme Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; (Sarah Franklin), community crime overseas £15,888 prevention, policing, social exclusion and The programme introduces students who Financial support: Graduate Support urban social change, the relationship may be unfamiliar with sociology to empirical Scheme (see page 30) between culture and economy, specifically and conceptual analysis. focusing on the sociology of economic Application deadline: None – life, the sociology of the internet and Compulsory courses rolling admissions visual sociology (Don Slater), crime and Either Key Concepts in Sociology: An deviance (Dick Hobbs), sociological theory Introduction to Sociological Theory or (Nigel Dodd), sociobiology (Christopher Studying at LSE Sociological Analysis Badcock), political sociology (Robin This programme is based in the Department Archer), the study of human rights and Issues and Methods of Social Research of Sociology (see page 94) and offers the their relation with crime and politics, and following benefits: race and ethnicity (Paul Gilroy). These and Options • The chance to study sociology in the only other courses reflect the Department’s You choose a total of two course units specialist institution for the social sciences in commitment to establishing the relevance through a combination of full and/or the UK. of sociology to the modern world. half option course units from a list of undergraduate courses offered within • The opportunity to be taught by research • The opportunity to extend your knowledge the Department. active staff, who are renowned in their fields. and understanding in areas of special interest related to sociology. If you have little or • Many members of the Department have no knowledge of the social sciences, this established national and international Diploma in Sociology provides a good one- reputations. Examples are the social, year foundation before proceeding to the ethical, cultural and legal implications of MSc in Sociology, normally in the following developments in brain sciences, psychiatric 102 graduate prospectus MPA Programmes

About the MPA programmes particularly equips students to pursue MPA Programmes careers related to economic policy-making The MPA is an interdisciplinary degree in international organisations, national devised to meet the needs of government administrations, and economic consulting. departments and public agencies in many countries for highly skilled and professional Year 1: www.lse.ac.uk/MPA University, NY; Sciences Po, Paris; policy makers. It also meets the needs of Hertie School of Governance, Berlin people working with governments but in the Political Science and Public Policy Application codes: M1UN (Public and and Lee Kuan Yew School, National private sector, for instance in consultancy, Micro and Macro Economics (for Public Policy) Economic Policy), M1VA (Public Policy University of Singapore public-private partnerships, public affairs, and Management) L9U1 (International Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis media, non-governmental organisations and Development), L2U0 (European Public interest groups. Plus two units from the MPA options list and Economic Policy), L4UN (Public Studying at LSE and Social Policy) The degree is taught over 21 months; year Year 2: The MPAs are interdisciplinary programmes one is a complete academic year and year Start date: 20 September 2011. Some offering the following benefits: two lasts from October to June. It brings (*half unit) outside options in economics require • Designed to equip talented students together LSE’s unrivalled expertise in the social participation in introductory courses Economic Policy Analysis with professional skills and knowledge sciences with individual and group working beginning early September 2011 Group Working and Leadership* to undertake and advise on public policy experience of public sector problems, policies Duration: 21 months full-time only making and implementation in a wide and management. Capstone (see below) Intake/applications in 2009: 40/304 range of contexts. In the first year, students take a set of core Dissertation (PEP), 27/262 (PPM), 18/292 (ID), • Relevant both for students entering courses that provide them with the skills Plus one unit from the MPA options list 11/113 (EPEP), PSP new programme government service careers and those required for political and economic analysis. for 2011 intending to work in the private sector, During their second year, students work MPA Public Policy and Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 dealing with government. in groups on a capstone project in which Management they advise a public sector organisation, degree or equivalent in any discipline. • Combines rigorous academic development This stream focuses on understanding international body, or private sector Some economics options only available with strong practical applications in individual decision making and management in the consultancy on a current policy challenge, to applicants with a good first degree and group based work. public sector and budgetary processes. in economics (see page 33) and prepare a dissertation. • A wide choice of options from across LSE’s Students receive a core training in political In addition to the core training, each student English requirement: Higher (see graduate courses for students to choose their science, economics and quantitative undertakes further compulsory courses page 36) own area of specialisation. methods in the first year, which is depending on which stream of the MPA they complemented by compulsory courses GRE/GMAT requirement: Not required, • Excellent contact with governmental and are enrolled on. in public management and budgeting but will be considered if submitted international organisations. and further option courses. This stream MPA Public and Fee level: Year 1 (2011 entry) £19,260; • The option for some students to gain particularly equips students to pursue Economic Policy Year 2 (2012 continuing) £20,030 ten months’ experience with one of the careers in public management, public Financial support: Graduate Support following: the School of International and This stream focuses on the economic and sector consulting, and governance related Scheme (see page 30) Public Affairs at Columbia University in political analysis of public policies. Students work in international organisations or New York; Sciences Po in Paris; the Hertie receive a core training in political science, think tanks. Application deadline: None School of Governance, Berlin; the Lee economics, and quantitative methods in Notes: MPA programmes carry Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the the first year, which is reinforced through the opportunity for some students National University of Singapore. a compulsory course in economic policy to spend ten months abroad at analysis in the second year. Option institutions including SIPA, Columbia courses then allow students to develop a unique area of specialisation. This stream MPA Programmes graduate prospectus 103

Year 1: Micro and Macro Economics (for Plus one unit from the MPA options list Year 2: Public Policy) Political Science and Public Policy Year 2: (*half unit) Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis Micro and Macro Economics (for (*half unit) Group Working and Leadership* Public Policy) Development Policy and Management Group Working and Leadership* Capstone (see below) Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis Plus one unit from the MPA options list Capstone (see below) Dissertation normally submitted within the Public Management – Strategy, Innovation Year 2: broad area of social policy. and Delivery Dissertation normally submitted within the (*half unit) broad area of European public policy. Plus two units from the MPA options list, Plus one unit from the MPA options list including at least one unit falling within Development Economics Plus two units from the MPA options the broad range of social policy related list below including at least one unit Year 2: Group Working and Leadership* units included in the MPA options list falling within the broad area of European (*half unit) Capstone (see below) public policy MPA Capstone Project Public Budgeting and Financial Management Dissertation – normally submitted within MPA Public and Social Policy In the Michaelmas term of their second year, Group Working and Leadership* the broad area of development. students are organised into groups of four to This stream focuses on the policy Capstone (see below) Plus one unit from the MPA options list six people and briefed on a policy problem and economic analysis of public and faced by a major organisation active in the Dissertation MPA European Public and social welfare. Students receive a core UK public sector, European policy-making training in political science, economics Plus one unit from the MPA options list Economic Policy or an international organisation. Clients and quantitative methods in the first This stream focuses on the economic may include international organisations; MPA International year, which is complemented by a and policy analysis of Europe, broadly government departments or agencies at Development compulsory course in welfare analysis and understood. Students receive a core national or EU level; public health service measurement and further option courses. This stream focuses on the analysis training in political science, economics and authorities or regional/local governments; This stream particularly equips students of economic and public policies for quantitative methods, European politics major private corporations interacting with to pursue careers related to public service developing countries. Students receive and governance and European political public agencies; or a non-governmental at local, national and international a core training in political science, economy in the first year and can further organisation or consultancy firm involved levels, in areas including consultancy economics, quantitative methods, specialise in their second year. It particularly with policy making. The group then has ten and analysis as well as policy making development management and equips students to pursue careers related weeks of access to the client organisation in and implementation in international development economics in the first to economic and public policy making the Lent term to investigate the issues and organisations, primarily those with health year and then go on to develop more in EU institutions, other European develop a workable solution to the problem, policy, education, employment and social specialized interests in the second year. international organisations, national reporting to the organisation at the end of protection departments. By providing a broad range of analytical administrations and parts of the private this time. The LSE staff members who set up, coordinate and manage the projects, with tools and development-related policy sector interacting with the EU in regulatory, Year 1 applications, this stream prepares budget making or other policy contexts. inputs from the client organisation, assess Political Science and Public Policy students to work at the highest levels in students in each group on their performance. international development organisations, Year 1: Micro and Macro Economics (for The project work is conducted in teams, which are given a collective mark for their government development agencies, Political Science and Public Policy Public Policy) NGOs, development consultancies and project (with scope for individual variations). Micro and Macro Economics (for Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis private sector companies. For further information on MPA Capstone Public Policy) Welfare Analysis and Measurement projects go to lse.ac.uk/MPA Year 1: Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis Plus one unit from the MPA options list Political Science and Public Policy European Public and Economic Policy 104 graduate prospectus MRes/PhD Political Science

Options complete their degree in the second year at the School of International and Public MRes/PhD Political Science Courses are arranged into the areas of Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University in specialisation listed below and involve New York; Sciences Po, Paris; the Hertie diverse courses, mostly drawing on School of Governance, (Hertie) Berlin; or departments and disciplinary perspectives the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, across the School. Students may also lse.ac.uk/government National University of Singapore. LSE’s first wish to construct an individual area of year courses will equip students to take Application codes: M1ZL (Quantitative specialisation in discussion with their a range of second year courses at SIPA, stream A), M1ZM (Qualitative stream B) individual supervisors. All courses operate Sciences Po, Hertie or Lee Kuan Yew and to at a challenging level. In some areas of Start date: 29 September 2011 complete group working and/or research specialisation prerequisites apply to the projects similar to those on the LSE year 2 Duration: MRes 1 year, PhD 3/4 years more advanced or specific courses. The curriculum. (minimum 2) full list of MPA options courses is available to view at lse.ac.uk/MPA Alternatively, students can start at SIPA, Intake/application in 2009: 14/138 Sciences Po, Hertie or Lee Kuan Yew for Minimum entry requirement: Good Note: options courses are subject to their first year, and then apply to come undergraduate degree and preferably availability, as they may not be offered to LSE to complete their second year, an MA or MSc degree in political every year. undertaking their capstone project in the science or a closely related discipline UK. Students spending their second year (see page 33) MPA options: areas of specialisation only at LSE must complete a dissertation and late applicants are not eligible for English requirement: Higher (see consideration for LSE/ESRC/AHRC and • Development policy of no more than 10,000 words during the year. Candidates who are successful will be page 36) Government Department funding • Economic Policy awarded the MPA by both the institutions GRE/GMAT requirement: None Note: Applicants must submit either • Environmental policy they attend. Visit lse.ac.uk/MPA, www. two master’s degree essays of 5,000 Fee level: See page 29 sipa.columbia.edu, www.mpa.sciences- • Europe words or a master’s dissertation po.fr, www.hertie-school.org or www. Financial support: LSE Research • Institutions, politics and policies of the EU spp.nus.edu.sg for further information Studentships are available for this • Central and Eastern Europe transition and admissions instructions. programme and UK/EU applicants Studying at LSE may apply for ESRC 1+3 awards, (see and reform You should apply to the institution at which In 2002 the Government Department at LSE, www.esrc.ac.uk). Students can also you intend to spend your first year. If you in a departure from the traditional ‘thesis • Regional courses be nominated for PhD scholarships apply to spend your first year at LSE, the only’ manner of doing doctoral work in most • Governance by the Department. The Government opportunity to apply to spend your second of Europe, introduced an exciting new PhD Department also offers two • International policy year at SIPA, Sciences Po, Hertie or Lee Kuan programme in Political Science that combines scholarships for MPhil/MRes students Yew will be made available to you after begin rigorous training with specialised research. • Management of organisations that cover home/EU fees for the first the programme at LSE. Traditionally, doctoral students in most • Regulatory policy year and one scholarship that covers If you are applying from one of our four overseas fees for the first year European departments spend several years • Urban policy partner institutions to LSE, there are specific working almost exclusively on their own Application deadline: 10 January 2011. scholarships meeting part of the fees research topics. The new MRes/PhD is • Welfare state policies Successful candidates will be notified available to you. Contact the Programme designed to provide a different experience, in March. In exceptional cases, late Dual MPA programmes Managers at our partner institutions for with a more structured teaching programme, applications can be considered until 29 further information. more collective and collaborative working, This innovative option offers students April 2011, but candidates are advised a broader training as a well rounded the opportunity to take LSE’s first year that places for late admission are limited political science professional, and a MPA programme and then to apply to MRes/PhD Political Science graduate prospectus 105

systematic emphasis on research design and Year 1, Stream A Options methodology. This is the emphasis in the first year of the programme which leads to an Compulsory courses Choose courses to the value of two MRes award. Students build on this first year half units, or equivalent. Students can (* half unit) in their doctoral research in the following select courses from anywhere in the three years. Scope and Theory in the Study of Politics* School that are appropriate for their doctoral training and research. All course The central aim of the MRes/PhD Political Research Design in Political Science* selections require the approval of the Science at LSE is to help produce a new Quantitative Analysis II: the Generalised student’s supervisor. generation of political scientists who upon Linear Model* (students with no graduation will immediately be qualified to prior statistics are required to take the Second and subsequent accept leading positions in their professions. Methodology Institute’s pre-sessional years – both streams Graduates will be carefully trained and widely introductory statistics course) read – indeed they will be able to interpret, Upgrade to the PhD is dependent upon evaluate, and use research results across a Options passing the MRes with at least a Merit grade, broad spectrum of topics, well beyond the and approval of the Research Prospectus by Choose courses to the value of three field of their specific doctoral research. the Prospectus Approval Committee of the half units, or equivalent. At least one relevant Stream. In addition, there must be a half unit must be a quantitative or About the MRes/PhD member of the academic staff who is both qualitative methods course. Students programme suitable to supervise the doctoral research can select courses from anywhere in and who accepts to do so. In the PhD part of The programme has two different the School that are appropriate for the programme you will: streams. Students on both streams will be their doctoral training and research. All broadly trained in a range of methods in course selections require the approval of • Research and write the dissertation political science and will be able to apply the student’s supervisor. • Attend at least one research workshop in quantitative and/or qualitative methods in the Government Department or elsewhere their own research. In Stream A there is a Year 1, Stream B in the School in each year (as specified by greater emphasis in training in quantitative Compulsory courses appropriate departmental regulations) political science, while in Stream B there is greater emphasis on training in qualitative Scope and Theory in the Study of Politics* approaches to the study of politics as Research Design: Comparative, Case well as some quantitative methods. Both Study and Historical Approaches* streams provide grounding in the scope Qualitative Methods* and theory of political science and the challenges of research design. Students Quantitative Analysis I* (a student may must meet high standards in all these be exempt from this course if s/he can fields and must apply their training to demonstrate existing introductory training the construction of a research prospectus in quantitative analysis) designed to underpin subsequent doctoral research. We welcome applications from students with a good undergraduate degree in political science or a closely related discipline (such as sociology, economics or history) and, preferably, an MA or MSc degree in political science or a closely related discipline. 106 graduate prospectus LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Affaires Internationales

degree from Sciences Po and either Languages LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in MSc International Relations or MSc Applicants must demonstrate competence in International Political Economy from LSE. Affaires Internationales and International both English and French. Relations / International Political Economy Year 1: Sciences Po Students who do not have a recognised secondary education or university degree with The first year is spent at Sciences Po in the lse.ac.uk/international at least two years of study with English as the Master Affaires Internationales. Students Relations language of instruction must take either: must chose between five specialisations: Application code: Applications should environnement, développement durable TOEFL: minimum score of 107 (internet be made to Sciences Po via www. et risques, sécurité internationale, based test) admissions.sciences-po.fr management public international, IELTS: minimum score of 7 Start date: September 2011 at Sciences- politique économique internationale, and Po, Paris international business which is part of the Applicants who do not have a recognised Master Finance et Stratégie. secondary education or university degree Duration: 23 months full-time only with at least two years of study with Intake/applications in 2009: 25/217 Semesters 1 and 2 French as the language of instruction must take either: Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Joint IR seminar Puissance et Influence, with degree in social science, preferably the whole group (28 hours) The Test de Connaissance du Français (TCF) international relations or related (see Studying at LSE and www.ciep.fr/en/tcf with 500 points Core course (Economie, Droit, Espace page 33) Sciences Po Mondial) (56 hours) DALF C1 or C2 www.ila-france.com/ English requirement: Higher (see LSE and Sciences Po joined forces in french-language-courses-delf-dalf.html. Other courses (see www.sciences-po. page 36). There is also a French 2002 to sign an agreement establishing Please see admissions.sciences-po.fr/ fr/formation/master_scpo/doubles_ language requirement, equivalent to a double degree in international affairs. fr/master-international-langues?q=fr/ diplomes/index.htm) TCF 500 points The double degree, which is based on node/196 for more information reciprocal recognition of both curriculum Languages (56 hours) GRE/GMAT requirement: None Students whose native language is neither and evaluation in the partner university, Students will be required to take two eco- English nor French must provide proof of Fee level: Year 1 at Sciences Po offers a top level education in international € nomics courses in their first year, unless they ability in both languages as above. 12,500 (estimated); Year 2 at LSE in affairs and international relations/ can demonstrate prior proficiency, in which 2012 £16,512 international political economy. case they will be allowed to take a different Application Financial support: Graduate Support course during the second semester. Scheme (see page 30). For information About the programme Applications should be made online only Students will need to validate their first on financial aid at Sciences Po, please (www.sciences-po.fr). Your complete The double degree takes place over the year at Sciences Po before being allowed to visit www.sciences-po.fr/ application (application plus supporting course of two full academic years with the proceed to LSE. documents) must reach Sciences Po by 15 formation/inscriptions/droits_ first year in Paris and the second in London. scolarite/index.htm Year 2: LSE March 2011. The focus of the double degree is French and British nationals should international affairs. It is designed primarily The second year is spent at LSE and runs from Selection be aware of the Entente Cordiale for those who intend to practise negotiation October until September of the following Applications are administered centrally Scholarship. Please see www. in government, international institutions year. It comprises three terms and the summer by Sciences Po in Paris where they will britishcouncil.org/france- and business, as well as those with a period for completion of the dissertation. be examined by a joint admissions board education-scholarships-entente- general interest in international relations and Students will enrol in either the MSc comprising representatives of both LSE and cordiale.htm for further details international political economy. International Relations (see page 182) or Sciences Po. Successful applicants will be Application deadline: Online only. At the end of two years of successful the MSc International Political Economy (see notified by post and email. Please see the Must be completed by 15 March 2011 study students will be awarded a master’s page 181). online application for details of how to apply. Joint Environment Master’s Plan graduate prospectus 107

Supplementary documents: Joint Environment Master’s Plan Columbia University In addition to the application form, you are General information – required to submit: see www.columbia.edu 1 A full and official transcript of marks About the MPA – see www.columbia.edu/ obtained for each year of third level cu/mpaenvironment education including the current year lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd when available. Environment LSE 2 A certified copy of your undergraduate Application code: Students apply to See MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation degree (if applicable). Columbia University in the first instance (see page 150) and MSc Environment and Development (see page 148) Documents written in languages Duration: 27 months full-time Departmental website – see lse.ac.uk/ other than English or French must be Further information: Contact Louise geographyAndEnvironment accompanied by a translation into one of Rosen at [email protected] the above languages. Notes: This double degree programme 3 A personal statement, to be submitted comprises MPA Earth Systems Science, in both English and French. In no more Policy and Management and either MSc than 1,000 words, please describe your Environment and Development or MSc background, your career objectives in Environmental Policy and Regulation LSE MSc offers the opportunity for a more the field of international affairs and how global perspective, including an emphasis on obtaining the LSE/Sciences Po double sustainable development. The combination degree will help you to achieve those About the MPA/MSc also offers a variety of teaching styles, objectives. programmes from hands-on science to a self directed integrative dissertation at the end of the LSE 4 Two letters of recommendation. These can Under this innovative plan, students programme; from case study based policy either be in French or English. They must be can apply for a package of two master’s analysis to multi-disciplinary theoretical attached to your online application form or programmes offered by Columbia University engagement with environmental topics. placed in an envelope sealed and signed on and LSE, providing a comprehensive the back by the referee before being added education in earth sciences and The entire joint package runs from June each to the application file. environmental policy. Successful applicants year and takes 27 months (12 months on 5 A résumé in French or English. will first take the Columbia University the MPA; 3 months internship; 12 months MPA in Environmental Science and Policy. on the MSc). Applicants apply to Columbia 6 Optional professional reference. Following an internship in the USA or UK, University in the first instance. During the Items 1 to 3 can be submitted as scanned they will then progress to either the MSc second semester on the MPA, students will attachments to the online application Environmental Policy and Regulation (see be asked to activate the option to study at form. References may be submitted online page 150) or the MSc Environment and LSE and will enter a simplified admissions or by post. Development (see page 148) at LSE. process, leading to an offer to study on the chosen MSc, conditional on successfully Combining the two master’s programmes completing the MPA. Students will pay the in this way provides the student with a fees current at each of their host institutions. thorough grounding both in the earth sciences and the range of the social sciences Further information on each of the concerning environmental policy issues. constituent programmes can be found on While the Columbia MPA concentrates to the relevant websites at: a greater extent on the USA context, the 108 graduate prospectus LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in European Studies

LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Year 1: Sciences Po The French Baccalaureat At Sciences Po, the academic year runs from A Francophone secondary school diploma European Studies early October to the end of June. It is divided (Etudes Collègiales Canadiennes, Certificat into two semesters, each of which is 14 d’Humanités Belge, etc) Studying at LSE and weeks long. A recognised university degree with lse.ac.uk/european Sciences Po Core curriculum (compulsory) 30 ECTS at least two years of study at a Institute Francophone University Sciences Po and LSE have come together to Optional courses 5 ECTS Application code: Applications should The Test de Connaissance du Français offer high achieving undergraduate students Languages 5 ECTS be made to Sciences Po via a joint curriculum: the Double Master’s (TCF) (www.ciep.fr/en/tcf) or DALF C1 www.sciences-po.fr/admissions degree in European Studies. Joint seminar 7,5 ECTS or C2 (www.ila-france.com/french- language-courses-delf-dalf.html). Start date: September 2011 at Sciences- In this programme, students will focus on Simulation Game 2,5 ECTS Please see admissions.sciences-po.fr/ Po, Paris the history, politics and institutions of the Collective project 10 ECTS fr/master-international-langues?q=fr/ European Union, and on the ideas which Duration: 24 months full-time only node/196 for more information. underpin the European project. Teaching is by Year 2: LSE Intake/applications in 2009: 16/65 renowned EU specialists, many with practical Students whose native language is neither The second year runs from October until Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 experience of policymaking. Students English nor French must provide proof of September of the following year. It comprises degree in any discipline (see page 33) combine lectures and seminars on specific ability in both languages as above. three terms and the summer period for the topics with workshops, simulations, case English requirement: Higher (see completion of the 10,000 word dissertation. Application studies and attendance at public lectures and page 36). There is also a French debates with top decision-makers, experts Students will enrol in either MSc European language requirement, equivalent to Applications should be made online only and opinion formers from across Europe. Studies: Ideas and Identities or MSc European TCF level 5 (www.sciences-po.fr). Your complete Political Economy or MSc Politics and application (application plus supporting Bilingual (French and English), and GRE/GMAT requirement: None Government in the European Union. They will documents) must reach Sciences Po by spanning a wide range of disciplines, have to make their choice while studying at 15 March 2011. Fee level: Year 1 at Sciences Po this selective programme is based on € Sciences Po. 12,500 (estimated); Year 2 at LSE in mutual recognition of both curricula and 2012 £16,512 Selection evaluation in the partner university. Language Financial support: Graduate Support Applications are administered centrally Applicants must demonstrate competence in Scheme (see page 30). For information About the programme at Sciences Po in Paris where they will be both English and French. examined by a joint admissions board on financial aid at Sciences Po, please The LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in comprising representatives of both LSE and see www.sciences-po.fr/formation/ European Studies lasts two academic years: Students whose native language is not Sciences Po. Only successful applicants will inscriptions/droits_scolarite/ the first year will be spent at Sciences Po, in English must take either: be notified by post. Students can track the index.htm. French and British the Master Métiers de l’Europe; the second TOEFL: minimum score of 627 (paper test) or status of their application online. Please see nationals should be aware of the year will take place within the European 107 (internet based test) www.sciences-po.fr/english for details of Entente Cordiale Scholarship. Please see Institute at LSE studying either MSc European IELTS: minimum score of 7 how to apply. www.britishcouncil.org/france- Studies: Ideas and Identities (see page 153), education-scholarships-entente- MSc European Political Economy (see page A recognised university degree with at Supplementary documents cordiale.htm for further details 151) or MSc Politics and Government in the least three years of study with English as a European Union (see page 223). main subject. In addition to the application form, you are Application deadline: Online only. required to submit: Applications must be completed by 15 Courses are multi disciplinary and students Applicants whose native language is not March 2011 will choose among international relations, French must prove language ability by 1 A full and official transcript of marks history, economics, law, and political means of one of the following: obtained for each year of university level science with a European focus. MSc Double Degree in Global Media and Communications graduate prospectus 109

education including the current year California, Los Angeles, or the School of when available. MSc Double Degree in Global Media and Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai. Communications with Annenberg School, 2 A certified copy of your undergraduate About the MSc programme degree (if applicable). USC or Fudan University This unique two-year programme enables Documents written in languages other than Studying at LSE students to study for one year at LSE in English or French must be accompanied lse.ac.uk/media@lse All the MSc programmes in the Department London, the UK’s media capital, and one by a certified translation into one of the lse.ac.uk/globalMedia of Media and Communications offer the year at either the Annenberg School for above languages. Application code: P4U4 (LSE and USC), following benefits: Communication, University of Southern 3 A personal statement to be submitted California (USC) – a top US communication P4UB (LSE and Fudan) • An intensive, high quality graduate in both English and French. In no more school with close links to the Los Angeles education in media and communications. then 1,000 words, please describe your Start date: 29 September 2011 media industry, or at the School of Journalism background, your career objectives in the Duration: 12 months full-time at LSE, • A broad social science foundation in at Fudan University – a top journalism faculty field of the EU and how obtaining the LSE/ followed by second year at University qualitative, quantitative, empirical and with close links to Shanghai’s media industry, Sciences Po Double Degree will help you to of Southern California or Fudan critical skills. to gain expertise in Chinese media. achieve those objectives. University, Shanghai • A diverse, multi-disciplinary and The programme aims to provide: 4 Two letters of academic recommendation. theoretically-oriented approach to Intake/applications in 2009: 76/488 • Critical exploration of mediation in the These can either be in French or English. contemporary developments, issues and Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in global context, examining processes of They must be submitted online or placed in debates in the field. social science, or degree in another field globalisation in relation to organisation, an envelope sealed and signed on the back with professional experience in media • A range of specialist courses within production, consumption and representation by the referee before being added to the and communications (see page 33) media and communications and related in media and communications. application file. fields, including an independent empirical English requirement: Higher (see • The opportunity to study a range of 5 A résumé in both English and French. research project. page 36) courses, flexibly tailoring the programme to 6 Optional: you may also submit letters of • An intellectually stimulating, well- develop specialist interests, culminating in an GRE/GMAT requirement: Not required professional recommendation. resourced learning environment, with independent research project on a topic in but will be considered if submitted strong links to media and communications global media and communications. Items 1 to 3 can be submitted as scanned Fee level: £15,888 for Year 1 at LSE only industries and policy makers. attachments to the online application • Preparation for high level employment form. References may be submitted online Financial support: Graduate Support • The opportunity for lively cross- in media and communications related or by post. Scheme (see page 30). Some specific cultural exchange of ideas among a professions anywhere in the world. financial support will be available to dynamic group of fellow students in the • The opportunity for internships in Los exceptional students on this programme Department and School. Angeles or Shanghai. Application deadline: None – • Study with internationally-recognised active We attract students from a diverse rolling admissions. Early application researchers with expertise in media and range of backgrounds, often including is recommended communications and politics and democracy, professional experience working in media regulation and policy, technological change, and communications related fields. audiences, globalisation, culture, and more. Indeed, the opportunity for cross-cultural This is a two year programme based meetings and exchange of ideas among in the Department of Media and the student body is a valuable feature of Communications (see page 85). Graduates studying at LSE. will obtain an MSc from LSE and an MA You should have at least an upper second from either the Annenberg School for class honours degree or its equivalent, Communication, University of Southern 110 graduate prospectus MSc Double Degree in Global Media and Communications

preferably in a social science subject. We Options Political Communication* Options particularly welcome applications from those Choose two from the following half Media and Communications Governance* Choose to the value of 20 units: with professional experience in the media unit courses: and communication fields and, in this case, Interpersonal Mediated Communication* Managing Communication (4 units, Sp/Sm) we would accept a degree in other subjects. Globalisation, Conflict and Any other paper which is offered in the Communication Management Pro-Seminar Post-Totalitarianism* The Department of Media and School at master’s level, subject to the (4 units, Fa/Sp) Communications requires applicants in Media, Technology and Everyday Life* consent of the candidate’s teachers Strategic Corporate Communication receipt of a conditional offer to meet those Gender and the Media Representation* † subject to the consent of the (4 units, Sp) conditions before registration and before the course tutor start of the Michaelmas term. New Media, Information and Seminar in Interpersonal Communication Knowledge Systems* Please refer to the School’s policy on course (4 units, Fa, even years only) The application process for this programme capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping differs somewhat from that for other LSE Globalisation and Democracy* † Communication in Work Settings (4 units, Fa) Please note that the availability of option programmes. Please refer to the LSE online Theories and Concepts in Media Images and Image Management (4 units, Sp) courses is dependent upon a number of application procedure. and Communications II (Processes of factors and thus neither the School nor the Information Management (4 units, Fa) communication in modern life)* On graduating, our students enter a variety Department of Media and Communications Seminar in Classical Rhetorical Theory (4, Fa) of global careers including broadcasting, Identity, Transnationalism and the Media* (if can guarantee that all options will be journalism, advertising, new media industries, not taken as a compulsory course) available each year. Communication, Values, Attitudes, and political marketing, market research, Behaviour (4 units, Fa/Sp) The Audience in Media regulation and policy, media management Mandarin Language classes and Communications* Seminar in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and research in both public and private All students in Year 1 of P4UB MSc in (4 units, Sp) sectors. See lse.ac.uk/media@lse/alumni Cultural Theory* Global Media and Communications (LSE Seminar in Rhetorical Criticism (4 units, Fa) Year 1 LSE Globalising Sexualities* and Fudan) will also attend 40 hours of Mandarin language classes at the Seminar in Rhetorical Theory and Culture Approaches to Globalisation* Compulsory courses appropriate level in the LSE Language (4 units, Sp) Representation in the Age of Globalisation* (* half unit) Centre or the LSE Confucius Institute American Public Address (4 units, Sp, odd (if not taken as a compulsory course) for Business. Mandarin language years only) Theories and Concepts in Media and Global Media Industries* (if not taken as a assessment does not form part of the Communications I (Key concepts and Social Roles of Communication Media compulsory course) MSc assessment, but attendance, for interdisciplinary approaches)* (4 units, Fa/Sp) which there is no additional fee to the Anthropology and Media* Media and Globalisation* student, is required for all students on Seminar in Small Group Process (4 units, Sp, Multiculturalism, Nationalism this programme except those already even years) Methods of Research in Media and and Citizenship* completely fluent in Mandarin. Communications (including Qualitative and Web Designs for Organisations Quantitative Analysis)* New Media Regulation* Year 2 USC Annenberg (4 units, Fa/Sp) One from: Representations, Institutions Social Dynamics of Communication Six courses to the value of 24 units: and Communities* Technologies (4 units, Sp/Sm) Representation in the Age of Globalisation*, Global Media Industries* or Identity, Cities, Politics and Citizenship* Compulsory course Communication and the International Transnationalism and the Media* Economy (4 units, Fa) International Media and the Global South* Global Communication Research Practicum Dissertation (4 units) Development of American Media Industry Contemporary Issues in Media and (4 units, Fa) Communications Regulation* Emerging Communication Technologies Contemporary Urbanism (4 units, Fa/Sp) MSc Double Degree in Global Media and Communications graduate prospectus 111

The Culture of New Technologies Communications Technologies Negotiating Boundaries in Environmental Applicants from China – Students who (4 units, Fa/Sp) (4 units, Fa/Sp) Research (2 units) are citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), including students who are Virtual Groups and Organisations Telephone, Data, and Video Seminar on the Network Society (4 units, Fa) already studying at an overseas university (4 units, Fa/Sp) Telecommunication Systems (4 units, Sp) Any other course which is offered in the (ie outside of China), are required by Uses of Communication Research Evaluating Communication Needs Annenberg School for Communications, Chinese law to complete the National (4 units, Fa/Sp) (4 units, Sp) the Marshall School of Business or the Postgraduate Entrance Examination School of International Relations at the Integrated Communication Strategies Tele-Media: A Strategic and Critical Analysis and meet all the requirements for PRC University of Southern California at (4 units, Sp) (4 units, FaSp) students for entry into a master’s degree 500 level, subject to the consent of the programme at Fudan. Business Strategies of Communication and Advocacy and Social Change in student’s teachers Entertainment Firms (4 units, Sp) Entertainment and the Media (4 units, Fa) Important: Please consult with Fudan Fa: Fall Semester; Sp: Spring Semester; Sm: University of School of Journalism before Managing Communication in the Communication Strategies for Conflict Summer School submitting an application. Entertainment Industry (4 units, Fa) Management (4 units, Sm) Year 2 Fudan Applicants from People’s Republic of The Arts and New Media (4 units, Fa) Media and Politics (4 units, Fa/Sp) China, Hong Kong and Macau – Students Core and optional courses in Chinese Communication and Global Competition Media in Social Services: Design and from China, Hong Kong, and Macau language, culture and media, including: (4 units, Sp) Evaluation of Campaigns (4 units, Fa) who do not have dual citizenship (ie Chinese Language and Culture – (Chinese do NOT hold a passport from another Distribution of Recordings: Media, Retail and International Communication: National Civilisation-Oriented) country) must complete the National Online Channels (4 units, Sp) Development (4 units, Sm) Chinese Entrance Examination for Hong Covering China – China’s Print Journalism Issues in Children’s Media (4 units, Sp) Global Entertainment Education Programs Kong, Macau and Taiwan residents. It is (4 units, Sp) CMC and New Media Case Studies in Digital Entertainment necessary for these students to contact Seminar: Interpreting Popular Culture Specialty Chinese: Media and the Fudan School of Journalism at the Political Economy of Global (4 units, Fa) Communication in China contact details below, before submitting Telecommunications and Information an application to assess their eligibility for (4 units, Sp) Audience Analysis (4 units, Fa) Chinese Politics study at Fudan. Communication Policy in the Global Studies in Rhetorical Theory Theories and Practices of China Journalism Important: For this programme dual Marketplace (4 units, Fa) (4 units, max 8, Fa/Sp/Sm) (Part I and Part II) citizenship means a full passport of another The International Entertainment Marketplace Mass Media Effects (4 units, Fa) Chinese Broadcasting: An overview of the country, aside from the passport, residence (4 units, Fa) Industry and Programming permit or identity card for the Peoples Studies in Communication Theory (2-4 units, Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Globalisation, Communication and Society max 8, Fa/Sp) Studies on Chinese Documentaries Macau or Taiwan. British National Overseas (4 units, Fa) Theory Construction in Communication Research on China’s Economy (BNO) status is not sufficient to be considered Communications Policy (4 units, Fa/Sm) (4 units, Sm) For details of year 2 at Fudan please visit: exempt from taking the National Entrance Communication Law and Broadcasting Global Culture (4 units, Fa) lse.ac.uk/globalMedia Examination in China. A Hong Kong resident/ (4 units, Fa/Sp) citizen with BNO status will need to take Communication Technology and Social Fudan University Students – Students the entrance examination, unless they have Communication Law and New Technologies Change (4 units, Sp) already enrolled in a master’s programme a third country passport, aside from their (4 units, Sp) at Fudan University are eligible to apply Minds and Media (4 units, Sp) Chinese passport. through the normal application process, Internet Policy, Practice and Regulation Economics of Information (4 units, Sp) but it is advisable that they consult with (4 units, Fa/Sp) Communication and Organisational Change Fudan University in advance of submitting Economics of the Communication Industries (4 units, Fa) an application. (4 units, Fa) 112 graduate prospectus MA Global Studies: A European Perspective

Mr Yang Kaijiang, Programme Director, LSE-Fudan MA Global Studies: Double-Degree A European Perspective Fudan University – School of Journalism Tel: 00-86-21-55664686 University of Leipzig, LSE, University Email: [email protected] www.uni-leipzig.de/ of Vienna and University of Wroclaw. zhs/emgs Combining approaches from global Teaching and assessment lse.ac.uk/economicHistory history and international studies, it also The programmes consists of four units, encompasses area studies, social sciences Application code: Students apply including required and optional courses and and other disciplines which contribute through the University of Leipzig the dissertation. Courses typically involve a to a wide-ranging academic programme combination of lectures and seminars. The Start date: 29 September 2011 if you allowing different approaches to the study of Methods of Research course is taught as a choose to study your first year at LSE globalisation processes. series of lectures and practical classes. You Duration: 24 months full-time only The course is aimed at students with a first will be examined by written examinations, degree in social sciences and humanities Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 research assignments, essays related to with an interest in issues of globalisation. in social science or humanities (see courses and the dissertation, which must be Minimum entry requirements are a BA page 33) submitted in September. degree (or recognised equivalent from The programmes runs for a full calendar year. English requirement: Higher, plus an accredited institution), sufficient Formal teaching at LSE is usually completed a basic knowledge of German (see undergraduate training to do graduate work by the end of the Lent term. Examinations page 36) in the chosen field, excellent written and for all first year courses are generally held GRE/GMAT requirement: None oral command of English and at least basic during May and June. The remaining months German knowledge. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; are set aside for students to complete their overseas £15,888 Students study for two years, one year dissertations, and it is not normally essential each at two of the partner institutes, and for students to remain in London during Financial support: Graduate Support applicants wishing to study at LSE for these months. Scheme (see page 30). either their first or second year will be Application deadline: 15 December required to take the MSc Global History Further information: 2010 for Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (see page 167), based in the Department The University of Southern California applicants, 15 June 2011 for all others of Economic History. www.usc.edu Applications will be handled by the The Annenberg School University of Leipzig and full details can annenberg.usc.edu Studying at LSE be found at www.uni-leipzig.de/zhs/ This programme is based in the erasmus_mundus The Marshall School of Business Department of Economic History (see www.marshall.usc.edu page 53). Fudan University www.fudan.edu.cn/ englishnew About the MSc programme The European Master’s Global Studies: A European Perspective is an interdisciplinary, research-based master’s course offered by a consortium of four European universities: LSE-PKU Double MSc Degree in International Affairs graduate prospectus 113

Studies at Peking University, studying the LSE – PKU Double MSc Degree in international relations of China and the International Affairs Asia Pacific region. The second year is spent at LSE, studying the theory and history of global international relations. It offers the following benefits: lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/teaching/ in China. Applicants from Macau, Hong LSE-PKU Kong, and Taiwan do not need to take • Gaining an insight into international affairs the National Entrance Examination. through studying at the best universities in www.sis.pku.edu.cn/ the social sciences in China and in Europe. pub/lse It is necessary for these students to contact the School of International • While at LSE, courses in the Application code: V2IA Studies at Peking University before Departments of International Relations Start date: Early September 2011 at submitting an application to assess their and International History. eligibility for PKU. PKU Beijing • Combining an empirical and a Duration: 24 months full-time only. For further information about the theoretical approach to contemporary The first 12 months are spent in National Entrance Examination for international affairs. Postgraduate students in China and Beijing, the second at LSE • Studying in small seminar groups of no about the application process please Intake/application in 2009: 28/350 more than 15 students. contact Mr Zhang Chunping, Director Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in of International Programs Office, on • Engaging at an advanced level with the any discipline (see page 33) [email protected] or [email protected] latest academic research and undertaking your own research-based term work English requirement: Higher (see or call +86 10 6276 5111 or fax and dissertation. page 36) +86 10 6275 8954. GRE/GMAT requirement: None IMPORTANT – For this programme About the MSc programme dual citizenship means you have a full At Peking University, the students take a core Fee level: Year 1 at PKU 80,000 Yuan passport of another country, aside from course on Chinese Politics and Diplomacy (see www.sis.pku.edu.cn/web/ the passport, residence permit or identity and can select other courses among the wide Browse.aspx?id=1014). Year 2 at card for the Peoples Republic of China, variety on offer in the School of International LSE £16,512 Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan. Studies. Students can choose among Financial support: Graduate Support Application deadline: Applications courses taught in English and in Chinese. Scheme (see page 30) must be complete (all supporting They complete the First Year programme by How to apply: All applicants apply via documents received) by 31 January writing a dissertation on a topic relevant to LSE using the online application form. 2011. Early application is encouraged. their studies. The dissertation can be written This includes applicants from the People’s Applicants will be informed of decisions in English or in Chinese. Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, beginning in mid-March At LSE, students take core courses in Macau and PKU students. both the International Relations and the All applicants from the People’s Studying at LSE and PKU International History Departments, take a Republic of China who do not have third course from the wide range of options Organised jointly by LSE and Peking dual citizenship (i.e. do not hold a offered by the two Departments, and University, this double MSc degree offers passport from another third country) complete the programme with a dissertation an outstanding opportunity for graduate must complete the National Entrance on a relevant topic in international history. Examination for Postgraduate students students and young professionals. The first year is spent at the School of International 114 graduate prospectus LSE-PKU Double MSc Degree in International Affairs

The programme provides an excellent International Relations in East-Asia Compulsory courses Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: preparation for careers in academia, business From Roosevelt to Reagan 1933-89 Chinese as a Second Language Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace or consulting, government or international Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation agencies, the media, politics and law. Courses taught in Chinese: Dissertation in International History The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Course assessment is by assessed Studies on Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy Options Modern Europe? coursework (in some courses) and by a Theory and Practice of Post-Cold War final exam. (* half unit) The European Enlightenment, c1680-1799 International Relations Choose one full unit from: Anglo-American Relations from World War Year 1 PKU Studies on China’s Security Environment to Cold War, 1939-1991 International Political Economy of Students are required to achieve 18 credits Issue Studies on Northeast Asia the Environment From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End while studying at Peking University for the Studies on Japan of the Cold War Era, 1979-1995 first year. Please note: The dissertation does Foreign Policy Analysis III The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, not count against any credits at PKU but is Nation and Nationalism International Institutions compulsory. Students cannot progress to year 1917-1990 Studies on Environment and Strategic Aspects of International Relations 2 at LSE without successfully completing year International Relations Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama 1 at PKU. The EU in the World Bin Laden Studies on Southeast Asia Compulsory courses International Politics – Asia and the Pacific Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa Studies on Northeast Asia The International Relations of the Middle East Western Intellectuals and the Challenge Chinese Politics and Diplomacy Security Studies of the Asian Pacific Region Conflict and Peace Studies of Totalitarianism Dissertation – students are required to submit Studies on Southeast Asia Economic Diplomacy War Cultures, 1890-1945 a dissertation at PKU and to defend it Studies on Central Asia European-Union Policy Making in a The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Options Studies on Northeast Asia Global Context* Society, and Diplomacy Choose two from: International Relations of South Asia European Defence and Security* East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 Non-traditional Security Studies Studies on the History and Culture of the International Security (Advanced) * Korean Peninsula The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-62 International Security: Theory and Practice Politics of Money in the World Economy Studies on the Socio-culture of the Asia- Crises and Détente in the Cold War, Political Economy of Transition in China The Political Economy of International Trade Pacific Region 1962-1979 Politics and Diplomacy in Southeast Asia Comparative Political Economy Studies on China’s Diplomatic Ideology International History Since 1900 Plus, choose three options (in English or International Organisations and Regimes Study on China’s Foreign Policy Making Nationalism Chinese) from: Geopolitics and the Chinese Diplomacy Plus, choose an additional full unit or Democracy, Dictatorship and Foreign Courses taught in English: two half units from the international Intervention: Spain and the Great Powers, Environmental Diplomacy Year 2 LSE relations courses listed above or one 1931-1953 Course choice and acceptance into specific of the full units listed below Foreign Relations of Modern China, The International History of the Balkans courses depends on the availability of courses 1840-1949 European Integration in the since 1939: State Projects Wars and in a given year, staffing resources, the Twentieth Century Social Conflict China’s Relations with the Middle East number of seminars offered for a particular Democracy, Dictatorship and Foreign The European Welfare State After World and Africa course and student demand. Intervention: Spain and the Great Powers, War II Contemporary China-US Relations 1931-1953 Media and International Relations LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History graduate prospectus 115

Studying at LSE and LSE-Columbia University Double Degree Columbia in International and World History In London, the LSE – Columbia Double Degree in International and World History is larger regions of the world have in common – run by LSE’s International History Department lse.ac.uk/international and in what separates them from each other in association with IDEAS: the LSE Centre History – in terms of political concepts and cultural for Diplomacy and Strategy. In New York, the degree is run by the Columbia History worldhistory.columbia.edu values. As a result, the study of encounters between states or societies has gone through Department. It provides the chance to study Application code: Applications should several new phases, which together have international and world history from the early be made to Columbia via www. revolutionised our understanding of cultural modern era up to today in an environment columbia.edu/cu/history/graduate/ and economic dissemination as well as of that emphasises broad study, global main/ma-only-program/index.html war, diplomacy, empires and transnational perspectives, and intellectual debate. Start date: September 2011 at institutions. Finally, efforts are being made The programme offers numerous benefits: to integrate the histories of ethnicity and Columbia, New York • A two-year MA in two of the top gender into this internationalising framework Duration: 22 months full-time only universities for history and the social sciences. and to study the influence of these aspects At Columbia and LSE, students will have Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in of human history upon both peaceful the opportunity to take courses in several any discipline (see page 33) cooperation and exchange and upon forms subject areas as well as in other world- of violent conflict. English requirement: Higher (see class departments, while at the same time page 36) The further development of the study of engaging in rigorous language training. international history in this broad sense GRE/GMAT requirement: None • A research oriented programme which depends on the internationalisation of the goes far beyond classroom study. Students Fee level: Year 1 (Columbia) $39,782 training and skills of the next generation will design original projects while working (estimated); Year 2 (at LSE) £16,512 of experts. The LSE – Columbia University closely with staff who together offer expertise Double Degree in International and World Financial support: Graduate Support in an immense variety of geographical History draws on the faculties of two of the Scheme (see page 30) regions and research methodologies. world’s leading centres of international affairs, Application Deadline: 1 March 2011 which have the expertise and commitment to • Engagement with vibrant intellectual provide the training and skills needed. It offers communities, including the opportunity to About the MA programme close contact in seminars and colloquia with participate in seminars, debates, and public mentors in different intellectual and cultural lectures offered by IDEAS at LSE and the The study of international and world history settings in two global cities. Center for International History at Columbia. – as opposed to the study of the exclusive • Flexibility to tailor programmes to diverse histories and historiographies of individual The two-year programme will be taught interests and divergent career paths. countries – is an emerging field of research both in London and in New York, and will Those with a history background can that is slowly changing our perspectives on lead to successful students receiving a focus on cutting-edge fields of research the development of politics and societies. degree from both universities at the end of and prepare themselves for PhD study. These developments are seen as inseparably their period of study. While the majority will Others can develop historical expertise, linked to the movement of people and ideas be expected to go on to do a PhD in history writing skills, and language training as back and forth across oceans and territories. or related fields, some may choose to apply the insights gained to a career outside of part of a career in international affairs. The internationalisation of the study of history academia, including journalism, public The programme is designed to attract a has also led to a renewed interest in what policy, non-profits, or the private sector. diverse student body with complementary 116 graduate prospectus LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History

interests, including teaching, journalism, language requirement (see below). Students Core courses Jews and the City. 4 pts. public or private administration. who wish to take electives outside the History Approach to International and Global History Jewish Tales from Four Cities. 4 pts. Department need written permission from a • The opportunity to develop life-long member of the Joint Teaching Committee or Theory and Practice of International and Modern Crime and Punishment in Historical contacts on both sides of the Atlantic, their designated adviser. World History Perspective. 4 pts. using LSE and Columbia as launching pads History of the Family in Global Perspective, for careers combining intellectual and In February of their first year, students identify Options professional development. a topic for their thesis. When the students 1500 to Present. 4 pts. have finalised their thesis topics in HIST History Department electives: Lectures This double degree programme allows Orientalism and Historiography of the Other. G8904 (Theory and Practice of International students to be taught for a year in two Department electives. These may be 4 pts. and World History), one Columbia adviser chosen among the following (this list is very prestigious universities. Primarily Islam in Africa. 4 pts. and one LSE adviser are designated to advise but not exclusively intended for those illustrative rather than exhaustive; each and guide them through completion of the History and Human Rights: Capitalism, considering further research in history course mentioned runs for a semester only, thesis in year two at the LSE. Colonialism, and Culture. 4 pts. – whether in the US, in Europe, or and some require the permission of the elsewhere – this double degree is The two-year core sequence begins with instructor): International Law and East Asia. 4 pts. intended to provide students with an Approaches to International and Global Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the making The Vietnam War as International History. opportunity to choose from a very wide History (HIST G8903), which introduces of Atlantic Capitalism: 1600-1800. 3pts. 4 pts. array of courses in two internationally the conceptual possibilities and problems Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Culture renowned history departments. It will also of international and world history. In the Fashion. 4 pts. of Empire. 3 pts. involve the production of a substantial second semester students take Theory and World War II. 4 pts. piece of independent research, with Practice of International and World History International and Global History Since WWII. staff at both departments providing (HIST G8904), a series of practical workshops 3 pts. Capitalism, Colonialism and Culture: A appropriate support and guidance in the including training in the use of archives and Global History. 4 pts. US Foreign Relations. 3pts. course of this exercise. Graduates will thus other primary sources, the organisation and Edible Conflicts: A History of Food. 4 pts. emerge with an excellent grounding in documentation of research, and presentation 20th Century Urbanisation in Comparative History of Environmental Thinking. 4 pts. the study of history at master’s level and a and publication of findings. Perspective. 3 pts. proven research record. Technology and History. 4 pts. History Department electives may be chosen Main Currents of Islamo-Christian Civilisation. The heart of the MA programme is a from semester-long courses such as those in 3 pts. Smuggling, Drugs, States. 4 pts. two-year sequence of courses taken at the illustrative list below (the specific courses Gender and Empire. 3 pts. Projects and Practices of Colonial Rule in the Columbia and LSE that will result in the that are offered change each semester). The Asia-Pacific Wars, 1931-1975. 3 pts. 20th Century. 4 pts. production of a master’s dissertation by Note: The definitive guide to courses being the end of the second year. Note that not Domestic Animals and Human History. 3 pts. Cold War in Latin America. 4 pts. offered in the current semester is the all the courses listed will necessarily be online Columbia Directory of Classes. The Origins of Human Rights. 3pts. Modern Crime and Punishment in Historical available in any one year. directory lists courses taught by Columbia Perspective. 4 pts. Globalisation in History. 3pts. Year – 1 Columbia History faculty and Barnard History faculty Political Islam. 4 pts. separately, even though both Columbia and History of World Migration. 3 pts. Africa, Europe and New Colonial History. In the first year of the programme students Barnard courses are open to students from all History Department electives: Seminars 4 pts. must complete 30 points, including the first divisions of the University. Please check both two semesters of the two-year sequence listings in order to get a complete picture of Globalising American Consumer Culture. Native Bodies and Colonial Discipline. 4 pts. of core courses. At least 20 of these points the offerings for the current semester. Please 4 pts. Imperialism. 4 pts. must be courses in the History Department note that the course offerings for the Fall Jewish Migration to the Americas: Eastern taken for letter grade credit, including the semester will be available in mid-March. Colloquium on World History. 4 pts. European Jews in the US and Latin America, two required courses. Most students must 1881 – 1939. 4 pts. Disease, Public Health and Empire: also take a course (or courses) to meet their Comparative Perspectives. 4 pts. LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History graduate prospectus 117

Telling the Twentieth Century. 4 pts. Options International History Since 1900 Compulsory language requirement Colloquium on History of Women and (* half unit) India and the World Economy+ Gender. 4 pts. Those who are unable to pass a translation Choose a total of three full units from International Migration, 1500-2000: From exam in a language other than English upon Problematics of History and International the following list: Slavery to Asylum+ Relations. 4 pts. arrival at Columbia will need to commit to Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, African Economic Development in taking two years of language training at International Orders 1600-1920. 4 pts. 1914-1991 Historical Perspective+ Columbia and at the LSE Language Centre. Knowledge in Transit in the Early Modern European Integration in the 20th Century History of Economics: from Moral Philosophy Those able to pass one translation exam in a World. 4 pts. to Social Science+ Democracy, Dictatorship and Foreign language other than English upon arrival at Population Control: Eugenics, Malthusianism, Intervention: Spain and the Great Powers, Scientific, Technical and Useful Columbia can complete the requirement in and Migration in the 20th Century. 4 pts. 1931-1953 Knowledge from Song China to the either of two ways: Industrial Revolution+ Atlantic World, c1600-1850. 4 pts. Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy: 1 By taking one year of language training at Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, Columbia or at the LSE Language Centre. Gender and Empire. 4 pts. From Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-1989 c1600-1860+ These can either be more advanced courses Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation Captivity. 4 pts. in the same language or a second language Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe*+ Gender and Migration in a Global The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of appropriate to their research interests. Modern Europe? Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, Perspective. 4 pts. 2 Passing a second translation exam during 1348-2000*+ Procedures for a student getting approval Anglo-American Relations from World War the first year at Columbia. to Cold War, 1939-91 War Cultures, 1890-1945 for an elective that is not on this list: the JTC Students who are able to pass two transla- (Joint Teaching Committee) will decide on From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: The End Western Intellectuals and the Challenge tion exams in languages other than English the basis of the student’s application and the of the Cold War Era, 1979-1997 of Totalitarianism by the end of their first year at Columbia will strength of the case made. be exempt from having to take language Cultural Encounters From the Renaissance to The Emergence of Modern Iran: State Society courses at either Columbia or LSE. Year 2 LSE the Modern World and Diplomacy The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, + Regarding Economic History (EH) Core course 1917-1990 courses only: it may be possible to take further options among EH courses with The dissertation will be supervised and Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama the agreement of the course teacher assessed at LSE in accordance with its MSc Bin Laden regulations. It will be in the form of a thesis responsible and the programme director of no more than 15,000 words. Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa of the Double Degree. Students should note that some core courses in EH degree During their first year at Columbia University Persecution in Europe: From Witch-hunts to programmes are closed to students on (CU), students will submit a historiographical Ethnic Cleansing other programmes. essay, and an annotated bibliography, related East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, One of the above may be replaced to the topic of dissertation/ thesis chosen 1839-1945 for the second year. In February of their by a further course from other LSE The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 year at CU, students identify a topic of their departments (subject to agreement with dissertation/thesis. CU faculty contact and Crises and Détente in the Cold War, the programme director and teacher consult LSE colleagues who will supervise 1962-1979 responsible for the course). the dissertation/thesis in the second year. The International History of the Balkans since The length of the historiographical essay and 1939: State Projects, Wars and Social Conflict annotated bibliography will be determined by Columbia University. The European Welfare State After World War II 118 graduate prospectus LSE-PKU Double Degree in Public Administration and Government

Studying at LSE and PKU At LSE, students take core courses for the LSE-PKU Double Degree in Public MSc in Public Policy and Administration Organised jointly by LSE and Peking (page 227), such as Approaches and Issues Administration and Government University, this double MSc degree offers in Public Policy and Administration, Public an outstanding opportunity for graduate Management Theory and Doctrine or students and young professionals. The first Comparative Public Policy Change and then lse.ac.uk/government year is spent at the School of International courses from a wide range of options, and Studies at Peking University, with a focus www.sis.pku.edu.cn/ complete the programme with a dissertation on public policy and administration in pub/lse on a relevant topic in public policy and China and the Asia Pacific region. The administration. Application code: L2UI second year is spent at LSE, studying public The programme provides an excellent Start date: Early September 2011 at policy and administration. It offers the preparation for careers in academia, business PKU Beijing following benefits: or consulting, government or international • Gaining an insight into public policy and Duration: 24 months full-time only. agencies, the media, politics and law. administration through studying at the best The first 12 months are spent in Course assessment is by assessed universities in the social sciences in China and Beijing, the second at LSE coursework (in some courses) and by a in Europe. Intake/application in 2009: New final exam. programme for 2011 • While at LSE, courses in the Government Department. Year 1 Peking Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in International Studies at Peking University • Combining an empirical and a any discipline (see page 33) before submitting an application to All courses are one semester long theoretical approach to public policy English requirement: Higher (see assess their eligibility for PKU. For further and administration. page 36) information about the National Entrance Core courses Examination for Postgraduate students in • Studying in small seminar groups of no GRE/GMAT requirement: None Chinese Politics and Public Policy China and about the application process more than 15 students. Fee level: Year 1 at PKU 80,000 Yuan please contact Mr Zhang Chunping, Chinese Economic Development and Reform • Engaging at an advanced level with the (see PKU fees www.sis.pku.edu.cn/ Director of International Programs Office, latest academic research and undertaking Research Design and Practice web/Browse.aspx?id=1014). Year 2 on [email protected] or edulis@126. your own research-based term work at LSE £16,512 com or call +86 10 6276 5111 or fax Chinese Language Course or Introduction and dissertation. Financial support: For year 2 at LSE, +86 10 6275 8954. to China Graduate Support Scheme (see page 30) IMPORTANT – For this programme • A good preparation for further research Public Politics course (PRC students MUST work or for a career in education, public How to apply: All applicants apply dual citizenship means you have a full take this course) administration or the private sector. via LSE using the online application passport of another country, aside from the passport, residence permit or identity Optional courses form. This includes applicants from the About the MSc programme People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, card for the Peoples Republic of China, Two courses to be taken from: Hong Kong, Macau and PKU students. Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan. At Peking University, the students take core courses including Chinese Politics and Public Government and Market All applicants from People’s Republic of Application deadline: Applications Policy, Chinese Economic Development Social Policy Transformation in China China who do not have dual citizenship must be complete (all supporting and Reform, Chinese Language Course or (ie do NOT hold a passport from another documents received) by 31 January Chinese Law Introduction to China and can select other third country) must complete the National 2011. Early application is encouraged. courses from a list of optional courses. Introduction to China Entrance Examination for Postgraduate Applicants will be informed of decisions They complete the First Year programme by Students in China. It is necessary for beginning in mid-March Outside option courses at PKU master’s level writing a dissertation on a topic relevant to these students to contact the School of their studies. Dissertation LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy graduate prospectus 119

Students are required to submit a Philosophy and Public Policy* dissertation at PKU and to defend it LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Social and Political Aspects of Regional and The list of courses may be amended and Urban Planning* Urban Policy not all courses may run in a particular year. Comparative Public Policy and Year 2 LSE Administration lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd Course choice and acceptance into specific Policy-Making in the European Union* Environment courses depends on the availability of courses European Models of Capitalism* Application code: Applications should in a given year, staffing resources, the be made to Sciences Po via www. number of seminars offered for a particular Network Regulation* sciences-po.fr/admissions course and student demand. States and Markets* Start date: Early October 2011 at Compulsory courses Public Policy Responses to Sciences Po, Paris International Migration* (* half unit) Duration: 23 months full-time only Legislative Politics: US* † Approaches and Issues in Public Policy Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in and Administration Politics of Economic Policy* any discipline (see page 33) either Public Management Theory Legislative Politics: European Parliament* † English requirement: Higher (see page Studying at LSE and and Doctrine* or Comparative Public Comparative Politics of Redistribution in 36). There is also a French Language Sciences Po Policy Change* Advanced Democracies* requirement, equivalent to TCF level 5 Sciences Po and LSE have come together to either Quantitative Analysis I: Description and Media and Communication Regulation* GRE/GMAT requirement: None offer outstanding undergraduate students Inference* or Quantitative Analysis II: The Public Policy Responses to Fee level: Year 1 at Sciences Po a distinctive dual degree devoted to urban Generalised Linear Model* International Migration €12,500 (estimated); Year 2 at LSE management and policy, the Double Master’s Dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic UK/EU £10,680; overseas £16,512 in Urban Policy, combining the strengths of European Social Policy chosen in discussion with your supervisor two leading international centres of research Financial support: Graduate Support Behavioural Public Policy* in city development and urban governance. Options Scheme (see page 30) Please note that not every course is This programme is based on the mutual For information on financial aid at necessarily available every year, and some recognition of curricula and evaluation in A total of one full unit from Sciences Po, please see: www.sciences- may only be available with permission the partner university; it offers a top-level the following: po.fr/formation/inscriptions/ of the course tutor. Please refer to the education in the area of urban studies to droits_scolarite/index.htm Public Management Government Department’s website for a participating students, giving them the more up to date index of available courses. French and British Nationals should Accountability, Organisations and opportunity to develop a career focused be aware of the Entente Cordiale Risk Management* It may be possible, with the permission of on local and urban policy, in the private, Scholarships, please see www. the programme convener, to substitute a public or international sectors at the Public Management of Development* britishcouncil.org/france- course from the options list with any other highest level. education-scholarships-entente- Public Management: Theory and Doctrine* course taught in the Department or by other cordiale.htm About the programme Public Management: a Strategic Approach* departments at LSE. Application deadline: Online only. The double degree lasts two academic † may not be taken together Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: Must be completed by 15 March 2011 years: the first year is spent at Sciences Po, Elections, Public Opinion and Identities* in the Master en Stratégies Territoriales et Public Budgeting and Financial Management Urbaines; the second year is spent within the Department of Geography and Environment Introduction to Regulation* 120 graduate prospectus LSE-Sciences Po Double Degree in Urban Policy

(see page 61) at LSE, following one of Students will enrol in either the MSc in diploma which proves that your language by the referee before being added to the three MSc programmes, in Local Economic Regional and Urban Planning Studies or the of instruction was French. Please note, application file. Development (page 191), Regional and MSc Local Economic Development or the this does not apply to students who have 5 A résumé in both English and French. Urban Planning Studies (page 230), or MSc Urbanisation and Development. obtained a diploma in French language or Urbanisation and Development (page 247). French studies at universities in non French 6 Optional: you may also submit letters of Language speaking countries. professional recommendation. Spanning a wide range of disciplines, including public management, economic Applicants must demonstrate competence in Students whose native language is neither Items 1 to 3 can be submitted as scanned development, urbanisation, project both English and French. English nor French must provide proof of attachments to the online application form. References may be submitted online management, urban social analysis, and Students whose native language is not ability in both languages as above. planning, this selective bilingual (French and or by post. English must have either: Application English) programme will enable participating TOEFL: minimum score of 627 (paper test) or students to develop an understanding of the Applications should be made online only 107 (internet based test) political, economic and social issues raised (www.sciences-po.fr/english). Your by contemporary urbanisation, at local IELTS: minimum score of 7 complete application (application plus and international level, with a curriculum supporting documents) must reach Sciences A recognised university degree with at focused on the analytic tools used in the Po by 15 March 2011. least three years of study with English as a field of urban policy. main subject Supplementary documents At the end of two years of successful The following applies for applicants to In addition to the application form, you are study, students will be awarded both a demonstrate their competence in French: required to submit: Master from Sciences Po in Stratégies Territoriales et Urbaines, and an MSc from The Test de Connaissance du Français (TCF) 1 A full and official transcript of marks LSE in Urban Policy. www.ciep.fr/en/tcf obtained for each year of third level The Diplôme d’études en langue française education including the current year Courses (DALF) www.ila-france.com/french- when available. Year 1: Sciences Po language-courses-delf-dalf.html 2 A certified copy of your undergraduate At Sciences Po, the academic year runs from No other tests will be accepted. degree (if applicable). early October to the end of June. It is divided Or Documents written in languages into two semesters, each of which is 14 other than English or French must be Applicants holding the International weeks long. accompanied by a certified translation Baccalaureate (IB) with French as the Social Science, Political Issues or World Politics into one of the above languages. language of eduction (levels A1/A2 only). (10 credits) 3 A personal statement to be submitted Applicants who have done their high school Urban Specialisations (30 credits) in either English or French. In no more education in French (for example in French then 1,000 words, please describe your Study Visit and Collective Project (10 credits) Lycées outside of France). In this case you background, your career objectives in the need to provide your high school diploma. Languages (French/English and a second field of urban policy and how obtaining foreign language (10 credits)) Applicants who have completed an exchange the LSE/Sciences Po double degree will programme with Sciences Po before and help you to achieve those objectives. Year 2: LSE who were enrolled in French language classes 4 Two letters of academic recommendation. at least at levels 4 or 5. The second year runs from October These can be in either French or English. until September of the following year. It A recognised university degree with at They must be submitted online or placed in comprises three terms and the summer least two years of study at a Francophone an envelope sealed and signed on the back period for completion of a dissertation. University. You will need to provide the TRIUM Global Executive MBA graduate prospectus 121

For detailed information about the TRIUM Global Executive MBA programme, admission requirements and how to apply, please see the TRIUM website www.triumemba.org

Courses www.triumemba.org Programme schedule: About the Executive MBA Module 1: September, two weeks at LSE LSE offers the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Module 2: January, two weeks at NYU Stern Programme jointly with NYU Stern School of Module 3: April, one week in China Business and HEC School of Management, Paris. It is divided into six intellectually rigorous Module 4: July, two weeks at HEC Paris modules held in five international business Module 5: October, one week in India locations over a 16-month period. Module 6: January, two weeks at NYU Stern A number of distinctive features set the TRIUM Global Executive MBA programme This executive friendly format reduces apart from other programmes, including the absence from the office to only Customised, integrated curriculum the following: 10 weeks over the 16 month period. The TRIUM curriculum is tailor made for TRIUM’s interactive distance learning Truly global the senior level international executive platform fosters a continuous educational participants in the programme. The community between the modules and The TRIUM Global EMBA class comprises modules are designed and delivered by allows executives from around the world diverse, experienced senior level executives all three schools to build seamlessly upon to communicate with their professors and from around the world. Our students live and one another, ensuring that the curriculum, classmates throughout the programme. work in more than 30 different countries. which draws upon the special strengths of The platform is also used for learning Classes are taught by faculty members from each school, is delivered in a unified and activities that facilitate pre-module all three partner schools. During the modules, complementary way. preparatory work and post-module follow regional academic and industry experts up, as well as individual and team project are selectively invited by TRIUM faculty to Prestigious global credentials work and assignments. further enrich the curriculum and to ensure Upon successful completion of the maximum regional breadth and knowledge. Apply programme, TRIUM Global MBA students will be awarded a single MBA degree issued To request an informational meeting, please Executive MBA curriculum with added jointly by all three schools. submit a preliminary information form global geopolitical dimension at: www.triumemba.org/admissions/ TRIUM is the only EMBA programme to Access to the broadest, most prelimform.php integrate an international socio-political, international alumni network The Preliminary Information Form is designed economic dimension into its entire MBA TRIUM Global EMBA alumni will have to provide us with the information we need curriculum. LSE, the leading social science access to three diverse and powerful to conduct an Informational Interview. institution in the world, brings its unparalleled alumni networks – those of NYU Stern, These interviews are optional and are not expertise in this arena to the programme. LSE and HEC Paris, in addition to the part of the formal application process. They TRIUM alumni network. are useful to help applicants gain a better understanding of the programme before deciding to formally apply. 122 graduate prospectus MSc Accounting and Finance

• Interaction with fellow students from over This programme will be appropriate for those MSc Accounting and Finance 40 countries and representing a wide range interested in a career in financial institutions, of academic and work backgrounds. management consulting, industry, or government bodies. The programme allows • Preparation for a variety of careers. specialisation through appropriate choice Students are employed in accounting of courses along designated pathways lse.ac.uk/accounting and finance, strategic consulting and in finance, international accounting and general management. Many go on to finance, and accounting and financial Application code: N4U1 achieve outstanding success in business, management. The MSc assumes an Start date: 29 September 2011 governmental and academic careers. academic background in the following Duration: 9 months full-time, 21 About the MSc programme subjects: financial reporting, management months part-time (9 month master’s accounting, finance, economics and You should ordinarily possess at least a programmes are not compliant with the quantitative methods, prior to entry to the good upper second class honours degree in Bologna process which may affect the programme. Admission to the programme accounting and finance, or a related subject extent to which they are ‘recognised’. may be conditional upon taking one or from a UK university, or have reached a For more information on Bologna please more courses in these areas to strengthen similar standard in an overseas degree. All see page 15) your background. This may be a course applicants without a UK undergraduate undertaken at the LSE Summer School or an Intake/applications in 2009: degree must submit a GMAT test score approved distance learning or web-based 174/1,056 Studying at LSE with their application. The GMAT is equivalent. Given the high competition for This programme is based in the Department recommended for all students with UK Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 places on this programme, applicants who of Accounting (see page 46) and offers the undergraduate degrees, particularly degree in accounting and finance or indicate an interest in the MSc Accounting following benefits: those whose quantitative skills are not related subject (see page 33) and Finance specifically as their first choice demonstrated by their undergraduate English requirement: Standard (see • Study in one of the most highly rated will maximise their prospect of admission to studies. Students currently studying on page 36) departments in the subject area in the world, the programme. the Diploma in Accounting and Finance both for its research and its institutional links. GRE/GMAT requirement: GMAT is programme at LSE are not required to A short, focused, introductory course required for all students without a • The MSc has an established reputation submit a GMAT. GMAT score totals should on quantitative methods and technical UK undergraduate degree. The GMAT for excellence extending for more than normally be in excess of 650 points. In accounting will be held at the beginning is recommended for all students four decades. exceptional circumstances, applicants of the programme. Thereafter you take examined courses up to a total of four with UK undergraduate degrees, • Research-led teaching in accounting without a UK degree may be exempted full units. particularly those whose quantitative and finance, combined with your own from submitting GMAT scores. This may skills are not demonstrated by their include cases where the requirement proves independent study will bring you to the Compulsory courses undergraduate studies forefront of theory and practice. difficult for the individual to meet (eg the test not being offered in the applicant’s Corporate Finance and Asset Markets or Fee level: £20,496 • A strong international and interdisciplinary home country, or where test centres only Asset Markets A* and Corporate Finance A* orientation, covering conceptual and Financial support: Graduate Support have limited spaces available for testing). (or another course with permission) technical developments of major Scheme (see page 30) Where this is the case, applicants should contemporary significance. Financial Reporting in Capital Markets or complete and submit the online GMAT Application deadline: None – Management Accounting, Strategy and • Specialisation through designated waiver form on the Graduate Admissions rolling admissions Organisational Control pathways in finance, international website. The Graduate Admissions Office accounting and finance, or accounting will subsequently advise whether a waiver and financial management. can be granted. Candidates are advised that requests for a waiver of this test are seldom granted. MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions graduate prospectus 123

Options beginning of the programme. Thereafter, MSc Accounting, Organisations you take examined courses up to a total of (* half unit) and Institutions four full units. Choose a total of two full units from Key features of the programme are: the following: • A stimulating and intellectually demanding Accounting in the Global Economy* lse.ac.uk/accounting approach to analysing the key issues facing Accountability, Organisations and Application code: N4U4 accounting within the global economy. Risk Management* Start date: 23 September 2011 • The opportunity to study accounting and its Accounting, Strategy and Control* organisational and institutional significance Duration: 10 months full-time only in one of the world’s leading social science Applied Corporate Finance* (10 month master’s programmes institutions and departments of accounting. Corporate Finance Theory* are not compliant with the Bologna process which may affect the extent to • Blends LSE’s tradition of developing the Corporate and Financial Crime which they are ‘recognised’. For more highest level of analytical skills with a focus Financial Reporting in Capital Markets † information on Bologna please see on practice. page 15) Derivatives* • Introduces students to key design issues Intake/applications in 2009: 19/529 for accounting and management control Financial Risk Analysis* programme is aimed at those aspiring systems and their operation and regulation in Minimum entry requirement: Fixed Income Markets* to careers in accounting, auditing and both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. 2:1 honours degree or equivalent in assurance, financial management, risk Forecasting Financial Time Series* any discipline (see page 33) • Explores the interface between accounting, management, management control, risk management systems and accountability. Global Financial System* English requirement: Higher (see management consultancy, and regulation, • Provides exposure to the operational and Leadership in Organisations: Theory page 36) in a variety of for-profit and non-profit strategic significance of accounting within and Practice* GRE/GMAT requirement: None organisations globally. The degree also provides a preparation for those aspiring modern organisations. Management Accounting, Strategy and Fee level: £20,496 to embark on academic research in the • Introduces students to the different Organisational Control † Financial support: Graduate Support field of accounting. ways in which accounting shapes modern Portfolio Management* Scheme (see page 30) organisations and institutions across a range About the MSc programme of different contexts. Quantitative Methods for Finance and Application deadline: None – Risk Analysis* rolling admissions The programme has been designed to • Pays particular attention to the problems meet the needs of high level graduates Real Estate Finance* confronting accounting for hybrid and inter- who do not necessarily have a background organisational processes and structures. Valuation and Security Analysis* Studying at LSE in accounting. It offers the opportunity to gain a comprehensive foundation and • Aimed at those exceptional individuals One option from the wide variety of This innovative and distinctive programme subsequent depth in the field, allowing aspiring to the highest levels of seniority, courses available in other departments provides the opportunity to study at access to a wide variety of careers broadly whether in accounting firms, management (with permission) the interface between accounting, related to accounting. The programme is consultancies, or government and regulatory organisations and institutions from a † If not selected above. aimed at people with good undergraduate institutions. rigorous interdisciplinary social science degrees, and you should normally possess Subject to approval, it may be possible to perspective. The programme does not at least a good upper second class honours substitute an extended essay of not more require a background in accounting, degree or equivalent. A short, focused, than 10,000 words on an agreed topic for and students with an initial training in introductory course on accounting one optional course. the humanities or the social or natural practices and techniques will be held at the sciences are encouraged to apply. The 124 graduate prospectus MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions

Compulsory courses † To reflect the strong research orientation of the programme, students must write a (* half unit) 6,000 word long essay which accounts for Accounting, Organisations and Institutions † 50% of the mark of Compulsory course 1 Management Accounting and Financial ~ Students with a substantive and verifiable Mohnish Advani Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting background in accounting must do either and Disclosure ~ Management Accounting, Strategy and MSc Accounting, Organisational Control or Corporate Financial Organisations and Options Reporting as Compulsory course 2 Institutions Courses to the value of two full units # May not be taken together from the following: Pune, India Please note that options taken outside the Management Accounting, Strategy and Department of Accounting may be subject Organisational Control # to availability. Accounting, Strategy and Control* # Before joining the MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions, I spent a Accountability, Organisations and summer at LSE in the Department of Accounting. I enjoyed every minute of being Risk Management* in London and LSE. My experience that summer, combined with LSE’s reputation, made it a straightforward choice when I was applying for a master’s programme. Valuation and Security Analysis* The best thing about my programme was that it allowed me to take courses Accounting in the Global Economy* outside my core curricula, ie accounting. The flexibility in courses allowed me to Institutions, Environmental Change and broaden my scope of study to accounting, real estate and finance. We are a small Development* group of 19 students as this was the first year of the programme. Being such a small group, we have had the opportunity to get to know our professors well Institutions and the Global Environment* and also to receive individual attention from them. Studying and interacting with The Long-Run Analysis of Firms like minded people on a daily basis has made the LSE experience unforgettable. and Industries* Serving as student representative for my programme, I have been lucky to have interacted with various staff members and professors who not only provided The Historical Context of Business* additional exposure but also clarity on the functioning of the Department of The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in Accounting. After I graduate, I intend to work in finance. Twentieth-Century Europe The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries International Economic Institutions since World War I* Corporate Governance Regulation of Financial Markets Regulation, Risk and Economic Life Economic Sociology* Any other course with the approval of the programme director MSc Anthropology and Development graduate prospectus 125

and an optional course to the value of one The Anthropology of South Asia* MSc Anthropology and Development unit, and complete an essay (dissertation) to Children and Youth in be submitted by early September. Contemporary Ethnography* Compulsory courses Anthropology and Media* are situated in the only institution in the UK lse.ac.uk/anthropology Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography Anthropological Approaches to Questions devoted solely to the social sciences. of Being* lse.ac.uk/international Either Development: History, Theory and • The strong tradition of empirical research Policy or Development Management The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia* Development within the Anthropology Department and Dissertation The Anthropology of Borders Application code: Y2UB the Department of International Development directly informs and enhances the teaching and Boundaries* Start date: 29 September 2011 Options on this programme. Ethnography of a Selected Region* Duration:12 months full-time, 24 (* half unit) • The MSc is an excellent and intensive Medical Anthropology* months part-time introduction to the disciplines of social One full unit from the following: Poverty* anthropology and development studies. Intake/applications in 2009: 23/93 The Anthropology of Religion Economic Development Policy • The course is an ideal preparation for Minimum entry requirement: The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex research work in anthropology, development Environmental Problems, Politics 2:1 degree in any discipline, with and Gender genuine interest in anthropology and studies and related fields. and Development* The Anthropology of Christianity* development, and in possible areas of Global Environmental Governance* overlap between the two (see page 33) About the MSc programme The Anthropology of South-East Asia* African Development* The programme is intended for graduates English requirement: Standard (see The Anthropology of Industrialisation and with a good first degree in any discipline Complex Emergencies* page 36) Industrial Life* who can demonstrate a genuine interest in GRE/GMAT requirement: None Development, Diaspora and Migration* anthropology and development. The Anthropology of Melanesia* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Managing Globalisation* This MSc will help you to develop a good The Anthropology of Southern Africa* overseas £15,888 Public Management of Development* understanding of classical social theory Anthropology of Development* Financial support: Graduate Support and modern anthropological theory, with Managing Humanitarianism* Anthropology of Learning and Cognition Scheme (see page 30) reference to a range of theoretical issues, Global Civil Society I* including those of development and social Law in Society: a joint course in Anthropology Application deadline: None – rolling change, and in relation to appropriate and Law Global Civil Society II* admissions. Apply early, however, as ethnography. You will gain a thorough places will fill up Anthropology and Human Rights* Any other courses offered by Anthropology understanding of the history of development and Development Studies, as approved. policy and practice and their theoretical Investigating the Philippines – New NB It is strongly recommended, though Studying at LSE underpinnings, and of the ways in which Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts* not compulsory, that you include these are illuminated by anthropology. This programme is offered by the China in Comparative Perspective Anthropology of Development in your Though the programme is not a course in Department of Anthropology (see page 47) Anthropology of Politics* degree programme. with the assistance of the Department of ‘applied anthropology’, it will be of use if Please note that only a limited selection International Development (formerly known you are planning a career in development The Anthropology of India* work. It also provides a good foundation of optional courses will be available every as DESTIN) (see page 67) and offers the Social Anthropology and Darwinian Theories* year; when you are offered a place you following benefits: for anthropological research on problems connected with development. Anthropology of Economy 1: Production will be advised about availability for your • Both the Anthropology Department and and Exchange* year of study. the Department of International Development You take two compulsory core courses (one Anthropology of Economy 2: Transformation have a strongly international character, and in anthropology and one in development) and Globalisation* 126 graduate prospectus MSc Applicable Mathematics

All courses are half units unless otherwise Quantitative Methods for Finance and MSc Applicable Mathematics stated. This means that the teaching on each Risk Analysis* half unit lasts for roughly ten weeks, with Principles of Finance lectures, and classes or seminars. In addition, you will undertake a project, equivalent Social Choice Theory and Democracy* to a full unit, in an appropriate branch of lse.ac.uk/maths Combinatorial Optimisation* mathematics, and present your work in the Auctions and Game Theory* Application code: G1U2 form of a dissertation. Computer Modelling: Applied Statistics Start date: 29 September 2011 Compulsory courses and Simulation* Duration: 12 months full-time (* half unit) Mathematical Programming: Theory Intake/applications in 2009: 30/273 Algorithms and Computation* and Algorithms* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Dissertation in Mathematics Model Building in Mathematical degree in a mathematically based Programming* subject, or a scientific, engineering or Options Modelling in Applied Statistics social science subject with excellent Mathematics – choose three from: and Simulation* mathematics background (see page 33) Computational Learning Theory and Techniques of Operational Research* English requirement: Higher (see • Emphasis on algorithms and Neural Networks* page 36) computational techniques. Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Continuous-Time Optimisation* Real Time Series* GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Opportunity to improve personal skills, including logical reasoning, quantitative Discrete Mathematics and Complexity* Stochastic Processes* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; analysis, independent learning and the overseas £15,888 Functional Analysis and its Applications* Time Series* presentation of technical results. Financial support: Graduate Support Games of Incomplete Information* Another half unit in mathematics or any • Preparation for a range of careers in Scheme (see page 30) other course with the agreement of the industry, finance, government and research. Game Theory* MSc Programme Director and the teacher Application deadline: None – • Opportunity to take courses in related Information, Communication responsible for the course rolling admissions disciplines such as economics, finance, and Cryptography* operational research and statistics. Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, Studying at LSE and Equilibrium* About the MSc programme This programme is based in the Department Probability and Measure* of Mathematics (see page 83) and offers the Applicants should normally possess at least Search Games* following benefits: an upper second class honours degree in a mathematically based subject from a UK Stochastic Analysis* • Study in a leading university, renowned for university, or an equivalent qualification its research and teaching programmes. from overseas. Candidates with degrees Social Sciences – choose to the value • Increased knowledge of mathematics, in in scientific, engineering or social science of one full unit from: subjects will be considered, provided that particular in the following areas: algorithms, Advanced Microeconomics game theory, discrete mathematics, they have a strong background in the probability and stochastics, optimisation concepts and techniques of mathematics. Econometric Analysis (dependent on option choices). Prior knowledge of computational Derivatives* mathematics and social science applications Financial Risk Analysis* is not required. MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society graduate prospectus 127

developments in the life sciences About the MSc programme MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society and biomedicine. This programme develops that aspect of • An appropriate programme of study for LSE’s mission that involves linking the social those with diverse requirements: those with a sciences with developments in the life medical or bioscience background wishing to sciences and biomedicine that are likely to lse.ac.uk/sociology change to study social aspects of bioscience; have a fundamental impact upon identities, those interested in the sociology of science lse.ac.uk/BIOS families, economies and national and and technology with a particular focus on international policies over the next decades. Application code: L3UD the life sciences and biomedicine; those The MSc is linked to the BIOS centre for aiming for a career in science policy; those Start date: 29 September 2011 the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, from less developed countries wishing to be Biotechnology and Society, established in Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 involved in the making of their own science 2002-03. BIOS is a major initiative at LSE; months part-time and technology policy in this key area; those an interdisciplinary research centre on Intake/applications in 2009: 21/77 wishing to proceed to advanced research in social, legal, ethical, political and economic social aspects of the life sciences. aspects of the life sciences and biomedicine, Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 with a global reach and a long term degree in any discipline. Applicants • The prospect of employment in the perspective, involving researchers across the with medicine or science are welcome growing field of biomedicine and social sciences, building innovative relations (see page 33) • Teaching by staff active in current research biotechnology. The UK government, along with life scientists and clinicians and with on social aspects and implications of with the EU and the USA, and many other English requirement: Higher (see policy makers. bioscience, biomedicine and biotechnology countries including the Nordic countries, page 36) who are renowned in their fields, across Canada, Australia, India and China, all see BIOS hosts a programme of research, GRE/GMAT requirement: None the social sciences, both within the emergent biotech and genomic medicine conferences and seminars and has links as key sectors for economic development Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Department of Sociology and across a range with cognate centres worldwide. The and international competitiveness. As overseas £15,888 of departments and institutes linked with master’s extends the graduate curriculum the programme (including Anthropology, well as employment possibilities directly into this important area for the social Financial support: Graduate Support Geography and Environment, Health involving science and research, there is sciences, from reproductive medicine, to Scheme (see page 30) research, Law, Philosophy, Social Policy and growing employment in the regulatory intellectual property in genes, cloning, and Application deadline: None – Social Psychology). field and bioethics, with the need for ethics bio weapons, while keeping the focus rolling admissions committees to have increased professional firmly on the relations between bioscience, • An opportunity to benefit from the support, the impact of the EU directive biotechnology and society. Like BIOS itself, exciting range of research projects and staff on clinical trials etc. There is also growing the programme focuses on these in a associated with the BIOS research centre. Studying at LSE employment in policy making, in lobbying medium and long term perspective, and in a • The chance to consolidate or extend and advocacy and in the voluntary sector. global context. It explores the implications of This programme is run by the Department of your knowledge of social aspects of the These organisations look for people such developments for ideas of personhood Sociology (see page 94) in association with life sciences and biomedicine, through the as information officers, research grant and identity, for conceptions of relationships, the BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, programme’s two compulsory courses on officers and policy advisers, who can kinship and family life, for political economy, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society. It Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and understand the science, the impact of new for the organisation and funding of health provides the chance to study social aspects Society and Key Methods in the Social Study biotechnologies on patients and families care, for problems of government and and implications of recent developments in of Bioscience and Biomedicine, and choice of and can engage with the ethical debates regulation, for practices of therapy and bioscience, biomedicine and biotechnology optional courses. surrounding the new technologies. control and much more. It has a transnational in the only specialist institution for the social focus: it analyses the role of the international sciences in the UK. The programme offers: • The opportunity to do empirical work in your dissertation on one specific aspect of corporations in these developments, the social aspects and implications of recent the emergence of bioeconomics, the development of multinational regulatory 128 graduate prospectus MSc China in Comparative Perspective

endeavours, and the distinctive take up and Environmental Problems, Politics impact of developments in biomedicine and Development* MSc China in Comparative Perspective and biotechnology in different nations and Sustainability: Economy, Business regions, and their differential impact in and Technology relation to inequities in gender, ethnicity, wealth and location. Environmental Regulation • Students benefit from LSE’s considerable lse.ac.uk/anthropology expertise in studies of China and of Asia The aim of the programme is to provide the Foundations of Health Policy* Application code: L6U2 more generally. foundations for students to understand the Financing Health Care* Start date: 29 September 2011 • The course is a good preparation for likely implications of these developments for Global Environmental Governance* different societies, for national governments research work in an academic discipline, Duration:12 months full-time only and for geopolitics, for economics and Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender but is also appropriate for those with bioeconomics, for local and global justice Law and Social Theory Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 career interests related to China and East and equity, for human life and personhood, degree in social science (see page 33) Asia (eg in business or government). Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies* and for the social and human sciences, over Intake/applications in 2009: 19/127 the twenty first century. The MSc seeks to Philosophy and Public Policy About the MSc programme English requirement: Standard (see develop the intellectual skills and knowledge Philosophy of Science This programme is an introduction to page 36) base for those who would do advanced the study of China, drawing on a range Philosophy of the Social Sciences research in this important area, and also GRE/GMAT requirement: None of social science disciplines including to equip those who would work in this Regulating New Medical Technologies Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; anthropology, economic history, growing policy area with the intellectual skills Globalising Sexualities* overseas £15,888 international history, sociology, government necessary to confront debates over issues and international relations. Topics in Race, Ethnicity and from the regulation of pre-implantation Financial support: Graduate Support Postcolonial Studies A key feature of the MSc is that China is genetic diagnosis to the problematic status of Scheme (see page 30) always considered in a comparative and dual use facilities in bio weapon control. Population and Development: an Application deadline: None – rolling historical framework. So, for example, Analytical Approach* admissions. Apply early, however, as Compulsory courses Chinese economic history might be HIV/AIDS and other Emerging places will fill up contrasted with European or Indian Health Threats* Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience economic history or Chinese governmental powers with those found in Europe. and Society Global Political Economy of Development* Studying at LSE Cultural Constructions of the Body* The programme is built around: a compulsory Key Methods in the Social Study of This programme is based in the Department core course on China in Comparative Bioscience and Biomedicine Sustainability: Economy, Business of Anthropology (see page 47), however Perspective; optional core courses in selected 10,000-15,000 word dissertation and Technology teaching contributions come from staff in a disciplines; additional optional courses from Concepts in Environmental Regulation* range of departments within LSE. Options selected disciplines; and a 10,000 word Patent Law It offers the following benefits: dissertation. There are also non-assessed (* half unit) seminars and tutorials for all students. Please Health Economics* • Students are taught about China from a Choose to the value of one unit from comparative social science perspective. note that the options listed below are an the following: Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe* indicative list rather than a complete set. • The programme can accommodate those Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, Please note that not every course is who have interests in specific disciplinary 1348-2000* Compulsory courses necessarily available each year and also that frameworks such as anthropology, China in Comparative Perspective. There will other courses are available upon request. Science, Technology and Resistance* government, international relations or be an examination at the end of the course, Anthropology of Learning and Cognition Race and Biopolitics* international and economic history. in June, of three hours in which you will be Criminal Law, Criminology and asked to answer three unseen questions. Criminal Justice MSc City Design and Social Science graduate prospectus 129

Seminar for China in Comparative Perspective European Models of Capitalism* (non assessed) MSc City Design and Social Science Government and Politics in China* Tutorials for MSc China in Comparative Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Perspective (non assessed) Democratisation, and Decentralisation* Dissertation East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, economies, sustainable development, and lse.ac.uk/cities changing patterns of living and working. Options 1839-1945* Foreign Policy Analysis III Application code: L4UC • Faculty and students come together from (* half unit) international and interdisciplinary contexts in International Politics: Asia and the Pacific Choose one core unit from: Start date: 29 September 2011 the centre of the global city of London. Introduction to International Political Theory* Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 • The opportunity to work with a dedicated The International Political Theory of months part time faculty as well as visiting experts in design Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West Humanitarian Intervention* studio reviews, special lectures, seminars Compared, 1000-1800* Intake/applications in 2009: 23/91 and masterclasses The Politics of International Law* Democracy in East and South Asia* and Minimum entry requirement: • Graduates from the programme find Introduction to Comparative Politics* European Social Policy Good first degree or equivalent international career opportunities across professional qualifications/experience NGO Management, Policy and Administration a range of urban design, planning and Choose courses to the value of one in any relevant field of architecture, development fields in the public, private and full unit from: Social Policy Research urban design, planning, engineering, community sectors. social science, law and humanities, The Anthropology of Religion Social Policy: Goals and Issues* management, mathematics, statistics About the MSc programme The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex Globalisation and Social Policy* or natural science (see page 33) and Gender Applicants come from a range of disciplinary Social Policy – Organisation and Innovation* English requirement: Higher (see and professional backgrounds, reflecting The Anthropology of Industrialisation and page 36) Health and Population in Developing and the range of skills involved in urban policy, Industrial Life* Transitional Societies* GRE/GMAT requirement: None design and development. Candidates should The Anthropology of Development* have a good first degree, or equivalent Cities and Social Change in East Asia* Fee level: £20,496 Anthropology and Human Rights* professional qualifications in any relevant Please note that only a selection of the Financial support: Graduate Support field of architecture, urban design, planning, Anthropology of Politics* optional courses is run each year, and Scheme (see page 30) engineering, social science, law and some options are only available with The Anthropology of India* Application deadline: None humanities, management, mathematics, approval of the course leader. statistics or natural science. Relevant Anthropology of Economy (1): Production No options may be selected without the professional experience will also be taken and Exchange* fully into account. Each year, around 40 approval of the programme director of this Studying at LSE Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation MSc. The teachers of the options listed per cent of our student intake comes from and Globalisation* above know they are recommended to This programme is based in the Cities architecture, design or engineering, with Anthropology and Media* students of this degree. Even so, you need Programme (see page 49) and offers the around 60 per cent coming from a range to make sure that the course teacher has following benefits: of backgrounds in social, economic and Taiwan in Comparative Perspective* accepted you. Further options from the full • Study in a leading international centre for management science, law or humanities. The Anthropology of Post-soviet Eurasia* range offered to graduates in the School the investigation of cities and urban life. The Cities Programme is an innovative may also be chosen, according to your China in Developmental Perspectives* centre for graduate teaching and research previous degree subject and as support for • An innovative programme that links the on urban issues, and is the graduate Economic Development in East and your intended dissertation topic. It is even physical design of cities to key processes of component of the LSE Cities research Southeast Asia* more important to check with the course urban change – policy and politics, urban centre. The MSc programme studies the teacher in this case. 130 graduate prospectus MSc Comparative Politics

relations between the physical and social Options organisation of cities and urban space. MSc Comparative Politics Choose a total of one full unit: We see design as a mode of research and practice that shapes urban environments, The Economics of Urban and responds to urban problems, and connects Regional Planning* social, spatial and material forms in the Economics of Local and lse.ac.uk/government city. This programme, launched in 1998, Regional Development* aims to promote a new generation of Application codes: L2U2 (Conflict interdisciplinary professionals who engage Globalisation and Regional Development* Studies), L2U3 (Democracy), L2U6 with the city in a holistic manner and have Planning for Sustainable Cities* (Latin America), L2U7 (Nationalism and a positive impact on the making of cities Ethnicity), L2U8 (Politics and Markets) Economic Appraisal and Valuation* and the built environment. Graduates will Start date: 29 September 2011 be able to integrate their skills with the Social Exclusion, Inequality and the other professions involved in the design, ‘Underclass’ Debate* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 development and implementation of months part-time Social and Political Aspects of Regional and urban projects both within the private and Urban Planning* Intake/applications in 2009: 119/580 public sector. (with research track) International Housing and The programme combines intensive design Human Settlements* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 • A staff with area specialists of a research on urban themes in a studio in any discipline with a considered Housing, Neighbourhoods global scope. workshop with taught courses on core interest in the area covered by the MSc and Communities* topics and options from a range of relevant (see page 33) • A good preparation for further research subjects taught across the School, together Environmental Assessment* work or for a career in media, political with an independent design project or English requirement: Higher (see consultancy, international organisations, Cities and Social Change in East Asia* research dissertation in the third term, and an page 36) public administration or the private sector. international field-trip to support and extend Foundations of Urban Studies* GRE/GMAT requirement: None the students’ project work. About the MSc programme Cities, People and Poverty in the South* Fee level: £15,888 PhD students in the Cities Programme Comparative politics is the comparative Contemporary Urbanism Financial support: Graduate Support engage formally – through teaching – and study of political systems. In the MSc Scheme (see page 30), and lse.ac.uk/ informally with the MSc students. Public Cities, Politics and Citizenship* Comparative Politics we look for government/degreeProgrammes/ lectures, expert seminars and masterclasses sophisticated analytical answers to such Urban Environment* fundingYourStudies.aspx on key urban issues complement the basic political questions as: ‘why are some Not all these options may be available, and programme, and students are linked with the Application deadline: None – countries democratic while others are not?’; additional options may be available. other urban teaching programmes at LSE. rolling admissions ‘why are some countries torn by ethnic conflict?’; ‘do constitutions matter?’; ‘what Compulsory courses is the impact of global capitalism on state Studying at LSE (* half unit) sovereignty?’ Addressing these and similar This programme is based in the Department questions, the programme offers courses in City Design Research Studio of Government (see page 64) and offers the the fields of democratisation, nationalism Cities by Design* following benefits: and ethnicity, comparative political economy as well as a wide range of country and Independent Project • The opportunity to study in a large, area specific options. Our programme is internationally renowned Department in City-making: The Politics of Urban Form* methodologically eclectic yet rigorous, the only UK institution devoted solely to the with an emphasis on historical approaches. social sciences. Graduates from our MSc have gone on to MSc Comparative Politics graduate prospectus 131

successful careers in politics, media, NGOs, War, Peace and the Politics of National The State and Political Institutions in the School in place of optional units listed foreign service, finance and academia. Self-Determination* Latin America* under Comparative Politics.

The MSc Comparative Politics is divided into Nationalism Democracy and Development in Politics and Markets streams, giving students the opportunity Latin America* Local Power in an Era of Democratisation to study a specialisation within a broader Compulsory courses and Decentralisation* Options subject area. Introduction to Comparative Politics* Conflict and Institutional Design in Students must take courses to the value of Courses to the value of one and a half Divided Societies* Dissertation four full units as shown. All students are units from the approved options list States and Markets* required to write a 10,000-word dissertation. Conflict and Peace Studies Nationalism and Ethnicity Note that some of the courses must be taken Ethnic and Religious Violence in Comparative Politics of Redistribution in together. Part-time students may take up to Post-Colonial Society* Compulsory courses Advanced Democracies* or Capitalism four courses in their first year. All students and Democracy* Courses up to the value of one full unit Introduction to Comparative Politics* must apply for one of the following streams: from the approved options list Dissertation Options • Conflict Studies Nationalism Choose courses to the value of one and a • Democracy Democracy half units from the approved options list • Latin America Compulsory courses Options Introduction to Comparative Politics* Approved options list • Nationalism and Ethnicity Choose either one full unit or two half Dissertation units from: Social Theory and Political Commitment: • Politics and Markets the Case of Max Weber and Capitalism Comparative Democratisation* Social Theory and Political Commitment: the and will take a minimum of one full unit case of Max Weber and Nationalism* Max Weber and Nationalism* from within the chosen stream. Options Warfare and National Identity* Warfare and National Identity* (* half unit) Choose at least one half unit from Democratisation and its Discontents in Legislative Politics: US* the following: Conflict Studies Southeast Asia* Legislative Politics: European Parliament* Democracy and Development in Compulsory courses Ethnic Diversity and International Society* Latin America* National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation* Introduction to Comparative Politics* Identity, Community and the ‘Problems Democracy in East and South Asia* War, Peace and the Politics of National of Minorities’ Dissertation Self-Determination* Democratisation and its Discontents in The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Nationalist Conflict, Political Violence Southeast Asia* Warfare and National Identity* Modern Europe? and Terrorism* Globalisation and Democracy* Conflict and Institutional Design in European Integration in the Divided Societies* Options Plus: Twentieth Century Islamic Republic of Iran: Society, Politics, Choose two full units from the following: Courses to the value of one and a half Ethnic and Religious Violence in the Greater Middle East* The Politics of Civil Wars* units from the approved options list Post-Colonial Society* Public Policy Responses to Globalisation, Conflict and Latin America One half unit from the approved International Migration* Post-Totalitarianism* options list Compulsory courses Popular Politics in the Middle East* Democratisation and its Discontents in NB Where appropriate, with the agreement Introduction to Comparative Politics* Russian Federation: Politics, Transformation Southeast Asia* of the MSc programme director and the and Governance* Dissertation Conflict and State-Building* course tutor, a student may take courses to the value of one full unit from elsewhere in Partisanship in Europe* 132 graduate prospectus MSc Comparative Politics (Research)

National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation* eclectic yet rigorous, with an emphasis on MSc Comparative Politics (Research) historical approaches. Graduates from our China in Developmental Perspective* MSc have gone on to successful careers The Politics of Modern Sub-Saharan Africa* in politics, media, NGOs, foreign service, Anthropology of Politics* finance and academia. The Anthropology of Development* lse.ac.uk/government Students must take papers to the value of four full units as shown. All students are Any option listed above that has not already Application code: M1I6 required to write a 10,000-word dissertation. been taken † Start date: 29 September 2011 Note that some of the courses must be taken A half-unit course from the Government together. Part-time students may take up to Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Department or another department (with four courses in their first year. months part-time the consent of the convener of MSc Comparative Politics and the teacher of Intake/applications in 2009: 119/580 Compulsory courses the course). (with non-research track) (* half unit) † Students registered for a stream will have Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Foundations of Social Research automatic right of entry to courses listed in any discipline with a considered Introduction to Comparative Politics* as compulsory. Other students will have interest in the area covered by the MSc access subject to availability. However, some (see page 33) the only UK institution devoted solely to Dissertation options may be closed to a student, if, in the English requirement: Higher (see the social sciences. opinion of the course convener, they lack the Options page 36) • A staff with area specialists of a appropriate methodological background. Choose to the value of one and a half GRE/GMAT requirement: None global scope. units from MSc Comparative Politics Fee level: £15,888 • A good preparation for further research options (see page 130) work or for a career in media, political Financial support: Graduate Support This may include a half unit course from consultancy, international organisations, Scheme (see page 30) and lse.ac.uk/ another department (with the consent of the public administration or the private sector. government/degreeProgrammes/ convener of MSc Comparative Politics and fundingYourStudies.aspx About the MSc programme the teacher of the course). Application deadline: None – Comparative politics is the comparative study Some options may be closed to rolling admissions of political systems. In MSc Comparative students, if, in the opinion of the course Note: If you are applying for the research Politics (Research) we look for sophisticated convener, they lack the appropriate track under the 1+3 scheme please make analytical answers to such basic political methodological background. this clear in your application and include questions as: ‘why are some countries a full research proposal democratic while others are not?’; ‘why are some countries torn by ethnic conflict?’; ‘do constitutions matter?’; ‘what is the impact Studying at LSE of global capitalism on state sovereignty?’ This programme is based in the Department Addressing these and similar questions, the of Government (see page 64) and offers the programme offers courses in the fields of following benefits: democratisation, nationalism and ethnicity, comparative political economy as well as • The opportunity to study in a large, a wide range of country and area specific internationally renowned department in options. Our programme is methodologically MSc Criminal Justice Policy graduate prospectus 133

MSc Criminal Justice Policy

lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy Bronwen Fitzpatrick

Application code: L4U9 MSc Criminal Start date: 29 September 2011 Justice Policy Duration:12 months full-time, 24 London, UK months part-time Intake/applications in 2009: 16/86 Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 social science or law, or a degree in I am a solicitor, and was drawn to the MSc Criminal Justice Policy by the another field with relevant practitioner wide range of subjects available within the programme. The options are drawn experience (see page 33) from courses offered by the Social Policy, Sociology and Law Departments, and it English requirement: Standard (see • Inter-departmental collaboration between has been good to be able to tailor the programme to my interests and needs. page 36) Social Policy, Law and Sociology. As a part time mature student with a family, it was also important to me to GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Access to the Mannheim Centre for pursue a programme close to home. LSE’s reputation and the suitability of the Criminology (see page 97). Fee level: UK/EU £6,672; MSc Criminal Justice Policy to what I wanted made it a clear choice. It isn’t always easy to make the most of everything LSE has to offer when balancing my master’s overseas £15,888 About the MSc programme degree with my work and family – I only wish I had more spare time! So far I have Financial support: Graduate Support You normally need to have an upper second made it to three or four public lectures, but there are always so many fascinating Scheme (see page 30) class honours degree in a social science events on offer I have been properly spoilt for choice, and could easily have been Application deadline: None – subject or a law degree. However, we will every week. rolling admissions consider other qualifications and relevant practitioner experience.

Studying at LSE Compulsory course . This programme is based in the Department Criminal Justice Policy of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the 10,000 word dissertation on a criminal following benefits: justice topic • Study in a Department which has achieved the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the Options quality of its research. (* half unit) • Diversity of staff expertise and Choose to the value of two full units research activities. from a list including: • Programme led by internationally Law and Social Theory renowned criminologists. 134 graduate prospectus MSc Culture and Society

Mental Health Law (available as a full unit or and processes that have a solid basis in as two half units of which you can take one MSc Culture and Society sociological analysis. or both) About the MSc programme Policing and Police Powers This programme covers the most significant Criminal Procedure and Evidence and Communciations, Geography and lse.ac.uk/sociology recent developments in cultural theory International Criminal Law Environment, the Cities Programme, Social and cultural research within a broad social lse.ac.uk/media@lse Psychology, Anthropology, Gender and sciences framework. It enables you to Corporate and Financial Crime Information Systems). Application code: L3UC develop an interdisciplinary theoretical Social Exclusion, Inequality and the • Core courses and optional courses involve awareness, and then specialise in particular ‘Underclass’ Debate* Start date: 29 September 2011 teaching by LSE staff renowned for their areas, leading to an original piece of research Social Policy: Goals and Issues* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 expertise in the field of cultural research, about a chosen aspect of the contemporary months part-time including Don Slater (programme director), cultural field. Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* Ayona Datta (co-director), Nigel Dodd, Intake/applications in 2009: 18/122 You take compulsory courses plus methods Crime and Society: Concepts and Method Sonia Livingstone, Andy Pratt, and Edgar training. You also write a dissertation of Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Whitley. Together the research interests of Approaches to Human Rights 10,000 words on an aspect of cultural degree in social science (see page 33) these staff reflect an interdisciplinary range practice or theory. You will be advised on The Third Sector* English requirement: Higher (see of approaches to the connections between your choice of dissertation topic by your Crime and Control: The Ethics and Political page 36) culture, society, economy, and media within a academic adviser, and that topic may be Economy of Criminalisation* broad social sciences framework. empirical or theoretical in its approach. You GRE/GMAT requirement: None Law of International Economic and • The chance to consolidate or extend your will be appointed an individual adviser with a Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Financial Sanctions* knowledge of cultural analysis through related research interest whom you can meet overseas £15,888 the programme’s two term compulsory with regularly during term times. Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Financial support: Graduate Support course in cultural theory and cultural forms, Justice Scheme (see page 30) supplemented by a one term course in either Compulsory courses or other suitable courses with prior social theory or media theory (to fit your (* half unit) Application deadline: None – permission of course tutors and subject to specific interests). rolling admissions Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms timetabling constraints • The opportunity to do empirical work in Classical Social Thought* or Theories your dissertation into an aspect of cultural and Concepts in Media and Studying at LSE practice (whether cultural production or Communications (Processes of Mediation, cultural consumption) or cultural theory. This programme is run by the Department Identity and Change)* of Sociology (see page 94), and offers the • The chance to progress to a research Qualitative Methods for Cultural Research* following benefits: degree (MPhil/PhD) following completion of • The chance to study cultural theory and your MSc, building particularly on the work Dissertation the sociology of culture at graduate level in of your dissertation. Options the only specialist institution for the social • A higher degree in cultural research sciences in the UK. within a social science framework will Choose to the full value of one full unit from the following: • Teaching by research active staff, who are provide you with a knowledge of how renowned in their fields, across a wide range the ‘cultural turn’ has affected the Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* social sciences, and skills in critical social of cultural research, and located across a Globalising Sexualities* range of departments and institutes linked understanding and techniques of social with the programme (including Media enquiry, that will enable you to develop Cultural Constructions of the Body* insights into contemporary cultural forms MSc Development Management graduate prospectus 135

Contemporary Urbanism MSc Development Management Compulsory courses The Audience in Media and Development Management Communications* Dissertation Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (Media and Power) * Options lse.ac.uk/international Identity, Transnationalism and the Media* Development (* half unit) Social Representations* Choose courses to the value of two Application code: L1S4 full units from the following list in Current Communication Research* Start date: 29 September 2011 consultation with your supervisor. Representations, Institutions and Communities* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Accounting months part-time Science, Technology and Resistance* Accounting in the Global Economy* Intake/applications in 2009: 76/505 Cognition and Culture* Management Accounting, Decisions Minimum entry requirement: Good and Control* Regulation, Risk, and Economic Life 2:1 in social science, or a degree Financial Accounting: Reporting New Media, Development and Globalisation* in another field with relevant work and Disclosure* experience (see page 33) • A choice of options from a wide range of Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Post highly rated courses within the Institute and Colonial Studies English requirement: Higher (see Anthropology page 36) in other departments specialising in political Racial Formations of Modernity* economy, public policy and management. Indigenous Politics in Highland GRE/GMAT requirement: None Latin America* Contemporary Social Thought • Contact with a highly selective group of Fee level: £15,888 Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain fellow students, bringing practical experience Development Studies (post 1945)* Financial support: Graduate Support from all over the world. Poverty* Scheme (see page 30) Race and Biopolitics* • The development of analytical skills that Economic Development Policy Application deadline: None – rolling have secured past students promising Cities, Politics and Citizenship* admissions. Early application is advised professional careers in public, private Population and Development: an Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions in and voluntary agencies dealing with Analytical Approach* Qualitative Research* development problems at both national Environmental Problems, Politics and international levels. Any other MSc level course with permission Studying at LSE and Development* from your academic adviser. This programme is based in the Department About the MSc programme Global Environmental Governance* of International Development (formerly Please note that not every course is known as DESTIN) (see page 67) and offers All students must take the core courses African Development* necessarily available each year. the following benefits: and complete a dissertation of up to Complex Emergencies* 10,000 words. Students participate in a • Core courses that employ a political group ‘consultancy project’ which forms HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging economy approach to examine the part of their total assessment. You have Health Threats* institutional roots of development and the opportunity to attend a weekly lecture Global Political Economy of Development I* non-development. series that brings to the School prominent Global Political Economy of Development II* • Involvement in a practical policy project for scholars and practitioners who discuss the a leading development agency. findings and methodological dimensions of Managing Globalisation* development research and/or problems of Public Management of Development* development practice. Managing Humanitarianism* 136 graduate prospectus MSc Development Studies / MSc Development Studies (Research)

Global Civil Society I* Cities, People and Poverty in the South* MSc Development Studies Global Civil Society II* Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Urban Policy and Practice in the South MSc Development Studies (Research) Contemporary India* Race and Space* IT and Socio-economic Development Development, Diaspora and Migration* lse.ac.uk/international China in Developmental Perspective* Development Social Policy Economics Application code: Y2U6 (Y2U2 NGOs and Development Research) The Economics of Regional and Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Urban Planning* Start date: 29 September 2011 Global South* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Employment Relations and Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, months part-time Organisational Behaviour Implementation and Evaluation* Intake/applications in 2009: 104/828 Organisational Behaviour* Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development Minimum entry requirement: Good Organisational Change* Basic Education for Social Development* first degree in any subject with social Migration: Population Trends and Policies* science or humanities an advantage Gender • A high quality academic training in (see page 33) Another MSc level course in the School, development studies, examining the Globalisation, Gender and Development selected in consultation with the English requirement: Higher (see importance of contemporary theory in the Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: student’s supervisor and approved by the page 36) social sciences for the policy and practice Critical Perspectives and New Directions* of development. programme director. GRE/GMAT requirement: Not required • A wide range of choice in optional courses Government Note that not all of the above optional but will be considered if submitted within the School so that you can deepen courses will be available every year. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Public Management Theory and Doctrine* or widen your disciplinary training, or take Some options have prerequisites, while overseas £15,888 Public Management: A Strategic Approach* up the advanced study of a particular others have limited places. Financial support: Graduate Support region of the developing world. Flexibility of Democratisation and its Discontents in Please check lse.ac.uk/destin for the Scheme (see page 30). The research dissertation topics in the MSc Development Southeast Asia latest information. track is eligible for ESRC 1+3 funding Studies allows you to shape your studies to (UK/EU students only), (see www. your needs. Geography esrc.ac.uk) • The Department of International Globalisation, Regional Development Application deadline: None – rolling Development (formerly known as DESTIN) and Policy admissions. Students are advised that brings together an exciting group of Local Economic Development and Policy applications received before the end European and international students with Globalisation and Regional Development of February stand the best chance for a diversity of academic and professional full consideration backgrounds who have gone on to establish Economics of Local and an international alumni network involved in Regional Development* development research and practice. Studying at LSE Gender and Development: • Recent graduates have gained Geographical Perspectives* These programmes are based in the employment in government, non- Department of International Development Sustainability: Economy, Business governmental organisations (NGOs), (formerly known as DESTIN) (see page 67) and Technology international firms and banks, or have and offer the following benefits: MSc Development Studies / MSc Development Studies (Research) graduate prospectus 137

gone on to obtain PhDs in development Options Development Management (but not the Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* studies or other social science disciplines. core course) (* half unit) Urban Policy and Practice in the South • The research programme offers you a Choose a combination of options to the Anthropology Race and Space* choice of courses for advanced training total of two full units (MSc Development in research methodology through LSE’s Anthropology of Economy: Transformation Concepts in Environmental Regulation Studies) or one full unit (MSc Methodology Institute (see page 86), and Globalisation* Development Studies (Research)) from Development, Diaspora and Migration* including both qualitative and Anthropology of Politics* the following list in consultation with Cities and Social Change in East Asia* quantitative elements. your supervisor. Some have prerequisites; Anthropology of Economy: Production About the MSc programmes others have limited places. and Exchange* Government Democracy in East and South Asia We will consider applicants with a Development Studies Indigenous Politics in Highland Latin America* background in any subject, although a first States and Markets* Poverty* Taiwan in Comparative Perspective* degree in a social science or humanities Nationalism subject would be an advantage. Economic Development Policy Economic History Public Management Theory and Doctrine* Students for both programmes must take the Population and Development: An Economic Development of East and core course, Development: History, Theory Analytical Approach* Southeast Asia Democratisation and its Discontents in and Policy and the component course on Southeast Asia Environmental Problems, Politics Social Research Methods in Developing Economics and Development* Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Countries, and complete a 10,000 word Development Economics Democratisation and Decentralisation* dissertation. Students on the research Global Environmental Governance* Development and Growth programme must also take the course on African Development* International Relations Foundations of Social Research taught in The Economics of Regional and Complex Emergencies* International Politics: Asia and the Pacific the Methodology Institute; and an optional Urban Planning course. Students studying for the main HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Law MSc will take the equivalent of two full unit Health Threats* Gender If you wish to take law related courses as optional courses. Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Global Political Economy of Development I part of the Development Studies programme During the Michaelmas term you have the Interdisciplinary Approach Global Political Economy of Development II you must have a good first degree in law, or opportunity to attend a weekly lecture Globalisation Gender and Development obtain special permission from the Managing Globalisation* series that brings to the School prominent Law Department. Gender, Postcolonialism, Development: scholars and practitioners who discuss the Public Management of Development* findings and methodological dimensions of Critical Perspectives and New Directions* International Economic Law Managing Humanitarianism* development research and/or problems of International Human Rights Geography and Environment development practice. Global Civil Society I* World Poverty and Human Rights* European Economic Global Civil Society II* Compulsory courses Development Management International and European Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Environmental Law Development: History, Theory and Policy Environmental Planning: National and Contemporary India* Local Policy Implementation Social Research Methods in Developing Population Studies IT and Socio-economic Development Countries Gender and Development: Population Analysis: Methods and Models* China in Developmental Perspective* Foundations of Social Research Geographical Perspectives* Methods for Population Planning* (compulsory course for the Research track) You may also choose Development Studies Sustainability: Economy, Business optional courses listed under the MSc Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Dissertation and Technology Implementation and Evaluation* Cities, People and Poverty in the South* 138 graduate prospectus MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy

Demography of the Developing World* and confusing global landscape created by MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy the fundamental shifts that have occurred Migration: Population Trends and Policies* in in domestic and international relations in Social Policy the past 20 years. This unique programme is expressly designed to equip future leaders All courses are designed for people with and their advisers with a clear understanding at least one year’s practical working lse.ac.uk/international of the diversity of state, non-state and experience in developing countries, and Relations natural hazards confronting governments seminars draw extensively on students’ lse.ac.uk/ideas and societies. As the period of stability and own experience. Student numbers may be growth falters, there is a greater propensity limited on these courses. Application codes: L2UJ to conflict within and between countries NGOs and Development Start date: 26 September 2011 in future decades. Therefore, above all, this course is designed to enhance decision Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Duration: 12 months full-time makers’ confidence in their strategic vision Global South* Intake/applications in 2009: on how to address these myriad challenges Basic Education for Social Development* New programme for 2011 of the 21st century. As an integral part of Rural Development and Social Policy* Minimum entry requirement: This the established LSE Executive Programme, it is a Masters degree for mid-career level is focused on applicability and relevance, of It may be possible to substitute other professionals/civil servants who have devoted to the social sciences, and in a how to manage risk and change. Enrollment master’s level courses for the options listed. spent a minimum of 10 years in full thriving research community which (together is deliberately restricted to ensure high calibre Not all the courses will be available time employment and have previously with the Government Department) received discussion and intellectual engagement. in any year. Please check lse.ac.uk/ achieved a 2:1 in politics, history, one of the highest rankings in the 2008 This programme is particularly suitable for internationalDevelopment for the international relations or similar disciplines Research Assessment Exercise. professionals intending to proceed to senior latest information. at undergraduate level. political or corporate level positions, but will • Intellectual input from leading also be of interest to those wishing to deepen English requirement: Higher (see LSE academics in the field of strategy their conceptual grasp of contemporary page 36) and diplomacy international relations, and how to address GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Involvement from leading policy the complex challenges of the future. practitioners on core analytical issues Fee level: £22,912 The teaching takes place over the • In-depth focus on the complex Application deadline: None – Michaelmas and Lent terms. This is designed threats and risks of the contemporary rolling admissions as four individually intensive weeks in international landscape September, December, January and March, Note: For information on how to apply • Unique emphasis on how to address the plus interim weekly evening seminars. A to this programme please see the website national and trans-national challenges of 10,000 word dissertation must be submitted at lse.ac.uk/ideas the future by 1 September. • Opportunity for active student participation Compulsory courses Studying at LSE in a small group environment Diplomacy and Challenges This programme is organised and managed • International networking with LSE IDEAS’s Strategy in a Changing World by LSE IDEAS, the centre for International academic and professional contacts Affairs, Diplomacy and Strategy. The Strategy in Action programme offers the following benefits: About the MSc programme Dissertation • Study in a leading world centre for the MSc Strategy and Diplomacy is a new subject, situated in the only UK institution programme that examines the changing MSc Diplomacy and International Strategy graduate prospectus 139 140 graduate prospectus MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics

MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (Research) MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (two year programme) • Approximately one third of students us an indication of aptitude for economics. econ.lse.ac.uk/study/ proceed to PhD programmes at LSE or other Typically we expect candidates to score grpr.html leading universities. over 780 in the quantitative section of Application code: L1UB, L1U7 the test. A higher score will count in your (Research), L1UT (2 years) About the MSc programmes favour, but other information, such as These MSc programmes are designed to meet grades and references will matter more in Start date: Introductory Course in the needs of those who wish to take a more the overall evaluation. We recognise that Mathematics and Statistics begins 2 mathematical approach to economics. They if your first language is not English, the September 2011 have proved popular with mathematicians, verbal test will present special difficulties Duration: One year/research 10 statisticians, physical scientists and engineers and we view your score on that basis. months full time (10 month master’s converting to economics, as well as to Students are required to attend the programmes are not compliant with the graduate economists. Introductory Course in Mathematics Bologna process which may affect the The structure of the programmes is flexible, and Statistics before the main teaching extent to which they are ‘recognised’. and allows you to specialise to some extent programme starts in October. For more information about the Bologna Financial support: Graduate Support in either econometrics or economic theory, process see page 15). Two year – 22 Course 1 Scheme (see page 30). This is an or a mixture of the two. The level of the months full time ESRC approved research training material covered is perhaps higher than for Econometric Analysis Intake/applications in 2009: 18/282 programme, (see www.esrc.ac.uk) any other master’s degree internationally in Minimum entry requirement: Application deadline: None – this area, and the programmes have a long Course 2 One year/Research – First class rolling admissions standing international reputation, listing Advanced Microeconomics or honours degree or equivalent with numerous distinguished economists and Microeconomics for MRes Students (the latter strong background in economic econometricians among their graduates. with permission of the course tutor) Studying at LSE theory, econometrics, statistics You should have a strong background in and mathematics. Two year – These programmes are based in the economic theory, econometrics, statistics Courses 3 and 4 First class honours degree or Department of Economics (see page 52) and and mathematics at a high level in your (* half unit) equivalent with strong quantitative offer the following benefits: first degree. background including linear algebra Choose a total of two units from • Study in one of the largest economics If you do not have the full range of subject and multivariate calculus. Some the following: departments in the world, renowned background required, you may apply to coursework in econometrics and Macroeconomics for MRes Students (with for its research and contributions to the take the MSc over two years; please see the economics is desirable (see page 33) permission of the course tutor and not in development of the subject area. section below on the two year route. English requirement: Standard (see conjunction with Microeconomics for MRes • Our former students are employed as All graduates of non-UK institutions page 36) Students) economists in a wide range of national must have taken the GRE General Test Quantitative Economics GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates and international organisations in no more than five years before applying, of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE government, international institutions, and must include the test scores with Contracts and Organisations score no more than five years old business and finance. their application. Please see www.lse. Topics in Advanced Econometrics Fee level: One year/research £20,496; ac.uk/AdmissionsEnquiries. We do not two year (preliminary year only) £15,888 require a specific mark but the test gives MSc Economic History graduate prospectus 141

A course from the list of MSc Economics MSc Econometrics and option papers with the approval of the Mathematical Economics MSc Economic History programme director (two year programme) Approved statistics and/or mathematics The preliminary year of the two year courses to the value of one unit: route is designed for students with high Stochastic Processes* academic ability but lacking a sufficient lse.ac.uk/economicHistory background in economics, econometrics, Application code: V3U1 Regression, Diagnostics and Generalised statistics or mathematics. Its purpose is Linear Modelling* to enable students to develop their skills Start date: 29 September 2011 to the point where they are eligible for Non-Linear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 progression to the MSc in Econometrics Time Series* months part-time and Mathematical Economics. Developments in Statistical Methods* Intake/applications in 2009: 68/249 The preliminary year consists of compulsory Time Series* (with Research track) courses in Econometric Theory and Other courses in statistics or mathematics Microeconomics, and a further course from Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in may be selected with the approval of the a choice of: (a) Mathematical Methods, (b) social science (see page 33) programme director. Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference English requirement: Higher (see and (c) Economic Theory and its Applications. page 36) and private sectors; banking; journalism; MSc Econometrics and Students who successfully complete the economic consultancy; and library and Mathematical Economics GRE/GMAT requirement: None examinations in the preliminary year will be museum services, to mention just a few. (Research) awarded a Diploma in Econometrics and Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; The programme of study is identical to Mathematical Economics, and those meeting overseas £15,888 About the MSc programme the required standard will be permitted to the MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Financial support: Graduate Support Applicants for our MSc programmes should proceed to the final year of the programme. Economics, but applicants with an interest Scheme (see page 30) have at least an upper second class honours in progressing to the MRes/PhD should degree, or its equivalent, in the social Application deadline: None apply for the MSc Econometrics and sciences. The MSc Economic History offers Mathematical Economics (Research) and a flexible programme to those who have include with their application an outline Studying at LSE already studied economic history at first research proposal. This proposal should degree level, or for those who have studied be a brief description of the research This programme is based in the Department a related discipline and whose interests topic you are considering pursuing during of Economic History (see page 51) and offers have moved towards economic history. The your PhD and should explain why you are the following benefits: wide range of courses in economic history interested in this area of research. As your • The opportunity to study in the largest available enables candidates to compile research interests will develop further over centre of graduate education in economic a programme that meets their particular the year of your master’s training your history in the UK and probably the world. requirements. The degree is a twelve month proposal need only be indicative. An offer programme, consisting of one compulsory • Students leave the Department equipped for a place on the MSc Econometrics and half unit, a compulsory dissertation (half or for any profession that requires intellectual Mathematical Economics (Research) will full unit), and optional courses to the value judgement, the ability to assess and include a conditional offer of progression of two and a half units selected from the analyse evidence and ideas, and good to Track 2 of the MRes/PhD, subject to prescribed list, which must include at least communication skills. the attainment of a Distinction grade in one of our advanced survey courses on the MSc. • Economic history graduates can be found in modern or pre modern economic history management and administration in the public over the last millenium. 142 graduate prospectus MSc Economic History

Please note that some options have Scientific, Technical and Useful Knowledge prerequisites and some have a restricted from Song China to the Industrial Revolution* intake. The range of options available in any Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, one year may vary: for full details see www. c1600-1860* lse.ac.uk/calendar International Economic Institutions since Bobby Mills Students leave the Department equipped World War I* for any profession that requires intellectual MSc Economic History judgement, the ability to assess and African Economic Development in Jacksonville, North analyse evidence and ideas, and good Historical Perspective* communication skills. Economic history Topics in Quantitative Economic History Carolina, USA graduates can be found in management Economic Development of East and and administration in the public and private Southeast Asia sectors; banking; journalism; economic consultancy; and library and museum The Long-Run Analysis of Firms services, to mention just a few. and Industries* What excited me most about coming to LSE was the opportunity to attend The Historical Context of Business* one of the most highly regarded institutions in the world with the promise of Compulsory courses The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in being surrounded by peers that would challenge my thinking and enable me (* half unit) to grow academically and socially. My fellow students make our programme 20th Century Western Europe enjoyable, entertaining, and enlightening, and the programme has truly exceeded Historical Analysis of Economic Change* History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy all expectations. I have had a great time living in London and travelling to Europe, Choose one from to Social Science sharing the LSE experience with some great people. Essay/Dissertation* (6,000 words) Political Economy of Late Industrialisation* At LSE I have become an active member of the Students’ Union and represent Dissertation (10,000 words) Great Depressions in Economic History* the graduate student body as the Post-Graduate Officer. This experience has allowed me to serve my peers and to learn more about the institution. I’ll bring Choose one from Economic History of Southeastern Europe this experience back to the states where I know my new found global perspective The Development and Integration of the and the Middle East, 1820-1970* will be used to improve the community. World Economy in the 19th and 20th Labour and Work in Pre industrial Europe* Centuries After graduation I plan to move back to North Carolina and continue in a job Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, that I’ve had since I was 14 years old, working with my father’s car dealership. Pre modern Paths of Growth: East and West 1348-2000 At this time in history when unemployment is at record levels I’m committed to Compared, c1000-1800 improving the economy and creating jobs for my country. I know what we do in Japan and Korea in Developing Countries* the car industry provides a significant portion of jobs and we enable citizens to Options Turkey: Political Economy and become more productive by providing a quality vehicle at affordable prices. Depending on the type of essay/ European Integration* dissertation chosen, select a total of two Economic Globalisation: Long-term trends or 2.5 units from: and consequences* . India and the World Economy* Research Design and Quantitative Methods International Migration, 1500-2000: from in Economic History* slavery to asylum* Latin American Development: Political Research Topics in Economic History A* Economy of Growth* Research Topics in Economic History B* Latin American Development: Case Studies in Growth, Poverty and Social Change* Research Issues in African Economic History* MSc Economic History (Research) graduate prospectus 143

research work in the subject. Students International Economic Institutions since MSc Economic History (Research) considering further graduate work and/or World War I* students who have received an ESRC 1+3 African Economic Development in grant, must successfully complete the MSc Historical Perspective* Economic History (Research) degree. Topics in Quantitative Economic History lse.ac.uk/economicHistory The programme comprises two compulsory half units, a dissertation (which counts as Economic Development of East and Application code: V3U2 Research two units) and optional courses to the value Southeast Asia Start date: 29 September 2011 of two units selected from the prescribed The Long-Run Analysis of Firms list. Please note that some options have Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 and Industries* prerequisites and some have a restricted months part-time The Historical Context of Business* intake. The range of options available in any Intake/applications in 2009: 68/249 one year may vary: for full details see www. The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in (with non-Research track) lse.ac.uk/calendar. 20th Century Western Europe Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Compulsory courses History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy social science (see page 33) to Social Science (* half unit) English requirement: Higher (see The Development and Integration of page 36) • Research training for students wishing to Historical Analysis of Economic Change* the World Economy in the 19th and GRE/GMAT requirement: None pursue a PhD. Dissertation of 15,000 words 20th Centuries Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • Recognition by ESRC (1+3 scheme) One of the following research Political Economy of Late Industrialisation* overseas £15,888 • Students leave the Department equipped training courses Great Depressions in Economic History* for any profession that requires intellectual Financial support: Graduate Support Research Design and Quantitative Methods Economic History of Southeastern Europe judgement, the ability to assess and Scheme (see page 30) in Economic History* and the Middle East, 1820-1970* analyse evidence and ideas, and good Application deadline: None communication skills. Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Labour and Work in Pre industrial Europe* Cross-section and panel data* Notes: This research track can be • Economic history graduates can be found in Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, taken as a stand alone qualification or management and administration in the public Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: 1348-2000 as the first year of a research degree, and private sectors; banking; journalism; Time Series and Economic Dynamics* Japan and Korea in Developing Countries* followed by 3-4 years of MPhil/PhD. economic consultancy; and library and Please note, Quantitaive Topics I and II cannot You should indicate in your personal Economic Globalisation: Long-term trends museum services, to mention just a few. be combined with Topics in Quantitative statement if you wish to be considered and consequences* Economic History for the 1+3 programme and submit an About the MSc programme Turkey: Political Economy and European outline research proposal Applicants for our MSc programmes Options Integration* should have at least an upper second class Choose a total of two full units from: Latin American Development: Political Studying at LSE honours degree, or its equivalent, in the India and the World Economy* Economy of Growth* social sciences. The MSc Economic History This programme is based in the Department (Research) provides training in methods International Migration, 1500-2000: from Latin American Development: Case Studies in of Economic History (see page 51) and offers including the role of theory, evaluation, slavery to asylum* Growth, Poverty and Social Change* the following benefits: analysis and explanation, quantitative Research Topics in Economic History A* • The opportunity to study in the largest techniques and computing, the use of centre of graduate education in economic sources and presentational skills, all of Research Topics in Economic History B* history in the UK and probably the world. which give a foundation for more advanced Research Issues in African Economic History* 144 graduate prospectus MSc Economics

About the MSc programmes require a specific mark but the test gives MSc Economics us an indication of aptitude for economics. The MSc Economics is intended to equip Typically we expect candidates to score over MSc Economics (Research) you with the main tools of the professional 760 in the quantitative section of the test. economist, whether you intend working in MSc Economics (two year programme) A higher score will count in your favour, government, international organisations or but other information, such as grades and econ.lse.ac.uk/study/ business. As such, the degree concentrates references will matter more in the overall on the core elements of economic theory grpr.html evaluation. We recognise that if your first and econometrics. Although extensive use Application codes: L1U1, L1U3 language is not English, the verbal test will is made of mathematics, this is primarily to (Research); L1U2 (2 years) present special difficulties and we view your facilitate analysis (if you are interested in a score on that basis. Start date: Introductory Course in more mathematically oriented course you Mathematics and Statistics begins 2 should apply for the MSc Econometrics and Students are required to attend the September 2011 Mathematical Economics). Introductory Course in Mathematics and Statistics before the main teaching Duration: One year/Research – To succeed on the programme you need to programme starts in October. 10 months full-time (10 month master’s prove that you can work to a high standard are not compliant with the Bologna and have excellent analytical ability; the core Compulsory courses process which may affect the extent to economics and econometrics courses assume which they are ‘recognised’. For more a knowledge of constrained optimisation, Macroeconomics for MSc students information on Bologna please see page Financial support: Graduate Support matrix algebra and basic statistics. Microeconomics for MSc students or (with 15). Two year – 22 months full-time. Part- Scheme (see page 30). This is an We expect students to have very good permission) Advanced Microeconomics time only in exceptional circumstances ESRC approved research training grades, and to have majored in economics Methods of Economic Investigation Intake/applications in 2009: programme, (see www.esrc.ac.uk) (not business studies), with standard 120/1,044 Application deadline: None – courses in intermediate macro and Options Minimum entry requirement: rolling admissions microeconomics and econometrics, and a Choose one from the following: One year/research – first class honours number of advanced courses that use these as prerequisites. You should have a solid International Economics with concentration on economics and Studying at LSE quantitative subjects and at least a year quantitative background with at least a year Labour Economics of calculus and statistics and should, for of calculus and statistics. Two year – a These programmes are based in the Monetary Economics first class honours degree with two Department of Economics (see page 52) and instance, know how to handle maximisation Public Economics semesters of college-level calculus or offer the following benefits: of a function of several variables subject to constraint, and be able to explain what is equivalent (see page 33) • Study in one of the largest economics Economics of Industry meant by an efficient estimator. English requirement: Standard (see departments in the world, renowned Development and Growth page 36) for its research and contributions to the If you have not majored in undergraduate Capital Markets development of the subject area. economics, you may apply to take the MSc GRE/GMAT requirement: One year/ programme over two years; please see the Political Economy • Our former students are employed as Research – all graduates of non-UK section below on the two year route. institutions must submit a GRE score. economists in a wide range of national Topics in Quantitative Economic History and international organisations in All graduates of non-UK institutions Two year – all applicants must submit a History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy government, international institutions, must have taken the GRE General Test GRE score. GRE scores must be no more to Social Science than five years old business and finance. no more than five years before applying, and must include the test scores with Contracts and Organisations • Approximately one third of students Fee level: One year/research £20,496; their application. Please see www.lse. proceed to PhD programmes at LSE or other A dissertation is required as part of the two year (preliminary year only) £15,888 ac.uk/AdmissionsEnquiries. We do not leading universities. assessment of the option course. MSc Economics graduate prospectus 145

MSc Economics (Research) academic qualification with emphasis on Students progressing to the final year quantitative subjects. We give detailed of the MSc Economics must attend the The programme of study is identical to attention to transcripts and look for strength Introductory Course in Mathematics and the MSc Economics, but applicants with in mathematics and statistics especially. Statistics in September 2012. an interest in progressing to the MRes/ PhD should apply for the MSc Economics All applicants must have taken the GRE Further information about the MSc (Research) and include with their General Test no more than five years before Economics programme can be found at application an outline research proposal. applying, and must include the test scores econ.lse.ac.uk/study/programmes/ This proposal should be a brief description with their application. Please see www.lse. mscecon.html ac.uk/AdmissionsEnquiries. Typically we of the research topic you are considering Further information about the two year expect candidates to score 780 or higher in pursuing during your PhD and should route, including progression requirements the quantitative section of the test and 5.0 or explain why you are interested in this area and contact information, can be found at higher in the analytical section. We recognise of research. As your research interests econ.lse.ac.uk/study/grpr.html will develop further over the year of your that if the applicant’s first language is not master’s training your proposal need only English, the verbal test will present special be indicative. An offer for a place on the difficulties and we take that into account MSc Economics (Research) will include a when assessing the score. conditional offer of progression to Track 2 Students who have not previously studied of the MRes/PhD, subject to the attainment economics are required to first take LSE of a distinction grade in the MSc. Summer School courses in introductory macroeconomics and introductory MSc Economics microeconomics. Alternatively, such students (two year programme) may arrange to take equivalent courses The preliminary year of the two year route elsewhere, subject to obtaining prior is designed to give students with a sound confirmation that the proposed courses are quantitative background the opportunity acceptable to us. to acquire the foundation in economic The preliminary year consists of examined theory and techniques that would make intermediate level courses to the value of them eligible for progression to the MSc four full units. in Economics. The preliminary year will give students the Compulsory courses opportunity to: (* half unit) • acquire a solid foundation in economics Microeconomic Principles I or Microeconomic and quantitative techniques Principles II • earn the Diploma in Economics Macroeconomic Principles • progress to the final year of the MSc Mathematical Methods or Further in Economics, or to other related MSc Mathematical Methods (Calculus)* and programmes, subject to performance and Further Mathematical Methods (Linear programme prerequisites. Algebra)* • prepare for a career as an economist. Introduction to Econometrics or Principles To be eligible to apply for the two year of Econometrics route, a student should have a strong 146 graduate prospectus MSc Economics and Philosophy

About the MSc programme and Statistics before the main teaching MSc Economics and Philosophy programme starts in October. This degree combines rigorous training in core graduate-level economics with courses Economics courses in philosophy that focus on with moral, methodological and foundational issues. Choose two of the following: econ.lse.ac.uk Some of the questions we study are: Microeconomics for MSc students lse.ac.uk/philosophyLogic • What are the moral advantages and Macroeconomics for MSc students AndScientificMethod disadvantages of market institutions? Methods of Economic Investigation www.lse.ac.uk/ • Can we make interpersonal comparisons of Philosophy Courses philosophyLogic well-being, and if so, how should we do so? Choose two of the following: AndScientificMethod • How do models of economic phenomena Application code: L1I1 relate to the actual social world? Philosophy of Science Start date: Introductory Course in • What are the assumptions underlying History of Science Mathematics and Statistics begins 2 the rational choice model in economics? Philosophy of the Social Sciences September 2011 Can they be normatively justified? Are they descriptively accurate? Philosophy of Biological and Duration: 13 months full-time, 25 Studying at LSE Cognitive Sciences months part-time To succeed on the programme you need to This interdisciplinary course offers the have excellent quantitative skills and general Philosophy of Economics Intake/applications in 2009: 10/95 following benefits: analytical abilities. The economics courses Philosophy and Public Policy Minimum entry requirement: First • Taught jointly by two departments at assume knowledge of constrained optimisa- Philosophy, Morals and Politics class honours with concentration LSE which are internationally recognised as tion, matrix algebra and basic statistics. on economics and quantitative among the best in their respective disciplines. We expect students to have very good Set Theory and Further Logic subjects. Core economics courses It is unique in offering a rigorous programme undergraduate grades; typically, successful Evidence, Objectivity and Policy assume knowledge of constrained in core graduate-level economics courses applicants have concentrated on economics optimisation, matrix algebra and basic whist offering students the opportunity to and other quantitative subjects. Rationality and Choice statistics (see page 33) engage with moral, methodological and All graduates of non-UK institutions History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy English requirement: Higher (see foundational issues. must have taken the GRE General Test to Social Science page 36) no more than five years before applying, • The degree offers a good preparation Compulsory seminars GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates for doctoral research in both economics and must include the test scores with of non UK institutions must submit a and philosophy. It also prepares students their application. Please see www.lse. Dissertation Seminar: Economics GRE score for careers in financial institutions, and ac.uk/admissionsEnquiries for further and Philosophy intergovernmental, governmental, and information. We typically expect candidates Fee level: £15,888 You also complete a dissertation of not more non-governmental organisations, and for to score over 760 in the quantitative than 7,000 words on some aspect of the Financial support: Graduate Support employment in such fields as financial and section of the test. Good scores on the philosophy of economics seminar. Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students economic journalism and consulting. analytical and verbal are also important. may apply to the Arts and Humanities When an applicant’s first language is To do this degree you must have a strong Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk) not English, we take this into account in undergraduate training in economics or assessing the verbal score. Application deadline: None – other quantitative subjects. rolling admissions Students are required to attend the Introductory Course in Mathematics MSc Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation graduate prospectus 147

migrations, racism, liberation struggles, The Emergence of Modern Iran: State Society MSc Empires, Colonialism ethnic violence, settler regimes, political and Diplomacy change and cultural exchanges. and Globalisation List B Applicants should have at least an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent African Development in • Focus on imperialism in a world famous in any discipline and a commitment to Historical Perspective* lse.ac.uk/international International History Department, where exploring the history of imperialism across a History over half the graduate students come Economic Development of East and broad time frame and in different continents. Southeast Asia Application code: V3UE from elsewhere in Europe and the rest of the world. Latin American Developmetn: Political Start date: 29 September 2011 Course 1 • Join an environment where contemporary Economy of Growth* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation global issues are regularly debated by Latin American Development: Case Studies in months part-time leading figures in world politics, economics Courses 2 and 3 Growth, Poverty and Social Change* Intake/applications in 2009: 23/69 and diplomacy. (* half unit) Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 • Develop highly transferable skills valued by Either two units from list A, alternatively National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation*† or equivalent in any discipline (see employers and go on to work in the foreign one unit from List A and one unit or page 33) service, the EU, political think tanks, risk Globalisation and Democracy* two half units from list B. Note that not assessment, journalism, the NGO sector, or English requirement: Higher (see all the courses listed will necessarily be The West: Identity and Interests* stay on to take a research degree. page 36) available in any one year. Warfare and National Identity* • Choose a combination of courses offered in GRE/GMAT requirement: None the Department and elsewhere in the School, List A War, Peace and the Politics of National Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; which offer the opportunity to specialise Self-Determination*† The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of overseas £15,888 in the major forces that have driven world Modern Europe? Or Financial support: Graduate Support history and globalisation and also develop a Anglo-American Relations From World War A course from another master’s programme Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students regional expertise. to Cold War run by the Department of International may apply to the Arts and Humanities • Engage at an advanced level with the latest History (subject to approval by the Cultural Encounters from the Renaissance to Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk) academic research in the field, and undertake programme director) or a related course from the Modern World for funding your own research based term papers and another department (subject to approval by Application deadline: None – third term dissertation. The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, the programme director) rolling admissions • Study imperialism in one of the greatest 1917-1990 Course 4 imperial cities in the world, taking advantage Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa of all the rich multi-cultural, architectural and A dissertation of no more than 10,000 words East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, Studying at LSE archival sources on offer. on an international history topic. 1839-1945 This programme is based in the Department † (availability not guaranteed, but subject About the MA/MSc The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 of International History (see page 69) and programme to space and by agreement with the offers the following benefits: Crises and Détente in the Cold War, course convener) The programme was developed in 1962-1979 • Study in a Department whose teaching response to the huge interest and wealth and research have been rated as excellent Western Intellectuals and the Challenge of scholarship in imperialism and global in national assessment exercises and press of Totalitarianism history as an academic discipline, and as league tables. a way of understanding contemporary War Cultures, 1890-1945 world conflicts, the impact of the Cold War, 148 graduate prospectus MSc Environment and Development

appropriate work experience in addition to a If you choose to do the dissertation as MSc Environment and Development sound academic background. course 4, then you will have to submit a 3,000 word essay from a given list of It is intended for those with a primary interest questions, which is due by the end of the in the linkage between environment and Lent term. If you do not choose to do development, a topic that has become Studying at LSE the dissertation as course 4, then you will lse.ac.uk/ more and more important in recent have to submit a 5,000 word essay from a This programme is based in the Department years. It provides students with a rigorous geographyAndEnvironment given list of questions, which is due by the of Geography and Environment (see page training in the social science dimensions end of August. lse.ac.uk/international 61), but it combines courses offered both of environmental policy, management and Development by this Department and the Department evaluation within a developing country Course 2 Application code: F9UB of International Development (formerly context. Both environment and development known as DESTIN) (see page 67). It offers the studies are multi-disciplinary by nature, (* half unit) Start date: 29 September 2011 following benefits: and the programme seeks to integrate key Choose either one full unit or two Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 concepts and perspectives from a range of • A high quality academic training in the field half units offered by the Department months part-time core social science disciplines. The aim is of environment and development. of International Development. These Intake/applications in 2009: 36/479 to provide students with an understanding courses normally include: • A unique interdisciplinary approach towards of the issues involved in sustainable Global Environmental Governance* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 this increasingly important field, drawing on development both from a theoretical and degree in any discipline, preferably the wide ranging disciplinary expertise and practical perspective. Development Theory, History and Policy social science. Will consider experience of staff in both the Department Teaching is mainly through lectures and Poverty* appropriate work experience of Geography and Environment and the graduate level seminars. It is possible to study in addition to sound academic Department of International Development. Economic Development Policy background (see page 33) this course part-time over two years. You • The opportunity to select from a range of will be assessed on a combination of unseen Complex Emergencies* English requirement: Standard (see options allowing you to shape your studies to examinations and research essays depending African Development* page 36) your needs. on the courses taken. Global Civil Society* GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Studying with an exciting group of You have the opportunity to attend a Population and Development* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; European and international students weekly lecture series in the Department overseas £15,888 with a diversity of academic and of International Development that brings HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging professional backgrounds. to the School prominent scholars and Health Threats* Financial support: Graduate Support practitioners involved in research and Scheme (see page 30) • Our graduates enter a wide variety of Nationalism, Democracy and Development practice. In addition, there are various employment opportunities in the public in Contemporary India* Application deadline: None – sector, non-governmental organisations visiting lectures offered by the Department rolling admissions (NGOs), international organisations, research, of Geography and Environment. Course 3 consultancy and international firms. Notes: Can be combined with the The MSc Environment and Development Choose either one full unit or two half Columbia University MPA Earth requires you to take one compulsory core About the MSc programme units from the following list of options Systems, Policy and Management, (see course and three optional courses. Note that from the Department of Geography page 107) This programme is in principle open to all not all the optional courses listed here will be and Environment: students independent of their first degree, available every year. Globalisation, Regional Development but preferably you will have studied within and Policy the social sciences. You should have the Course 1 equivalent of at least a high upper second (compulsory core course) Globalisation and Regional Development* class honours or, in American terminology, Sustainability: Economy, Business Regional Development and Policy* a 3.5 grade point average. We will consider and Technology MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change graduate prospectus 149

Urban Policy and Practice in the South trading vs. regulations, or some policy mix). MSc Environmental Economics and In all of these cases, and across a wide Environmental Regulation: range of other contemporary issues from Implementing Policy Climate Change biodiversity and ecosystem loss, urban air Environmental Assessment* pollution to, more broadly, the link between • An excellent understanding of the environment and sustainable economic Economic Appraisal and Valuation* lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd environmental and resource economics, its development, the theory and practice Cities, People and Poverty in the South* Environment conceptual foundations and practical tools of environmental economics is uniquely Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* Application code: L7UD of analysis. placed to guide social decision-makers in confronting the resulting policy challenges. Gender and Development: Start date: 29 September 2011 • An ability to employ economic reasoning Geographical Perspectives* to the analysis, appraisal and valuation of Indeed, the continuing rise in the application Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 environmental problems and policies, with of economics to environmental policy-making Gender, Globalisation and Development: months part-time a focus on climate change as well as other has created an ever-growing demand for An Introduction* Intake/applications in 2009: New environmental concerns; individuals with state-of-the-art training Race and Space* programme for 2011 • An awareness of the institutional and policy in environmental, natural resource and Concepts in Environmental Regulation* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 context in which environmental economic climate change economics, and an ability degree in any discipline, preferably solutions might be applied, again with a to apply economic tools to the analysis of a Contemporary Urbanism social science. Will consider focus on climate change but not restricted to wide range of environmental problems and Development, Diaspora and Migration* appropriate work experience that policy domain. policy. As a result, there are promising career in addition to sound academic opportunities for those who have trained Cities and Social Change in East Asia* The MSc requires you to take four background (see page 33) as professional environmental economists: Cities, Politics and Citizenship* compulsory core courses (with a value in government, international organisations, English requirement: Standard (see of three units) and two optional courses industry, consultancy and research. Course 4 page 36) to the value of one unit. Note that not all the optional courses will be available The MSc Environmental Economics and Choose any of the full units or two half GRE/GMAT requirement: None every year. Climate Change will be invaluable if you units listed under the choices for course Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; wish to work, or are already working, in a 3 or offered by the Department of overseas £15,888 About the MSc programme specialised area relating to climate change International Development: economics but also more broadly to any Financial support: Graduate Support The tools of economic analysis are Alternatively, you may choose to write a aspect of environmental and resource Scheme (see page 30) increasingly central not only to dissertation, which is due by the end of economics. You should have good analytical, understanding environmental problems August and must not exceed 10,000 words. Application deadline: None – quantitative and technical skills. A thorough and their causes but also in thinking about You will develop a detailed proposal for rolling admissions grounding in economic analysis, at a level the design of policies that can potentially your dissertation on a topic in the field of equivalent to a joint degree at least, is a resolve these problems. An illustration is environment and development, but of your normal requirement for entry. Potential Studying at LSE presented by the case of human-induced own choosing and design. You will work applicants with strong quantitative skills but climate change. This entails an array of on your own on the dissertation, but with The programme will be taught and run by without a background in economic analysis analytical issues including weighing up limited advice from a supervisor. what is now one of the largest international will be required to take prior training in the costs and the benefits of climate groupings of environmental economists. economics (via appropriate LSE Summer policy actions, achieving and sustaining This teaching staff is based within the LSE’s School courses or equivalent training) before the international co-operation needed to Department of Geography and Environment being considered for admission. meaningfully address global climate change (see page 61) as well as its Grantham as well as on-going debates about the most Teaching itself will be conducted mainly Research Institute on Climate Change and the sensible policy responses on offer (that through lectures and graduate level Environment (see page 50). The programme is, for example carbon taxes vs. emission seminars. Assessment will be a combination aims to provide students with the following: 150 graduate prospectus MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation

of unseen examinations and research About the MSc programme essays. You will also have the opportunity to MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation There is a growing recognition in both develop a dissertation on a topic within the public and private spheres of the need fields of environmental, resource or climate for greater environmental protection. Yet change economics. This will allow you to how do broad concerns lead to specific pursue a research question of interest to lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd policies or plans, and what factors shape you in depth, using the analytical tools and the performance of different regulatory techniques covered in the course. You will Environment instruments on the ground? This one work on your own on the dissertation, with Application code: F9UG year MSc programme (two years for advice from a supervisor. Start date: 29 September 2011 part-time students) analyses the nature and efficacy of different approaches to Compulsory courses Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 environmental policy and regulation. It months part-time (* half unit) considers the influence of different forms Environmental and Resource Economics Intake/applications in 2009: 39/274 of environmental policy and regulation at the international, national and local levels Applied Quantitative Methods* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 degree in any discipline, preferably and the role of environmental evaluation Climate Change: Science, Economics social science. Will consider techniques. Issues are addressed within and Policy* a distinctive social science framework appropriate work experience Studying at LSE Dissertation in addition to sound academic that uses theory to understand practice, background (see page 33) This programme is based in the Department thereby equipping students with the skills Options of Geography and Environment (see page they need to work on environmental English requirement: Standard (see 61) and offers the following benefits: policy and regulation in the public, private Choose to the value of one full course page 36) or NGO sectors. unit from the following: Study in a Department with a well GRE/GMAT requirement: None developed focus on the socio-economics Taking students with first degrees in a wide Economic Appraisal and Valuation* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; of environmental policy, situated in the range of areas, the programme is designed Environmental Regulation: overseas £15,888 only UK university devoted solely to the to enable participants to: Implementing Policy social sciences. Financial support: Graduate Support • Gain a deeper understanding of the tools Concepts in Environmental Regulation* Scheme (see page 30) A unique interdisciplinary approach available for environmental policy and bringing together insights from across the regulation, and the diverse contexts within Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis* Application deadline: None – social sciences. which they operate. Planning for Sustainable Cities* rolling admissions Our master’s programmes all focus • Evaluate the impact of policies Globalisation and Regional Development* Notes: Can be combined with the on developing graduates’ ability to for the economy, society and the Columbia University MPA Earth Systems, integrate theoretical developments with natural environment. Economics of Local and Policy and Management, (see page 107) Regional Development* practical experience. Compulsory courses An MSc level half unit course from any Our MSc graduates enter a wide variety available in the School, subject to regulations of employment opportunities in the public (* half unit) and agreement of the programme director sector, non-governmental organisations Environmental Regulation: (NGOs), international organisations, Implementing Policy research, consultancy and national/ Environment and Development: multinational firms. Sustainability, Technology and Business* Dissertation MSc European Political Economy graduate prospectus 151

Options Students can choose from specialist courses MSc European Political Economy in aspects of political economy; institutions, Choose either one full unit and one half politics and policies of the EU; Central unit course or three half unit courses and Eastern Europe transition and reform; from the following: European identity and ideas; and regional Climate Change: Science, Economics courses. In addition, all students must take lse.ac.uk/ and Policy* Interdisciplinary Research Methods and europeanInstitute Design to prepare for the dissertation. Planning for Sustainable Cities* Application codes: L2EU Global Environmental Governance* Compulsory courses Start date: 29 September 2011 Economic Appraisal and Valuation* (* half unit) Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Environment and Development: Resources, months part-time European Political Economy Institutions and the Global South* Intake/application in 2009: 72/240 Concepts in Political Economy* Urban Environment* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Dissertation Policy-Making in the European Union* degree in any of the social sciences, Options International Political Economy of including contemporary history and Choose at least one of the following: the Environment international relations (see page 33) • Students from this programme are actively International and European English requirement: Higher (see head hunted by companies and international European Models of Capitalism* organisations working in the region. Environmental Law page 36) Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: Regulation, Risk and Economic Life GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Former graduates pursue successful careers Institutions and Politics of EMU* in politics, journalism, diplomacy, business Teaching is mainly through lectures and Fee level: £15,888 The Political Economy of Transition and EU and in international financial institutions. graduate level seminars. You will be assessed Accession in Central and Eastern Europe* Financial support: Graduate Support on a combination of unseen examinations Scheme (see page 30) About the MSc programme The Political Economy of European Social and research essays. You will develop a Policy and Welfare State Reform* detailed proposal for your dissertation on a Application deadline: None – Applicants for the MSc European Political topic in the field of environment, but of your rolling admissions Economy should have a good upper The Economics of European Social Policy* second or first class degree, or a GPA of own choosing and design. You will work on Interest Representation and Economic Policy- 3.5 or better in any of the social sciences, your own on the dissertation, with limited Making in Europe* advice from a supervisor. Studying at LSE including contemporary history and international relations. Welfare Analysis and Measurement This programme is based in the European Institute (see page 55) and offers the In the degree, students focus on the main Choose up to the value of one full unit following benefits: theories and models of political economy from the following: relevant to the process of European • Historically grounded, multi-disciplinary Institutions, Politics and Policies of the EU integration and of transition in Central and analysis of European integration and the Eastern Europe, and on major trends in European Union Law and Government* post-communist transformation process. the economic and political development of Policy-Making in the European Union* • Teachers of academic distinction, with contemporary Europe. experience of policy making in Europe. Europeanisation: the Comparative Politics of Students take compulsory courses to the Domestic Change* • A seminar on contemporary issues with value of one and a half units and optional distinguished outside speakers, including courses to the value of one and a half units, Law and Governance of the Single business leaders and policy makers. plus a compulsory dissertation, as shown. European Market 152 graduate prospectus MSc European Social Policy

Political and Fiscal Integration and • Graduates from the programme have Disintegration in EU Member States* MSc European Social Policy found positions within a wide range of institutions, including the European Justice, Liberty and Security in the Commission, European Parliament, EU European Union* lobbying organisations, consultancies, • Study in a Department which has achieved UNESCO, broadcasting, journalism, Central and Eastern Europe Transition lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy and Reform excellent ratings for the quality of its research international departments of national civil Application code: L4U8 and the opportunity to take optional courses services, as well as employment in teaching Democracy, Ideology and the State* in Government, International History and and research or further study for a PhD. Start date: 29 September 2011 International Relations and in the School’s European Identity and Ideas Duration:12 months full-time, 24 European Institute. About the MSc programme The Idea of Europe* months part-time • The chance to focus on current and We expect students to come from a range Europe Beyond Modernity* Intake/applications in 2009: 13/48 emerging social problems and to study of backgrounds reflecting the range of and evaluate the range of social policies intellectual and professional skills involved Minorities and Migration in Europe* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in being developed to meet them in EU in planning, managing and researching a relevant subject or equivalent (see Public Policy Responses to countries; special attention is paid to social policies at cross-national and EU page 33) International Migration* the growing importance of social policy level. You normally need a first degree in Arguments in European Philosophy* English requirement: Standard (see formulated by EU institutions. a relevant academic subject at a standard page 36) equivalent to a British upper second class • Integration of your programme through Regional courses honours. As an example, this is equivalent GRE/GMAT requirement: None multi-disciplinary and cross-national to an American degree at a grade point Greece and the European Union* comparative study. You will gain a Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; average in excess of 3.5 out of 4. We thorough grounding in the comparative The Political Economy of the Mediterranean overseas £15,888 welcome part-time students. analysis of the institutional arrangements and the Euro-Mediterranean Process* Financial support: Graduate Support of European welfare states, as well The programme, launched in 1988, was the Greece and South East Europe: Government, Scheme (see page 30) as examining specific social problems first graduate course in the EU dedicated Economy and Foreign Policy* Application deadline: None – shared by individual countries and the specifically to European social policy. It aims The Political Economy of Southeast Europe* rolling admissions issues involved in further integration. In to educate academics and professionals who this regard, the European ‘Contextual will have a positive impact on implementing Turkey: Political Economy and Courses’ in the ‘Options’ category provide the various dimensions and policy pathways European Integration* Studying at LSE vital complementary teaching of policy- contributing to the further consolidation Economic History of Southeastern Europe This programme is based in the Department making and implementation by the key of ‘Social Europe’. Graduates from the and the Middle East, 1820-1970* of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the EU actors. You also study welfare state programme will be better informed and in models outside the EU and the growing a better position to influence evolving policy The West: Identity and Interests* following benefits: pressures of globalisation in order to options. By learning different disciplines, Option from another degree programme • An integrated programme designed widen your understanding of social policy including a choice of major EU languages, (maximum one half unit) for people looking towards careers as options available. you will be able to integrate your skills with practitioners, planners and administrators other professions engaged in realising the • Opportunities to learn major European of public services whose interest lies at European project. the European level or is likely to involve languages in our Language Centre (see cooperation with other member states; page 20). and equally for those interested in careers • Studying with a highly international and in teaching and social research with a diverse group of students, who largely come European perspective. from a variety of social science backgrounds. MSc European Studies: Ideas and Identities graduate prospectus 153

Compulsory courses Students take six half units (one full unit MSc European Studies: Ideas may replace two half units) and write a (* half unit) and Identities 10,000 word essay on an approved topic. European Social Policy Compulsory courses Social Policy: Goals and Issues* (* half unit) Dissertation of no more than 10,000 lse.ac.uk/ words on a topic relevant to European europeanInstitute The Idea of Europe* social policy. Application code: L2E2 Democracy, Ideology and the State* or Identity, Community and the ‘Problem Options Start date: 29 September 2011 of Minorities’* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Choose to the value of one unit from Dissertation months part-time the following: Intake/application in 2009: 38/137 Options European Union Policy-Making in a Global Context* Minimum entry requirement: Choose a total of two full units from: 2:1 degree in any of the arts, European Union Law and Government* Europeanisation: The Comparative Politics of humanities or social science disciplines Domestic Change* Policy-Making in the European Union* (see page 33) • Students from our programmes are actively Europe Beyond Modernity* The Economics of European Social Policy* English requirements: Higher (see head hunted by companies and international Political and Fiscal Integration and Political and Fiscal Integration and page 36) organisations working in the region. Disintegration in EU Member States* Disintegration in EU Member States* GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Former graduates on our programmes pursue successful careers in politics, European Models of Capitalism* Choose to the value of a half unit from Fee level: £15,888 journalism, diplomacy, business and in Partisanship in Europe* the following: Financial support: Graduate Support international financial institutions. Democracy, Ideology and the State* Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* Scheme (see page 30) About the MSc programme Identity, Community and the ‘Problem Financing Health Care* Application deadline: None – rolling admissions Applicants for the programme should of Minorities’* Social Security Policies* have a good upper second or first class European Society and Politics Beyond the Social Exclusion, Inequality and the degree, or a GPA of 3.5 or better in any Nation State* Studying at LSE ‘Underclass’ Debate* of the arts, humanities or social sciences European Integration in the This programme is based in the European disciplines. In the degree students will Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Social Policy* Twentieth Century Institute (see page 55) and offers the explore the increasingly important public Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice* following benefits: debate on the meaning and limits of Minorities and Migration in Europe* ‘Europe’; the relationship between civil Gender and European Welfare States* • Philosophically and historically grounded, Ethnic Diversity and International Society* society and the state in Europe; the multi-disciplinary analysis of Europe as a The Third Sector* relevance of a transnational sociology; European Union Law and Government* world-historical social and cultural space. Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities* the domestic impact of the European Policy-Making in the European Union* • Teachers of academic distinction, with Union for citizenship and identity; and the Behavioural Public Policy* Government and Politics in Eastern Europe* experience of policy making in Europe. cultural and policy implications of national Welfare Analysis and Measurement • A seminar on contemporary issues and ethnic diversity and migration. Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Citizenship* A half unit course from another MSc with distinguished outside speakers, programme with approval of the tutor including business leaders and policy- makers (unexamined). 154 graduate prospectus MSc European Studies (Research)

Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: design and methods training. Students take Elections, Public Opinion, and Identities* MSc European Studies (Research) five papers, including a specialist core course from the MSc European Political Economy Public Policy Responses to or MSc Politics and Government in the International Migration* European Union or MSc European Studies: Approaches to Human Rights Ideas and Identities, a specialist course on lse.ac.uk/european The Economics of European Social Policy* research design and methods for European Institute Studies, quantitative analysis, an elective Interest Representation and Economic Policy- Application codes: M1UZ option, and a 10,000 word dissertation Making in Europe* on an approved topic. Students who have Start date: 29 September 2011 Greece and the European Union* successfully completed the MSc European Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Studies (Research) will be well-placed to The Political Economy of the Mediterranean months part-time apply for admission into competitive doctoral and the Euro-Mediterranean Process* programmes in the UK and elsewhere. Intake/application in 2009: 72/240 The Political Economy of Southeast Europe* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Courses 1 (compulsory) Turkey: Political Economy and degree in any of the social sciences, European Integration* (* half unit) including contemporary history and Greece and Southeast Europe: Government, Choose to the value of one full unit international relations (see page 36) • Teachers of academic distinction, with Economy and Foreign Policy* from either MSc European Political English requirement: Higher (see experience of policy making in Europe. Economy, MSc European Studies: Ideas Economic History of Southeastern Europe page 33) • A seminar on contemporary issues with and Identities or MSc Politics and and the Middle East, 1820-1970* GRE/GMAT requirement: None distinguished outside speakers, including Government in the European Union: The Second Europe* business leaders and policy makers. Fee level: £15,888 The Idea of Europe* 20th-Century European Liberal Thought* • Students from this programme are actively Financial support: Graduate Support History and Theory of European Integration* head hunted by companies and international Kant’s Political Philosophy* Scheme (see page 30) organisations working in the region. Democracy, Ideology and the State* The European Enlightenment, c1680-1830 Application deadline: 30 April • Former graduates pursue successful careers European Political Economy 2011 – we cannot guarantee that History of Science in politics, journalism, diplomacy, business applications received after this date Ethnic Diversity and International Society* European Human Rights Law* and in international financial institutions. will be considered European Politics: Comparative Analysis* Justice, Liberty and Security in the About the MSc programme European Union* Course 2 Studying at LSE Applicants for the MSc European Studies Arguments in European Philosophy* (Research) should have a good upper Quantitative Analysis I: Description and Inference* (assessed on a pass/fail basis). Philosophy of the Social Sciences This programme is based in the European second or first class degree, or a GPA of Institute (see page 55) and offers the 3.5 or better in any of the social sciences, Philosophy of Economics Course 3 following benefits: including contemporary history and The Political Theory of Jurgen Habermas* • Historically grounded, multi-disciplinary international relations. Research Methods and Design in European Studies. An assessed 3,000 word essay on The West: Identity and Interests* analysis of European integration and the In the MSc European Studies (Research) problems of Research Design and Methods post-communist transformation process. students combine specialist courses from An outside option (with permission) as applied to methodological issues related MSc European Political Economy or MSc • Philosophically and historically grounded, to prospective dissertation and doctoral Politics and Government in the European multi-disciplinary analysis of Europe as a research. world-historical social and cultural space. Union or MSc European Studies: Ideas and Identities together with intensive research MSc Finance (full-time) graduate prospectus 155

Course 4 • Access to a number of specifically MSc Finance (full-time) designed applied courses based on case 10,000 word dissertation on an study teaching. approved topic. • Interaction with current MSc Finance Course 5 (part-time) programme students, currently employed within London’s finance sector. For students choosing the European Political lse.ac.uk/finance Economy stream: One other course up to the Application code: N3UA About the MSc programme value of a half unit from the MSc European Political Economy programme. Start date: Pre-sessional course begins The MSc Finance (full-time) programme has September 2011 been designed to meet the needs of high- For students choosing the European Politics level graduates from fields not specifically and European Identities streams: One other Duration: 10 months full-time only related to finance, whose career objectives lie course up to the value of a full unit (or (including pre-sessional) (10 month broadly within the financial services sector. combination of half units) from MSc Politics master’s programmes are not compliant and Government in the European Union or with the Bologna process which may The foundation of the programme is built MSc European Studies: Ideas and Identities affect the extent to which they are in the first term with the study of two core programmes under the specialist options, ‘recognised’. For more information on courses – Asset Markets and Corporate or from one of the compulsory courses not Bologna please see page 15) Finance. Asset Markets takes the student already taken. Intake/applications in 2009: 64/2,346 from fundamental concepts to up to date Application deadline: None – applications in fixed-income, equity, and Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Promotion to the second year of the rolling admissions derivatives markets. Corporate Finance doctoral programme degree in any discipline and good begins with the firm’s investment decision quantitative skills, at least to A level and the cost of capital. This in turn is linked Promotion to the second year (ie admission Mathematics (or the equivalent) (see Studying at LSE to the firm’s financial structure and market into the doctoral programme at the page 33) environment where the firm operates. It European Institute) is conditional on Based in the Department of Finance (see studies in detail major financial decisions obtaining a good merit in your master’s English requirement: Higher (see page 57), the programme offers the including dividend choice, going public, degree, normally defined as an average of page 36) following benefits: mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring 65 per cent or above, and 65 per cent or GRE/GMAT requirement: GMAT or • Study in one of the most highly rated in financial distress. In the second term, above in the dissertation; and is conditional GRE is required for all students without departments in the subject area in the world, students deepen their knowledge by taking on the availability of a suitable supervisor. a UK undergraduate degree (GMAT both for its research and its institutional four optional half unit courses, on topics is strongly preferred). The GMAT is links. Each year the LSE’s Financial Markets such as financial systems, risk management, recommended for all students with Group fmg.lse.ac.uk attracts some of the portfolio management methods, advanced UK undergraduate degrees, especially leading international finance researchers who derivatives and structured financial products, those whose quantitative skills are not present at one of its many academic research fixed income, advanced corporate finance, demonstrated by their undergraduate seminars or conferences for practitioners, and applied financial valuation. Students will studies, or are not expected to achieve a which students are welcome to attend. also be required to write an extended essay first class degree. • The opportunity for high level graduates in the place of an exam in one of the four Fee level: £25,488 without necessarily a specific background in optional courses. Financial support: Graduate finance to gain a comprehensive foundation The MSc Finance (full-time) programme Support Scheme (see page 30). and subsequent depth in the field, allowing follows the same syllabus as that of the MSc Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships – see access to a variety of finance based careers. Finance (part-time) evening programme, Department of Finance (see page 57) which is focused towards professionals currently working in London’s financial 156 graduate prospectus MSc Finance (part-time)

services sector. Both modes of the MSc Term 1: Compulsory courses Finance programme allow students access MSc Finance (part-time) Corporate Finance to a number of specifically designed applied courses, taught in part using case studies, Asset Markets and the opportunity to gain deeper practical insight and links to the City. Term 2: Options lse.ac.uk/finance The programme is designed for students (* half unit) Application code: N42A whose academic background is not Choose four half unit options from necessarily in finance, however it is aimed the following list of courses, three of Start date: Applicants will be required to at people with good undergraduate which must be from the list of dedicated attend an evening pre-sessional course in degrees and good quantitative skills. courses (†): late September and early October 2011 Admission to the programme is very Applied Financial Valuation* † Duration: 21 months part-time (21 competitive. In previous years the majority month part-time master’s programmes of students accepted into the programme Financial Engineering* † are not compliant with the Bologna have obtained first class degrees or the Fixed Income Securities and process which may affect the extent to equivalent. The mathematics used in the Credit Markets* † which they are ‘recognised’. For more programme includes basic calculus and information on Bologna please see statistics. Applicants are also required Risk Management and page 15) to have studied a minimum of A level Financial Institutions* † Intake/applications in 2009: 48/384 Mathematics (or its equivalent). Applicants Topics in Portfolio Management* † Studying at LSE without a UK undergraduate degree are Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Cases in Corporate Finance* † This programme is based in the Department required to submit a GMAT test (GRE is degree in any discipline and good of Finance (see page 57) and offers the acceptable exceptionally). The GMAT is Corporate Finance Theory* quantitative skills. also recommended for all students with following benefits: International Finance* Two to five years of relevant work UK undergraduate degrees, especially • LSE’s first and only part-time evening Forecasting Financial Time Series* experience will be considered an those who have not achieved, or are not programme, designed specifically to meet the advantage (see page 33) expected to achieve a first class degree, You will be required to write a 6,000 word needs of professionals working in or around or those whose quantitative skills are not dissertation (replacing the exam) in one of English requirement: Standard (see London who are thinking about moving into demonstrated by their undergraduate your half unit courses. page 36) or acquiring further in depth expertise in the studies. Prior work experience is not area of finance. In exceptional cases it may be possible to GRE/GMAT requirement: Submission of necessarily a pre-requisite for entry into the take an unlisted optional course with the GRE or GMAT test results is an advantage • Study in one of the most highly rated programme. A good mastery of English is approval of the programme director. but not a requirement departments in the subject area in the required as demonstrated by a TOEFL score world, both for its research and its of at least 627 or an IELTS score of at least † Dedicated to MSc Finance students Fee level: Year 1 £12,744 (2011/12), institutional links. Each year LSE’s Financial 7.0 for those whose undergraduate degree Year 2 £12,744 (2012/13) Markets Group attracts some of the was not taught in English. Financial support: This programme leading international finance researchers Admitted students are required to attend a is not eligible for the Graduate who present at one of its many academic pre-sessional Quantitative Methods course Support Scheme research seminars or conferences (see in September. Applicants from developing Application deadline: None – fmg.lse.ac.uk), which students are countries may be eligible to be considered rolling admissions welcome to attend. for one of the Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships • The programme’s balance in emphasis (sponsored by Deutsche Bank). For more Notes: The programme is taught on on both theory as well as case study based information, please see lse.ac.uk/finance. two evenings per week teaching enables the students to draw MSc Finance and Economics / MSc Finance and Economics (Research) graduate prospectus 157

upon the expertise of the Department’s in the place of an exam in one of the four internationally renowned academics who are optional courses. MSc Finance and Economics leaders in their fields, thus providing both MSc Finance and Economics (Research) a professionally driven and academically Year 1: Compulsory courses rigorous programme. Corporate Finance About the MSc programme Asset Markets lse.ac.uk/finance The programme is aimed at people with Year 2: Options Application code: LN43 – All good undergraduate degrees and good applications are considered for MSc (* half unit) quantitative skills. Submission of GRE or Finance and Economics. Students who GMAT test results is an advantage but not Choose four half unit options from wish to follow the Research track will a requirement. The mathematics used in the following list of courses, three of be considered for a transfer once they the programme includes basic calculus and which must be from the list of dedicated arrive at LSE statistics. Some knowledge of economics is evening-taught courses (†): Start date: Introductory Course in required, but this could have been acquired Applied Financial Valuation* † Mathematics and Statistics begins 5 professionally. A good mastery of English September 2011 is required as demonstrated by a TOEFL Financial Engineering* † Duration: 10 months full-time only score of at least 603 or an IELTS score of at Fixed Income Securities and (10 month master’s programmes are least 6.5. Two to five years of relevant work Credit Markets* † experience will be considered an advantage. not compliant with the Bologna Application deadline: None – Risk Management and process which may affect the extent to rolling admissions The foundation of the programme is built Financial Institutions* † which they are ‘recognised’. For more in the first year with the study of two core information on Bologna please see courses – Asset Markets and Corporate Topics in Portfolio Management* † page 15) Studying at LSE Finance. Asset Markets takes the student Cases in Corporate Finance* † from fundamental concepts to up to date Intake/applications in 2009: 79/1,421 These programmes are based in the applications in fixed-income, equity, and Day-time courses: Minimum entry requirement: Department of Finance (see page 57) and are taught jointly with the Department of derivatives markets. Corporate Finance Corporate Finance Theory* 2:1 in economics or in the applied begins with the firm’s investment decision mathematical sciences with some Economics (see page 52). The programmes International Finance* and the cost of capital. This in turn is linked economics courses. Degree should have offer the following benefits: to the firm’s financial structure and market Forecasting Financial Time Series* had strong analytical content, including • Study in two of the most highly rated environment where the firm operates. It courses in calculus and matrix algebra, Global Financial Systems* departments in the subject areas in the studies in detail major financial decisions probability and statistics, microeconomic world, both for research and teaching. including dividend choice, going public, You will be required to write a 6,000 word theory, and preferably also econometrics • The opportunity to draw on the School’s mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring dissertation (replacing the exam) in one of (see page 33) in financial distress. In the second year, your half unit courses. strengths in economics, finance and English requirement: Standard (see econometrics to gain, through teaching students deepen their knowledge by taking In exceptional cases it may be possible to page 36) and your own independent study, a four optional half unit courses, on topics take an unlisted optional course with the GRE/GMAT requirement: All rigorous understanding of financial such as financial systems, risk management, approval of the programme director. portfolio management methods, advanced applicants must submit a GRE or GMAT markets, grounded in financial economics derivatives and structured financial products, † Exclusive to MSc Finance students test score and econometric methods. fixed income, advanced corporate finance, Fee level: £20,496 • Preparation for a variety of careers in and applied financial valuation. Students will the global financial services sector. The also be required to write an extended essay Financial support: Graduate Support emphasis on financial economics in these Scheme (see page 30). programmes is particularly attractive to 158 graduate prospectus MSc Finance and Economics / MSc Finance and Economics (Research)

investment banks, the financial services will subsequently advise whether a waiver sector more generally, and to consulting can be granted. Candidates are advised firms. The programmes also provide a that requests for a waiver of this test are rigorous training for graduate research. seldom granted. Applicants from developing countries may be eligible to be considered Maryam Fereydoun About the MSc programmes for one of the Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships Applicants for the MSc Finance and (sponsored by Deutsche Bank). For more MSc Finance and Economics and MSc Finance and Economics information, please see lse.ac.uk/finance. Economics (Research) programmes should have a strong The programme covers investments and undergraduate background in economics, Tehran, Iran asset pricing, option and derivatives pricing, including at least a year of calculus and a and portfolio management. It provides semester of linear algebra, or an applied a thorough exposure to econometric mathematical sciences background with methods, including time series analysis, with at least a year of economics courses. applications to financial models and data. Applicants with an insufficient background The core courses emphasise analytical rigour MSc Finance and Economics at LSE has an outstanding reputation both in the in econometrics may be asked to take an and theoretical foundations, in addition to academic and the professional world. It’s a challenging, yet extremely rewarding econometrics course in the LSE Summer application of the theory. The MSc Finance programme. I have been exposed to a lot of interesting material, which has allowed School as a condition of admission. and Economics programme will be of me to look at the world from a different angle. That is the aspect I have enjoyed Minimum entry requirements are a good interest if you plan a career in a financial most about my studies at LSE. In addition, LSE’s location in the heart of London upper second class honours degree from a institution or in a role in industry which calls brings about many opportunities. UK university or equivalent in an overseas for advanced analytical skills. It is also good I have to mention that finding a balance between job-hunting and studying is degree. This degree should have had preparation for doctoral research in the area. sometimes a challenge at LSE. Nevertheless, I have enjoyed learning from some strong analytical content, including courses Students who are particularly interested in of the best professors in the field, studying with intelligent and friendly peers, in microeconomic theory, calculus and doctoral research will have the opportunity to and being part of such a diverse and active student body. matrix algebra, probability and statistics. All transfer to the MSc Finance and Economics applicants must also submit a GRE or GMAT (Research) programme (see below) once At LSE, I was awarded the Lord Dahrendorf Scholarship. The scholarship offered test score. GRE/GMAT scores must show they complete the introductory September me a mentoring programme which has been of great benefit. This has been a strong performance in the quantitative course. All applications should be made to an invaluable opportunity and has helped me develop both personally and segment (above the 85th percentile). the MSc Finance and Economics programme professionally. Moreover, I started LSE’s chapter of “85 Broads” in association with Decisions will not normally be made in the in the first instance as entry to the Research the “Women in Business” society, through which I got involved with activities absence of this test result. Please see www. programme will be considered once students on campus and had the opportunity to network with many ambitious students. lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries. Applicants are registered at LSE. 85 Broads is a global network of 20,000 trailblazing women who are inspired, to the MSc programme may be exempted Students are required to attend the empowered, and connected, founded by women who worked for Goldman Sachs from submitting GRE/GMAT scores only Introductory Course in Mathematics and at 85 Broad Street in New York. in exceptional circumstances. This may Statistics. This allows students to review After I graduate I am intending to start my career at Deutsche Bank, London. include cases where the requirement proves topics such as matrix algebra, multivariate difficult for the individual to meet (eg the calculus and differential equations. test not being offered in the applicant’s During September and throughout the home country or where test centres only Michaelmas term, students will also be have limited spaces available for testing). required to take Quantitative Methods Where this is the case, applicants should for Finance. This provides an introduction complete and submit the online GMAT/GRE to the theory of stochastic processes in waiver form on the Graduate Admissions continuous time, with a view to finance website. The Graduate Admissions Office applications. On completion of the MSc Finance and Private Equity graduate prospectus 159

September courses, students will take About the research examined courses to the value of four full programme MSc Finance and Private Equity units, one of which will include writing a The MSc Finance and Economics (Research) dissertation as part of the assessment. programme offers students the opportunity A more detailed description of the to take a more advanced microeconomics programme and its courses, including a course, which will be more suited to those lse.ac.uk/finance comparison with other finance-related MSc who plan to undertake doctoral research in Application code: N3UB programmes at LSE, can be found on the the field. Students interested in the Research Department of Finance website. Students track should apply for MSc Finance and Start date: Introductory course begins 5 interested in a finance-related MSc with a Economics as usual, however once they are September 2011 less analytical orientation should consider the registered at LSE and have completed the Duration: 10 months full-time only MSc Finance (Full-time) programme. introductory September course they will (including pre-sessional) (10 month have the opportunity to be considered for master’s programmes are not compliant Compulsory courses a transfer onto the Research programme. with the Bologna process which may This transfer will depend upon the student Microeconomics for MSc students affect the extent to which they are being accepted into one of the two Financial Economics ‘recognised’. For more information on advanced microeconomics courses and Bologna please see page 15) Financial Econometrics their performance in the September course examinations. Intake/applications in 2009: New Options programme running from 2010/11 Financial support: Graduate Support Scheme (see page 30). Lord (* half unit) Compulsory courses Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Dahrendorf Scholarships Choose to the value of one full unit from Microeconomics for MSc Students or degree in any discipline and good Application deadline: None – the following list of half unit options: Advanced Microeconomics (depending quantitative skills, at least to A level upon background) Mathematics (or the equivalent) (see rolling admissions Applied Corporate Finance* page 33) Financial Economics Corporate Finance Theory* English requirement: Higher (see Financial Econometrics Studying at LSE Financial Risk Analysis* page 36) Plus choose two of the half unit optional Based in the Department of Finance (see GRE/GMAT requirement: GMAT or Fixed Income Markets* courses listed above. Students must also page 57), the programme offers the GRE is required for all students without Forecasting Financial Time Series* complete a dissertation of 6,000-10,000 following benefits: a UK undergraduate degree (GMAT is words on an agreed topic in one of the • Study in a Department internationally Global Financial System* strongly preferred) and for all students optional half unit courses, and take an recognised both for its research and its with UK undergraduate degrees who do International Finance* examination in the other. institutional links. Each year the LSE’s not have, or are not expected to achieve, Financial Markets Group attracts some of the Portfolio Management* a first class degree. The GMAT is also leading international finance researchers who Quantitative Methods for Finance and recommended for those with first class present at one of its many academic research Risk Analysis* UK degrees. Students whose quantitative seminars or conferences for practitioners, skills are not demonstrated by their To fulfil the programme requirements, which students are welcome to attend. undergraduate studies must submit a students must also complete a dissertation GMAT test • The opportunity for high level of 6,000 words on an agreed topic in one of graduates who do not necessarily have the optional half unit courses, and take an Fee level: £25,488 a specific background in finance to gain examination in the other. a comprehensive foundation in finance 160 graduate prospectus MSc Finance and Private Equity

and subsequent depth in the field of of practitioners in the field. Students write a for one of the Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships private equity. 6,000 word extended essay on a topic related (sponsored by Deutsche Bank). For more to PE as part of the courses’ assessment. information, please see lse.ac.uk/finance. • Access to a new and dedicated course in During the second term students will take private equity, taught partly in conjunction three optional half unit courses, on topics Compulsory courses with a range of practitioners in the field. such as financial systems, risk management, (* half unit) About the MSc programme portfolio management methods, advanced Corporate Finance derivatives and structured financial products, The MSc Finance and Private Equity fixed income, advanced corporate finance, Asset Markets programme has been designed to meet the and applied financial valuation. needs of high-level graduates from a range Private Equity* The programme is designed for students of backgrounds, whose career objectives lie You will be required to write a 6,000 whose academic background is not broadly within the field of private equity. The word extended essay as 80 per cent of the necessarily in finance, however it is aimed programme follows the core structure of the assessment in the core Private Equity course. MSc Finance (full-time) programme, with at people with good undergraduate an additional core course in private equity degrees and good quantitative skills. Options taught in the second term. Admission to the programme is very competitive. In previous years the majority Choose three half unit options from The foundation of the programme is built of students accepted into the programme the following list of courses, two of in the first term with the study of two core have obtained first class degrees or the which must be from the list of dedicated courses – Asset Markets and Corporate equivalent. The mathematics used in the courses (†): Finance. Asset Markets takes the student programme includes basic calculus and Applied Financial Valuation* † from fundamental concepts to up to date statistics. Applicants are also required applications in fixed-income, equity, and Financial Engineering* † to have studied a minimum of A level derivatives markets. Corporate Finance Mathematics (or its equivalent). Applicants Fixed Income Securities and begins with the firm’s investment decision without a UK undergraduate degree are Credit Markets* † and the cost of capital. This in turn is linked required to submit a GMAT test (GRE is to the firm’s financial structure and market Risk Management and acceptable exceptionally). The GMAT is environment where the firm operates. It Financial Institutions* † also recommended for all students with studies in detail major financial decisions UK undergraduate degrees, especially Topics in Portfolio Management* † including dividend choice, going public, those who have not achieved, or are not Cases in Corporate Finance* † mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring expected to achieve a first class degree, in financial distress. In the second term, Forecasting Financial Time Series* or those whose quantitative skills are not students deepen their specific knowledge of demonstrated by their undergraduate Corporate Finance Theory* private equity by taking a dedicated course studies. Prior work experience is not taught by the School’s Abraaj Capital Chair International Finance* necessarily a pre-requisite for entry into the in Finance and Private Equity. This will explore programme. A good mastery of English In exceptional cases it may be possible to the structure of private equity (PE) funds and is required as demonstrated by a TOEFL take an unlisted optional course with the how PE can be used in start-ups, in scaling- score of at least 627 or an IELTS score of at approval of the programme director. up cash flow businesses, and in restructuring least 7.0 for those whose undergraduate † Dedicated to MSc Finance students firms facing financial distress. It explores the degree was not taught in English. Admitted link between PE and venture capital on the students are required to attend a pre- one hand and public securities markets on sessional Quantitative Methods course in the other. This course involves case study September. Applicants from developing and is taught in conjunction with a range countries may be eligible to be considered MSc Financial Mathematics graduate prospectus 161

MSc Financial Mathematics About the MSc programme Options This programme aims to develop students’ Choose to a total of one and half units: understanding of the foundations of financial At least one from: mathematics, and to equip them with knowledge of a range of mathematical and Computational Learning Theory and lse.ac.uk/maths computational techniques that are required Neural Networks* for a variety of quantitative positions in the Application code: G1U3 Game Theory I* financial sector. Start date: Mandatory pre-sessional Algorithms and Computation* It draws on LSE’s strengths in finance and course begins mid September 2011 Continuous-Time Optimisation* related areas, and includes compulsory and Duration: 10 months full-time optional courses given by the Department Information, Communication (including pre-sessional) (10 month of Mathematics, the Department of Finance and Cryptography* master’s programmes are not compliant and the Department of Statistics. Probability and Measure* with the Bologna process which may This MSc is mathematically advanced, affect the extent to which they are Stochastic Analysis* and applicants should have a very ‘recognised’. For more information on strong mathematics background and a Preferences, Optimal Portfolio Choice, Bologna please see page 15) minimum of a BSc degree of first or good and Equilibrium* • Study in a leading university, Intake/applications in 2009: 26/668 upper-second class in mathematics or a Search Games* internationally renowned for its research mathematics-based subject, or an equivalent Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 and teaching programmes. qualification. Prior knowledge of finance or degree in mathematics or another Up to two from: computing is not required. mathematics based subject (see page 33) • Focus on the development of student Financial Risk Analysis* understanding of quantitative methodologies The programme starts with a compulsory pre- English requirement: Higher (see Forecasting Financial Time Series* and techniques that are important for a sessional course, the purpose of which is to page 36) range of jobs in investment banks and other introduce some key concepts and techniques Derivatives* GRE/GMAT requirement: None financial institutions. of relevant mathematical theory, such as Quantitative Methods for Finance and Fee level: £20,496 • Research-led teaching that aims at probability. The pre-sessional course also Risk Analysis* enhancing students’ critical appreciation of includes an introduction to programming in Financial support: Graduate Support Portfolio Management* major issues and emerging theory in the area C++. Scheme (see page 30) of financial mathematics. Students are required to take courses to the International Finance* Application deadline: None – • Preparation for a range of careers in the value of 4 full units. Principles of Finance rolling admissions financial sector, industry and research. Compulsory courses Time Series* • Opportunity to improve personal skills, Any other course, with the agreement of the Studying at LSE (* half unit) including logical reasoning, quantitative course lecturer and the programme director This programme is based in the Department analysis, independent learning and the The Mathematics of the Black and of Mathematics (see page 83), and is taught presentation of technical results. Scholes Theory* in collaboration with the Department of The Foundations of Interest Rate, Foreign Finance (see page 57) and the Department Exchange, and Credit Risk Theory* of Statistics (see page 97). The programme provides high level instruction in the Stochastic Processes* mathematical theory underlying finance, Fixed Income Markets* and training in appropriate computational Computational Methods in Finance* methods. It offers the following benefits: 162 graduate prospectus MSc Gender / MSc Gender (Research)

contemporary theories of gender with Compulsory courses MSc Gender advanced training in quantitative and Gender Theories in the Modern World: An qualitative research methodologies. You will MSc Gender (Research) Interdisciplinary Approach take part of your degree programme in LSE’s Methodology Institute, which is a base for Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* cross-disciplinary research and teaching in the lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute Dissertation broad area of social science methodology. Application codes: Y2U8 (Y2U4 • The MSc Gender degree allows students Options Research) flexibility to choose options up to the value Choose three half units from: Start date: 29 September 2011 of 1.5 full units from a wide range of courses (* half unit) (students may only take options up to the Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 value of one full unit outside the Institute). Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender months part-time MSc Gender (Research) enables you to Gender and Media Representation* Intake/applications in 2009: 17/60 combine courses in gender with a rigorous Globalising Sexualities* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 training in quantitative and qualitative in social science or humanities (see research methods, but as a consequence Feminist Political Theory* page 33) offers no opportunities for optional units Globalisation, Gender and Development outside those listed. English requirement: Higher (see • Our interdisciplinary approach enables Cultural Constructions of the Body* page 36) students to consider theories of gender from About the MSc programmes a range of perspectives, develop a critical Gender, Globalisation and Development: GRE/GMAT requirement: None appreciation of different theories of gender For both these degrees, you should have An Introduction* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; and its application, and use the analysis of at least an upper second class honours Screening the Present: Contemporary overseas £15,888 gender relations as a basis of research. degree or its equivalent in a social science or Cinema and Cultural Critique* humanities subject. Financial support: Graduate Support • We emphasise global gender relations. Gender, Post-Colonialism, Development: Scheme (see page 30). The Research Globalisation, war and conflict, sexuality, All students follow two core courses and also Critical Perspectives and New Directions* track is eligible for ESRC 1+3 funding, migration, postcoloniality, representation, complete a 10,000 word dissertation. Dilemmas of Equality* (see www.esrc.ac.uk). The Gender employment, media, history – all these are Institute is recognised in the open gendered phenomena and deepen our MSc Gender Gender and Development: competition and can put forward one understanding of gender in turn. This is the most flexible degree the Geographical Perspectives* candidate into the MSc competition • Our students go on to work in varied Institute offers. In addition to the core Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, each year career paths: research and consultancy courses of the degree, students are Implementation and Evaluation* Application deadline: None – able to choose from the fullest range for government and non-governmental Demography of the Developing World* rolling admissions organisations (NGOs) in developed and of options in order to develop their less developed countries, international own gender studies pathway, or focus Urban Environment* on key research areas (eg, sexuality, organisations, personnel work, the legal Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain culture, globalisation, development, Studying at LSE profession and in education. (post 1945)* postcoloniality, gendered politics). The These programmes are based in the Gender • The opportunity to develop expertise in interdisciplinary approach of the MSc Race and Biopolitics* Institute (see page 59) and offer the the fullest possible range of gender theories, Gender enables students to choose course Gender and Militarisation* following benefits: and stress the significance of gender for options from within the Gender Institute Any other MSc or MA level course up to • The opportunity to study within a specialist knowledge and research design. and from other departments and institutes the value of one full unit with approval Institute located in the only UK university • The MSc Gender (Research) degree at the School. and subject to timetabling constraints. devoted entirely to the social sciences. combines a thorough grounding in MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation graduate prospectus 163

Students on MSc Gender may only take Quantitative Analysis I: Description and options up to the value of one full unit Inference* or Quantitative Analysis II: The MSc Gender, Development outside the Institute. Generalised Linear Model* and Globalisation Teaching and assessment Dissertation For the Gender core course, you will have Options lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute one and a half hour blocks of lectures Choose to the value of one full unit followed by linked seminars. There will Application code: Y2U3 from the following: be a series of compulsory dissertation Start date: 29 September 2011 workshops in the Lent term. The Gender Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 Institute holds public lectures and Linear Model* (if not already taken) months part-time workshops with eminent academics visiting Fundamentals of Research Design* London throughout the year. Intake/applications in 2009: 32/175 Qualitative Social Research: Interview, Text All students on the MSc Gender will have an and Image* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 academic adviser who will be allocated upon degree in any discipline (see page 33) Gender and Media Representation* arrival. Dissertation supervision is allocated in English requirement: Higher (see the Lent term. Globalising Sexualities* page 36) You must submit your dissertation by 1 Feminist Political Theory* GRE/GMAT requirement: None September (or the first working day after About the MSc programme Globalisation, Gender and Development if it falls on a weekend). Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; This programme is ideal for students with an Cultural Constructions of the Body* overseas £15,888 upper second or first class honours degree MSc Gender (Research) Globalisation and Gender* Financial support: Graduate Support (or equivalent). We will consider applicants This degree enables students to develop Scheme (see page 30) with a good first degree in any discipline who Screening the Present: Contemporary expertise in both gender studies and have (and can demonstrate) a special interest Cinema and Cultural Critique* Application deadline: None – research methodology, and is particularly and/or practical experience in this area. rolling admissions Gender, Post-Colonialism, Development: useful for students considering further This programme aims to: study. In addition to a thorough grounding Critical Perspectives and New Directions* • Give students a thorough understanding in contemporary theories of gender and Gender and Militarisation* Studying at LSE gender research practice, students will also of economic and social processes that This programme is offered by the Gender receive advanced training in quantitative Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions in shape the contemporary global world and Institute (see page 59) and offers the and qualitative research methodologies. Qualitative Research* their gendered outcomes; a knowledge of following benefits: Applicants from the UK and EU will be able Students must take their options from within how gender is theorised, understood and to apply for funding under the ESRC 1+3 the Gender or Methodology Institutes. • A distinctive interdisciplinary programme incorporated into development analysis, and +3 scheme. focusing on the theoretical analysis of gender, practice and policy. central to developing the necessary analytical • Be of great intellectual value to any student Compulsory courses understanding to inform policy making. seeking to understand gender issues in a (* half unit) • Provides an advanced graduate education global and transnational context and those of the highest standard to students from a seeking to do further research in this field. Gender Theories in the Modern World: An wide range of countries. Interdisciplinary Approach The programme is composed of two • The opportunity to study with a diverse compulsory courses and a dissertation, Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* range of students from all over the world. plus optional courses to the equivalent of one full unit. • Prepares students for independent research leading to an academic career. 164 graduate prospectus MSc Gender, Media and Culture

Compulsory core courses Gender and Development: Geographical Perspectives* MSc Gender, Media and Culture Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach Gender and Militarisation* Globalisation, Gender and Development or a course not listed approved by the programme director and subject to space A dissertation of 10,000 words to be and the course teacher’s consent. lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute submitted by 1 September (or the first lse.ac.uk/media@lse working day after if it falls on a weekend) Teaching and assessment Application code: Y2U7 Options On most courses teaching forms a two hour block with a mixed seminar/lecture format. Start date: 29 September 2011 (* half unit) The core course on gender theories taken Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Choose to the value of one unit from: by all students in the Gender Institute has months part-time a one and a half hour lecture and weekly Indigenous Politics in Highland classes. Assessment varies by course but Intake/applications in 2009: 13/79 Latin America* generally consists of a mixture of continuous Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Global Civil Society I* assessment and unseen examinations. The social science, or relevant humanities Global Civil Society II* Gender Institute holds a research seminar discipline (see page 33) series with outside speakers fortnightly students to consider theories of gender Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* English requirement: Higher (see throughout term time which extends and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, page 36) Globalising Sexualities* consolidates issues raised in the main courses. develop a critical appreciation of different A series of dissertation workshops are held GRE/GMAT requirement: None Feminist Political Theory* theories of gender relations to inform during the Lent term and are compulsory. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; their appreciation of existing work in their Cultural Constructions of the Body* All students on the programme will have overseas £15,888 own disciplines and in an interdisciplinary Screening the Present: Contemporary an academic adviser who will be allocated context, and use the analysis of gender Financial support: Graduate Support Cinema and Cultural Critique* upon arrival. A dissertation supervisor will be relations as a basis of research. Scheme (see page 30) Gender, Post-Colonialism, Development: allocated in the Lent term. • The Media and Communications Application deadline: None – Critical Perspectives and New Directions* Department offers interdisciplinary graduate rolling admissions teaching. It draws on the full range of Dilemmas of Equality* social science expertise to provide in depth Reproductive Health Programme: Design, understanding of the role of media and Implementation and Evaluation* Studying at LSE communications for contemporary society Demography of the Developing World* This degree is based in the Gender Institute and polity. (see page 59) and the Department of Media Approaches to Globalisation* About the MSc programme and Communications (see page 85). Urban Environment* The programme is taught jointly by The degree offers the following benefits: Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain the Gender Institute and the Media • This is a unique and intellectually (post 1945)* and Communications Department. It is stimulating programme which draws on administered from the Gender Institute. The Social Psychology of Health Communication* a broad intellectual agenda in the social programme employs a gender perspective Migration: Population Trends and Policies* sciences and the humanities. to critically examine such questions as how representations in the media may reinforce Race and Biopolitics* • The Gender Institute offers an interdisciplinary approach to enable or subvert social roles and ideologies; how gendered forms of address and MSc Gender and Social Policy graduate prospectus 165

identification have been theorised across or Theories and Concepts in Media different visual and print cultures; the role and Communications II (Processes of MSc Gender and Social Policy of a variety of media forms in critiquing or communication in modern life)* and one contributing to wider social processes such other half unit course offered by the Gender as globalisation, conflict and migration. Institute or the Department of Media and Students are encouraged to interrogate a Communications lse.ac.uk/genderInstitute variety of theoretical and methodological Gender Institute options are likely approaches to the gendered analysis of to include: lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy contemporary media and culture. In addition Application code: Y2U5 to the core units in gender theory, media Cultural Constructions of the Body* Start date: 29 September 2011 and communication and gender and media Screening the Present: Contemporary representation students can choose from a Cinema and Cultural Critique* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 range of options in the two departments. months part-time Globalising Sexualities* All students on this programme are housed Intake/applications in 2009: 14/70 within the Gender Institute. Gender and Militarisation* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in The programme involves the completion of Teaching and assessment four courses including a dissertation. social science (see page 33) Theories and Concepts in Media and English requirement: Higher (see context and to examine gender and social Compulsory courses Communications (Media and Power) involves page 36) ten one hour lectures and one and a half policy with an emphasis on the issues facing (* half unit) GRE/GMAT requirement: None hour seminars weekly. Gender Theories in the either developing or European countries. Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Modern World is taught through one and Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • An interdisciplinary approach that enables Interdisciplinary Approach a half hour lectures and seminars, and the overseas £15,888 students to consider a wide range of theories course in Gender and Media Representation Gender and Media Representation* Financial support: Graduate Support of gender and social policy. is taught through a series of one hour Methods of Research in Media and Scheme (see page 30) lectures and seminars. A series of dissertation • Training and preparation for theoretical and Communications (including Qualitative workshops are held during the Lent term and Application deadline: None – empirical research in gender and social policy. and Quantitative Analysis)* or Gender, are compulsory. rolling admissions • A choice of options from a wide range Knowledge and Research Practice* or of highly rated courses within the Gender Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions You will be assessed by written examinations, Institute and the Department of Social Policy and Qualitative Research* a series of research assignments, essays Studying at LSE related to the substantive courses and the as well as in other departments. Dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic in This programme is offered jointly by the dissertation, which must be submitted on 1 gender and the media, which is approved Gender Institute (see page 59) and the About the MSc programme September (or the first working day after if it by your tutors. This should reflect both Department of Social Policy (see page 90) falls on a weekend). The programme is intended for graduates learning from the media and gender and offers the following benefits: with a good upper second class honours components of the MSc. You may take the course part-time by taking • Study within a specialist Gender Institute degree in the social sciences. courses equivalent to two units in each year. Options and the leading British department for social This MSc provides advanced study in the All students on the programme will have a policy, rated 5* for the quality of research, application of gender theory to social Theories and Concepts in Media and personal tutor who will be allocated upon both located in the only UK university policy, planning and practice. It aims to Communications I (Key concepts and arrival. Dissertation supervision is allocated in devoted entirely to the social sciences. give students a grounded understanding interdisciplinary approaches)* and one the Lent term. • An opportunity to use contemporary of the concepts and theories relevant other half unit course offered by the gender theory to investigate social policy, to a gender analysis of social policy in a Gender Institute or the Department of planning and practice in its international global context. The teaching will focus on Media and Communications stimulating independent thought on gender 166 graduate prospectus MSc Gender and Social Policy

and difference and enhancing professional Gender and European Welfare States* Teaching and assessment capabilities in the practice of social policy. Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* For the Gender core course, you will have All students follow the two core courses, Gender and Media Representation* one and a half hour blocks of lectures Gender Theories in the Modern World: An followed by linked seminars. A series of Interdisciplinary Approach, and one half Globalising Sexualities* dissertation workshops are held during the unit, Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Feminist Political Theory* Lent term and are compulsory. The Gender Practice. Students then take a further half Institute holds a research seminar series with Globalisation, Gender and Development unit with either a European or development outside speakers fortnightly throughout term focus. In addition, students take a further Cultural Constructions of the Body* time which extends and consolidates issues combination of courses to the value of one Gender, Globalisation and Development: raised in the main courses. We regularly full unit. Finally, students must also complete An Introduction* arrange seminars with eminent academics a 10,000 word dissertation on an approved visiting London. topic. The dissertation should reflect learning Gender, Post-Colonialism, Development: For the Gender and Social Policy: Theory and from both the social policy and gender Critical Perspectives and New Directions* Practice course, you will have one and a half components of the MSc. Dilemmas of Equality* hour lectures and an accompanying one and Compulsory courses Gender and Development: a half hour seminar. A number of research Geographical Perspectives* seminars run by the Department of Social (* half unit) Policy, the Centre for Civil Society and the European Social Policy Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion will be Practice* Social Exclusion, Inequality and the of interest to students on this course. ‘Underclass’ Debate* Either Gender and Development: You must submit your dissertation by 1 Geographical Perspectives* or Gender and Social Policy: Goals and Issues* September (or the first working day after if it European Welfare States* Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, falls on a weekend). Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Implementation and Evaluation* All students on the programme will have an Interdisciplinary Approach Population Trends and Processes in the academic adviser who will be allocated upon arrival. Dissertation supervision is allocated in Dissertation Developing World* the Lent term. Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Social Policy* Options Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* Students can choose from a wide range of options in the Department of Social Urban Environment* Policy and in the Gender Institute. Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain Please note that not all options will be (post 1970)* available every year; if you are offered a place Gender and Societies* you will be advised of the availability for the following year. In addition, with the consent Approaches to Globalisation* of the teacher, the agreement of the institute Social Psychology of Health Communication* and department concerned, and subject Migration: Population Trends and Policies* to timetabling constraints, students are permitted to take any other papers offered Race and Biopolitics* at MSc or MA level. This is an indicative, but Cities, People and Poverty in the South* not an exhaustive, list of options available to gender and social policy students. Gender and Militarisation* MSc Global History graduate prospectus 167

one year may vary: for full details see course Latin American Development: Political MSc Global History descriptions at www.lse.ac.uk/calendar Economy of Growth*

Compulsory courses Latin American Development: Case Studies in Growth, Poverty and Social Change* (* half unit) India and the World Economy* lse.ac.uk/economicHistory Economic Change in Global History: International Migration, 1500-2000: From Approaches and Analysis* Application code: V3U6 Slavery to Asylum* Choose one from Start date: 29 September 2011 Research Topics in Economic History A* Essay/Dissertation* (6,000 words) Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Research Topics in Economic History B* months part-time Dissertation (10,000 words) Research Issues in African Economic History* Intake/applications in 2009: 30/77 Choose two from Scientific, Technical and Useful Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West Knowledge from Song China to the in humanities or social science. Prior Compared, c1000-1800 Industrial Revolution* knowledge of economic theory is not Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, essential (see page 33) The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and c1600-1860* English requirement: Higher (see and a desire to explore change in a global 20th Centuries International Economic Institutions since page 36) perspective over the long term. Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation World War I* GRE/GMAT requirement: None The programme was developed in response Turkey: Political Economy and to the maturation of global history as a field; Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Options European Integration* by the contribution of economic history overseas £15,888 Depending on the type of essay / and social science based approaches to Labour and Work in Pre industrial Europe* dissertation chosen, select a total of 0.5 Financial support: Graduate Support the framing and content of the field; and or one unit from Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, Scheme (see page 30) by the increasing involvement of members 1348-2000* Application deadline: None of the Department in this area. To achieve Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West coherence and rigour, the focus is specifically Compared, c1000-1800 Economic Globalisation: Long-term trends on economic change considered in its and consequences* The Development and Integration of cultural, social and political contexts. Studying at LSE the World Economy in the 19th and Research Design and Quantitative Methods This programme is based in the Department The MSc comprises of compulsory courses 20th Centuries in Economic History* of Economic History (see page 51). to the value of 1.5 units, optional courses Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation Topics in Quantitative Economic History* to the value of 1.5 or two units and a half The Long-Run Analysis of Firms About the MSc programme or full unit dissertation. The compulsory Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia and Industries* This programme is intended for graduates half unit course introduces central debates in history, geography, anthropology and and key analytical tools and the full unit Japan and Korea as Developing Economies* The Historical Context of Business* other arts degrees as well as related social courses provide a general grounding in African Economic Development in The Rise and Decline of Economic Policy in sciences, such as economics, politics and major processes in global history over the Historical Perspective* Twentieth Century Europe sociology (prior knowledge of economic last millennium. Political Economy of Late Industrialisation* The History of Economics: From Moral theory is not essential). Please note that some options have Philosophy to Social Sciences Applicants should have at least an upper prerequisites and some have a restricted Great Depressions in Economic History* intake. The range of options available in any second class honours degree or its equivalent Economic History of Southeastern Europe in a social science or humanities subject and the Middle East, 1820-1970* 168 graduate prospectus MSc Global Politics / MSc Global Politics (Global Civil Society)

The Global Civil Society stream offers a good European Integration from a Global MSc Global Politics preparation for careers in non governmental Perspective* organisations at national or global levels. MSc Global Politics (Global Civil Society) Local Power in an Era of Globalisation, Core courses Democratisation and Decentralisation* Global Civil Society I* lse.ac.uk/government From Empire to Globalisation Global Civil Society II* Global Civil Society I* and II* (required Application code: M1UG, M1UY for students on the Global Civil Society Nationalism, Democracy and Development in (Global Civil Society) stream only) Contemporary India* Start date: 29 September 2011 10,000 word dissertation Human Security* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Conflict and Institutional Design in months part-time Options Divided Societies* Student Intake/applications in 2009: (* half unit) Postcolonial Perspectives in 74/475 Choose courses from the following list (a International Relations* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 total of two full units for M1UG, one full Conflict and Peace Studies in any discipline with a considered unit for M1UY): interest in the relevant area (see Economic Development of East and global civil society. The programme offers the Environmental Problems, Politics page 33) Southeast Asia following benefits: and Development* English requirement: Higher (see Latin American Development in the • The opportunity to study in a large, Global Environmental Governance* page 36) Twentieth Century: From Liberalism to internationally renowned set of departments African Development* Neo-Liberalism GRE/GMAT requirement: None in the only UK institution devoted solely to Complex Emergencies* The Development and Integration of Fee level: £17,040 the social sciences. the World Economy in the 19th and • The opportunity to study courses from HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats* Financial support: Graduate Support 20th Centuries Scheme (see page 30) across the four politics departments of LSE. Global Political Economy of Development I* European Models of Capitalism* Application deadline: None • Global Politics brings together the expertise Global Political Economy of Development II* of LSE staff at the cutting edge of debates Democracy in East and South Asia* Ethnic Diversity and International Society* about globalisation and global politics. National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation* Studying at LSE Identity, Community and the ‘Problem • A good preparation for further research of Minorities’* States and Markets* This programme is based in the Department work or for a career in education, the public of Government (see page 64), but the services or the private sector at national, Partisanship in Europe* The State and Political Institutions in teaching is interdisciplinary and carried international or global levels. Latin America* Government and Politics in China* out by Government, the International Democracy and Development in Globalisation and Democracy* Relations Department, the Department of About the MSc programmes Latin America* International Development and the European We will consider applicants with a 2:1 or Globalisation, Conflict and Politics and Policy in Britain* Institute. It brings together many of the above in any discipline, with a considered Post-Totalitarianism* unique resources of these departments into interest in the area covered by the MSc. Nationalism Globalisation, Gender and Development a leading, interdisciplinary programme on Students can also apply for the Global Civil War, Peace and the Politics of National globalisation, global governance and global Gender, Globalisation and Development: Society stream of the MSc Global Politics, Self-Determination* politics. It also has close ties with LSE Global An Introduction* which has a second core course focusing on Governance, which carries out research Democracy and Democratisation in East and knowledge that can enhance the strategic Democratisation and its Discontents in on global governance, global security and South Asia* capacity of global civil society organisations. Southeast Asia* MSc Health, Community and Development graduate prospectus 169

Comparative Democratisation* collective action in public health and health MSc Health, Community promotion. It pays particular attention to Social Theory and Political Commitment: The the psycho-social processes underlying the Case of Max Weber and Nationalism* and Development impact of collective action on health and Comparative Politics of Redistribution in well-being, and explores the mechanisms Advanced Democracies whereby community development psych.lse.ac.uk/hcd International Political Economy of approaches have the potential to lead the Environment Application code: L7U9 not only to improved health, but also to transformatory social action. The EU in the World Start date: 29 September 2011 The programme involves completing four European Society and Politics Beyond the Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 course units, which include a dissertation of Nation State* months part-time 10,000 words. The International Relations of the Middle East Intake/applications in 2009: 19/95 Please also note that the programme Economic Diplomacy Minimum entry requirement: A good structure is currently under review and degree in any subject, together with the structure offered may differ from that Comparative Political Economy evidence of a considered interest in listed below. Islam in International Relations: From Al- the area (see page 33) Andalus to Afghanistan Compulsory courses English requirement: Standard (see development, social inequalities, social World Poverty and Human Rights* page 36) change, social representations, the media, (* half unit) organisational psychology, resistance to NGOs and Development GRE/GMAT requirement: None Health, Community and Development change, risk communication, racism and Managing Globalisation* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; multiculturalism, sexuality, gender and Research Methods Popular Politics in the Middle East* overseas £15,888 social identities. Dissertation Financial support: Graduate Support • The Institute has close links with the Introduction to International Political Theory* Options (Michaelmas term) as a pre-requisite for Scheme (see page 30) Department of Sociology at LSE and also Politics of International Law* (Lent term) Application deadline: None – LSE’s interdisciplinary institutes and research Choose options to the value of one full and The International Political Theory of rolling admissions centres: the Department of International unit from: Development (formerly known as DESTIN), Humanitarian Intervention* (Lent term) The Anthropology of Development* LSE Health, the Methodology Institute, and Managing Humanitarianism* Studying at LSE BIOS. It has strong international links at Complex Emergencies* Please note that not every course is necessar- graduate level and in joint research within HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging This programme is based in the Institute of ily available each year, and some may only be Europe (both East and West) and with Health Threats* Social Psychology (see page 93) and offers available with permission of the course tutor. institutions in both North and South America the following benefits: Managing Humanitarianism* See lse.ac.uk/coursecapping and Africa. • Study in a research led Institute which Globalising Sexualities* has the largest concentration of social About the MSc programme Gender and Development: psychologists in Europe and which has We will consider applicants with a good first Geographical Perspectives* excellent multimedia computing and degree in any discipline and a considered Cities, People and Poverty in the South* technical support. interest in the area covered by the • Teaching is research led and among the programme. Relevant professional experience Social Representations* would also be desirable, though not essential. current wide range of interests are cultural Social Psychology of Health Communication* psychology, discourse and communication, This programme explores the role of health, collective action, community community participation and small scale 170 graduate prospectus MSc Health Economics, Policy and Management (modular)

Representations, Institutions several specialist research groups based in and Communities* MSc Health Economics, Policy and the Department. Modern Social Psychology* Management (modular) With our wide variety of modules, you have the flexibility to customise Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture your curriculum, pursue the areas that and Resistance* Studying at LSE lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy most interest you, fit your background, Psychoanalysis and Communication* This programme is based in the Department experience, and goals, and challenge you lse.ac.uk/LSEHealth Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, of Social Policy (see page 90) with staff to reach your fullest potential. You’ll leave Implementation and Evaluation* Application code: L4HM based at LSE Health and aims to provide LSE with the high level knowledge and a set of high quality, integrated courses range of skills to master new challenges Basic Education for Social Development* Start date: First 2-week session to to equip students in health economics, and expand your choice of careers. commence December 2011 Globalisation and Social Policy* health policy and health care management. Duration: Modular programme. 24 Specifically it provides: About the MSc programme Health and Population in Developing and months (maximum 50) for the MSc Transitional Societies* • The opportunity to study in a Department Applicants with a good first degree from Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 which has achieved the highest rating in the within any subject background or substantial Health Systems and Policies in in any discipline, with social science UK (5*) for the quality of its research. work experience in the health policy field will Developing Countries* background and/or work experience in be considered. • Study in one of the most highly rated Not all these courses may be available in the health policy field (see page 33) research centres (LSE Health) in the subject You can supply one academic and one any one year. English requirement: Standard (see area in the world, both for its research and its professional reference to be considered for In addition to these recommended courses, page 36) institutional links. this programme. there may be cases where students wish GRE/GMAT requirement: None • A modular course structure allowing The Modular MSc will comprise eight half to do other half unit options offered in the students to take the course whilst unit taught courses spaced over two years School subject to availability. Attendance on Fee level: Please refer to website engaged in employment through and a dissertation. Students will attend LSE other courses would have to be approved by for details attendance at four two-week intensive for four two-week sessions and one one-day the programme director. Financial support: This programme LSE based lecture courses. exam and final programme closure session is not eligible for the Graduate over the two year period. • This is a modular MSc with Diploma or Support Scheme Certificate exit points depending on the A key component of the MSc is a dissertation Application deadline: None – number of modules taken. of up to 10,000 words on a topic individually rolling admission selected, to be prepared in conjunction with • The opportunity for individuals in a personal supervisor. For students continuing Note: Programme fee does not government, industry and the health care to a PhD this will normally form the basis for include accommodation costs, travel services sector to achieve a formal graduate their eventual doctoral thesis. expenses or any additional expenses qualification in Health Economics, Policy incurred while studying at LSE. The and Management even if they are unable to LSE Accommodation Office can devote themselves to full-time study. offer advice for students looking for • Teaching by specialists who are at accommodation. Students will have the forefront of research into British full access to the Library and electronic and European health economics and resources available to all LSE students health policy. including an email address • A comparative, international and multidisciplinary environment with links to MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing graduate prospectus 171

Compulsory courses MSc Health Policy, Planning Options (* half unit) One half unit from the following and Financing LSE courses: Health Economics* Health Economics* Financing Health Care* About the MSc programme Pharmaceutical Economics* Resource Allocation and Cost- lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy effectiveness Analysis* The MSc Health Policy, Planning and Foundations of Health Policy* www.lshtm.ac.uk Financing is one of the oldest graduate level Health Administration and Management* Application code: You should apply programmes in health policy worldwide, Plus one half unit from the following Dissertation* through the London School of Hygiene having been offered continuously since 1986. LSHTM courses: and Tropical Medicine. If you also wish The programme aims to develop competence Health Policy, Process and Power* Options to apply for an LSE only programme and expertise in the field of health policy, planning and finance. You will develop: Basic Epidemiology* The options list offers choices in order you should submit a separate application to LSE to permit students to select options • an understanding of the process of Issues in Public Health* reflecting their chosen interests and Start date: Late September 2011 at policy making. fitting in with the proposed subject of Plus an additional two full units from LSHTM • knowledge of key options in the policy, their dissertation. The following are the following: Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 planning and financing of health services. a selection of the courses that can be Statistical Methods in Health Care months part-time • an ability to use disciplines required in taken as options: Economic Evaluation* Further information: Contact Mr Paul formulating, implementing and evaluating Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy* Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care* Shanley, Deputy Registrar, London School health policies and plans. Measuring Health Outcomes* of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, email: • an understanding of the diversity of Valuing Health* [email protected] Measuring Health System Performance* international health policies. Advanced Health Economics* Principles of Evidence-Based Medicine and You must take courses to the value of Economic Evaluation* Clinical Trials* Studying at LSE four units overall, one of which includes a Economic Evaluation for Health Policy* 6,000 word long essay. Statistical Methods in Heath Care This programme is based in the Health Systems and Policies* Economic Evaluation* Department of Social Policy (see page 90) NB: Potential applicants are strongly advised to check the relevant web Health Systems and Policies in Health Information Systems* and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and offers the pages of both LSE and LSHTM as these Developing Countries* Please note that options will not run with will always contain the most up to following benefits: Health Impact and Decision Analysis* less than ten students. date version of the MSc programme • Study in a Department which has achieved regulations and structure. Analytical Models for Decision Making* Those students unable to complete the the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the two year MSc programme may obtain a quality of its research. Organisational Management* certificate or diploma. Compulsory courses Conflict and Health* • The opportunity to have close contacts with (* half unit) leading research centres in the field of health Primary Health Care Revisited: Concepts, Financing Health Care* (LSE) policy, such as LSE Health and Social Care Tools and Experiences in Low and Middle based in the Department of Social Policy. Health Services* (LSHTM) Income Countries* Dissertation Globalisation and Health* Behavioural Public Policy* Another half unit course (with permission) 172 graduate prospectus MSc Health, Population and Society

Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, MSc Health, Population and Society Implementation and Evaluation* Demography of the Developing World*

Options lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy Choose to the value of a further one and a half units (usually as three half Application code: L4U3 units) from a selection that includes any Start date: 29 September 2011 not taken above or examples such as: Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 Health Systems and Policies in months part-time Developing Countries* Intake/applications in 2009: 16/62 Healthcare Information Systems* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Financing Health Care* any discipline (see page 33) Health Economics* English requirement: Standard (see Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy* page 36) Social Exclusion, Inequality and the GRE/GMAT requirement: None About the MSc programme ‘Underclass’ Debate* Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; You normally need at least an upper second Foundations of Health Policy* overseas £15,888 class honours degree or its equivalent. No particular academic background is required. Social Policy: Goals and Issues* Financial support: Graduate Support Scheme (see page 30) The programme involves completing courses Statistical Methods in Healthcare to the value of three full units and a 10,000 Economic Evaluation* Application deadline: None – word dissertation on a relevant topic. rolling admissions Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health Care* Compulsory courses Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* Studying at LSE (* half unit) Valuing Health* This programme is based in the Department Health and Population in Contemporary Measuring Health System Performance* of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the Developed Societies* Migration: Population Trends and Policies* following benefits: Health and Population in Developing and US Health Policies* • Study in a Department which has achieved Transitional Societies* Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies in the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the Dissertation quality of its research. Developing Countries* Plus one from: • The chance to examine health and Behavioural Public Policy* population interactions and policy Population and Development: An implications in considerable depth. Analytic Approach* • Teaching by specialists who are at the HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging forefront of their disciplines. Health Threats* Population Analysis: Methods and Models* Methods of Population Planning* MA/MSc History of International Relations graduate prospectus 173

international business and for advanced The European Welfare State After World MA/MSc History of International Relations academic research. War II Note that not all the courses listed will From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End necessarily be available in any one year. of the Cold War Era, 1979-1997 For more information, see lse.ac.uk/ the treatment of national histories in an The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, internationalHistory lse.ac.uk/international international context, and where over half 1917-1990 History the graduate students come from elsewhere Course 1 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, Application code: V1IB (MA); in Europe or further afield. 1839-1945 Choose one from the following list: V1S7 (MSc) • The tight coherence of course choices The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, Start date: 29 September 2011 enables students from related disciplines such as political science, modern 1914-1991 Crises and Détente in the Cold War, Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 1962-1979 languages, economics, law or journalism Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: months part-time to make the transition to the study of From Roosevelt to Reagan 1933-89 The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Intake/applications in 2009: 58/220 international relations. Society and Diplomacy The European Enlightenment, 1680-1830 Minimum entry requirement: Good • Through different combinations of courses War Cultures, 1890-1945 Anglo-American Relations from World War first degree in any discipline (see page offered in the Department or elsewhere to Cold War, 1939-91 The West: Identity and Interests* 33) in the School, the chance to specialise in a wide range of geographical regions or other Cultural Encounters from the Renaissance to or English requirement: Higher (see aspects of international history including the Modern World page 36) A further course from the Course 1 world wars, East-West conflict, European Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama selection list (subject to approval by the GRE/GMAT requirement: None integration, the role of political doctrines Bin Laden programme director) Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; and ideologies, revolutions and national Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa A course from another MSc programme overseas £15,888 liberation struggles. run by the Department of International • The opportunity to engage at an advanced Persecution in Europe: From Witch-hunts to Financial support: Graduate Support History (subject to approval by the level with the latest academic research and Ethnic Cleansing Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students programme director) may apply to the Arts and Humanities undertake your own research-based term Western Intellectuals and the Challenge or Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk) work and dissertation. of Totalitarianism A related course from another Application deadline: None – • Superb library and IT facilities, and easy International History Since 1900 department (subject to approval by the rolling admissions access to a world-class range of nearby libraries and archives. Courses 2 and 3 programme director) Choose two from the following list: Course 4 Studying at LSE About the MA/MSc programme European Integration in the Dissertation of no more than 10,000 words This programme is based in the Department Twentieth Century We will consider applicants with good first on an international history topic of International History (see page 69) and degrees in any discipline and a commitment Democracy, Dictatorship and Foreign offers the following benefits: to the field covered by the MA/MSc. Intervention: Spain and the Great Powers, • Study in a Department whose teaching 1931-1953 This MA/MSc is a good preparation for a and research have been rated as excellent research degree and also provides excellent The Napoleonic Empire: the Making of in national assessment exercises and press training in the field for related careers in Modern Europe? league tables. government, the media, teaching, library The International History of the Balkans Since • Study in a Department focused on and museum posts, politics, law and 1939: State Projects, Wars and Social Conflict the history of international relations and 174 graduate prospectus MSc Human Geography (Research)

Contemporary Debates in Human MSc Human Geography (Research) Geography Seminar* Research Methods: (two half unit courses cover quantitative and qualitative research methods) lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd Dissertation Environment Options Application code: L8UH Choose one of the following specialist Start date: 29 September 2011 areas. Each comprises two courses (one Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 half and one full unit): months part-time Economic Geography Intake/applications in 2009: 1/10 Development Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Environmental Regulation in geography or social science (see page 33) Urban English requirement: Standard (see • Our master’s programmes all focus or any other courses to the value of one and page 36) on developing graduates’ abilities to a half units as approved by the course tutor integrate theoretical developments with and the teacher concerned GRE/GMAT requirement: None practical experience. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • This MSc provides a solid training for entry overseas £15,888 into PhD research in social, economic and Financial support: Graduate Support environmental geography in a highly rated Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students research active department. may apply to the ESRC for funding, • Our MSc graduates enter a wide variety (see www.esrc.ac.uk) of employment including consultancy, the Application deadline: None – public sector and education. rolling admissions About the MSc programme Note: You should include in your personal statement that you wish to This programme will be of interest if you be considered for ESRC studentships have studied geography or a related social science subject at undergraduate level and are now looking for a more focused Studying at LSE introduction to human geographical research. It is designed as a preparation This programme is based in the Department for study at PhD level, as well as further of Geography and Environment (see page training in a broad range of substantive 61) and offers the following benefits: geographical and environmental themes. Study in a Department which focuses on social and economic aspects of geography, Compulsory courses situated in the only UK university devoted (* half unit) solely to the social sciences. MSc Human Rights graduate prospectus 175

About the MSc programme interest and/or practical experience in MSc Human Rights human rights. Through the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, students will have contact with Programme structure policy makers and practitioners, especially those from London based human rights The compulsory multidisciplinary human approach, the programme applies a broad rights course provides students with an lse.ac.uk/humanRights definition of human rights. organisations. Many staff work with activist and advocacy organisations. The overview of the philosophical, sociological Application code: L3U9 The degree is unique in linking three usually degree programme is not, however, strictly and legal approaches to this subject. The Start date: 29 September 2011 separate areas: vocational, nor does it offer any professional course gets students thinking about the qualifications, whether in law or for the foundations, concepts and ideals of human Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 • Legal, philosophical and political human rights practitioner. We offer you in rights, while taking a critical view of them as months part-time perspectives on human rights. depth graduate studies that serve as a guide an academic subject and area of practice. The • Social scientific research on the causes and Intake/applications in 2009: 61/314 to critical thinking about human rights. course serves as an introduction to the core control of gross human rights violations. standards and structures of human rights Minimum entry requirement: Good The degree will provide you with: and discusses a range of key issues in the first degree in law or any social science • Policy formation, legal implementation • Relevant background knowledge in current, ongoing debates about the role of subject, or a degree in another discipline and the daily practice of human rights sociology, philosophy and law. human rights. While these may change from with demonstrable special interest in work in official government bodies, year to year, thematic issues that the core human rights or relevant experience as a international structures and non- • Specialised knowledge in human rights course covers include: democracy, genocide, practitioner (see page 33) governmental organisations. thematic topics. globalisation, humanitarian intervention, English requirement: Higher (see In addition to teaching and research, the • Focused engagement on the subject that migration, minority rights, right to life, page 36) Centre for the Study of Human Rights you choose for your research dissertation. terrorism and human rights, transitional runs a public events programme which justice, and world poverty. The course GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Exposure to key national and international includes public lectures, visiting speaker provides a strong intellectual underpinning debates about human rights as an ‘issue of Fee level: UK/EU £11,688; seminars and conferences. Through this for your multidisciplinary study of human our times’. overseas £17,040 programme, the centre enables scholars, rights, which will be built on in your optional practitioners, journalists, and policy makers The degree will provide a strong foundation Financial support: Graduate Support choice of courses and dissertation. from the public, private, commercial and for careers in academic research and Scheme (see page 30) Dr Alasdair Cochrane (philosophy), Professor non-governmental sectors to examine critical teaching; non-academic research Conor Gearty (domestic law), Dr Claire Application deadline: None – issues in the field of human rights. For (monitoring, evaluation); law, especially Moon (sociology) and Dr Margot Salomon rolling admissions further details on these public events and international law and advocacy (albeit usually (international law) are the central course information about the Centre for the Study with other qualifications); foreign policy lecturers. LSE staff who are members of Human Rights generally, see lse.ac.uk/ work; working for activist organisations of the Centre’s Advisory Board are also Studying at LSE humanRights. The Centre has also set up in the humanitarian sector; human rights; working actively on research and policy This MSc offers a concentrated 12-month a programme of visiting fellowships and has development; civil liberties; welfare; as well projects in human rights and closely related engagement with the foundations of, and an active research programme on which MSc as specialised agencies concerned with, for areas and bring a rich array of expertise to key problems in, human rights and does so students assist from time to time. For more example, refugees; women’s rights; torture the Centre and our students. A selection under the guidance of leading scholars in the information about the programme structure victims; children’s rights. of topics that staff research are: animal field. The nature of human rights makes it and study at the Centre for the Study of Preference will be given to applicants with rights, climate change and human rights, not just an object of study, but also a matter Human Rights you can view the current a good first degree in a core social science conflict resolution, criminal justice policy, of policy, intervention and practice. The year’s handbook from the Department of subject or law. We will consider applicants democratisation development, ethical links between theory and practice will be Sociology web pages, located in the index of with a good first degree in any discipline foreign policy, ethnic nationalism, genocide, discussed throughout this multidisciplinary documents www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ who have (and can demonstrate) a special globalisation and global government, hate programme. Given its multidisciplinary sociology/docufind.htm. speech and freedom of expression, media 176 graduate prospectus MSc Human Rights

and public reactions to atrocities, minority Options Department of Government World Poverty and Human Rights* and indigenous rights, policing, refugee and (* half unit) National and Ethnic Conflict Regulation* The International Law of Self-Determination* asylum studies, religious rights, terrorism, transitional justice, torture, women’s human Choose two or more optional courses Globalisation and Democracy* International and European Labour Law and Protection of Social Rights rights and world poverty. (to the value of two units) from a wide The State and Political Institutions in range offered by the LSE departments In addition to the core course and optional Latin America* International Dispute Resolution: Courts and institutes associated with the Centre courses, students write a 10,000 word and Tribunals* for the Study of Human Rights. War, Peace and the Politics of National dissertation, assessed as the equivalent of a Self-Determination* The International Law of Self-Determination* whole course. You can choose any subject Options vary from year to year, but will The Liberal Idea of Freedom* Law and the Holocaust* that interests you under the broad human normally include: rights rubric, and you may take either an Dilemmas of Equality* Theory of Human Rights Law* interdisciplinary approach or one that is more Department of Anthropology Contemporary Disputes about Justice* sociological, legal or philosophical, using Anthropology of Development* Department of Social Policy original research or secondary sources. After Law in Society: A Joint Course in Department of International Relations Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development consultation with your assigned supervisor, Anthropology and Law your topic is approved at the end of the Conflict and Peace Studies Social Rights and Human Welfare* second term. You will normally get started in Anthropology and Human Rights* Introduction to International Political Theory* International Planning and Children’s Rights* the spring, but do most of the work in the Anthropology of Politics The International Political Theory of International Social Policy and summer months before the dissertation is Humanitarian Intervention* Children’s Needs* submitted in August 2012. Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange* The Politics of International Law* NGOs and Development We encourage students to deal with key Anthropology of Economy (2): The International Politics of Culture issues through the lens of a particular case Department of Sociology study, social problem or body of law, such Transformation and Globalisation* and Religion as (to pick a selection from past years): Political Reconciliation Development Studies Institute Department of Law reporting and representing genocide and Racial Formations of Modernity mass-atrocities – human rights, objectivity Population and Development: An Human Rights in the Developing World Topics in Race, Ethnicity and and bystander apathy; the changes in Analytic Approach* International Criminal Law Postcolonial Studies American foreign policy in the Middle East African Development* after September 11; international financial The International Law of Armed Conflict and Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain institutions in sub-Saharan Africa; Japanese Complex Emergencies* the Use of Force (post 1945)* social structure and women’s human rights; HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging International Human Rights Race and Biopolitics* public protest and the freedom of political Health Threats* expression in the UK; the human rights Human Rights of Women Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post- Managing Humanitarianism* Colonial Societies* role of the UN Security Council; transitional International Law and the Protection of justice, child soldiers and African conflicts. Global Civil Society I* Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants Registration for these options depends on availability, regulations and conditions of the Global Civil Society II* Law of Human Rights in the Compulsory courses host department. Further restrictions apply to United Kingdom* Approaches to Human Rights European Institute the Law Department options that are part of The Theory, History and Practice of Human the LLM degree. Dissertation Ethnic Diversity and International Society* Rights Law* Identity, Community and the Problem Human Rights in the United Kingdom: of Minorities* Theory, Law and Practice Minorities and Migration in Europe* Terrorism and the Rule of Law* MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies graduate prospectus 177

the opportunity to attend a weekly lecture Global Civil Society I* MSc International Development and series that brings to the School prominent Global Civil Society II* Humanitarian Emergencies scholars and practitioners who discuss the findings and methodological dimensions of Nationalism, Democracy and Development in development research and/or problems of Contemporary India* development practice. lse.ac.uk/international IT and Development Development Compulsory courses Complex Emergencies* (if not already taken) Application code: L1S4 Development: History, Theory, Policy Managing Humanitarianism* Start date: 29 September 2011 Complex Emergencies* or Managing (if not already taken) Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Humanitarianism* months part-time Humanitarian Consultancy Project Government Intake/applications in 2009: New Dissertation Globalisation, Conflict and programme for 2011 Post-Totalitarianism* Options Minimum entry requirement: Good International Relations 2:1 in social science, or in another field (* half unit) Conflict and Peace Studies (with permission) with relevant work experience (see disasters and civil wars and the international, Choose courses to the value of two page 33) national and local responses. full units from the following list in Social Policy English requirement: Higher (see consultation with your supervisor. • Involvement in a practical policy Rural Development and Social Studies page 36) project within an humanitarian aid agency, or Anthropology (with permission) GRE/GMAT requirement: None another kind of humanitarian organisation. The Anthropology of Development* Social Psychology Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • A choice of options from a wide range of overseas £15,888 highly rated courses within the Institute and Development Studies Health, Community and Development in other departments specialising in political Financial support: Graduate Support Poverty* Another MSc level course in the School, economy, public policy and management. Scheme (see page 30) selected in consultation with the Economic Development Policy • Contact with a highly selective group of student’s supervisor and approved by the Application deadline: None – rolling fellow students, bringing practical experience Population and Development: An programme director. admissions. Early application is advised from all over the world. Analytical Approach* Note that not all of the above optional • The development of analytical skills that Environmental Problems, Politics courses will be available every year. Studying at LSE have secured past students promising and Development* Some options have prerequisites, while professional careers in public, private This programme is based in the Department Global Environmental Governance* others have limited places. of International Development (formerly and voluntary agencies dealing with African Development* Please check lse.ac.uk/destin for the known as DESTIN) (see page 67) and offers development problems at both national latest information. the following benefits: and international levels. HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats* • Core courses that employ a political About the MSc programmes economy approach to examine the Global Political Economy of Development I All students must take the core courses institutional roots of development and and complete a dissertation of up to Global Political Economy of Development II non-development. Also looking at the 10,000 words. Students also participate consequences and causes of humanitarian Managing Globalisation* in a practical policy project which forms Public Management of Development* part of their total assessment. You have 178 graduate prospectus MSc International Employment Relations and Human Resource Management

of comparative scholars whose research Options MSc International Employment Relations spans a range of different countries and Choose a total of two full units from: and Human Resource Management organisational settings in North America, Europe and Asia. Management of Human Resources: Strategies and Policy* The programme is based in the lse.ac.uk/EROB Employment Relations and Organisational International and Comparative Human Behaviour Group, within the Department Resource Management* Application code: N6U5 of Management. Applicants normally Cross Cultural Management* Start date: 29 September 2011 require a first or upper second class honours degree (or the overseas Leadership in Organisations: Theory Duration: 12 months full-time equivalent) to be considered for a place. and Practice* Intake/applications in 2009: 86/498 Appropriate work experience is useful, but Organisational Behaviour* not essential. If appropriate, applicants may Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Organisational Change* any discipline (see page 33) also need an English language test score at the higher grade specified by the School. Negotiation Analysis* English requirement: Higher (see page 36) In contrast to the MSc Management and Managing Diversity in Organisations* Human Resources, this MSc offers students Corporate Social Responsibility and GRE/GMAT requirement: None a wider range of disciplinary options and analyse and compare employment relations International Labour Standards* Fee level: £15,888 systems. Following this, the core course in has a stronger emphasis on international and comparative work. The comparative Organisational Theory* Financial support: Graduate Support Comparative Human Resource Management employment relations course primarily covers Scheme (see page 30) examines the way in which different legal, Reward Systems: Key Models and Practices* Europe, East Asia and the United States; institutional and cultural settings influence Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations Application deadline: None – while available options and dissertation work HRM practices and outcomes, providing at Work* rolling admissions vital analytical tools for global managers and give students the opportunity to study other countries in more depth. Further courses Notes: Opportunity to progress to decision-makers. The wide range of options The Dark Side of the Organisation* available offer discipline-based teaching in European Master’s in Labour Studies available on the programme allows students Personnel Economics* labour economics, industrial psychology, with one of a number of partner to explore different disciplinary approaches organisational behaviour, sociology and law. Sociology of Employment II: Contemporary institutions (see page 12) to analysing the employment relationship Management and Globalisation* such as those of organisational behaviour, Students can also extend their studies sociology and comparative politics. The beyond the end of the MSc by way of An optional course from the others About the MSc programme programme also offers more specialised the European Master’s in Labour Studies, offered at MSc level within the School MSc International Employment Relations options in areas such as corporate social which allows entry to around a dozen other (subject to approval) and Human Resource Management responsibility, negotiation analysis, and participating universities. provides a comparative and interdisciplinary reward systems, as well as access to further perspective on employment. The core comparative and international course options Compulsory courses courses give students the theoretical across the School. (* half unit) tools to understand the global diversity The mixture of disciplinary rigour and Comparative Employment Relations* of employment relations and HRM, and international evidence provided by the to evaluate the practical implications of programme prepares students for future Comparative Human these cross-national differences. Students work in a variety of areas including Resource Management* explore a variety of national employment management, trade unions, government, Dissertation systems for the core course in Comparative consultancy, and academic and policy Employment Relations, learning how to research. It is taught by an outstanding group MSc International Health Policy / MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) graduate prospectus 179

MSc International MSc International Health Policy Health Policy MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) Students must take courses to the value of four full units as shown below, and In the MSc International Health Policy, undertake an MSc dissertation. lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy you analyse current and emerging health Compulsory courses Application codes: L4UH (L4UJ care problems and the range of health Health Economics) policies being developed to meet them (* half unit) internationally. The programme gives you Financing Health Care* Start date: 29 September 2011 the opportunity to examine important Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 health policy issues through the application Measuring Health System Performance* months part-time of basic health policy and economic Dissertation principles. Within the MSc, the Health Intake/applications in 2009: 35/219 Economics stream allows you to concentrate Two of the following courses: Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 on options geared to health economics Health Economics* in science, medicine, economics or analysis. While health policy training is social science. Professional experience retained, if you pursue the relevant range Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy* is advantageous. For the Health • International faculty in some modules, of options, recognition of your specialism in Foundations of Health Policy* Economics stream, first degree should enhancing the programmes’ health economics is acknowledged. be in economics, mathematics, Options international perspective. For both the programmes, you take statistics, or any other quantitative courses to the value of four units consisting Choose to the value of two full units subject (see page 33) • Potential for internships with major international and governmental of compulsory and optional courses. In from the following: English requirement: Standard (see addition, both the programmes require you organisations, companies or academic Public Economics I page 36) institutions as part of the overall to undertake a compulsory MSc dissertation Healthcare Information Systems* GRE/GMAT requirement: None student assessment. on a relevant topic which may be written in conjunction with a summer placement with Quantitative Analysis I: Description Fee level: UK/EU £12,690; • Contact with research staff in LSE Health a government department or agency, or and Inference* and Social Care, including specialists in health overseas £18,042 international, or private organisations, private economics, public health, social care and Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Financial support: Graduate Support companies or academic research institutions. European health care reform. Linear Model* Scheme (see page 30) You study with a highly international and European Social Policy Application deadline: None – About the MSc programmes diverse group of students. Professional destinations after completing the degree Statistical Methods in Health Care rolling admissions There are two MSc streams. For the Health include consultancies, pharmaceutical Economic Evaluation* Policy stream you need a first degree in a companies, national health services, relevant academic subject (science, medicine, Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Health Care* Studying at LSE international organisations and economics, other social sciences) whereas for government departments and agencies as Health and Population in Contemporary These programmes are based in the the Health Economics stream you need a first well as employment in research or further Developed Societies* Department of Social Policy (see page 90) degree in economics, mathematics, statistics study for a PhD. and offer the following benefits: or any other quantitative subject. For both Health and Population in Developing and • Study in a Department which has achieved streams, the degree should be at a standard Transitional Societies* the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the equivalent to a British university upper Valuing Health* quality of its research. second class honours. Relevant professional Health Systems and Policies in experience would also be advantageous. Developing Countries* 180 graduate prospectus MSc International Management

Financing Health Care in Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Developing Countries* Linear Model* MSc International Management Advanced Health Economics* Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy* US Health Policies* Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation* Pharmaceutical Economics and Policies in lse.ac.uk/MES Developing Countries* Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies* Application code: N1UQ Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society Measuring Health System Performance* Start date: 29 September 2011. Some students are required to participate in Behavioural Public Policy* Health Systems and Policies in pre-sessional courses during September Developing Countries* Another LSE course subject to approval of Duration: 12 months full-time only the course tutor US Health Policies* Intake/applications in 2009: 23/304 Selected linear and study units at London Pharmaceutical Economics and Politics in School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Developing Countries* Minimum entry requirement: A subject to the approval of the course tutor first class or very good 2:1 degree Key Issues in Biomedicine, Bioscience (or equivalent) in management or a MSc International Health and Society management related subject such or Asia. After completing the degree, Policy (Health Economics) Financing Health Care in as economics. Applicants must have students often go on to careers in banking, Developing Countries* Students must take courses to the value taken courses in maths, statistics and consulting or in multinational companies. of four full units as shown below, and Another LSE course subject to approval of economics (see page 33) undertake an MSc dissertation. the course tutor English requirement: Higher (see Applications page 36) Interested students should contact Compulsory courses Selected linear and study units at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine GRE/GMAT requirement: All applicants the coordinator, Mrs Julie Fordham (* half unit) subject to approval of the course tutor must submit a GRE or GMAT ([email protected]) for further information on availability of places and Financing Health Care* Fee level: £20,496 the application criteria. Health Economics* Financial support: Graduate Support Students must take four half unit courses at Dissertation Scheme (see page 30) LSE, courses to the value of one full unit at Application deadline: None a school/university abroad, and a 10,000 Two of the following courses: word dissertation. Note: This programme includes a term Cost-Effectiveness Analysis* abroad at a partner institution Part 1 Valuing Health* (* half unit) Advanced Health Economics* About the MSc programme Either Business in the Global Environment* Options The MSc International Management or The World Trading System* Choose courses to the value of two full degree offers the opportunity to combine units from the following: an analytical approach to studying Part 2 management at LSE with the more practical Courses to the value of 1.5 units from: Public Economics approach of an MBA programme. All Quantitative Analysis I: Description students spend a term abroad at a Incentives and Governance in Organisations* and Inference* prestigious MBA school in North America MSc International Political Economy / MSc International Political Economy (Research) graduate prospectus 181

International Marketing: A Strategic Approach* MSc International Political Economy The Analysis of Strategy A* MSc International Political Economy (Research) Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling* Negotiation Analysis* you will need to have decided to study the lse.ac.uk/international research programme and state this on your Management of Human Resources: Relations application form. If you do not apply for, or Strategies and Policies* Application codes: M1UW (M1UJ do not get, ESRC funding, it may be possible, Accounting in the Global Economy* Research) depending on your choice of options, to change programmes up to the end of the The option not taken in Part 1 (with approval) Start date: 29 September 2011 first term of the course. One half unit from other available courses at Duration: 11 months full-time; 23 The majority of the teaching takes place in the school months part-time the Michaelmas and Lent terms. You must Part 3 Intake/applications in 2009: 64/524 also submit a 10,000 word dissertation by 1 September. Minimum entry requirement: Term abroad. Courses to the value 2:1 in politics, economics, history, For those interested in taking the LSE- of one unit to be taken at one of the international relations or similar Sciences Po Double Degree in International • Former students go on to work in partner schools. discipline (see page 33) Affairs, comprising of a one year MSc government, international organisations, programme at Sciences Po Paris followed by Part 4 English requirement: Higher (see financial institutions, journalism and MSc International Relations or International page 36) corporations, and a good number Dissertation Political Economy, see page 106. continue on to research degrees and the GRE/GMAT requirement: None academic profession. Applicants should note that these Fee level: £15,888 programmes focus on political economy and Financial support: Graduate Support About the MSc programmes do not specialise in international economics. Scheme (see page 30). The research These programmes are intended for Although economic concepts are taken track is eligible for ESRC 1+3 funding, graduates with a good first degree in politics, very seriously, the focus is firmly upon (see www.esrc.ac.uk) economics, history, international relations and the political determinants and effects of other degrees with similar content. economic outcomes. Application deadline: None – rolling admissions The MSc International Political Economy is an Compulsory courses advanced, academic study of the subject and International Political Economy would be suitable if you plan to progress to a Studying at LSE career that might have an international focus. Dissertation These programmes are based in the The MSc International Political Economy Research track only Department of International Relations (see (Research) is designed as a preparation for page 70) and offer the following benefits: future research work if you are entering the Comparative Political Economy field from another related discipline, or if you • Study in a leading world centre for the Foundations of Social Research – this paper wish to focus particularly on methodological subject, situated in the only UK institution comprises three modules: training. It is not necessary to decide which devoted to the social sciences. programme you prefer until you submit Quantitative Analysis • The largest faculty and academic your option choices in the Michaelmas term, Fundamentals of Research Design programme devoted to international political normally in mid-October, unless you intend economy in Europe. to apply for ESRC funding, in which case Qualitative Research 182 graduate prospectus MSc International Relations / MSc International Relations (Research)

Options will not normally be possible to transfer from MSc International Relations one programme to the other on arrival. (* half unit) MSc International Relations (Research) Most of the teaching takes place in the Choose two full units for the non- Michaelmas and Lent terms. A 10,000 research track only word dissertation must be submitted by 1 September. Turkey: Political Economy and lse.ac.uk/international European Integration* Relations For those interested in taking the LSE- Sciences Po Double Degree in Affaires International Political Economy of Application codes: M1UR Internationales, comprising a one year MSc the Environment (M1UI Research) programme at Sciences Po Paris followed by Economic Diplomacy Start date: 29 September 2011 MSc International Relations or International The Politics of Money in the World Economy Duration: 11 months full-time; 23 Political Economy see page 106. months part-time The Political Economy of International Trade Compulsory courses Intake/applications in 2009: Comparative Political Economy 121/1,201 Non-research track: Please note that the options are not Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in International Politics necessarily available every academic year. politics, history, international relations Applicants who are offered a place will be one of the highest rankings in the 2008 Dissertation or similar disciplines (see page 33) notified on the departmental web page national research assessment exercise. Options (two full units) from the list below (lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations) of English requirement: Higher (see • Most of our former MSc students go any course which will not be available in their page 36) on to work in government, international Research track: year of study. organisations, financial institutions, journalism GRE/GMAT requirement: None Theories of International Relations You may take other relevant courses with and industrial corporations, but a good Fee level: £15,888 the approval of your supervisor. number continue on to research degrees and Foundations of Social Research – this paper Financial support: Graduate Support the academic profession. comprises three modules: You may find it helpful to read the Scheme (see page 30). The research International Relations Department’s FAQs • A strong focus on theory together with a Quantitative Analysis track is eligible for ESRC 1+3 funding for prospective MSc IPE/MSc IPE (Research) wide choice of optional subjects. (see www.esrc.ac.uk) Fundamentals of Research Design applicants, this can be accessed from lse. • The opportunity to participate in the editing Application deadline: None – rolling Qualitative Research ac.uk/internationalRelations and production of Millennium, one of the admissions (though application by the Dissertation leading international relations journals. end of January is advisable) Options (one full unit) from the list below About the MSc programmes Options Studying at LSE The MSc International Relations (Research) is designed as a preparation for research work (* half unit) These programmes are based in the and includes methodology courses. The Department of International Relations (see Environmental Problems, Politics and MSc International Relations is an advanced, page 70) and offer the following benefits: Development* and Global academic study of the subject. It is suitable if Environmental Governance* • Study in a leading world centre for the you plan to progress to a career that might subject, situated in the only UK institution have an international focus. Those intending History and Theory of European Integration* devoted to the social sciences, and in a to apply for ESRC funding should note that Europe Beyond Modernity* thriving research community which (together only the Research programme is eligible. It with the Government Department) received MSc International Relations Theory graduate prospectus 183

Turkey: Political Economy and Gender and Militarisation* European Integration* MSc International Relations Theory European Integration from a Global Nationalism Perspective* The International Politics of Culture You may take other relevant courses with and Religion* the approval of your supervisor. organisations, financial institutions, journalism lse.ac.uk/ and corporations, but a good number International Political Economy of Please note that optional courses are not internationalRelations the Environment necessarily available every academic year. continue on to research degrees and the Applicants who are offered a place for Application codes: L2UG academic profession. Foreign Policy Analysis III 2011/12 entry will be notified on our web Start date: 29 September 2011 • A strong focus on theory together with a International Institutions pages (lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations) wide choice of optional subjects. Duration: 11 months full-time; 23 Strategic Aspects of International Relations of any course which will not be available in months part-time • The opportunity to participate in the editing their year of study. The EU in the World and production of Millennium, one of the Intake/applications in 2009: 23/230 You may find it helpful to read the leading international relations journals. International Politics: Asia and the Pacific International Relations Department’s FAQs Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in The International Relations of the Middle East for prospective MSc IR/MSc IR (Research) international relations, politics, history, About the MSc programme applicants, this can be accessed through sociology, philosophy or related Conflict and Peace Studies The MSc International Relations Theory lse.ac.uk/internationalRelations disciplines (see page 33) is designed for students who want to European Union Policy Making in a English requirement: Higher (see look deeply at the theoretical aspects of Global Context* page 36) international relations. Materials to be The International Politics of EU Enlargement* studied include classical and contemporary GRE/GMAT requirement: None forms of realism and liberalism, the ‘English European Defence and Security* Fee level: £15,888 School’, constructivism, critical approaches to International Security (Advanced) the subject, normative theory, and feminist Financial support: Graduate Support scholarship. The programme is particularly Islam in International Relations: From Al- Scheme (see page 30) Andalus to Afghanistan suitable for those students intending to Application deadline: None – proceed to a research degree and an Introduction to International Political Theory* rolling admissions academic career, but will also be of interest The International Political Theory of to anyone who wishes to deepen their Humanitarian Intervention* conceptual grasp of contemporary IR. Studying at LSE The Politics of International Law* Most of the teaching takes place in the This programme is based in the Department Michaelmas and Lent terms. A 10,000 Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations of International Relations (see page 70) and word dissertation must be submitted by offers the following benefits: Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and 1 September. Security Policies • Study in a leading world centre for the Compulsory courses International Organisations and Regimes subject, situated in the only UK institution devoted to the social sciences, and in a Theories of International Relations Post-colonial Perspectives in thriving research community which (together International Relations* Dissertation with the Government Department) received Theory of International Society: English one of the highest rankings in the 2008 Options School Texts* Research Assessment Exercise. (* half unit) The West: Identity and Interests* • Most of our former MSc students go on to work in government, international Choose one full unit from: 184 graduate prospectus LLM

Strategic Aspects of International Relations Corporate and/or Commercial Law; LLM Corporate and Securities Law; Criminology International Security and Criminal Justice; European Law; Human Introduction to International Political Theory* Rights Law; Information Technology, Media The International Political Theory of and Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law; International Business Humanitarian Intervention* lse.ac.uk/law Law; Labour Law; Legal Theory; Public The Politics of International Law* Application code: M3U1 International Law; Public Law; and Taxation. International Organisations and Regimes Start date: 29 September 2011 • In many law courses students will be Conflict and Peace Studies taught by both full-time members of the Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 or 48 Department and experienced practitioners, The International Politics of Culture months part-time including a number of prominent Queen’s and Religion Intake/applications in 2009: 215/1,869 Counsel from the London Bar. The result is a Post-colonial Perspectives in Minimum entry requirement: A valuable mixture of practical and academic International Relations* first degree in law (LLB or equivalent), insights into law. Theory of International Society: English although in exceptional circumstances • The LLM programme is sufficiently School Texts* applicants with a first degree in flexible to make it appropriate for another discipline may be eligible for Studying at LSE many different career paths. It allows Choose a second paper consideration (see page 33) prospective law teachers to develop This programme is based in the Department either from the list above or from the list of English requirement: A minimum score expertise in a wide range of subjects or of Law (see page 184) and offers the options available for the MSc International of 7.5 in the IELTS (TOEFL iBT 109), with in a particular specialised area; it enables following benefits: Relations programme. a minimum of 7.0 (TOEFL iBT 24) in both practitioners to cultivate expertise in new fields; it provides a basis for a career in You may take other relevant courses with the the listening and writing elements (see • LSE’s independent LLM programme the City of London or other financial approval of your supervisor. page 33) is delivered by a Department with an international reputation for teaching and centres; and it offers relevant education Please note that not all optional courses are GRE/GMAT requirement: None research. The Law Department received and training for those entering the foreign necessarily available each academic year. Fee level: UK/EU £11,688; the highest ranking in the UK in the 2008 service of their governments, working for Applicants offered a place for 2011/12 will overseas £17,040 Research Assessment Exercise non-governmental organisations (NGOs), be notified on the departmental website (lse. serving as police or prison officers or Financial support: Graduate Support • Students undertake a substantial writing ac.uk/internationalRelations) of any preparing for many other professions. course which will not be available in their Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students project as an integral part of the programme. may apply to the Merchant Foundation year of study. • The taught subject options include Admissions criteria Scholarship (one award of £10,000). about 75 courses offered within the Law You may find it helpful to read the Margaret Bennett Scholarship (one Admission is highly selective. Last Department. Many of these adopt an International Relations Department’s award of £5,000). Olive Stone Memorial year approximately 1,800 applicants interdisciplinary approach and some are FAQs for prospective applicants: this Scholarship (£10,000 fund normally competed for around 200 places on the taught in conjunction with staff from other can be accessed through lse.ac.uk/ divided between beneficiaries) LLM programme. Most applicants are internationalRelations relevant departments in the School. qualified for the programme, and the LLM Application deadline: None – rolling • The taught law courses build on the selectors must choose from a large pool admissions. Early applications have a research strengths of the Department. of candidates with good credentials. In greater chance of being successful Students can elect to study for either a evaluating applications, the selectors take and of meeting financial support/ general LLM or a specialised LLM in one into consideration the applicant’s grades scholarship deadlines of the following chosen areas of interest: and class rank, letters of reference, the Banking Law and Financial Regulation; coherence of the applicant’s proposed LLM graduate prospectus 185

programme of study, and any significant or half unit taught course which is formally satisfy continuing professional education professional accomplishments. LSE’s LLM assessed in whole or in part by a 15,000 requirements by pursuing the LLM part-time. applicants typically originate from up to 100 word dissertation or an 8,000 word extended Part-time students attend the same sessions countries and the grades normally required essay or by following a full unit or half unit as full-time students, so you need to confirm for admission are tailored to the system of taught course and electing to be examined by that course timetabling does not conflict with legal education in the countries from which a 15,000 word dissertation or an 8,000 word personal commitments. applicants have obtained, or will obtain, elective essay, subject in each case to Law If you take courses which fall predominantly their qualifications. However, places are Department requirements. The Department within one specialist area you can request normally only offered to applicants with runs a series of lectures and seminars to assist that your chosen specialism be included very good grades in their law studies (eg students in their research projects. in the name of the degree eg LLM Public a First or very high 2:1 in the UK LLB), and Students can choose courses from the whole International Law, LLM Labour Law. The who rank amongst the best graduates of range of Law options (subject to timetable recognised specialist areas are indicated their law schools. Applicants with a very constraints and class sizes). Alternatively, below by the headings under which the good degree in another discipline together students may obtain approval to take one, or different law courses are set out. with very good grades in an appropriate exceptionally two, complementary subjects graduate diploma in law (such as the Subject names are repeated where they are from another master’s degree at LSE in place UK’s Graduate Diploma in Law) may also relevant to several different subject areas. of the equivalent number of law subjects. For qualify for a place. Applicants without an example, international lawyers may choose (* half unit) educational background in law may apply, to take a course in international relations; but would need to demonstrate a high level Banking Law and Financial Regulation criminologists may take a course in sociology; of professional or academic experience in constitutional lawyers may take a course in Banking Law areas closely related to the subjects they political theory; company lawyers may take a wish to study in order to be considered for Corporate and Financial Crime course in financial reporting. a place. European Capital Markets Law* Courses are typically taught in seminar groups About the LLM meeting for two hours each week, although European Monetary and Banking Law* there are also some lecture-based courses Students undertake the equivalent of four European Monetary and Financial which are supplemented by small-group full units (some courses are half units). Services Law classes. Students are expected to prepare The courses currently offered in the Law by reading and to undertake some written Financial Law* Department are set out below. Not all assignments prior to seminars and classes. courses are offered every year; students Interests in Securities* Examinations usually take place in May or should therefore confirm the availability Investment Funds Law in Europe June, and dissertations, elective essays, and of courses they regard as crucial to their extended essays submitted in satisfaction of Law of Corporate Finance study plans. Formal study is supported by the writing requirement are submitted at the several series of ‘specialist seminars’ in which Law of Corporate Finance A* end of August. leading practitioners, judges and scholars in Law of Corporate Finance B* various legal fields discuss matters of current Part-time students take the equivalent of two controversy or especial complexity with full units each year. Students may also register Law of International Economic and students in small group sessions. Last year, on an extended part-time basis, taking the Financial Sanctions* around 50 such sessions were delivered. equivalent of one full unit each year. Students The Law and Practice of receive a certificate for each full course As part of the programme, all students must International Finance* completed successfully and are eligible for complete a substantial piece of writing. Legal Risk in the Financial Markets* the award of the LLM degree after obtaining This requirement can be satisfied in various four certificates. It is usually possible to ways, for example by completing a full unit 186 graduate prospectus LLM

Project Finance and Public Investment Treaty Law* Law of Corporate Finance Policing and Police Powers Private Partnerships* Investment Treaty and Arbitration Law Law of Corporate Finance A* Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects Regulation of Financial Markets Law of International Economic and Law of Corporate Finance B* European Law Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects Financial Sanctions* Law of International Economic and Advanced Issues of European Union Law Secured Credit in English, Comparative and Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Financial Sanctions* International Law Restructurings in Europe and the Competition Law The Law and Practice of United States Secured Financing in Commercial International Finance* EC Competition Law and the State Transactions* The Law and Practice of Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Employment Law* International Finance* Restructurings in Europe and the Corporate/Commercial Law European Administrative Law Law of Corporate Finance United States Advanced Issues of International European Capital Markets Law* Law of Corporate Finance A* Legal Risk in the Financial Markets* Commercial Arbitration* European Monetary and Banking Law* Law of Corporate Finance B* Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Alternative Dispute Resolution European Monetary and Financial in Europe* Legal Regulation of Information Technology Competition Law Services Law Project Finance and Public Legal Risk in the Financial Markets* European Union Law and Government* Copyright and Related Rights Private Partnerships* Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Human Rights in the Workplace* Corporate and Financial Crime Regulation of Financial Markets in Europe* International and European Corporate Governance Secured Credit in English, Comparative and Project Finance and Public Environmental Law International Law EC Competition Law and the State Private Partnerships* Law and Governance of the Single Elements of Taxation Takeover Regulation in the UK and US* Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects European Market European Capital Markets Law* Secured Credit in English, Comparative and Criminology and Criminal Justice Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and International Law European Monetary and Banking Law* Corporate and Financial Crime Restructurings in Europe and the Secured Financing in United States European Monetary and Financial Crime and Control: The Ethics and Political Commercial Transactions* Services Law Economy of Criminalisation Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US* in Europe* Financial Law* Criminal Justice Policy Taxation of Corporate Transactions Fundamentals of International Commercial Criminal Law, Criminology and Human Rights Law Arbitration* Criminal Justice Corporate and Securities Law Advanced Issues of European Union Law Insolvency Law – Principles and Policy Criminal Procedure and Evidence Corporate and Financial Crime Approaches to Human Rights Interests in Securities* Crime and Society: Concepts and Method European Capital Markets Law* Comparative Constitutional Law International Commercial Contracts – International Criminal Law European Monetary and Banking Law* Constitutional Theory General Principals* Law of International Economic and European Monetary and Financial Human Rights in the Developing World International Commodity Sales* Financial Sanctions* Services Law Human Rights Law in the UK International and Comparative Mental Health Law Financial Law* Commercial Arbitration Human Rights of Women Mental Health Law: The Civil Context* Interests in Securities* International Sale of Goods Human Rights in the Workplace* Mental Health Law: The Criminal Context* Investment Funds Law in Europe International Uniform Sales* Human Security* LLM graduate prospectus 187

International Criminal Law Intellectual Property Law International Business Transactions II: Human Rights in the Workplace* Substantive Law International Human Rights Copyright and Related Rights Varieties of Employment Relations* International Commercial Contracts – International Law and the Use of Force* Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural General Principals* Legal Theory Property Law International Law of Armed Conflict and the International Commodity Sales* Advanced Issues of European Union Law Use of Force Cultural Property and Heritage Law International and Comparative Alternative Dispute Resolution International Law and the Protection of Innovation, Technology and Patent Law Commercial Arbitration Refugees, Displaced Persons and Migrants Comparative Constitutional Law Internet and New Media Law International Economic Law The International Law of Self-Determination* Constitutional Theory Introduction to Regulation* International Sale of Goods Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Criminal Law, Criminology and Legal Regulation of Information Technology International Tax Systems Criminal Justice Law and the Holocaust* Media and Communications Regulation* International Uniform Sales Law* Crime and Control: The Ethics and Political Law and Social Theory Media Law: Regulating Publication* Economy of Criminalisation Investment Treaty Law* Law in War (jus in bello)* Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering* Human Rights Law: The European Investment Treaty and Arbitration Law Regulating New Medical Technologies Convention on Human Rights * New Media Regulation* Law of International Economic and Terrorism and the Rule of Law* Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects Financial Sanctions* Theory of Human Rights Law* Law and the Holocaust* Trademark Law Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Act* Restructurings in Europe and the Law and Social Theory International Business Law Human Rights Law: The European United States Law in Society: A Joint Course in Advanced Issues of International Commercial Convention on Human Rights* The Law and Practice of Anthropology and Law Arbitration* World Poverty and Human Rights* International Finance* Modern Legal History Alternative Dispute Resolution Legal Risk in the Financial Markets* Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects Information Technology, Media and Competition Law Communications Law Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring Regulating New Medical Technologies Corporate and Financial Crime in Europe* Copyright and Related Rights Rethinking International Law European Capital Markets Law* Project Finance and Public Innovation, Technology and Patent Law Socio-Legal Theory and Practice* Private Partnerships* European Monetary and Banking Law* Internet and New Media Law Terrorism and the Rule of Law* Regulation of Financial Markets European Monetary and Financial Introduction to Regulation* Theory of Human Rights Law* Services Law Secured Credit in English, Comparative and Legal Regulation of Information Technology International Law Financial Law* Public International Law Media and Communications Regulation* Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US* Fundamentals of International Globalisation Regulation and Governance* Media Law: Regulating Publication* Commercial Arbitration* Labour Law Human Rights in the Developing World Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering* Globalisation Regulation and Governance* Employment Law* Human Rights of Women New Media Regulation* Interests in Securities* Globalisation and Employment* Human Security* Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects International Business Human Rights Law in the UK International Criminal Law Transactions I: Litigation Human Rights Law: The Human Rights Act* International Dispute Resolution 188 graduate prospectus MSc Law and Accounting

International Dispute Resolution: Courts Human Rights Law :The Human Rights Act * and Tribunals* MSc Law and Accounting Legal Regulation of Information Technology International Dispute Resolution: Non- Media Law: Regulating Publication* Adjudicatory Processes* Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering* International Economic Law Mental Health Law lse.ac.uk/law International and European Environmental Law Mental Health Law: The Civil Context* lse.ac.uk/accounting International Human Rights Mental Health Law: The Criminal Context* Application code: MN34 International Law and the Use of Force* Policing and Police Powers Start date: 29 September 2011 International Law of Armed Conflict and the Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time Use of Force Terrorism and the Rule of Law* International Law and the Protection of Intake/applications in 2009: 33/301 Taxation Refugees, Displaced Persons, and Migrants Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Elements of Taxation The International Law of Self-Determination* in law, accounting, management, International Tax Systems business or economics (see page 33) Investment Treaty Law* • Study in a stimulating and developing field Issues in Taxation English requirement: A minimum Law of International Economic and where the interests of leading departments in score of 7.5 in the IELTS (TOEFL iBT Financial Sanctions* Public Economics both disciplines combine. 114) with a minimum of 7.0 (TOEFL Law in War (jus in bello)* Taxation of Corporate Transactions iBT 27) in both listening and writing • Combine an overview of topics and elements (see page 36) disciplines you may not have studied already, Rethinking International Law Value Added Tax with in depth studies in your own specialism, GRE/GMAT requirement: None Terrorism and the Rule of Law* and an interdisciplinary dissertation. Fee level: £17,040 World Poverty and Human Rights* • Equip yourself for new career Financial support: Graduate Support opportunities with additional specialist Public Law Scheme (see page 30) skills outside those normally available in Advanced Issues of European Union Law Application deadline: None – either of the relevant professions. rolling admissions Comparative Constitutional Law About the MSc programme Constitutional Theory The programme is intended for graduates European Administrative Law Studying at LSE with a good first degree in law or accounting or a degree which contains European Union Law and Government* This programme draws on the resources of the Department of Law (see page 74) and elements of law or accounting. Some International Human Rights Department of Accounting (see page 46) management, business and economics International and European and offers you the chance to: degrees may also be accepted. Environmental Law • Increase your awareness of the interaction The programme is designed for students who Introduction to Regulation* between legal and accounting regulation in a have studied or worked in legal, accounting or related fields. You take four courses – a Jurisprudence and Legal Theory commercial environment. core compulsory course, one course in each Human Rights Law: The European of law and accounting (the choice depending Convention on Human Rights* MSc Law and Accounting graduate prospectus 189

on your specialist background), and a further Financial Law Media and Communications Regulation* option in a relevant field. Legal Risk in Financial Markets* Any other relevant master’s degree course, The core course requires you to write for which you satisfy the prerequisites and Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and a dissertation and is also assessed with the course director’s approval. Restructurings in Europe and the by examination. United States Please note that not all the optional courses The English language requirements are a mentioned above will be available every year. The Law and Practice of minimum of 7.5 in the IELTS (TOEFL iBT 114) International Finance* Teaching and assessment with a minimum of 7.0 in the listening and writing elements (TOEFL iBT) (see page 36). Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings Teaching for the compulsory course and law in Europe* courses will be primarily through seminars. You do not need GMAT for entry on to Teaching in the accounting courses will the programme but it could be to your Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US* normally be by a combination of lectures and advantage to take it if you wish to be New Media Regulation* classes or seminars. accepted on to certain advanced accounting Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects and finance options within this degree. The compulsory core course is examined by Please see lse.ac.uk/admissionsenquiries or any other LLM course for which the an interdisciplinary dissertation and a two- prerequisites are appropriate, with the course hour examination. The other full unit courses Compulsory course director’s agreement are examined mainly by a traditional three- hour examination (or by a two-hour exam Corporate Accountability: Topics in Legal and Accounting in the case of half units) but students should Accounting Regulation check requirements for individual courses. Either Financial Reporting in Capital Markets Options (for those with a prior knowledge of accounting) or Law Management Accounting and Financial Choose one (subject to your Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting supervisor’s approval) from: and Disclosure Employment Law Choose a further law course from Law of Corporate Finance the list above (subject to your background), or one unit from the Insolvency Law: Principles and Policy following (subject to permission): International Tax Systems (* half unit) Regulation of Financial Markets Management Accounting, Strategy and Taxation of Corporate Transactions Organisational Control* Elements of Taxation Accounting, Strategy and Control* Value Added Tax Accountability, Organisations and Internet and New Media Law Risk Management* Corporate and Financial Crime Valuation and Security Analysis* Patent Law Accounting in the Global Economy* Trademark Law Corporate Finance and Asset Markets Introduction to Regulation* 190 graduate prospectus MSc Law, Anthropology and Society

MSc Law, Anthropology and Society Compulsory courses Trademark Law Law in Society: a joint course in Anthropology Cultural Property and Heritage Law and Law Another course from law, anthropology or Dissertation a related discipline may be taken instead of and by their exceptionally international the above subject to the approval of your lse.ac.uk/anthropology student recruitment. Options supervisor and the course teacher(s). Among law courses which students have taken in lse.ac.uk/law • The programme offers an excellent and (* half unit) recent years are: Policing and Police Powers; Application code: ML36 intensive introduction to the aspects of Choose courses to the value of two full International Law and the Protection of anthropological and social theory essential to Start date: 29 September 2011 units from: Refugees; Human Rights in the Developing the analysis of law in society. World; Globalisation, Regulation and Duration: 12 months full-time only The Anthropology of Religion • This interdisciplinary programme forms part Governance; International Law: Theory and Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography Intake/applications in 2009: 16/127 of LSE’s innovative graduate teaching and Practice; Employment Law; Constitutional research in legal and social science theory. Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex Theory; and The Theory, History and Practice law, anthropology or related discipline • The programme provides an ideal and Gender of Human Rights. with an interest in studying selected preparation for practical or research work on The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Please note that only a limited selection aspects of law and legal theory (see law in the context of social relations. Industrial Life* of the optional courses will be available page 33) each year. About the MSc programme Anthropology of Human Rights* English requirement: Standard (see If you have a first degree in law you must Anthropology of Politics* page 36) The programme is intended for graduates take at least one of the two option courses in with a good first degree in law or for Anthropology of Economy (1): Production GRE/GMAT requirement: None anthropology along with the core course Law graduates in anthropology and related and Exchange* in Society; if you have a first degree in social Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; disciplines who seek to study selected aspects Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation science you must take at least one of the two overseas £15,888 of law and legal theory. and Globalisation* courses in law. You will be closely advised by Financial support: Graduate Support The programme offers a foundation in those your supervisor so as to form a well designed Children and Youth in Scheme (see page 30) elements of anthropological and socio- programme in line with your previous studies Contemporary Ethnography* legal theory essential to an understanding and research interests. Application deadline: None – rolling of law in society, and provides training Ethnography of a Selected Region* admissions. Apply early, however, as in appropriate research methods. The places will fill up Medical Anthropology* programme achieves this through: a core course combining lectures, classes and an Jurisprudence and Legal Theory Studying at LSE innovative research seminar; the supervised Alternative Dispute Resolution crafting of an individual programme of two This programme is jointly run by the Regulating New Medical Technologies further courses in law or anthropology (or Department of Anthropology (see page exceptionally another social science) selected Law and Social Theory 47) and Department of Law (see page 74), according to the academic background and is administered in the Department of Modern Legal History and research interest of the student; and Anthropology. It offers the following benefits: supervision of a dissertation. Patent Law Situated in the only institution devoted Crime and Control: The Ethics and Political solely to the social sciences in the UK, the Economy of Criminalisation* Anthropology and the Law Departments are distinguished by the research of their faculty Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law MSc Local Economic Development graduate prospectus 191

information about what previous students This programme focuses on the variety MSc Local Economic Development are doing can be found at: lse.ac.uk/ of ways in which local and regional geographyAndEnvironment agencies can work with the private sector in order to stimulate local economies. About the MSc programme You will also develop an understanding of the local, national and international lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd As an interdisciplinary programme, trends in business organisation, and Environment applications from any field in the social sciences are welcome. In the past, the bulk a knowledge of the variety of local Application code: L1S2 of the student body has been made up agents involved. The course emphasises management issues of local capacity Start date: 29 September 2011 by graduates in economics, development, sociology, geography, international relations building, attracting investment, network Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 and political science. In any case, we will building, infrastructure, human resources, months part-time expect applicants to have very good grades and focuses as well on the rationale and Intake/applications in 2009: 43/215 in their first degrees. A high score in the GRE impact of regional and local development test or in the GMAT test within five years policies and on the role of institutions. Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 before your application will be considered a in social science (in the past mostly Compulsory courses strong asset. economics, development, sociology geography, international relations and This MSc will be relevant if you wish (* half unit) regional and local economic development, political science) (see page 33) to build on your undergraduate situated in the only UK university devoted Seminar in Local Economic Development* degree to develop specific skills and English requirement: Standard (see solely to the social sciences. an understanding of local and regional Globalisation, Regional Development and page 36) • Our master’s programmes all focus economic development. We also welcome Policy or Local Economic Development GRE/GMAT requirement: No on developing graduates’ abilities to managers of local economic and regional and Policy requirement, but good GRE/GMAT a integrate theoretical developments with development institutions who wish Dissertation strong asset practical experience. to widen and deepen their existing Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • This programme draws upon the expertise knowledge. The MSc is also an ideal Options starting point for a career in research in overseas £15,888 of a group of LSE researchers who are key Choose to the value of one and a half contributors to research and practice on economic development. Financial support: Graduate Support units from: regional and local economic development. In recent years, rapid changes in technology Scheme (see page 30) A core course not taken above or any of the We also invite regular contributions from and information, industrial restructuring and related half-unit courses: Application deadline: None – external practitioners. integration have been radically realigning rolling admissions Globalisation and Regional Development* • In addition to gaining the MSc you will also production structures. There has also been Note: This programme gives access to have access to the Institution of Economic a drive towards the globalisation of the Economics of Local and the Institution of Economic Development Development, the leading UK organisation world economy. World trade has expanded Regional Development* (www.ied.co.uk) for economic development practitioners. at twice the rate of output and national governments have been rethinking their Regional Development and Policy* • Previous graduates are mainly working protectionist policies to participate in the Local Capacity and Economic in international organisations (UN system Studying at LSE new global markets. In this context, local Development Policy* [including ILO, UNDP, FAO], World Bank, This programme is based in the Department and regional economies increasingly need OECD, European Union, World Trade The Economics of Regional and of Geography and Environment (see page new responses and demand specialist skills Conference), national and regional Urban Planning* 61) and offers the following benefits: to work with the change, and exploit the governments, international consultancy, opportunities it offers. The Political Economy of Southeast Europe* • Study in a world-leading Department in the non-governmental organisations (NGOs), socio-economic and institutional aspects of research centres and universities. Further 192 graduate prospectus MSc Management

Environmental Regulation: produce cutting-edge research across the Implementing Policy MSc Management management discipline and work as advisers to business, industry and governments Urban Policy and Practice in the South alike. Our community and our networks are Cities and Social Change in East Asia* uniquely international and globally diverse. Concepts in Environmental Regulation* lse.ac.uk/management We offer a unique business education Quantitative Analysis II: the Generalised experience. Our programmes are top-ranked Application code: N1UH Linear Model* or any other suitable by the Financial Times and combine the methodology half-unit Start date: Mandatory pre-sessional academic rigour of a typical master’s with quantitative course begins in mid- the practical application of a top-ranked Political and Fiscal Integration and September 2011 MBA. We bring alumni, senior business Disintegration in EU Member States* people, senior political figures and senior Duration: 24 months full-time Cities, People and Poverty in the South* civil servants directly into the classroom to Intake/applications for 2009: 61/532 talk to students. We teach our students both A relevant course from another programme Minimum entry requirement: 1st the fundamental theories of management or good upper 2nd class bachelor’s and the skills to critically evaluate current degree or equivalent in any subject and future management problems. Students (see page 33) will continue to draw from this learning throughout their professional career. English requirement: Higher (see Studying at LSE Our students find employment across a page 36) This programme is offered by the wide range of sectors including finance, GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates Department of Management (see page banking and professional services firms of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE 76) and utilises teaching from many as well as roles in industry and the or GMAT different departments around the School. public sector. We are located in the New Academic Fee level: £20,496 (first year only), Building which provides students with second year fees to be confirmed About the MSc programme state of the art facilities. Financial support: Graduate Support The purpose of this two-year Master’s in We produce world-class research on Scheme (see page 30) plus some Management is to provide students with management issues and provide our students Departmental scholarships the academic background, the analytical with a deep insight into the functioning of tools and the intellectual frameworks to Application deadline: None – the global business environment. Our vision study the questions raised in academic rolling admissions is to be recognised as the premier provider literature on management across the of management education and research in CEMS international exchange range of relevant academic fields, as Europe, and one of the best in the world. option: Opportunity to combine this well as an understanding of the broader programme with the Financial Times top- We currently have around 70 faculty, 350 political, social and economic environment ranked CEMS Master’s in International undergraduates, 750 master’s students and in which contemporary firms operate. The Management (MIM) degree via a term 80 PhD students. study of underlying disciplines introduces abroad at a CEMS partner school to earn students to knowledge about, and Our reputation, research and networks are a double degree relevant to, management from a social what sets us apart. LSE is one of the world’s science perspective. The programme has leading social science institutions and is one been designed with potential employers of the few institutions with a truly worldwide in mind, offering graduates good reputation. Our faculty, many of whom have employment opportunities in business, joined us from top-ranked business schools, industry and consulting. MSc Management graduate prospectus 193

Quantitative methods, managerial economics major industrial and financial companies as non-management specialisations in each and finance courses will provide rigorous well as consultancies, allowing them to enter year, or to delve deeply into a subject, training in analytical skills that are relevant at a higher level and on a faster track than taking a core course in a particular field to practice across many organisational undergraduate recruits. such as international relations in their first settings in business. Students will also take year, and then choosing from a variety of Features of the programme include: courses that develop their understanding further options that build on that knowledge of economic and political institutions, and • Professional Development Programme in the second. This can in effect give the therefore of the context in which institutional (PDP): A customised professional career educational equivalent of one half of a one and global business managers must operate. development programme which runs year non-management degree at LSE. throughout the two years of the programme The degree is intended for students coming • Functions and disciplines: Students will to help students achieve not only the best directly or recently from undergraduate be able to choose from an extensive list possible internships and employment programmes in any discipline and presumes of courses drawn from the Department prospects, but to develop a strong personal no prior knowledge or practice in the field of of Management groups, as well as from career path in management. management. The two years give students the Departments of Accounting and the time to achieve mastery over the full • CEMS Global Alliance in Management Finance. In addition, they will write a range of management disciplines and skills as Education option: The opportunity to dissertation associated with one of these well as the opportunity to complement their combine the programme with the Financial courses to strengthen their learning in degree with courses from other disciplines or Times top-ranked CEMS Master’s in depth. As with the LSE experience, the list to take an exchange term abroad. International Management degree to earn of options is designed to allow students two degrees. either to specialise, choosing from a single The degree has a coherent intellectual core management field such as operational around two compulsory management • Integrative and multidisciplinary approach: research, strategy and information systems, courses, one in each year. In the first year, The programme will teach from first or obtain a wide spread of managerial skills. the Foundations of Management core course principles the elements of management concentrates upon a small number of major we regard as essential to understand. • Internship: Students will work in firms as intellectual developments in management, In the first year alone students will part of their degree during summer vacation to establish how the gamut of management take compulsory courses in managerial after year 1. fields evolved from the application of economics, organisational behaviour, the frameworks and concepts in different foundations of management and electives in CEMS Master’s in disciplines to particular management the political economy, European integration, International Management problems. In the second year, the core course globalisation, communication or innovation. (CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education) in strategy exposes students to contemporary • Methodology: Students will take research into the factors that determine compulsory courses in quantitative and The programme includes the option company behaviour – strategy, organisation qualitative methods. The former will be to combine the LSE MSc degree in and innovation. streamed according to student background management with the Financial Times top- We accept students of the highest intellectual from foundation to advanced levels. ranked global CEMS Master’s in International Management (MIM) during the second year quality from a broad spectrum of academic • LSE experience: At least a quarter of the of the LSE programme via an exchange term backgrounds that might include natural entire degree can be devoted to courses at a CEMS partner school. sciences, engineering or humanities. Students from non-management departments to help graduating from the programme will have deepen students’ understanding of the world CEMS is a global alliance of academic a broad and critical understanding of the economy, globalisation and the international and corporate institutions dedicated to various elements of modern management economic and political environment. educating and preparing future generations theory and methods. The course is designed Students will have the opportunity either to of international business leaders. The CEMS to lead students to management jobs in take a broad approach, choosing different academic and corporate members work 194 graduate prospectus MSc Management

collectively to develop knowledge and Options Year 2 The Dark Side of the Organisation* provide education that is essential in the Organisational Theory* multilingual, multicultural and interconnected Choose to the value of one full Compulsory courses business world. unit from: Corporate Social Responsibilty and Cross Cultural Management* (CEMS only) International Labour Standards* In addition to completion of academic Global Political Economy and Development I* Strategy, Organisation and Innovation* studies on the LSE MSc, CEMS students Reward Systems – Key Models and Practices* Global Political Economy and must also participate in further compulsory Dissertation* Development II* International and Comparative Human components in order to obtain the CEMS Options Resource Management* MIM degree. These include: the ability to History and Theory of European Integration* Negotiation Analysis* demonstrate competence in three languages, Globalisation, Gender and Development Choose a total of two full units (CEMS an internship (minimum 10 weeks), a one- 1.5) from the following: Incentives and Governance in Organisations* International Political Economy* week minimum blocked seminar prior to the Accounting, Strategy and Control* Design and Management of Organisations* start of the MSc, skills seminars, and the term Theories and Concepts in Media and abroad. The first year of the programme Communications (Media and Power)* Accountability, Organisations and Public Management: a Strategic Approach* covers the CEMS requirement that students Risk Management* Theories and Concepts in Media and Techniques of Operational Research* will have studied management/business Communications (Processes of Mediation, Management of Human Resources: related subjects at undergraduate level. Systems Dynamics Modelling* Identity and Change)* Strategies and Policies* See www.cems.org or lse.ac.uk/ Principles of Decision Sciences* Open Innovation* Financial Reporting and Management: management for more information Management Accounting, Strategy Innovation and Technology Management* about the CEMS curriculum. European Models of Capitalism* and Control* Leadership in Organisations* Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe* Year 1 Financial Reporting and Management: An outside option (with approval) Concepts in Political Economy* Financial Reporting* Optional courses from Year 1 Compulsory courses The Political Economy of Transition and EU International Marketing: A Strategic (* half unit) Accession in Eastern Europe* Approach* Please be aware that due to excessive demand popular courses may be capped, and Managerial Economics* Globalisation and Democracy* The Future of the Multinational Firm* some option combinations are likely to clash. Organisational Behaviour* Comparative Employment Relations and Thinking Strategically* See lse.ac.uk/coursecapping Human Resource Management* Foundations of Management Finance I* International Political Economy of Quantitative Analysis in Management* † Advanced Behavioural Decision Making* the Environment Qualitative Analysis in Management* Operations Management* Economic Diplomacy* † Students who have already taken Systems Development* Politics of Money in the World Economy* statistics at university level covering Strategy for the Information Economy* quantitative analysis can choose a half Comparative Political Economy* unit course from: Entrepreneurial Strategy* The Future of the Multinational Firm* Techniques of Operational Research* Innovating Organisational Finance I Information Technology* Quantitative Analysis II: the Generalised An outside option (with approval) Linear Model* Finance II* (Finance I is a prerequisite for Students will have the opportunity to this course) Quantitative Analysis III: Applied undertake an internship of around ten Multivariate Analysis* International Business and Governance* weeks, normally during the summer vacation in their first year. Personnel Economics* MSc Management and Economics graduate prospectus 195

MSc Management and Economics

lse.ac.uk/management Simon Joha econ.lse.ac.uk MSc Management Application code: N2U5 and Economics Start date: Introductory Course in Kleinwenkheim, Mathematics and Statistics begins 2nd September 2011 Germany Duration: 10 months full time only (10 month master’s programmes are not compliant with the Bologna The MSc Management and Economics is especially designed for students who, process which may affect the extent to like me, would not be happy with either a pure economics programme nor with which they are ‘recognised’. For more any MBA-like management programme. The great advantage of this programme information on Bologna please see Studying at LSE is that it can leverage the world-class quality of the LSE economics faculty and page 15) combine it with the more applied scope of management graduate programmes. This programme is offered by the Intake/applications in 2009: 21/322 It thus provides the unique opportunity to learn how analytical economic models Department of Management (see page can be used to analyse strategic business situations. Minimum entry requirement: First 76), and is taught in conjunction with the class bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Department of Economics (see page 52). My decision to come to LSE was based on both its outstanding reputation for its Economics (see page 33) Students will study in both departments. teaching and research quality and the fact that it offers this special programme which fits my academic interests perfectly. Studying at LSE means that you can English requirement: Higher (see Department of Management enjoy direct contact with excellent teachers who are at the forefront in their page 36) academic disciplines. Plus, being part of such a truly international student body The Department of Management produce GRE/GMAT requirement: Graduates is a very valuable experience that adds a lot to the overall quality of studying at world-class research on management issues of non-UK institutions are required to such a renowned academic institution. and provide students with a deep insight submit a GRE or GMAT score into the functioning of the global business Right after graduation, I will start working as an investment banking analyst for Fee level: £20,496 environment. The Department’s vision is to a large American bank. Having no prior experience in banking and considering Financial support: Graduate Support be recognised as the premier provider of the tight hiring market right now, I think that studying at LSE has helped a lot Scheme (see page 30) plus some management education and research in in securing this job. Europe, and one of the best in the world. Departmental scholarships . Application deadline: None – The Department’s reputation, research and rolling admissions networks are what sets it apart. LSE is one of the world’s leading social science institutions and is one of the few institutions with a truly worldwide reputation. The faculty, many of whom have joined from top-ranked business schools, produce cutting-edge research across the management discipline and work as advisers to business, industry 196 graduate prospectus MSc Management and Economics

and governments alike. The Department’s About the MSc programme coverage characteristic of master’s degrees in The programme has been designed with community and networks are uniquely management schools. potential employers in mind. Students The MSc Management and Economics is international and globally diverse. can reasonably aspire to find good aimed at students with a strong analytical To succeed on the programme you need to employment opportunities in business, The Department offers a unique business and quantitative background who wish to prove that you can work to a high standard consulting and finance. education experience. Its programmes combine economics at master’s level with and have excellent analytical ability. For are top-ranked by the Financial Times analytical courses in the management area. most British students, you should have Students who have not majored in and combine the academic rigour of The degree is built around a central core concentrated exclusively in your first degree economics for their undergraduate degree a typical master’s with the practical course entitled Firms and Markets which uses on economics and quantitative subjects (not should consider applying for the two year application of a top-ranked MBA. The graduate level microeconomics with a focus business studies), with standard courses in MSc Economics (see page 144) and their Department bring alumni, senior business on understanding firms’ market strategies. intermediate macro and microeconomics, transferring to this programme upon people, senior political figures and senior Particular emphasis is placed on the role of and a number of advanced courses that use successful completion of year one. civil servants directly into the classroom to this course in both developing analytical skills these as prerequisites. You should have a talk to students. The Department teach and in showing how these analytical skills can solid quantitative background with at least a Compulsory courses students both the fundamental theories be deployed in practical strategic settings. year of calculus and statistics and should, for (* half unit) of management and the skills to critically Building on this foundation, graduates will be instance, know how to handle maximisation Firms and Markets evaluate current and future management well equipped to go either to PhD level study of a function of several variables subject to problems. Students will continue to or to employment opportunities in industry, constraint, and be able to explain what is Econometric Methods draw from this learning throughout their meant by an efficient estimator. The core finance and consulting. Corporate Finance A* professional career. economics and econometrics courses assume Beyond the basic concepts in the Firms a knowledge of constrained optimisation, Extended Essay* and Markets course, students take an Department of Economics matrix algebra and basic statistics. Econometrics course in two halves. In the Options The Department of Economics is one of the first half, students develop a thorough We expect students to have very good grades Choose two from the following: largest economics departments in the world, understanding of econometric methods, and will only consider students with the renowned for its research and contributions together with a thorough grounding in their equivalent of first class honours in their first Globalisation and Strategy* to the development of the subject area. In degree. All graduates of non-UK institutions application to practical empirical problems. Entrepreneurial Strategy* the 2008 review of university research by The second half covers new developments in must have taken the GRE or GMAT test the UK Higher Education Funding Councils the use of econometric methods within the no more than five years before applying, Thinking Strategically* the Department came top, whether ranked industrial organisation field. All students are and must include the test scores with their Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling* by grade point average or by percentage of required to take a first course in Corporate application. We do not require a specific The World Trading System* research receiving the top 4* grade. Finance in the first term, and they have mark but the test gives us an indication of Nine former members of staff and students the option of continuing with Corporate aptitude for economics. Typically we expect Strategy for the Information Economy* candidates to score in the top 10 per cent in have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Finance in the second term. Further courses Applied Corporate Finance* Economics including Friedrich von Hayek and offered in the second term cover areas such the quantitative section of the test (ie in the Amartya Sen. as the analysis of globalisation and the study 90th percentile or higher). A higher score will Corporate Finance Theory* of entrepreneurial strategy, each of which count in your favour, but other information, Important figures in the discipline such Management Accounting, Decisions builds directly on analytical tools developed such as grades and references will matter as Atkinson, Besley, Layard, King, Sutton and Control* † in the Firms and Markets course. What more in the overall evaluation. We recognise and Stern are, or have been, members of The Future of the Multinational Firm* distinguishes this degree both from MBA that if your first language is not English, the the Department. programmes offered elsewhere and from verbal test will present special difficulties and † Subject to the approval of the course tutor In rankings of economics departments, based other programmes currently offered within we view your score on that basis. Students may choose an outside option, a on publications in leading journals and peer the School is that it combines the same level Students are required to attend the course which is not on the above list, with review, the Department is consistently placed of analytical training as the MSc Economics Introductory Course in Mathematics the approval of the academic adviser and in the top 20 worldwide, far ahead of any degree with the more applied scope and and Statistics before the main teaching course leader. other department in Europe. programme starts in October. MSc Management and Human Resources graduate prospectus 197

MSc Management and Human Resources (formerly MSc Human Resource Management) lse.ac.uk/EROB Leanna Hamilton Application code: N6U4 MSc Human Resource Start date: 29 September 2011 Management (now Duration: 12 months full-time MSc Management and Intake/applications in 2009: 44/751 Human Resources) Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Kingston, Jamaica any discipline (see page 33)

English requirement: Higher (see I chose LSE because of its reputation. My teachers’ achievements have been page 36) noted with pride and admiration, therefore having the opportunity to be an GRE/GMAT requirement: None alumnus of such a distinguished institution is an overwhelming blessing. • Participation in workshops that help you Fee level: £16,890 develop the competencies essential for Human resources is essentially the backbone of an organisation. It facilitates Financial Support: Graduate Support human resource managers. interactions with all aspects of the organisation. I am a people person so I see it Scheme (see page 30) as the ideal career path to embark on. • The potential opportunity to extend your Application deadline: None – studies beyond the end of the MSc through I absolutely love the expert research facilities at LSE – the library holds a wealth rolling admissions the European Master’s in Labour Studies of knowledge in print and electronically. I need not search anywhere else because programme, which allows you entry to all that I need is available in the library. I also love the diversity of students that Note: Leads to graduate membership around 12 other participating universities. are enrolled at LSE. The environment boasts a rich supply of cultures and styles of CIPD taken from all over the world. About the MSc programme There are lots of opportunities outside the classroom as well; I am a member of Studying at LSE The programme has been designed the Itchy Feet society – we travel to different places, and explore and embrace so as to allow students to satisfy the the remarkable history of the country we are in. This programme is based in the educational requirements of the CIPD’s Employment Relations and Organisational new professional levels of membership. After graduation I plan to study theology or a PhD in organisational psychology. Behaviour Group (see page 78) within the Students will be given the opportunity Department of Management and offers to participate in workshops that help the following benefits: to develop the skills and competences • Study at a Chartered Institute of required by the CIPD and, if required, Personnel and Development (CIPD) ‘centre will be given assistance in applying for of excellence’ that is also rated highly for CIPD membership. The orientation of its research. the programme leans more towards UK employment relations than does the MSc • The chance to forge a link with a International Employment Relations and company, explore its human resource Human Resource Management. practices and research an issue it is currently facing. 198 graduate prospectus MSc Management and Human Resources

Applicants normally require a first class Plus one from: or upper second class honours degree (or Contemporary Issues in Human Resource the overseas equivalent) to be accepted Management* onto the programme. In exceptional cases, where candidates lack the required Comparative Human Resource academic attainments, relevant work Management* experience may be taken into account. However, please note that the programme Options is academically demanding. Choose a total of one full unit from: Students are expected to be inquisitive Contemporary Issues in Human Resource and thoughtful, to have good writing Management* † skills, and to be willing to focus on Comparative Human Resource research methods; however, a social Management* † science degree is not a prerequisite. We find that well-motivated people wishing to Employment Relations* change disciplines or careers can produce International and Comparative Human as outstanding results as those seeking to Resource Management* deepen their social science knowledge. Cross Cultural Management* If appropriate, applicants will need to pass an English language test at the higher Leadership in Organisations: Theory level specified by the School. and Practice* Organisational Change* Studying full-time Negotiation Analysis* The programme carries a very heavy workload. As well as a full academic Managing Diversity in Organisations* timetable, students must attend Corporate Social Responsibility and around ten all-day workshops aimed at International Labour Studies* developing competencies essential for an Organisational Theory* HR professional. Additionally, students will be required to carry out a business project Reward Systems: Key Models in connection with their dissertation. and Practices* The Dark Side of the Organisation* Compulsory courses Personnel Economics* (*half unit) † If not already taken Foundations of Business and Management for HR* See also MSc International Employment Relations (page 178) and Human Resource Management of Human Resources: Management and MSc Organisational Strategies and Policy* Behaviour (page 211). Organisational Behaviour* Dissertation Human Resource Policy and Practice MSc Management, Information Systems and Innovation (MISI) graduate prospectus 199

MSc Management, Information Systems and Innovation (MISI) (formerly MSc Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems (ADMIS))

other alternatives. This provides students the Stream 2: The Internet and isig.lse.ac.uk opportunity for a more in depth study and Information Services the chance to specialise. Application code: G5U4 Information Technology and Start date: 29 September 2011 Your course selection is made in discussion Service Innovation* with your academic adviser, taking into Digital Convergence and Duration: 12 months full-time account your background, intellectual Information Services* Intake/applications in 2009: 123/418 interests and career aspirations. Not all options run each year. In the summer Information Systems for the Public Sector* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 term students start work on the full degree in related area. Basic familiarity Prinicples of Privacy and Data Protection* unit dissertation. with IT essential, professional Choose one half unit course from the experience beneficial (see page 33) Compulsory courses other stream, or from the following: English requirement: Higher (see Innovation and Technology Management* page 36) • There are numerous career opportunities (* half unit) for people with information technology Interpretations of Information* GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates Innovation and Information Systems: skills both with the various industries that of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE Concepts and Perspectives* Qualitative Research in supply information technology (including or GMAT Innovating Organisational Management Studies* information systems and management Information Technology* Fee level: £20,496 consultancies), and those that use it. MSc Management Accounting: Decisions and Control* Financial support: Graduate Support graduates may follow either a more technical Global Strategy Management and Scheme (see page 30). Claudio or managerial career path, depending upon Information Systems* Organisational Change* Ciborra scholarship fund (one award their interests and previous background. You must also complete a 10,000 word Negotiation Analysis* of £5,000) dissertation based on a project that will cover About the MSc programme Public Management: A Strategic Approach* Application deadline: None – some aspect of information systems develop- You should have a good undergraduate rolling admissions ment or management Public Management: Strategy, Innovation degree (in a relevant area). A basic familiarity Options and Delivery* with IT is essential, and we view work Thinking Strategically* Studying at LSE experience positively. In the selection process Choose two half unit courses from within we pay particular attention to your academic one of the following two streams: Techniques of Operational Research* This programme is based in the Information interests and purpose of study. Operations Management* Systems and Innovation Group (see page 80) Stream 1: Management of IS and In the Michaelmas term the MISI degree within the Department of Management and Global Sourcing Aspects of IT and Socio-economic programme develops general managerial and offers the following benefits: Development* theoretical competencies in ICT innovation Information Risk and Security • MSc teaching is closely linked to new delivered in three compulsory half units. in Business* Finance I* research in the field. In the Lent term, you take your chosen three Management and Economics of E-Business* Other MSc level options taught at the School, • We have extensive contacts with London half unit options, two of which must be from with permission based and international businesses and Global Sourcing of Business and IT Services* within the same stream and the third can be governmental organisations. Healthcare Information Systems* taken from the other stream or from a list of 200 graduate prospectus MSc Management, Organisations and Governance

About the MSc programme organisational alliances across markets MSc Management, Organisations and economies. This challenging and highly distinctive and Governance 12-month programme offers a rigorous • It introduces students to the way interdisciplinary social science perspective on organisations seek to shape their environments in pursuit of their goals We currently have around 70 faculty, 350 the practice of management. by individual and collective action in lse.ac.uk/management undergraduates, 750 master’s students and The degree is an advanced programme different arenas. Application code: N2U6 80 PhD students. based around the issues, approaches and • It is aimed at those exceptional individuals Our reputation, research and networks are tools for management and the governance Start date: 29 September 2011 aspiring to the highest levels of management what sets us apart. LSE is one of the world’s of organisations. It presents a balance among seniority, whether in strategic or operational Duration: 12 months full-time only leading social science institutions and is one management, conceptual and analytical approaches that have an impact on practice management, and whether in the corporate, Intake/applications in 2009: 64/564 of the few institutions with a truly worldwide governmental or not-for-profit sectors. It reputation. Our faculty, many of whom have and theory. Students may come from a Minimum entry requirement: 1st offers students the opportunity to study joined us from top-ranked business schools, variety of backgrounds but should have a or good upper 2nd class bachelor’s management in one of the world’s leading produce cutting-edge research across the basic knowledge of the social sciences. degree or equivalent, preferably in social science institutions. management discipline and work as advisers Key features of the programme are: social science (see page 33) to business, industry and governments • It is fully integrated within LSE’s tradition • It provides an intensive and intellectually English requirement: Higher (see alike. Our community and our networks are of developing analytical skills and blending demanding approach to analysing the key page 36) uniquely international and globally diverse. theory and practice. issues facing modern organisations in the GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates We offer a unique business education global economy. The core curriculum focuses on of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE experience. Our programmes are top-ranked organisations within the economy and • It introduces students to key design or GMAT score by the Financial Times and combine the society, management practice, and issues in the governance of organisations academic rigour of a typical master’s with entrepreneurship. Options within the Fee level: £20,496 and of markets. the practical application of a top-ranked Department of Management allow Financial support: Graduate Support MBA. We bring alumni, senior business • It introduces students to the analysis and students to specialise in policy, economic Scheme (see page 30) plus some people, senior political figures and senior design of effective business strategies and or technological aspects, human resources Departmental scholarships civil servants directly into the classroom to organisational practices in a wide range of management, accounting and finance, Application deadline: None – talk to students. We teach our students both economic, technical, and societal contexts. operations research, strategy, and many other topics. rolling admissions the fundamental theories of management • It provides students with the opportunity and the skills to critically evaluate current to follow the development of an enterprise The programme is, through the range of and future management problems. Students or other organisation from founder and idea options available, particularly suited to Studying at LSE will continue to draw from this learning generation through growth and change. candidates seeking to deliver solutions The programme is offered by the Department throughout their professional career. to issues of organisational behaviour and • It provides exposure to issues of of Management (see page 76). We produce change management, corporate strategy, We are located in the New Academic operational and strategic significance and world-class research on management issues accounting and management control, Building which provides students with a their managerial consequences within and provide our students with a deep insight business and public policy, global and cross- state of the art learning environment. modern organisations. into the functioning of the global business cultural management and the management environment. Our vision is to be recognised • It stresses the importance of a comparative of extended organisations. Employment as the premier provider of management international perspective cognisant of prospects for our graduates are excellent education and research in Europe, and one globalisation as an ever-increasing influence and most are in permanent employment of the best in the world. on organisations. within six months of graduating. We • It addresses the particular problems have alumni in all the major consulting confronting organisations which adopt companies, as well as a wide range of other hybrid structures and seek to build inter- organisations throughout the world. MSc Management, Organisations and Governance graduate prospectus 201

Teaching Options Designing Information Services The programme draws on the full range Choose to the value of one and a half Reward Systems: Key Models of specialisations in the Department of units from the following: and Practices* Management, including strategy, innovation, Accountability, Organisations and Corporate Social Responsibility and management control, human resource Risk Management* International Labour Standards* management, information systems and production/service delivery. It is taught Management Accounting, Decisions Organisational Theory* principally by academic staff specialising in and Control* The Dark Side of the Organisation* accounting, human resource management, Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling* International Business and Governance* information systems, organisational behaviour, and strategy. System Dynamics Modelling* † May not be taken together Management of Human Resources* Students may also take a single option not Admission International and Comparative Human on this list up to the value of one unit with To be eligible to apply for the MSc Resource Management* the approval of the course tutor. programme you would normally have a prior degree in one of the social sciences Negotiation Analysis* at high standing (eg First or good upper Leadership in Organisations: Theory second class honours degree or equivalent). and Practice* Candidates must show aptitude for Organisational Behaviour* intellectual reasoning both analytical and qualitative, together with evidence of ability Organisational Change* to excel on the programme. Innovation and Technology Management* Assessment Topics in Information Systems* Students will be assessed on the equivalent Open Innovation* of four full unit courses. Assessment will be The Future of the Multinational Firm* by a combination of examinations, assessed essays/projects and one extended research Thinking Strategically* study/project. Public Management: A Strategic Approach* Compulsory courses: International Marketing: A Strategic Approach* (* half unit) Advanced Behavioural Decision Making* Organisations in the Economy and Society Operations Management* Enterprise Development* Management Accounting, Strategy and Design and Analysis of Innovative Organisational Control* † Organisational Practices* Accounting, Strategy and Control* † A research project/dissertation related to a topic from the above courses will be Management and Economics required (6,000 words). of e-business Aspects of Designing Information Services* 202 graduate prospectus MSc Management and Regulation of Risk

to take an LSE Summer School course. If firms or societies? What are the tools MSc Management and Regulation of Risk your degree is not from a UK university, you available to managers and regulators for must submit a GMAT test score with your controlling risks? application. Decisions will not normally be The design of the programme will allow made in the absence of this test result. We students with prior training in diverse Studying at LSE generally look for a GMAT score of over 650; lse.ac.uk/finance disciplines and with a range of professional exceptionally we will consider a GRE score of This is an interdepartmental programme backgrounds to acquire a broad knowledge Application code: N4U3 over 700. Conditional offers may be made which is administered through the of risk management and regulation, and to in the absence of a final test score. If you are Start date: 29 September 2011 Department of Finance (see page 57) and deepen their competency in a chosen area a graduate from a UK university, you should offers the following benefits: of specialisation. Duration: 12 months full-time only note that you may be asked to take either a • Teaching by internationally renowned You will take the core course Management Intake/applications in 2009: 35/504 GRE or GMAT. Applicants from developing faculty from several departments and with countries may be eligible to be considered and Regulation of Risk, one full unit Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 practitioners expert in the area. for one of the Lord Dahrendorf Scholarships equivalent quantitative course, one full unit degree in any subject, however equivalent qualitative course, and a fourth • Multi-disciplinary exposure to different (sponsored by Deutsche Bank). For more should include some mathematics and full unit equivalent course freely chosen. approaches to risk, its management and information, please see lse.ac.uk/finance. statistics (see page 33) regulation through teaching and your own The success of organisations depends upon English requirement: Higher (see Course 1 independent study. their ability to operate in the face of risk. page 36) Management and Regulation of Risk • The possibility of an optional internship The growing awareness of these problems GRE/GMAT requirement: Applicants at a leading bank to gain hands-on risk has meant that risk management is now Course 2 without UK undergraduate degrees are management experience. recognised as requiring special skills that are required to submit GMAT or GRE score central to the functioning of the organisation. Choose from the following amounting • An opportunity for students with prior (GMAT is strongly preferred) to one full unit: training in diverse disciplines and with There is a long tradition of quantifying (* half unit) For applicants with a UK undergraduate a range of professional backgrounds to and measuring certain risks such as life degree, submission of GMAT acquire knowledge on risk management and expectancies or accidents. Recently, Valuation and Security Analysis* (or, exceptionally, GRE) score is regulation, and to deepen their competency important advances have been made Accounting in the Global Economy* recommended, but not mandatory in a chosen area of specialisation. towards developing similar quantitative tools for newer areas such as financial Financial Risk Analysis* Fee level: £20,496 • Wide ranging coverage of topics in the markets and the environment. At the same area combined with a rigorous, in depth Forecasting Financial Time Series* Financial support: Graduate time, other social science disciplines have exploration of others. Support Scheme (see page 30). Lord produced important insights into how more Fixed Income Markets* Dahrendorf Scholarships • Equips students for career opportunities in: complex risks are perceived, and how social Applied Corporate Finance* Application deadline: None – consulting, finance and banking, insurance, organisations can adjust to regulate and Corporate Finance and Asset Markets rolling admissions management, regulation and supervision, share them. public administration. This MSc programme is designed to provide Corporate Finance A* About the MSc programme a comprehensive view of risk perception, Quantitative Methods for Finance and management and control as encountered in Risk Analysis* You will need a degree of at least upper a wide variety of contexts. It addresses such Portfolio Management* second class standard from a UK university, or questions as: What are the appropriate ways its equivalent. We assume that applicants will to measure and assess risk? How does the International Finance* have some knowledge of mathematics and organisation of enterprises, governments or Real Estate Finance* statistics. Interesting applicants with weak markets increase or decrease risk? What are backgrounds in this regard will be required the techniques for risk shifting in markets, Stochastic Processes* MSc Management Science graduate prospectus 203

Asset Markets A* MSc Management Science (Decision Sciences) Principles of Decision Sciences* MSc Management Science (Operational Research) Course 3 (formerly MSc Decision Sciences and MSc Operational Research) Choose from the following amounting • Preparation for employment in Model Building in Mathematical to one full unit: lse.ac.uk/ management consultancies, major Programming* managementScience companies and organisations in the public Accountability, Organisation and Applied Operational Research † Risk Management* Application code: N2U1 (OR), and voluntary sectors. N203 (DS) Environmental Regulation: • An opportunity to learn about theory Options Implementing Policy Start date: 29 September 2011 in action by engaging in an organisation Choose to the value of one full unit: based project. Economic Appraisal and Valuation* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Mathematical Programming: Theory months part-time Concepts in Environmental Regulation* About the MSc programme and Algorithms* Intake/applications in 2009: 85/383 Corporate Governance You should normally have an upper Advanced Behavioural Decision Making* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in a second class degree or equivalent in Law of Corporate Finance Combinatorial Optimisation* relevant discipline, including first year a relevant discipline, and should have Advanced Topics in Operational Research* Regulation of Financial Markets university mathematics and statistics taken first year university mathematics and statistics courses. If you do not meet Corporate and Financial Crime course. Appropriate work experience System Dynamics Modelling* all these criteria, but have relevant post- also considered (see page 33) Principles of Decision Sciences* Regulation, Risk and Economic Life degree work experience and an enquiring English requirement: Higher (see The World Trading System* mind, we would encourage you to apply. Advanced Decision Sciences* page 36) Strategy for the Information Economy* This MSc will give you a firm grounding Operational Research and Decision GRE/GMAT requirement: None in management science techniques Sciences in Practice* Course 4 Fee level: £17,040 and enable you to develop interests in Operations Management* theoretical or applied areas of your choice. Other full or half unit courses amounting to Financial support: Graduate Support This includes the opportunity to study new Financial Accounting, Reporting one full unit from options above, or others Scheme (see page 30) developments in the area of your choice: and Disclosure* with the approval of the course director. Application deadline: None – operational research or decision sciences. Organisational Behaviour* rolling admissions The programme involves completing the Organisational Change* equivalent of three full units and a project Innovating Organisational report or dissertation. Studying at LSE Information Technology* This programme is based in the Operational Research Search Games* Management Science Group (formerly Stream Research Design for Experimental and known as Operational Research) (see page Compulsory courses Observational Studies* 81) within the Department of Management and offers the following benefits: (* half unit) Time Series* • The chance to choose options that Techniques of Operational Research* reflect your interests. Computer Modelling: Applied Statistics • Teaching which takes students up and Simulation* to the frontiers of research in management science. 204 graduate prospectus MSc Management Science

At least one option must be chosen from Note that not all options are available the first seven listed. every year. Additional specialist topics may also Decision Sciences Stream be available. Alessandra Molteni Compulsory courses You can take other master’s level options (* half unit) taught at the School with permission. MSc Decision Applied Decision Sciences † Sciences (now MSc Computer Modelling: Applied Statistics Management Science) and Simulation* Como, Italy Principles of Decision Sciences* Advanced Decision Sciences*

Options I chose the programme at LSE for three reasons: the School’s reputation, Choose one from: the experience of friends who studied at LSE before me, and – last but not least – the fact that LSE has one of the best programmes around in Decision Sciences Global Strategy, Management and and Operational Research. I find the existence of scientific methodologies that Information Systems* can be relied upon when taking decisions under risk and uncertainty extremely Techniques of Operational Research* fascinating. In particular, I enjoy the use of modelling and simulation to support decision making - this field has incredible potential! Some of the teachers at LSE Advanced Behavioural Decision Making* are pioneers of decision analysis. They bring knowledge rooted in experience that Advanced Topics in Operational Research* goes well beyond the simple technical expertise. System Dynamics Modelling* The best things about being at LSE? Operational Research and Decision Sciences • The fact that you are surrounded by bright people. The mix of cultures, experiences in Practice* and ideas is extremely stimulating. LSE is definitely not for people who are unwilling Operations Management* to have their own ideas challenged! Organisational Behaviour* • The facilities provided by the School are outstanding (particularly the library). Organisational Change* • The fact that courses are intellectually stimulating but also practically oriented. Game Theory I* • And being in the heart of London doesn’t hurt either… The Analysis of Strategy A* After I graduate I definitely want to go back to work. Ideally, I would go back to † Towards the end of the course you can the field of international peace and security, where I used to work before starting choose either to experience the practical the programme at LSE. There are, however, many other interesting sectors where world of operational research or decision the skills I have learned here could be put to good use. Judging from what we sciences through a three month summer have seen in the past few years, whatever the field, support to complex decision- project where you apply theory to tackle a making will never go amiss! real problem in an organisation, presented as a written ‘management report’, or to undertake a dissertation on a research subject of your choice. MSc Management and Strategy graduate prospectus 205

economics for accepted applicants with MSc Management and Strategy programme, MSc Management and Strategy insufficient background. but are encouraged to apply to take the MSc International Management programme (see The degree comprises four core courses: page 180). two in strategy and two in organisation (one in each term). In addition, students Students who have graduated from the MSc lse.ac.uk/MES can choose two optional courses from a programmes in the Managerial Economics range of subjects. Finance is covered in and Strategy Group have gone on to Application code: N1UG the core courses and may additionally be pursue careers in management consultancy; Start date: 29 September 2011. Some chosen as an option. Students work on banking; accountancy; further study (MPhil/ students are required to participate in an extended case study project during the PhD); marketing; public sector management introductory courses during September year and a dissertation over the summer. and retail management. Teaching consists of lectures and smaller Duration: 12 months full-time only seminars. Many seminars are also based on Part 1: Compulsory courses Intake/applications in 2009: 51/748 case studies, and much of the work for the (* half unit) seminars in the core courses and for the Incentives and Governance in Organisations* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in extended case study is based on teamwork in social science, engineering or science study groups. The Analysis of Strategy (A)* discipline (see page 33) alternative to the MSc in Management and To be eligible to apply for the MSc The Analysis of Strategy (B)* English requirement: Higher (see Economics, and to students with a degree programme you should have obtained at page 36) Design and Management of Organisations* in a management-related subject who are least a good upper second class honours GRE/GMAT requirement: All applicants looking for a more rigorous approach to degree or its equivalent (eg GPA 3.6) in Part 2: Options must submit a GRE or GMAT management. Applications from graduates a social science, engineering or science discipline. In addition, all applicants are Choose one from the following: Fee level: £20,496 in the humanities and other subjects are also welcome but must demonstrate basic required to take the Graduate Record Public Management Theory and Doctrine* Financial support: Graduate Support Examination (GRE) General Test and competence in quantitative methods. Public Management: A Strategic Approach* Scheme (see page 30) submit results with their application Like most LSE degrees, the MSc Negotiation Analysis* Application deadline: None – forms. The GMAT may be accepted as Management and Strategy is academic, rolling admissions an alternative to the GRE. You need to International Marketing: not vocational. In contrast to an MBA the have a basic knowledge of statistics, A Strategic Approach* emphasis in this degree is on thinking and mathematical analysis and economics About the MSc programme understanding, not doing, and on analysis for the core course. Two one week Systems Thinking and Strategic Modelling* rather than mere description. The degree is The MSc Management and Strategy is a introductory courses, in Mathematics Personnel Economics* not suitable for students who are looking for one-year programme for students interested and Statistics for Management and in an MBA. International Business and Governance* in an analytical approach to management. Economics for Management, are run Business in the Global Environment* The programme is aimed at students with The various courses are based on a wide every September prior to the start of some quantitative background. This includes variety of academic disciplines. In the core the MSc. Students whose knowledge of Evolutionary Psychology and Management* students with a first degree in engineering, courses there is a particular emphasis on mathematics and economics is considered The World Trading System* science, or a social science, who have had managerial economics and its relevance to be below the standard required to some quantitative training (in elementary for organisation and strategy. The degree enter the MSc may be offered a place Strategy for the Information Economy* does not require prior knowledge of conditional on their attendance at one or calculus and basic statistics). Entrepreneurial Strategy* economics, but it assumes a basic interest both of these courses. The degree may also appeal to students in and openness to economic reasoning. with a first degree in economics, or Graduates of the BSc Management Part 3: Options We provide week-long pre-sessional courses an economics-related subject, as an programme at LSE are permitted to take the Choose one from the following: in quantitative methods and managerial 206 graduate prospectus MSc Media and Communications / MSc Media and Communications (Research)

Valuation and Security Analysis* MSc Media and Communications Accounting in the Global Economy* Management Accounting, Decisions MSc Media and Communications (Research) and Control* of contemporary issues in media and Financial Accounting, Reporting lse.ac.uk/media@lse and Disclosure* communications. They aim to provide: Application codes: P4U1 (P4U6 Corporate Finance II: Finance and • A broad based understanding of Research) Corporate Strategy* the development and forms of media Start date: 29 September 2011 systems in relation to political economy, A course listed in Part 2 regulation and power, production and Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Any other half unit graduate course at LSE organisation, processes of mediation and months part-time with permission influence, communication content and Intake/applications in 2009: 82/653 audience response. Part 4: Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in • An up to date engagement with diverse Dissertation and case study social science, or degree in another theoretical, conceptual and empirical field with professional experience in developments in research on media and communications. the media and communications field. • A diverse, multi-disciplinary and Exceptionally, professional experience theoretically oriented approach to • A mix of core and optional courses, alone (see page 33) contemporary developments, issues and culminating in an independent research English requirement: Higher (see debates in the field. project in media and communications, that provides an ideal preparation for research or page 36) • A range of specialist courses within employment in media and communications GRE/GMAT requirement: None media and communications and related and related fields. fields, including an independent empirical Fee level: £15,888 research project. • The flexibility to tailor the programme Financial support: Graduate Support to pursue particular topics of interest by • An intellectually stimulating, well resourced Scheme (see page 30) selecting from a wide range of courses learning environment, with strong links to taught by leading experts in the Department Application deadline: None – media and communications industries and of Media and Communications and other rolling admissions policy makers. departments at LSE. • The opportunity for lively cross-cultural The Research track programme also exchange of ideas among a dynamic Studying at LSE provides advanced research training, group of fellow students in the Department All the MSc programmes in the Department enhancing students’ methodological and and School. of Media and Communications (see page 85) statistical skills. This degree offers: • Study with internationally recognised active offer the following benefits: • Research training for students wishing to researchers with expertise in media and • An intensive, high quality graduate undertake MPhil/PhD degrees. communications and politics and democracy, education in media and communications. regulation and policy, technological change, • Advanced methodological training as • A broad social science foundation in audiences, globalisation, culture, and more. preparation for research-related careers. qualitative, quantitative, empirical and About the MSc programmes • Recognition by the Economic and Social critical skills. Research Council (1+3 and +3 schemes) and These programmes offer an intensive, the Arts and Humanities Research Council. year-long exploration of a wide range MSc Media and Communications / MSc Media and Communications (Research) graduate prospectus 207

Students may also apply for the Media combination of lectures and seminars. The Quantitative Analysis)* (for students on the Innovation and Information Systems, and Communication Governance stream Methods of Research course is taught as a non-research track) Concepts and Perspectives* (see page 208) of the MSc Media and series of lectures and practical classes. You Advanced Methods of Research in Media Cultural Constructions of the Body* Communications. This will enable them will be examined by written examinations, and Communications (including Advanced to follow courses with a focus on strategy, research assignments, essays related to International Media and the Global South* Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis) (for governance and regulation in the media and courses and the dissertation, which must be students on the research track) New Media, Information and communication sectors, including courses submitted in the summer. Knowledge Systems* related to media regulation and law. Dissertation The programmes run for a full calendar year. Identity, Transnationalism and the Media* We attract students from a diverse Formal teaching is usually completed by the Options Critical Studies in Media and Journalism* range of backgrounds, often including end of the Lent term. Examinations for all Choose to the value of one and a half professional experience working in media courses are generally held during May and Interpersonal Mediated Communication* units † (one unit for students on the and communications related fields. June. The remaining months are set aside research track): The Social Psychology of Communication Indeed, the opportunity for cross-cultural for students to complete their dissertations, meetings and exchange of ideas among and it is not normally essential for students to Screening the Present: Contemporary Science, Technology and Resistance* the student body is a valuable feature of remain in London during these months. Cinema and Cultural Critique* Psychoanalysis and Communication* studying at LSE. Part-time students will normally take and Interpretations of Information* Cultural Theory* You should have at least an upper second be examined in courses to the value of Digital Convergence and class honours degree or its equivalent in two units in each year of study. In the first Any other half unit paper which is offered Information Services* a social science subject. We particularly year, these two units, selected in discussion in the School at master’s level, subject to the welcome applications from those with with the student’s academic adviser, will Media and Communications Regulations* consent of the student’s teachers professional experience in the media and usually include the compulsory theoretical Media Law: Regulating Publication* † Students must take option courses to the communication fields and, in this case, we course(s) and one or more option course(s). value of at least one half unit from the Media Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering* would accept a degree in other subjects. The methods course(s) and the dissertation and Communications Department. Exceptionally we may consider professional are then usually taken in the second year, Critical Approaches to Media, Please refer to the School’s policy on course experience instead of a first degree. together with the remaining option course(s). Communication and Development* capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping Students may be permitted to vary the The Department of Media and Media and Communication Governance* courses to be taken in each year with the Please note that the availability of option Communications requires applicants in approval of their academic adviser. The Audience in Media and courses is dependent upon a number receipt of a conditional offer to meet those Communications* of factors and thus neither the School conditions before registration and before the Please note that we do not provide a nor the Department of Media and start of the Michaelmas term. practical training in journalism, production, Citizenship and the Media* Communications can guarantee that all campaigning or media management. On graduating, our students enter a variety Political Communication* options will be available each year. of careers in the UK and abroad, including Compulsory courses Media, Technology and Everyday Life* broadcasting, journalism, advertising, new media industries, political marketing, market (* half unit) Contemporary Issues in Media and Communications Regulation* research, regulation and policy, media Theories and Concepts in Media and management and research in both public Communications I (Key concepts The Social Psychology of Economic Life* and private sectors. See lse.ac.uk/media@ and interdisciplinary approaches)* Representation in the Age of Globalisation* lse/alumni and Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications II (Processes of Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions in Teaching and assessment communication in modern life)* Qualitative Research* The programmes consist of four units, Methods of Research in Media and Gender and Media Representation* including required and optional courses and Communications (including Qualitative and the dissertation. Courses typically involve a 208 graduate prospectus MSc Media and Communications (Media and Communication Governance)

About the MSc programme meetings and exchange of ideas among MSc Media and Communications the student body is a valuable feature of This programme offers an intensive, studying at LSE. (Media and Communication Governance) year-long exploration of a wide range of contemporary issues in media and You should have at least an upper second communications specifically concerned class honours degree or its equivalent in lse.ac.uk/media@lse with the emergence of new forms of a social science subject. We particularly media and communication governance. welcome applications from those with Application codes: P3U3 The MSc Media and Communications professional experience in the media and Start date: 29 September 2011 (Media and Communication Governance) communication fields and, in this case, we would accept a degree in other subjects. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 aims to provide: Exceptionally we may consider professional months part-time • A broad based understanding of experience instead of a first degree. Intake/applications in 2009: New the institutions and regulations that The Department of Media and programme for 2010 structure the development and forms of media and communication systems. Communications requires applicants in Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in The programme covers policy, regulatory, receipt of a conditional offer to meet those social science, or degree in another legal and economic aspects of media and conditions before registration and before the field with professional experience in communication services. start of the Michaelmas term. the media and communications field. • A diverse, multi-disciplinary and On graduating, our students enter a variety Exceptionally, professional experience • An up-to-date engagement with diverse theoretically oriented approach to of careers in the UK and abroad, including alone (see page 33) theoretical, conceptual and empirical contemporary developments, issues and developments in research on media and broadcasting, journalism, advertising, new English requirement: Higher (see debates in the field. communications, specifically relating to media industries, political marketing, market page 36) • A range of specialist courses within communication governance at the regional, research, regulation and policy, media GRE/GMAT requirement: None media and communications and related national and international levels. management and research in both public and private sectors. See lse.ac.uk/media@ Fee level: £15,888 fields, including an independent empirical • A mix of core and optional courses, lse/alumni research project. culminating in an independent research Financial support: Graduate Support project in media and communications (media Scheme (see page 30) • An intellectually stimulating, well resourced Teaching and assessment learning environment, with strong links to and communication governance), that The programme consists of four units, Application deadline: None – media and communications industries and provides an ideal preparation for research or including required and optional courses and rolling admissions policy makers. employment in media and communications and related fields of policy, regulation and/or the dissertation. Courses typically involve a • The opportunity for lively cross- information systems analysis. combination of lectures and seminars. The Studying at LSE cultural exchange of ideas among a Methods of Research course is taught as a dynamic group of fellow students in the • The flexibility to tailor the programme series of lectures and practical classes. You All the MSc programmes in the Department Department and School. to pursue particular topics of interest by will be examined by written examinations, of Media and Communications (see page 85) selecting from a wide range of courses research assignments, essays related to offer the following benefits: • Study with internationally recognised active taught by leading experts in the Department researchers with expertise in media and courses and the dissertation, which must be • An intensive, high quality graduate of Media and Communications and other communications and politics and democracy, submitted in the summer. education in media and communications. departments at LSE. regulation and policy, technological change, The programme runs for a full calendar year. • A broad social science foundation in audiences, globalisation, culture, and more. We attract students from a diverse Formal teaching is usually completed by the qualitative, quantitative, empirical and range of backgrounds, often including end of the Lent term. Examinations for all critical skills. professional experience working in media courses are generally held during May and and communications related fields. June. The remaining months are set aside Indeed, the opportunity for cross-cultural for students to complete their dissertations, MSc Media, Communications and Development graduate prospectus 209

and it is not normally essential for students to Media Law: Regulating Publication* remain in London during these months. MSc Media, Communication Media Law: Regulating Newsgathering* Part-time students will normally take and and Development be examined in courses to the value of Plus choose to the value of one half unit: two units in each year of study. In the first Citizenship and the Media* contemporary developments, issues and year, these two units, selected in discussion The Audience in Media lse.ac.uk/media@lse debates in the field. with the student’s academic adviser, will and Communications* usually include the compulsory theoretical Application code: P3U2 • A range of specialist courses within course(s) and one or more option course(s). Contemporary Issues in Media and Start date: 29 September 2011 media and communications and related The methods course(s) and the dissertation Communications Regulation* fields, including an independent empirical Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 are then usually taken in the second year, research project. Critical Approaches to Media, months part-time together with the remaining option course(s). Communication and Development* • An intellectually stimulating, well resourced Students may be permitted to vary the Intake/applications in 2009: 16/256 learning environment, with strong links to courses to be taken in each year with the Political Communication* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in media and communications industries and approval of their academic adviser. International Media and The Global South* social science, or degree in another policy makers. Please note that we do not provide a New Media, Information and field with professional experience in • The opportunity for lively cross- practical training in journalism, production, Knowledge Systems* the media and communications field. cultural exchange of ideas among a campaigning or media management. Exceptionally, professional experience dynamic group of fellow students in the Theories and Concepts in Media alone (see page 33) Department and School. Compulsory courses and Communications II (Processes of communication in modern life)* English requirement: Higher (see • Study with internationally recognised active (* half unit) page 36) researchers with expertise in media and Interpersonal Mediated Communication* Theories and Concepts in Media and GRE/GMAT requirement: None communications and politics and democracy, Communications I (Key concepts and The Social Psychology of Economic Life* regulation and policy, technological change, Fee level: £15,888 interdisciplinary approaches)* Any other half unit course which is offered audiences, globalisation, culture, and more. Financial support: Graduate Support Methods of Research in Media in the School at master’s level, subject to the Scheme (see page 30) About the MSc programme and Communications (including Qualitative consent of the student’s teachers This programme offers an intensive, and Quantitative Analysis)* Please refer to the School’s policy on Application deadline: None – rolling admissions year-long exploration of a wide range Media and Communication Governance* course capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping of contemporary issues in media, Dissertation Please note that the availability of option communications and development. courses is dependent upon a number Studying at LSE The main aim of this programme is to offer Options of factors and thus neither the School All the MSc programmes in the Department an advanced interdisciplinary education and nor the Department of Media and Choose to the value of one full unit: of Media and Communications (see page 85) training in contemporary theory and research Communications can guarantee that all offer the following benefits: in the field of media and communications Innovation and Information Systems: options will be available each year. Concepts and Perspectives* • An intensive, high quality graduate and its application in low income country contexts. It aims to: Interpretation of Information* education in media and communications. • Provide an opportunity to critically examine Digital Convergence and • A broad social science foundation in the intersection of the fields of media and Information Services* qualitative, quantitative, empirical and critical skills. communications and development research. Media and Communications Regulation* • A diverse, multi-disciplinary and • Provide research training for students New Media Regulation* theoretically oriented approach to wishing to go on to MPhil/PhD research in the media, communication and 210 graduate prospectus MSc Media, Communications and Development

development field and for entry to a Teaching and assessment Theories and Concepts in Media and Democratisation and its Discontents in variety of media, communication and Communications I (Key concepts and Southeast Asia* The programme consists of four units, development related careers. interdisciplinary approaches)* including required and optional courses and IT and Development • Enable students to develop an the dissertation. Courses typically involve a Methods of Research in Media and Aspects of Information Systems for the understanding of a range of theoretical and combination of lectures and seminars. The Communications (including Qualitative and Public Sector* methodological approaches to the study of Methods of Research course is taught as a Quantitative Analysis)* media and communication in low income series of lectures and practical classes. You Aspects of IT and Socio-economic Dissertation country contexts. will be examined by written examinations, Development* research assignments, essays related to • Allow flexibility for students to pursue Options Social Psychology of Health Communication* courses, and the dissertation which must be particular topics of interest in the field of Choose to the value of one and a half New Media, Development and Globalisation* submitted in the summer. media and communication with an emphasis units from the following: Any other half unit paper which is offered on issues that arise in low income countries. The programme runs for a full calendar year. Citizenship and the Media* in the School at master’s level, subject to the Formal teaching is usually completed by the We attract students from a diverse consent of the student’s teachers end of the Lent term. Examinations for all The Audience in Media and range of backgrounds, often including courses are generally held during May and Communications* NB. Students must take option courses to professional experience working in media June. The remaining months are set aside the value of at least one half unit from the and communications related fields. Political Communication* for students to complete their dissertations, Media and Communications Department. Indeed, the opportunity for cross-cultural and it is not normally essential for students to Current Issues in Media meetings and exchange of ideas among Please refer to the School’s policy on course remain in London during these months. and Communications* the student body is a valuable feature of capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping studying at LSE. Part-time students will normally take and International Media and The Global South* Please note that the availability of option be examined in courses to the value of You should have at least an upper second New Media, Information and courses is dependent upon a number of two units in each year of study. In the first class honours degree or its equivalent in Knowledge Systems* factors and thus neither the School nor the year, these two units, selected in discussion a social science subject. We particularly Department of Media and Communications with the student’s academic adviser, will Media and Communication Governance* welcome applications from those with can guarantee that all options will be usually include the compulsory theoretical Theories and Concepts in Media professional experience in the media and available each year. course(s) and one or more option course(s). communication fields and, in this case, we and Communications II (Processes of The methods course(s) and the dissertation would accept a degree in other subjects. communication in modern life)* are then usually taken in the second year, Exceptionally we may consider professional Identity, Transnationalism and the Media* together with the remaining option course(s). experience instead of a first degree. Students may be permitted to vary the Media and Communication Governance* The Department of Media and courses to be taken in each year with the Interpersonal Mediated Communication* Communications requires applicants in approval of their academic adviser. receipt of a conditional offer to meet those Global Political Economy of Development I* Please note that we do not provide a conditions before registration and before the practical training in journalism, production, Global Political Economy of Development II* start of the Michaelmas term. campaigning or media management. Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice* On graduating, our students enter a variety of careers in the UK and abroad, including Compulsory courses Gender and Media Representation* broadcasting, journalism, advertising, new (* half unit) Globalising Sexualities* media industries, political marketing, market Cultural Constructions of the Body* research, regulation and policy, media Critical Approaches to Media, management and research in both public Communication and Development* Democracy in East and South Asia* and private sectors. See lse.ac.uk/media@ The State and Political Institutions in lse/alumni Latin America* MSc NGOs and Development / MSc Organisational Behaviour graduate prospectus 211

MSc NGOs and Development MSc Organisational Behaviour

About the MSc programme lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy lse.ac.uk/EROB In addition to the standard requirements you Application code: M1T2 usually need to have some practical work Application code: N6U6 Start date: 29 September 2011 experience (at least one year) in or with non- Start date: 29 September 2011 governmental organisations in developing or Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Duration: 12 months full-time transition countries. months part-time Intake/applications in 2009: New Intake/applications in 2009: 19/166 Compulsory courses programme in 2011 Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in NGOs and Development Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 any discipline and normally some work Dissertation or first class degree preferably in a experience with NGOs in developing management related discipline or or transition countries (see page 33) Options psychology (see page 33) English requirement: Standard (see (* half unit) English requirement: Higher (see • A unique approach to bridging the page 36) page 36) academic-practitioner divide through Choose to the value of two full units an Engaged Self and Scholarship GRE/GMAT requirement: None from the following: Fee level: £20,496 workshop which focuses on theory-driven Fee level: £15,888 China in Developmental Perspective* GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates practical skills. of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE Financial support: Graduate Support Social Policy and Development • The opportunity to study organisational or GMAT Scheme (see page 30) behaviour in a research-led Department with Poverty* Financial support: Graduate Support Application deadline: None – a truly worldwide reputation. Complex Emergencies* Scheme (see page 30) rolling admissions About the MSc programme Social Rights and Human Welfare* Application deadline: None – This MSc is designed to provide students One course from within the Social rolling admissions Studying at LSE who have limited or no work experience Policy Department This programme is based in the Department with a comprehensive and solid grounding in If you choose Social Policy and Develop- of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the Studying at LSE organisational behaviour and its applications ment as one of your options, you will to management. The programme following benefits: This programme is based in the Employment be required to take part in a three day complements the other specialist MSc • Study in a Department which has achieved Relations and Organisational Behaviour residential workshop on applied social degrees within the EROB group and the the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the Group within the Department of planning at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor broader portfolio of degrees offered in the quality of its research. Management (see page 78) and offers the Great Park, during the Lent term. The cost Department of Management. following benefits: • A unique and innovative course focusing on of this three day workshop is £200. The programme can be taken as a free- non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in • An in-depth approach to understanding standing one year degree, or serve as developing and transition countries. the fundamental issues of behaviour and the entry year to the Group’s doctoral change in organisations at the individual, programme. If you intend to follow the group and organisational levels. latter route then you should state this clearly • Exposure to emerging themes in the study in your application, together with a brief of organisational behaviour. 212 graduate prospectus MSc Organisational and Social Psychology

indication of your likely field of doctoral Options research. If you complete the MSc with a MSc Organisational and Choose two half units from: Merit or Distinction – and select a research Social Psychology topic which we feel able to supervise – you Cross-Cultural Management* may proceed directly to MPhil registration. Knowledge, Networks and The programme consists of four compulsory Collaborative Work* lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology half unit courses and an empirical based Organisational and Social Decision Making* 10,000 word research dissertation. Application code: L7U2 Courses offer discipline-based teaching Leadership in Organisations: Theory Start date: 29 September 2011 in Organisational Change, Leadership, and Practice* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Organisational Theory, Cross Cultural Negotiation Analysis* months part-time Management and Managing Diversity in Managing Diversity in Organisations* Organisations. Students will select two Intake/applications in 2009: 46/214 options from the list below or will choose Reward Systems: Key Models and Practices* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 or two methodology courses if they intend to The Dark Side of the Organisation* first class degree, with a considered pursue the Group PhD upon completion of interest in the area covered by the MSc Theory and Practice of the programme. (see page 33) Organisational Development* Applicants will normally need a first or English requirement: Standard (see • The opportunity to study in an Two methodology courses if intending to upper second class honours degree (or the page 36) internationally renowned centre for the take the Group PhD upon completion of overseas equivalent) to be considered for a subject, situated in the only UK institution the programme GRE/GMAT requirement: None place. Limited work experience is useful, but solely devoted to the social sciences, in a not essential. If appropriate, you may also Fee level: £15,888 thriving research community. need an English language test score at the Financial support: Graduate Support higher level specified by the School. Students • An exciting group of international students Scheme (see page 30) who have substantial work experience might with a diversity of academic, professional want to consider the MSc in Organisational Application deadline: None – and cultural backgrounds. Recent graduates and Social Psychology (see opposite). rolling admissions have gained employment worldwide in consultancy, international enterprises and Compulsory courses firms, banks, government, non-governmental Studying at LSE organisations (NGOs), or have gone on to (* half unit) obtain PhDs and pursue an academic career. This programme is based in the Institute of Advanced and Emerging Topics in Social Psychology (see page 93) and offers • A wide range of choice in optional courses Organisational Behaviour* the following benefits: within the Institute and the School so that Organisational Behaviour* you can deepen or widen your expertise, • A high quality academic training addressing and take up the advanced study of particular Organisational Change* the social psychology of organisations and aspects of organisations. Organisational Theory* providing multidisciplinary coverage of organisational contexts, processes and cases. Dissertation About the MSc programme • A unique approach emphasising the We will consider applicants with a good first development of analytical skills and the degree in any discipline and a considered integration of theory and practice for creative interest in the area covered by the MSc. and transformative work in organisations. Please note that it is not the aim of this course to offer a foundation level training in MSc Philosophy and Public Policy graduate prospectus 213

organisational management skills as might Modern Social Psychology* typically be expected from a master’s course MSc Philosophy and Public Policy Organisational and Social Decision Making* in business administration. Issues in Organisational and Social The programme consists of four course units, Psychology: Organisational Life* including compulsory and optional courses • Taught at an institution which is a major and a research report. A weekly professional Psychoanalysis and Communication* lse.ac.uk/philosophyLogic centre for national and international seminar series in the Lent term provides Cognition and Culture* AndScientificMethod public policy debates, this degree provides students on the course with the opportunity Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture Application code: V7U8 a foundation in the conceptual and to debate with professionals, managers and Resistance* normative questions underlying public and consultants working on a variety of Start date: 29 September 2011 policy formulation. organisational contexts. Theory and Practice of Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Organisational Development* • It prepares you for policy oriented careers in Please also note that the programme months part-time intergovernmental, governmental and non- structure is currently under review and An approved course or courses to the Intake/applications in 2009: 23/112 governmental organisations as well as for the structure offered may differ from that value of one half unit from any other MSc PhD work in philosophy or related disciplines. listed below. programme in the School Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 or 1st class degree, with a considered • It is distinctive in three ways: First, it Not all these courses may be available in Compulsory courses interest in the areas covered by the is resolutely interdisciplinary. We take any one year. For more details and the latest MSc (see page 33) philosophical analysis to be continuous (* half unit) information please see www.lse.ac.uk/col- with the scientific study of political, social lections/socialPsychology. English requirement: Higher (see Organisational Social Psychology and economic problems. Second, it offers a page 36) Research Methods thorough background in moral and political GRE/GMAT requirement: None theory, which students learn to apply to Research report of 10,000 words on a topic Fee level: £15,888 issues in public policy. Third, it provides a approved by your supervisor foundation in evidence-based policy, which is Financial support: Graduate Support now widely mandated at all levels of policy- Options Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students making. In addition, students have access to may apply to the Arts and Humanities Choose to the value of one unit: a wealth of courses and resources within the Research Council (www.ahrc. Gender and Media Representation* Philosophy Department and at LSE generally ac.uk) for funding. Lakatos Memorial that are relevant for the philosophical analysis Cultural Constructions of the Body* Scholarship – £4,000 award for a of public policy, for example: single Philosophy student Social Representations* • Research seminars on philosophy and Application deadline: None – Current Communication Research* public policy, rational and social choice, rolling admissions scientific evidence and policy-making. See The Social Psychology of Economic Life* Note: If your first language is not www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events Social Psychology of Health Communication* English, you must submit a writing • The LSE Internships programme in Public sample of 5-10 typewritten pages Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Policy, Social Issues and Public Affairs. Social Psychology* • The many policy-related courses and Studying at LSE Knowledge Processes in Organisations* colloquia in the LSE. This programme is based in the Representations, Institutions • Founded by Sir Karl Popper, The Department of Philosophy, Logic and and Communities* Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (see page 88) and offers Corporate Communications* Scientific Method has a strong reputation the following benefits: in philosophy of the social sciences and Science, Technology and Resistance* 214 graduate prospectus MSc Philosophy and Public Policy

economics, philosophy of the natural philosophy (eg democracy, liberal neutrality, sciences, moral and political philosophy, equality, human rights, punishment and philosophy and policy, and rational and just war) and science and policy (eg nature social choice. of evidence, objectivity, theory choice, facts and values). • The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences at LSE is one of the Internships international centres of the discipline and attracts a series of eminent visitors. Students will be able to apply to the LSE Internships programme in Public Policy, Social • The Department has close links with Issues & Public Affairs. This initiative, led by other departments in the University of the Careers Service and the LSE Public Policy London. Many graduate-level courses Group, offers internships to LSE graduate given in other colleges of the University students in key organisations working are available to MSc students. This gives across the field of public policy, social issues students access to the rich intellectual and public affairs. The initiative builds on environment that London has to offer. the success of an existing Parliamentary About the MSc programme Internship Scheme founded in 1998 The LSE Internships programme in Public The MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy Policy, Social Issues and Public Affairs will be of interest to students from various offers students flexibility in the nature backgrounds, eg from philosophy, history, of the intern’s work and the duration of economics, sociology and political science. the internships. MSc and PhD students We consider applicants with good first commit to do one to one and a half days degrees in any discipline, with a considered per week with an organisation. interest in the area covered by the MSc. If your first language is not English, please Student life submit with your application a sample of your work in English (five to ten Our students typically form a tight social typewritten pages). group. The Department organises social occasions through the year. Needless to We recruit students from all across the say London has a wide range of social world to assemble a genuinely international opportunities to offer. group, which enriches discussions. We approach philosophical issues in public Career development policy through the lenses of historical and The course prepares you for PhD work in contemporary developments in ethical philosophy as well as for policy-oriented theory and political philosophy and we careers in governmental, non-governmental prepare students not expert in the sciences or trans-governmental organisations. We to understand how the natural and social have a very good record of students moving sciences work and how to use their results on to good PhD programmes and to high- in evaluating policy. Topics include various level jobs with think tanks, in government, policy areas (eg health care, development, or in business. For reports about what social security, the environment), approaches some of our former students are presently to the study of society (rational, social and doing, see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ public choice) and central topics in political MSc Philosophy of Science graduate prospectus 215

philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/ of science; and (b) those who have studied study/mastersProgrammes/ MSc Philosophy of Science philosophy and would now like to study MScPPPJobPlacement.htm philosophy of science in greater depth. Our courses are designed to be understandable Courses 1 and 2 by, and stimulating for, both groups. Philosophy and Public Policy Studying at LSE lse.ac.uk/philosophy Core courses Philosophy, Morals and Politics LogicAndScientificMethod This programme is based in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method Philosophy of Science or Evidence, Application code: V5UG Course 3 (see page 88). It offers the following benefits: Objectivity and Policy Start date: 29 September 2011 (* half unit) • The Department draws on the traditions Dissertation Seminar: Philosophy of Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 set by its founder, Sir Karl Popper, and Science (non assessed) Choose one from: months part-time distinguished followers such as Imre Lakatos. You will also complete a 10,000 word Philosophy of Science Intake/applications in 2009: 12/50 • The excellence of its research was dissertation which is completed over Philosophy of the Social Sciences confirmed in the 2008 Research Assessment the summer and must be submitted in Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 or Exercise: the department was ranked joint mid-September. Philosophy of Economics first class degree, with a considered third in the UK for the proportion of its Evidence, Objectivity and Policy interest in the areas covered by the work deemed ‘world leading’. Options MSc. Most students have a science Rationality and Choice Courses to the value of two full background or one in philosophy (see • The degree is internationally highly regarded. units from: Behavioural Public Policy* page 33) • The Centre for Philosophy of Natural Philosophy of Science ‡ Given the specific interests and English requirement: Higher (see and Social Science is one of the foremost background training of the student, it may page 36) international centres of the discipline and History of Science be possible to substitute a course from attracts a series of eminent visitors. MSc GRE/GMAT requirement: None Either Philosophy of the Social Sciences or another department at LSE in place of one students benefit from the seminars and Philosophy of Economics of the courses listed above. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; research activities at the Centre. overseas £15,888 Philosophical Foundations of Physics Course 4 • The Department has close links with other Financial support: Graduate Support philosophy departments in the University of Philosophy of Biological and Compulsory Dissertation Seminar: Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students London. Many graduate level lecture courses Cognitive Sciences Philosophy and Public Policy may apply to the Arts given in other colleges of the University are Set Theory and Further Logic and Humanities Research Council This will prepare you to write a dissertation available to MSc students and are required (www.ahrc.ac.uk). Lakatos Memorial Evidence, Objectivity and Policy ‡ of about 10,000 words on philosophical teaching for some courses. This gives students Scholarship – £4,000 award for a aspects of a public policy issue. access to the very rich, general London Rationality and Choice single philosophy student philosophical environment. You will sit written examinations for your Application deadline: None – About the MSc programme taught courses in June. rolling admissions ‡ If not taken as a core course We will consider applicants with a first or Notes: If your first language is not upper second class (2:1) honours degree English, you must submit a writing or equivalent, with a considered interest in sample of 5-10 typewritten pages the area covered by the MSc. However, the majority of our students fall into one of two groups: (a) those who have studied science as undergraduates and would now like to study in depth the foundations and methods 216 graduate prospectus MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences

MSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences History of Science Philosophy of the Social Sciences # Philosophy of the Biological and Cognitive Sciences • The Department is one of the major Philosophy of Economics # lse.ac.uk/philosophyLogic centres for the philosophy of social science AndScientificMethod in the world. Philosophy and Public Policy † Application code: V7U1 • The degree is internationally Philosophy, Morals and Politics † Start date: 29 September 2011 highly regarded. Set Theory and Further Logic Duration: 12 months full-time, • The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Evidence, Objectivity and Policy Social Science housed at LSE is one of the 24 months part-time Rationality and Choice international centres of the discipline and Intake/applications in 2009: 16/71 attracts a series of eminent visitors. MSc History of Economics: From Moral Philosophy Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 or students benefit from the seminars and to Social Science research activities at the Centre. 1st class degree, with a considered An approved paper from any other master’s interest in the area covered by the MSc • The Department has close links with other programme at LSE (see page 33) philosophy departments in the University of # All students must select at least one of London. Many graduate level lecture courses English requirement: Higher (see these options. given in other colleges of the University are page 36) † May not be taken together available to MSc students and are required GRE/GMAT requirement: None teaching for some courses. This gives students You will also attend the compulsory Fee level: UK /EU £10,272; overseas access to the very rich, general London dissertation seminar: Philosophical Research £15,888 philosophical environment. and Writing – Philosophy of Social Science. Financial support: Graduate Support • The position of the Department within an You will write a dissertation of not more Scheme (see page 30) UK/EU students international centre of excellence in the social than 10,000 words, on a topic in the may apply to the Arts and Humanities sciences means that there is a good deal of philosophy of the social sciences (within the Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk). collaboration between social scientists and ‘analytic’ tradition). Lakatos Memorial Scholarship – £4,000 philosophers both in teaching and research. award for a single philosophy student About the MSc programme Application deadline: None – rolling admissions We will consider applicants with a first or upper second class (2:1) honours degree Note: If your first language is not or equivalent, with a considered interest in English, you must submit a writing the area covered by the MSc. If your first sample of 5-10 typewritten pages language is not English, please submit with your application to LSE a sample of your work Studying at LSE in English (five to ten typewritten pages). This programme is based in the Courses Department of Philosophy, Logic and Select three units from the following: Scientific Method (see page 88) and offers the following benefits: Philosophy of Science MSc Political Economy of Late Development graduate prospectus 217

to explain how and when some developing Poverty* MSc Political Economy of economies ‘converged’ with industrialised Economic Development Policy Late Development countries, while the growth performance of others was more erratic, and why problems Population and Development: An of poverty, inequality, instability and violence Analytical Approach* still characterise large parts of the world. lse.ac.uk/international African Development* Development The degree is a twelve-month programme, Global Political Economy of Development I* consisting of two core units, a dissertation, Global Political Economy of Development II* lse.ac.uk/economicHistory and optional courses to the value of two Application code: V3UC full units selected from the prescribed Managing Humanitarianism* list. The core elements are Development: Start date: 29 September 2011 Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Theory, History and Policy and Theories, Contemporary India* Duration: 12 months full-time only Paths and Patterns of Late Development, to which the dissertation is linked. In choosing Intake/applications in 2009: 39/164 Economic history courses options, students must select an equivalent Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 of one full Department of International India and the World Economy* in social science or humanities (see Development (formerly known as DESTIN) African Economic Development in page 33) unit and one full economic history unit. Historical Perspective* a unique set of courses that combine English requirement: Higher (see conceptual approaches to development, Please note that some options have Political Economy of Late Industrialisation* page 36) prerequisites and some have a restricted empirical analyses of patterns of growth Research Issues in African intake. The range of options available in any GRE/GMAT requirement: None in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and key Economic Development* themes in development. one year may vary: for full details see course Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; descriptions at www.lse.ac.uk/resources/ Economic Development in East and overseas £15,888 The intellectual objectives of the degree calendar/courseGuides/graduate.htm. Southeast Asia derive from increasing interest in the Financial support: Graduate Support Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters recent economic history of late developing Compulsory courses Scheme (see page 30) c1600-1860* economies and their differing growth (* half unit) Application deadline: None trajectories. The programme is primarily Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe* intended for students planning a career Theories, Paths and Patterns of Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, in development work, and provides Late Development* Studying at LSE 1348-2000* a good foundation for social science Development: History, Theory and Policy This programme is based in the research in development. Japan and Korea as Developing Economies* Department of Economic History (see Dissertation on the Political Economy of Late The programme uses techniques of long- Latin American Development: Political page 51) and the Department of Development* (10,000 words) run growth analysis to inform modern Economy of Growth* International Development (see page 67). approaches to development policy Options Latin American Development: Case Studies in and practice. It provides a comparative About the MSc programme Choose two full units, to consist of Growth, Poverty and Social Change* assessment of current development debates, one full Department of International The MSc Political Economy of Late and locates them in appropriate historical Development (formerly known as Development offers students an opportunity and theoretical contexts. Courses consider DESTIN) unit and one full economic to integrate two related fields of study that the origin and outcomes of patterns of history unit: draw on the breadth of research expertise growth in various parts of the world, policy and practical experience in the Department responses to differing growth outcomes, Department of International of Economic History and the Department and assumptions underpinning policy Development courses of International Development. It provides interventions. The programme also seeks 218 graduate prospectus MSc Political Science and Political Economy

Game Theory for Political Science* The Political Economy of Transition and EU MSc Political Science and Accession in Central and Eastern Europe* Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Economy Political Science* The Political Economy of European Social Policy and Welfare State Reform* Quantitative Analysis II: The Generalised Linear Model* (or another option if student The Economics of European Social Policy* lse.ac.uk/government can demonstrate they have taken a course States and Markets* Application code: L2U9 with multivariate regression) Comparative Politics of Redistribution in Dissertation Start date: 29 September 2011 Advanced Democracies* Options Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Capitalism and Democracy* months part-time Select options to the value of one unit Public Budgeting and Financial (if half unit quantitative analysis core Intake/applications in 2009: 22/201 Management* course taken) or 1.5 units (if half unit Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 quantitative analysis core course taken) International Political Economy of the or equivalent in any discipline (see Environment* # page 33) Choose from: Politics of Money in the World Economy* # English requirement: Higher (see Parties, Elections and Governments* + The Politics of International Trade* # page 36) About the MSc programme Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics* + Comparative Political Economy GRE/GMAT requirement: None The MSc Political Science and Political Quantitative Analysis III: Applied Fee level: £15,888 Economy provides a sound professional Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: training in formal political science and Elections, Public Opinion and Identities* + Multivariate Analysis* Financial support: Graduate Support in quantitative oriented approaches to Social Choice Theory and Democracy* + Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis* Scheme (see page 30) political economy. Students will acquire Behavioural Public Policy* Application deadline: None – the knowledge and techniques to analyse Legislative Politics: US* + † rolling admissions political processes, institutional design and Politics of Economic Policy* + Another half unit or full unit course taught in public policy making in liberal democracies. the Government Department or elsewhere Legislative Politics: European Parliament* + † It should be of particular interest for in the School, with the approval of the Studying at LSE students who intend to take courses in Institutions in the Global Economy* + programme convener. political economy, elections, legislature, This programme is based in the Department Economic Development Policy* Please note that not every course is executive governments, public policy, of Government (see page 64) and offers the necessarily available every year and some development, and international political Development Management* following benefits: may only be available with permission of economy within the framework of a political Political Economy* the course proprietor. Please refer to the • Study in a large, internationally renowned science oriented programme. This MSc Government Department’s web pages for a Department in the only UK institution will provide a set of skills which are highly Micro and Macro Economics for more up to date index of available courses. devoted solely to the social sciences. requested in public policy making, policy Public Policy* + You must select at least one of • Teaching by world renowned major figures analysis, business, political consultancy and The Political Economy of the Mediterranean these options in political science, political economy and public affairs. It will also equip the students and the Euro-Mediterranean Process* to pursue a PhD or conduct research in public policy. Political and Fiscal Integration and # Restricted access quantitative political science. • An excellent preparation for further Disintegration in EU Member States* † May not be taken together research work or for a career in education, Compulsory courses Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: public administration or the private sector. (* half unit) Institutions and Politics of EMU* Political Science and Political Economy* MSc Political Sociology graduate prospectus 219

and other areas of the media, law, area that is of particular interest to you, MSc Political Sociology publishing, industry, and management, and to produce an extended piece of as well as working for think tanks, activist individual research. groups, international bodies, and non- We will consider applicants who have good governmental organisations. first degrees in any relevant discipline, and • The MSc will give you the chance to study a considered interest in the area covered by lse.ac.uk/sociology political sociology at graduate level, with About the MSc programme the MSc. We are looking for bright students, teachers who are both active researchers and Application code: L3U4 The programme is designed to look with an interest in political sociology, who renowned in their fields. Start date: 29 September 2011 beneath the day to day controversies of enjoy engaging in argument and debate. • It will also give you the opportunity to learn politics in order to explore the underlying Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 and work with students from all over the forces that either promote or retard Compulsory course months part-time political and social change. It combines a world, some of whom will bring first hand Politics and Society Intake/applications in 2009: 22/157 experience of politics in their own countries. strong core curriculum with the flexibility to develop individual interests. 10,000 word dissertation on a topic in Minimum entry requirement: Good • The programme will provide you with the political sociology first degree in any discipline with analytical tools and the empirical knowledge The core course explores a series of considered interest in the area covered to understand some of the fundamental fundamental questions about the social Options by the MSc (see page 33) forces that have shaped, and are shaping, the bases of politics and the relationship (* half unit) world in which we live. between states and societies. It examines English requirement: Higher (see the interaction between economic interests, You must select the equivalent of two page 36) • It will give you the opportunity to expand political institutions, social identities and further full unit courses. At least one full your knowledge of politics and society, and GRE/GMAT requirement: None cultural norms. It has a strong empirical and unit (or two half units) must be taken to build up special expertise in particular historical component, which provides an from a list of relevant options. This list Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; areas of interest. overseas £15,888 opportunity to engage with some of the currently includes: • It will also give you the opportunity to classic puzzles that have defined the field, Economic Sociology* Financial support: Graduate Support develop your capacity for rigorous oral and to expand your knowledge of a number of Scheme (see page 30) written argument. Seminar discussion and countries, and to systematically compare Approaches to Globalisation* essay writing will foster a critical approach Application deadline: None – their experiences. Special additional seminars Approaches to Human Rights rolling admissions which will encourage you to re-evaluate cover some key theoretical approaches and commonly accepted ideas, to consider methods in the social sciences, and provide a Political Reconciliation* alternative explanations for important forum for exploring the use of these in your Nationalism Studying at LSE social and political developments, and own work. Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post- This programme is based in the to support your own conclusions with Students on the programme also choose Colonial Societies* Department of Sociology (see page carefully deployed evidence. two further full unit courses (or up to four 94). It offers a number of appealing Partisanship in Europe* • In addition, the MSc dissertation will further half unit courses) from a wide range opportunities and advantages: provide you with the opportunity to explore of options. This choice of options enables European Society and Politics beyond the • Political sociology is a subject with a the possibility of writing on a particular you to build a focus around either empirical Nation State* subject in some depth, and the programme long and distinguished history and a or theoretical topics, or a mixture of both. Interest Representation and Economic Policy- will give you the chance to progress to a thriving contemporary debate. It also enables you to draw on the expertise Making in Europe* research degree (MPhil/PhD) on completion. of academic staff in different departments • LSE is the only specialist institution throughout LSE. Regulation, Risk and Economic Life for the social sciences in the UK, and it • Students go into a wide range of Contemporary Social Thought has been home to some of the leading professions including teaching, research, Finally, all students on the degree write a thinkers in the subject. politics, diplomacy, government policy- 10,000 word dissertation. This gives you Gender and Societies* making, public administration, journalism a chance to develop your thinking in an 220 graduate prospectus MSc Political Theory / MSc Political Theory (Research)

Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Post- colonial Studies MSc Political Theory Racial Formations of Modernity* MSc Political Theory (Research) Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain (post 1945)* lse.ac.uk/government Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and Application codes: M1UQ interdisciplinary approaches)* (M1UP Research) Theories and Concepts in Media Start date: 29 September 2011 and Communications II (Processes of Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 communication in modern life)* months part-time Classical Social Thought* Intake/applications in 2009: 43/156 Modern Social Thought* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Social Research Methods any discipline with a considered interest in the relevant area (see page 33) Race and Biopolitics* English requirement: Higher (see political decisions should be made by The other full unit (or two half units) may page 36) majorities. Political theory provides a be taken either from this list or from one scholarly examination of these questions, of numerous other taught master’s courses GRE/GMAT requirement: None informed by moral philosophy, legal offered by Sociology, Government, and Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; theory, historical study, political science, other departments and institutes. Please overseas £15,888 and rational and social choice theory. see lse.ac.uk/calendar for brief details of Financial support: Graduate all taught master’s courses. Note however Studying at LSE that the options which are chosen must be Support Scheme (see page 30). relevant to the study of political sociology, The research track is eligible for These programmes are based in the and are subject to the approval of the ESRC 1+3 funding, (see www. Department of Government (see page 64) programme director. esrc.ac.uk). See also lse.ac.uk/ and offer the following benefits: government/degreeProgrammes/ • The opportunity to study in a large, Please also note that not all courses are given fundingYourStudies.aspx every year, and that entry into some is limited internationally renowned Department in by the course provider or the department Application deadline: None the only UK institution devoted solely to the social sciences. which is responsible, and is not guaranteed. Note: If you are applying under the 1+3 scheme please apply for the research • A good preparation for further research track and include a full research proposal, work or for a career in education, public (see page 64) administration or the private sector. • The opportunity to study at least one Political theory is the study of the good course from another of the Department’s society. Public debate is dominated by programmes, or from master’s programmes controversies such as what justice requires taught in other departments. of citizens and the state; what the most • Political theory has been central to the important rights and liberties are and research and teaching at LSE since its how they can be protected; and whether founding in 1895. The Chair of Political MSc Political Theory / MSc Political Theory (Research) graduate prospectus 221

Science in the Department of Government on global distributive justice’, ‘Relativism, Teaching and assessment The Philosophy and Politics of has been held by a succession of political liberalism, and impartiality’, ‘On Environmental Change Each half unit course is taught through ten internationally recognised political theorists: the nature and boundaries of right in Kant’s weekly two-hour seminars. These take place Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers* Graham Wallas, Harold Laski, Michael political theory: an argument in favour of a in the first and second terms with two weeks Oakeshott, Maurice Cranston and Brian right to revolution’, ‘Liberal toleration and Multiculturalism, Nationalism of revision scheduled for the third term. Barry. Currently, there are seven political dissent: minority rights as a political challenge and Citizenship* Methods of assessment differ from course theorists in the Department of Government, to democratic constitutional state’, ‘What to course, and may include unseen written Social Choice Theory and Democracy* which is one of the largest concentrations of obligation, if any, do governments have to exams in the summer term and/or assessed Kant’s Political Philosophy* specialists in the world. preserve cultural heritage?’, ‘Is the debate essays. In addition you will meet with your between feminism and multiculturalism The Liberal Idea of Freedom* • Political theorists in the Department work supervisor and work on your dissertation. problematic in terms of women’s in areas such as multiculturalism, ancient Dilemmas of Equality* autonomy?’, ‘Methods in the history of If you are studying full-time you should and medieval political thought, Locke, political thought: a critique of different arrange your study so that you are not taking The Political Philosophy of John Locke* Kant, feminism, social choice theory and approaches to Thomas Hobbes.’ more than three courses (in addition to the democracy, and contemporary theories of Introduction to International Methods in Political Theory course) in either justice. Members of the Political Theory The MSc in Political Theory (Research) is Political Theory* † of the first two terms. If you are studying Group in the Department also contribute structured to comply with the requirements part-time your programme will span two The International Political Theory of to the wider political theory community at for financial support from the ESRC under years. You must take the Methods in Political Humanitarian Intervention* † LSE. For more information see lse.ac.uk/ the 1+3 formula, which is available only to Theory course in the first year along with up government/research/resgroups/ applicants from the EU. The programme The Politics of International Law* † to three others; the remaining courses and POTY.aspx itself is open to students from any part the dissertation are completed during the Philosophy, Morals and Politics † of the world. A 1+3 programme is a • Each student is assigned a personal tutor second year. You may, if your supervisor agrees, choose linked programme of a one year master’s who is a member of the Political Theory one of your optional courses from the followed by PhD study. If you wish to be Group. The personal tutor provides support Compulsory courses range of others on offer at graduate level considered for the research track you must for personal and academic well-being during (* half unit) in the Department of Government or in include an outline research proposal with the programme. other departments at LSE. your application. This proposal should be a Methods in Political Theory* brief description of the research topic you Please note that not every course is About the MSc programmes Dissertation are considering pursuing during your PhD necessarily available every year, and some Applications are considered from all and should explain why you are interested Foundations of Social Research (research may only be available with permission of candidates with a good first degree in any in this area of research. As your research track only) the course proprietor. Please refer to the discipline, with a strong interest in the areas interests will develop further over the year Government Department’s web pages for a of political theory taught on the MSc. of your master’s training your proposal Options more up to date index of available courses. All students study the core course Methods need only be indicative. Choose the equivalent of 2.5 units (1.5 † You may choose only one option from in Political Theory and write a 10,000 word for the research track) from: these units. dissertation. In addition, students choose Feminist Political Theory* five courses from the course options (three for the research track). Students are Contemporary Disputes about Justice* also able to study suitable courses from Twentieth-Century European other programmes in the Department Liberal Thought* and School, with the approval of the MSc course convener. Social Theory and Political Commitment: the Case of Max Weber and Nationalism* Students write a 10,000 word dissertation on a topic agreed with their supervisor. The Political Theory of Jurgen Habermas* Previous dissertation titles include: ‘Rawls 222 graduate prospectus MSc Politics and Communication

• An ideal preparation for research work courses and the dissertation, which must be MSc Politics and Communication and employment in media, politics, submitted in September. communication and related fields. The programme runs for a full calendar year. We attract students from a diverse Formal teaching is usually completed by the range of backgrounds, often including end of the Lent term. Examinations for all contemporary developments, issues and professional experience working in media courses are generally held during May and lse.ac.uk/media@lse debates in the field. and communications related fields. June. The remaining months are set aside Application code: P4UA • A range of specialist courses within Indeed, the opportunity for cross-cultural for students to complete their dissertations, Start date: 29 September 2011 media and communications and related meetings and exchange of ideas among and it is not normally essential for students to fields, including an independent empirical the student body is a valuable feature of remain in London during these months. Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 research project. studying at LSE. months part-time Part-time students will normally take and • An intellectually stimulating, well You should have at least an upper second be examined in courses to the value of Intake/applications in 2009: 28/288 resourced learning environment, with class honours degree or its equivalent in two units in each year of study. In the first Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in strong links to media and communications a social science subject. We particularly year, these two units, selected in discussion social science, or degree in another industries and policy makers. welcome applications from those with with the student’s academic adviser, will field with professional experience in • The opportunity for lively cross- professional experience in the media and usually include the compulsory theoretical the media and communications field. cultural exchange of ideas among a communication fields and, in this case, we course(s) and one or more option course(s). Exceptionally, professional experience dynamic group of fellow students in the would accept a degree in other subjects. The methods course(s) and the dissertation alone (see page 33) Department and School. Exceptionally we may consider professional are then usually taken in the second year, English requirement: Higher (see experience instead of a first degree. together with the remaining option course(s). • Study with internationally recognised active Students may be permitted to vary the page 36) The Department of Media and researchers with expertise in media and courses to be taken in each year with the Communications requires applicants in GRE/GMAT requirement: None communications and politics and democracy, approval of their academic adviser. regulation and policy, technological change, receipt of a conditional offer to meet Fee level: £15,888 audiences, globalisation, culture, and more. those conditions before registration and Please note that we do not provide a Financial support: Graduate Support before the start of the Michaelmas term. practical training in journalism, production, campaigning or media management. Scheme (see page 30) About the MSc programme On graduating, our students enter a variety Application deadline: None – This programme offers an intensive, year- of careers in the UK and abroad, including Compulsory courses rolling admissions long exploration of the relations between broadcasting, journalism, advertising, politics, media and communications. It aims new media industries, political marketing, (* half unit) to provide: market research, regulation and policy, Studying at LSE Political Communication* media management and research in both • An advanced understanding of theoretical Theories and Concepts in Media and All the MSc programmes in the Department public and private sectors. See lse.ac.uk/ and applied knowledge in the intersecting Communications (Key concepts and of Media and Communications (see page 85) media@lse/alumni fields of politics and communication research. offer the following benefits: interdisciplinary approaches)* • The flexibility to pursue particular topics Teaching and assessment • An intensive, high quality graduate Methods of Research in Media and of interest in the fields of media, politics education in media and communications. The programme consists of four units, Communications (including Qualitative and and communication, culminating in an including required and optional courses and Quantitative Analysis)* • A broad social science foundation in independent research project in politics the dissertation. Courses typically involve a qualitative, quantitative, empirical and Democracy and the Media* and communications. combination of lectures and seminars. The critical skills. Dissertation • The opportunity to take courses taught in Methods of Research course is taught as a • A diverse, multi-disciplinary and the Department of Government, as part of series of lectures and practical classes. You theoretically oriented approach to the programme options. will be examined by written examinations, research assignments, essays related to MSc Politics and Government in the European Union graduate prospectus 223

Options MSc Politics and Government in the Choose to the value of one unit: European Union Citizenship and the Media* The Audience in Media • The opportunity to draw on the expertise and Communications* lse.ac.uk/european of the largest number of academic experts Contemporary Issues in Media and Institute in European government, politics and Communications Regulation* lse.ac.uk/government public policy to be found in Europe, housed International Media and the Global South* in the Department of Government, the lse.ac.uk/international European Institute and the Department Media and Communications Governance* Relations of International Relations. Most of the New Media, Information and Application code: M1UM key journals in the field, including West Knowledge Systems* European Politics, the European Journal of Start date: 29 September 2011 Political Research and EU Politics are edited Democracy in East and South-East Asia* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 by members of the teaching staff. Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: months part-time • A systematic multidisciplinary introduction Elections, Public Opinion and Identity* Intake/applications in 2009: 81/247 – drawing on comparative political science, Nationalism Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in international relations, and European law Politics and Policy in Britain* any discipline, social science preferred – to central controversies in the analysis of (see page 33) contemporary European Union government, Theories and Concepts in Media politics and public policy, including the and Communications II (Processes of English requirement: Higher (see European integration process and its impact communication in modern life)* page 36) on the EU member states. Modern Campaigning Politics* GRE/GMAT requirement: None • The opportunity to specialise in either Critical Studies in Media and Journalism* Fee level: £15,888 European Union Government and Policy or The International Relations of Europe. Interpersonal Mediated Communication* Financial support: Graduate Support Scheme (see page 30) • An excellent preparation for further Media, Technology and Everyday Life* research work or a career in EU institutions, Application deadline: None – Any other half unit paper which is offered national governments, business, politics, rolling admissions in the School at master’s level, subject to the academia and journalism. LSE maintains consent of the student’s teachers excellent links with key centres for the academic study of contemporary Europe and Please refer to the School’s policy on course Studying at LSE with the EU institutions. capping: lse.ac.uk/coursecapping This programme is based in the European • An international environment with Please note that the availability of option Institute (see page 55), the Department excellence in teaching, research and political courses is dependent upon a number of of Government (see page 64) and the consultancy in the area of European politics factors and thus neither the School nor the Department of International Relations (see and governance. Department of Media and Communications page 70) and offers the following benefits: can guarantee that all options will be • Study in internationally renowned About the MSc programme available each year. departments in the only UK institution We consider applicants with good first devoted solely to the social sciences. degrees in any discipline, but prefer 224 graduate prospectus MSc Politics and Government in the European Union

applicants with a degree in one of the Europeanisation: The Comparative Politics of Conflict and Institutional Design in Quantitative Analysis 2: The Generalised social sciences. Domestic Change* Divided Societies* Linear Model* The programme offers a unique range The Political Economy of South East Europe* Quantitative Analysis 1: Description Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations* of courses that will deepen students’ and Inference* Law and Governance of the Single Economic Diplomacy † knowledge of politics and policies in the European Market Quantitative Analysis 2: The Generalised EU and help them gain new insight into Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Linear Model* the EU’s extraordinary role in today’s Europe Beyond Modernity* Security Policies Partisanship in Europe* world. The programme is ideal for those Turkey: Political Economy and Minorities and Migration in Europe* considering a career that deals with European Integration* European Integration in the Identity, Community and the ‘Problem European and global issues. Twentieth Century Greece and Southeast Europe: Government, of Minorities’* The programme is divided into three main Economy and Foreign Policy* European Social Policy Public Policy Responses to parts: foundation – two half unit courses Patterns of Economic Integration in Europe: The Economics of European Social Policy* International Migration* which provide a basic training in European Institutions and Politics of EMU* politics and government, and the history European Society and Politics beyond the Foreign Policy Analysis III* and theory of European integration and an The Political Economy of Transition and EU Nation State* European Union Policy-Making in a introduction to central debates in European Accession in Central and Eastern Europe* † The Idea of Europe* Global Context* Union politics and government; specialisation The Political Economy of European Social – in either EU Government and Policy or The West: Identity and Interests* Interest Representation and Economic Policy- Policy and Welfare State Reform* † Making in Europe* the International Relations of Europe; and Arguments in European Philosophy* Network Regulation* † dissertation – a 10,000 word essay on an European Politics: Comparative Analysis* advanced topic. Government and Politics in Eastern Europe* Stream 2 – The International Relations European Integration in the of Europe Part I: Foundation Parties, Elections and Governments* Twentieth Century The EU in the World (* half unit) Politics and Policy in Britain* Ethnic Diversity and International Society History and Theory of European Integration* Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: Plus choose to the value of one and a half Nationalism Elections, Public Opinion, and Identities* units from the following: International Business and Governance* Part II: Specialisation Public Policy Responses to European Politics: Comparative Analysis* European Human Rights Law* Stream 1 – European Union Government International Migration* European Defence and Security* and Policy Justice, Liberty and Security in the The Second Europe* The Political Economy of Southeast Europe* European Union* European Politics: Comparative Analysis* Politics of Economic Policy* Europe Beyond Modernity* European Integration from a Policy-Making in the European Union* European Human Rights Law* Turkey: Political Economy and Global Perspective* Plus choose to the value of one and a half Justice, Liberty and Security in the European Integration* The West: Identity and Interests* units from the following: European Union* The International Politics of EU Enlargement* A half unit option from Stream 1 European Union Law and Government* European Integration from a Greece and South-East Europe: Government, Global Perspective* Part III: Dissertation Greece and the European Union* Economy and Foreign Policy* Political and Fiscal Integration and Dissertation Interest Representation and Economic Policy- The Idea of Europe* Disintegration in EU Member States* † Students who wish to take this course Making in Europe* Quantitative Analysis 1: Description Legislative Politics: European Parliament* must seek approval from the convener of The Political Economy of the Mediterranean and Inference* the course. and the Euro-Mediterranean Process* Comparative Politics of Redistribution in Advanced Democracies* MSc Population and Development graduate prospectus 225

develop skills which have already secured Health Systems and Policies in MSc Population and Development past students promising professional Developing Countries* careers. It is taught through a combination Migration: Population Trends and Policies* of lectures and seminar discussions and is assessed using a combination of written Cities, People and Poverty in the South* examinations and a dissertation. lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice* lse.ac.uk/international Course 1 An option not taken above Development (* half unit) Any other course approved by your tutor Application code: L1S3 Development: Theory, History and Policy (with special permission) Start date: 29 September 2011 Course 2 Course 4 Duration: 12 months full-time, 24-28 Two half units from: months part-time Long essay and the Research Process Population and Development: An (not assessed) Intake/applications in 2009: 23/120 Analytic Approach* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Course 5 Population Analysis: Methods and or equivalent in any discipline (see Models* Dissertation on population and development page 33) economic consequences of HIV/AIDS, migration and urbanisation. Demography of the Developing World* (submitted by 1 September 2012) English requirement: Standard (see page 36) The MSc draws on expertise from Course 3 both the Department of International GRE/GMAT requirement: None Development (formerly known as DESTIN) Two half units or one full unit from: Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; and the Department of Social Policy. Poverty* overseas £15,888 For information on applying to the Environmental Problems, Politics Financial support: Graduate Support programme contact: Dr Rebecca Sear, and Development* Scheme (see page 30) Department of Social Policy. Complex Emergencies* Application deadline: None – The programme director is Dr Ernestina HIV/AIDS and other Emerging rolling admissions Coast, Department of Social Policy. Health Threats* About the MSc programme Gender and Development: Studying at LSE We expect students to come from a range Geographical Perspectives* The programme ranges over many of backgrounds, and you normally need The Social Psychology of topics in the field of development and an upper second class honours degree or Health Communication* population. It aims to equip students its equivalent. with an understanding of current Urbanisation and Social Policy in the and future aspects of the relationship The degree is designed to provide skills Global South* and knowledge to students looking for between development and population Methods for Population Planning* processes. Illustrative topics covered careers in public, private and voluntary Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, include: development theory and policy, organisations dealing with population Implementation and Evaluation* relationships between economic and and development problems at both the national and international levels. It demographic growth, reproductive health Health and Population in Developing and provides a choice of options from a wide programmes and policies, the socio- Transitional Societies* range of highly rated courses and helps to 226 graduate prospectus MSc Public Management and Governance

will continue to draw from this learning The course consists of four distinct areas: MSc Public Management throughout their professional career. • Policy and practice provides and Governance We are located in the New Academic frameworks for understanding and Building which provides students with a appraising intellectual work about public state of the art learning environment. management and governance. lse.ac.uk/management About the MSc programme • Information systems provides Application code: N2U7 understanding of the process of information The MSc Public Management and systems innovation and develops critical Start date: 29 September 2011 Governance builds on LSE’s international capabilities for assessing the role of Duration: 12 months full-time only reputation in public policy. Public information and communication technology management and governance is an (ICT) for organisational change and service Intake/applications in 2009: 27/324 interdisciplinary field with roots in a number improvement in the public sector. Minimum entry requirement: First of academic disciplines. A major research • Accounting, financial reporting and or good upper second class bachelor’s and teaching focus in public management organisational control provides students degree or equivalent, preferably in is on designing organisational practices, with a critical appreciation of the use and social sciences. Preference will be producing and using systematic analysis relevance of accounting, auditing, financial given to applicants with some work within the policy process, information and management and organisational control in experience or student involvement in communication technologies, leadership, We currently have around 70 faculty, 350 the ‘New Public Sector’. activities relevant to this degree (see performance measurement, design of undergraduates, 750 master’s students and page 33) incentives, and public accountability. The • Human resource management will give 80 PhD students. issue of public governance has become students a grounding in the management English requirement: Higher (see Our reputation, research and networks are increasingly important with perceived of human resources within the public page 36) what sets us apart. LSE is one of the world’s failings of professional self-regulation, the sector, and will give an appreciation of the GRE/GMAT requirement: None leading social science institutions and is one emergence of multi-level systems of political importance of international differences Fee level: £20,496 of the few institutions with a truly worldwide jurisdictions and administrations and the between public sector employment systems. reputation. Our faculty, many of whom have expanded role of the private sector in Financial support: Graduate Support joined us from top-ranked business schools, delivering publicly-financed services. Policy Analysis, Evaluation and Scheme (see page 30), plus some produce cutting-edge research across the Implementation The MSc is designed with two full unit core Departmental scholarships management discipline and work as advisers courses, Foundations of Public Management Students are introduced to policy analysis Application deadline: None – to business, industry and governments and Governance, and Policy Analysis, as a profession and a process; markets; rolling admissions alike. Our community and our networks are Evaluation and Implementation; a half unit opportunity costs; market and government uniquely international and globally diverse. dissertation; and the choice of a wide range failure; welfare economics; efficiency, Studying at LSE We offer a unique business education of options offered by LSE to the value of one equity and justice as fairness; accounting experience. Our programmes are top-ranked and half units. for uncertainty and time; cost benefit The programme is offered by the Department by the Financial Times and combine the analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis; The programme is designed with employers of Management (see page 76). We produce academic rigour of a typical master’s with problems of measurement; power and in mind; you will find good employment world-class research on management issues the practical application of a top-ranked conflict, resource allocation by capitation; opportunities in government and the public and provide our students with a deep insight MBA. We bring alumni, senior business contractual design; principal/agent sector in your own country, in international into the functioning of the global business people, senior political figures and senior problems; markets and hierarchies in agencies and professional services firms. environment. Our vision is to be recognised civil servants directly into the classroom to health care; design and implementation of as the premier provider of management talk to students. We teach our students both Core courses regulation by targets; reforming schools. education and research in Europe, and one the fundamental theories of management Case studies include signal failures (eg of the best in the world. and the skills to critically evaluate current Foundations of Public Management Roskill Commission), disasters (eg the and future management problems. Students and Governance Challenger and Columbia explosions), and MSc Public Policy and Administration / MSc Public Policy and Administration (Research) graduate prospectus 227

where analysis has fundamentally changed Policy-Making in the European Union* policies (in health care and legal aid). MSc Public Policy and Administration The Economics of European Social Policy* By the end of the course, students should MSc Public Policy and Administration Public Budgeting and Financial Management be able to understand the objectives and (Research) difficulties of: Negotiation Analysis* • One of the highest ESRC ratings for Political • methods of economic appraisal Information Systems for the Public Sector lse.ac.uk/government Science MSc programmes. • systems of resource allocation by capitation Aspects of Information Systems for the Application codes: M1T3 (M1T4 • Teaching by world renowned major figures Public Sector* Research) • paying providers for services delivered at in public administration, public policy and standard prices Principles of Privacy and Data Protection* Start date: 29 September 2011 political science. • quasi markets Introduction to Regulation* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 • A good preparation for further research work or for a career in education, public European Administrative Law months part-time • measuring performance in targets and administration or the private sector. league tables Global Regulation and Governance* Intake/applications in 2009: 28/253 About the MSc programmes Students should also appreciate Policing and Police Powers* Minimum entry requirement: how the ways in which policies are 2:1 or equivalent in any discipline We will consider applicants with good first Public Management: A Strategic Approach* designed will impact on the likely success (see page 33) degrees in any discipline, with a considered of their implementation. Advanced Behavioural Decision Making* English requirement: Higher (see interest in the area covered by the MSc. System Dynamics Modelling* page 36) Dissertation By taking appropriate combinations of courses students can obtain the MSc Foundations of Health Policy* GRE/GMAT requirement: None Students will be required to submit their with a specialised stream in Comparative dissertation by the end of August. Guidance Social Policy: Goals and Issues* Fee level: £15,888 Public Policy and Administration or Public will be provided in the Lent term to explain Education Policy, Reform and Financing* Financial support: Graduate Management. Students can choose the objectives and requirements of the Support Scheme (see page 30). The one specialisation to be noted on their Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* dissertation (5,000 to 8,000 words), and to research track is eligible for ESRC degree certificates. outline possible topics. Regulation, Risk, and Economic Life 1+3 funding (see www.esrc.ac.uk). Departmental scholarships Compulsory courses Options Behavioural Public Policy* Application deadline: None – (* half unit) (* half unit) rolling admissions Approaches and Issues in Public Policy Choose courses to the value of one and Note: If you are applying under the and Administration half units from: 1+3 scheme please make this clear either Public Management Theory and Accountability, Organisations and in your application and include a full Doctrine* or Comparative Public Policy Risk Management* research proposal (see page 40) Change* or The Politics of Policy Advice* Management Accounting and Financial either Quantitative Analysis I: Description Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting Studying at LSE and Inference or Quantitative Analysis II: The and Disclosure Generalised Linear Model* These programmes are based in the Management Accounting, Decision Department of Government (see page 64) Dissertation of 10,000 words on a topic and Control* and offer the following benefits: chosen in discussion with your supervisor Financial Accounting, Reporting • Study in a large, internationally renowned and Disclosure* Department in the only UK institution Public Management of Development* devoted solely to the social sciences. 228 graduate prospectus MSc Race, Ethnicity and Post Colonial Studies

Options Institutions in the Global Economy* MSc Race, Ethnicity and A total of one full unit from the European Social Policy following: Behavioural Public Policy* Post Colonial Studies

Public Management Please note that not every course is necessarily available every year, and some and ethnicity. It offers an overview of key Accountability, Organisations and lse.ac.uk/sociology may only be available with permission theoretical and historical issues in these fields Risk Management* of the course tutor. Please refer to the Application code: L3UG and uses them as a platform for sociological discussion. Post-colonial social relations will Public Management of Development* Government Department’s website for a Start date: 29 September 2011 more up to date index of available courses. be examined inside and outside formerly Public Management: Theory and Doctrine* Duration: 12 months full-time, colonial territories. It may be possible, with the permission of Public Management: a Strategic Approach* 24 months part-time the programme convener, to substitute a The programme extends the curriculum in Citizens’ Political Behaviour in Europe: course from the options list with any other Intake/applications in 2009: 9/43 number of other directions for example, into an explicit encounter with new scholarly Elections, Public Opinion and Identities* course taught in the Department or by Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in debates over multiculture and diversity, Public Budgeting and Financial Management other departments at LSE. social science, or degree in another genomics and human rights as well as over relevant field (see page 33) Introduction to Regulation* About the research the morality and legality of the contemporary English requirement: Higher (see Philosophy and Public Policy* programme ambition to revive colonial power. page 36) Social and Political Aspects of Regional and As above for the MSc Public Policy and While it remains strongly sociological in GRE/GMAT requirement: None Urban Planning* Administration, substituting the quantitative focus, the programme is also enriched by analysis and one half-unit option from the Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; the introduction of scholarly discussions from Environmental Problems, Politics options list with: overseas £15,888 neighbouring disciplines. We regard this and Development* multi-disciplinary character as a strength and Either Foundations of Social Research 1 or Financial support: Graduate Support Global Environmental Governance* an asset that helps to define the uniqueness Foundations of Social Research 2 Scheme (see page 30) of this degree. Comparative Public Policy and † May not be taken together Application deadline: None – Core staff with specialist interests in this Administration rolling admissions area are Dr Suki Ali, Dr Claire Alexander Policy-Making in the European Union* and Professor Paul Gilroy. These and other LSE staff are working actively on research European Models of Capitalism* Studying at LSE projects that address race and ethnicity Network Regulation* This programme is based in the Department in relation to human rights, refugee and of Sociology (see page 94). The core course States and Markets* asylum studies, hate speech and freedom is taught by researchers located there. It of expression, ethnicity, urban sociology, Public Policy Responses to is a multi-disciplinary initiative which gives globalisation and global government. International Migration* students the opportunity to study a range of Teaching on the programme is closely linked Legislative Politics: US* † different topics within this broad academic to the research currently being undertaken. area which is addressed in various ways both Politics of Economic Policy* inside the Department and beyond it by About the MSc programme Legislative Politics: European Parliament* † others elsewhere in the School. This programme is aimed at students with Comparative Politics of Redistribution in This degree is unusual for placing the issue a good upper second or first class honours Advanced Democracies* of post-colonial analysis squarely in the degree (or equivalent) in the social sciences. context of social science and using that We will also consider applicants with a Media and Communication Regulation* focus to frame considerations of race, racism good first degree in any discipline who can MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance graduate prospectus 229

show that they have either a well-developed Compulsory courses interest in this area or a significant measure MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance of relevant practical experience. Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Post- Colonial Studies Aims: • To provide an overview of theories of race, Dissertation ethnicity and postcolonial society. lse.ac.uk/geographyAnd Options Environment • To engage critically with different historical and theoretical paradigms and (* half unit) Application code: L8U3 perspectives on ‘race’, ethnicity and post- Choose a total of two full units from: Start date: 29 September 2011 colonial social relations. Anthropology of South Africa* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 • To explore current theoretical debates Anthropology and Human Rights* months part-time around multiculturalism, citizenship and post- Intake/applications in 2009: 38/312 colonial theory. Globalising Sexualities* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 • To consider comparatively the changing Globalisation, Gender and Development* with background in economic analysis, historical, political and social patterns of Nationalism and good analytical, quantitative and racialised politics in Britain. Multiculturalism, Nationalism technical skills (see page 33) • To examine the understanding of • Study in a Department with a strong and Citizenship* English requirement: Standard contemporary key issues in Britain and group of applied urban and real estate (see page 36) Europe, in relation to key issues such as Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation economists and land use specialists situated in the only UK university devoted ‘mixed race’, Muslim identities, asylum- Cultural Encounters from the Renaissance to GRE/GMAT requirement: All graduates solely to the social sciences. seekers and refugees, the re-emergence the Modern World of non-UK institutions must submit a GRE of racist movements and the novel score (preferred) or GMAT score • Our master’s programme focuses Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa context created by a governmental on developing graduates’ ability to Fee level: £17,040 emphasis upon security. Introduction to International Political Theory* integrate theoretical developments with Financial support: Graduate Support • To provide students with a means to The International Political Theory of practical experience. Scheme (see page 30) connect work on race with work on Human Intervention* • Master’s students are drawn from a range genomics and human rights. Application deadline: None – The Politics of International Law* of disciplinary and national backgrounds rolling admissions This is a full year programme. Students will and join a vibrant community of over 200 The Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture take courses equivalent to the value of four Note: Offers fast-track membership to graduate students studying graduate courses and Resistance* full units as shown. These must include the Investment Property Forum, and within the Department. the compulsory core course Topics in Race, Race, Ethnicity and Social Policy* accredited by the Royal Institution of • Our MSc graduates enter a wide variety Chartered Surveyors Ethnicity and Post-colonial Studies (full Approaches to Globalisation* of employment including professional firms, unit) and the writing and researching of a finance, real estate research, consultancy, Cultural Constructions of the Body* 10,000 word dissertation which is assessed the public sector and education. This is an as the equivalent of a whole course. Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain Studying at LSE academic programme but it benefits from (post 1945)* You can choose any subject that interests This programme is based in the Department a partnership agreement with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (see www. you after consultation with an appropriate Political Reconciliation* of Geography and Environment (see page supervisor. The dissertation topic is approved 61) but involves collaboration with the rics.org for more information) conferring Gender and Societies* at the end of the second term. Departments of Accounting, Finance and professional recognition. In addition, the Racial Formations of Modernity* Economics and offers the following benefits: Investment Property Forum, IPF, has included the programme on their selected list of Race and Biopolitics* 230 graduate prospectus MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies

graduate courses that the forum considers to Compulsory courses provide the relevant skills necessary for those MSc Regional and Urban (* half unit) operating in the property investment market. Planning Studies This recognition comes with a number Real Property Market Practice* of benefits for our master’s graduates. Applied Urban and Regional Economics Graduates of the MSc REEF will be offered lse.ac.uk/regionalAnd a fast track membership to the forum (see Real Estate Finance* UrbanPlanning www.ipf.org.uk for more information). Asset Markets A* or Finance I* Application code: L8U4 About the MSc programme You will also complete a dissertation of 10,000 words. This will give you Start date: 29 September 2011 This MSc will appeal if you wish to work, the opportunity to investigate a topic or are already working, in a specialised Duration: 12 months full-time, 24-48 of interest to you in depth, using the area relating to property and urban analysis months part-time analytical tools and techniques covered in (including research), real estate finance or the course. You may choose to draw on Intake/applications in 2009: 40/126 investment analysis. You should have good your previous experience. Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 analytical, quantitative and technical skills. A degree or equivalent in relevant social thorough grounding in economic analysis, at Options science or professional qualifications a level equivalent to a joint degree at least, is and experience (see page 33) a normal requirement for entry. You choose an additional MSc level • An insight into the leading edge of social half unit course from any available in English requirement: Standard science research as it is applied to the The programme integrates current academic the School, subject to regulations and (see page 36) problems of cities and regions. analysis and research with an applied study of agreement of the course director. real estate markets and finance. This is done GRE/GMAT requirement: None • The opportunity to learn from current mainly in a European and North American You may also choose the full unit course planning controversies and practice Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; institutional setting. Corporate Finance and Asset Markets through a programme of study visits and overseas £15,888 instead of the combination: (optional) visiting speakers. If you do not hold an honours degree from MSc level half unit course plus the half Financial support: Graduate Support a UK university you should take the GRE • An academic programme benefiting from unit course Asset Markets. However, the Scheme (see page 30) General Test within five years before your a partnership agreement with the Royal half unit course Asset Markets cannot application and include your test scores on Application deadline: None – Institution of Chartered Surveyors (www. be combined with the full unit course your application form. (You may also submit rolling admissions rics.org) conferring professional recognition. Corporate Finance and Asset Markets. a GMAT score, but GRE is preferred). We Note: Accredited by the Royal Institution • This programme is also available as part do not require a specific mark but we do of Chartered Surveyors (www.rics.org) of a double degree programme with LSE- typically expect candidates to score in the top Sciences Po. For more information please ten percentile in the overall test. However, see page 119 and www.sciences-po.fr/ Studying at LSE other qualifications and relevant work english/index.htm experience will be taken into consideration. This programme takes an interdisciplinary We recognise that if your first language is not approach and is administered through About the MSc programme English the test will present special difficulties the Department of Geography and You should usually have either good and we view your score on that basis. Environment (see page 61). It offers the academic qualifications in a relevant following benefits: For further information see: social science discipline, or professional • Study on an internationally renowned qualifications and experience to gain lse.ac.uk/geographyAndEnvironment programme that provides an opportunity to entrance to this degree. This MSc will specialise in aspects of planning through a provide you with an understanding of choice of options and a dissertation. the contributions of economic, political, MSc Regulation / MSc Regulation (Research) graduate prospectus 231

social and spatial perspectives to the Options planning process. MSc Regulation Three from: The programme also acts as a conversion MSc Regulation (Research) Local Capacity and Economic course for built environment professionals Development Policy* with a prior training in architecture, landscape architecture, surveying or Regional Development and Policy* lse.ac.uk/law engineering. Many of our students are Cities, People and Poverty in the South* returning to study mid-career. lse.ac.uk/government Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* Application code: M3U8 The programme involves three compulsory (M3U9 Research) half units, three half unit options and a Economic Appraisal and Valuation* 10,000 word dissertation. This dissertation Concepts in Environmental Regulation* Start date: 29 September 2011 will be on a topic of personal interest to Urban Environment* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 you agreed with your tutor. It provides the months part-time opportunity for you to apply the material Planning for Sustainable Cities* learned in the rest of the programme. Intake/applications in 2009: 20/124 Concepts in Environmental Regulation* Through your selection of options you Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Globalisation and Regional Development* can either study a wide range of different degree in any discipline and interest in subjects or choose a package with a Economics of Local and or experience of related areas of law, • The chance to study regulation within a specialism such as environment, regional Regional Development* public administration, politics or systematic framework – with the opportunity policy and economic development, or Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis* economics (see page 33) to specialise to suit your interests. developing countries. Gender, Globalisation and Development: English requirement: Higher (see • The programme has a multidisciplinary core You will also have the benefit of a series of An Introduction* page 36) combining studies in law, political science visiting speakers and study trips exploring and institutional economics. current planning issues, including the Race and Space* GRE/GMAT requirement: None • Our distinctive approach concentrates chance to go on a study visit to another city. Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Cities and Social Change in East Asia* on institutional issues and behaviour in In recent years this has been to Sarajevo, overseas £15,888 Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin and Athens; the City-making: the Politics of Urban regulation – regulatory bureaucracies, interest Financial support: Graduate Support cost of this visit (about £300) is not covered Form Project* groups, legislators and courts – in addition Scheme (see page 30) to the economic aspects of regulation. We by tuition fees. Housing, Neighbourhoods aim to bring together the contrasting North and Communities* Application deadline: None – Compulsory courses rolling admissions American and European perspectives on Gender and Development: regulation, and to juxtapose experience of (* half unit) Note: If you are applying under the Geographical Perspectives* regulatory practice with theoretical ideas The Economics of Regional and 1+3 scheme please make this clear Contemporary Urbanism about how regulation works. Urban Planning* in your application and include a full Cities, Politics and Citizenship* research proposal (see page 40) • Teaching staff are leading researchers in Social and Political Aspects of Regional and the field; several are involved at the highest Urban Planning* A half unit course from another programme level in advising government and regulatory at the discretion of the programme director. Studying at LSE Urban Policy and Planning* agencies. The core course is taught across These programmes are based in the all members of the MSc Regulation team: Planning Practice and Research (not assessed) Department of Law (see page 74) and the Robert Baldwin, Julia Black, Martin Lodge Dissertation Department of Government (see page 64) and Mark Thatcher. and offer the following benefits: • LSE and London provide an international centre for the study and practice of 232 graduate prospectus MSc Regulation / MSc Regulation (Research)

regulation. Regular talks are arranged from Options Policing and Police Powers practitioners in the field and there are many (* half unit) Criminal Justice Policy opportunities to participate in seminars and conferences inside and outside the School. Choose the equivalent of two full units European Social Policy The ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and from the following (one unit for the Utilities Regulation Regulation offers many opportunities to take Research track): part in leading edge research. Network Regulation* Environmental Regulation Media and Communications Regulation* About the MSc programmes Environmental Problems, Politics New Media Regulation* Regulatory growth and reform, like and Development* privatisation, has been an international ‘policy Global Environmental Governance* Competition Law boom’ in recent years. Governments have EC Competition Law and the State increasingly used regulation in preference to Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy other policy instruments. Regulation therefore Government and Law plays a central role in the contemporary Concepts in Environmental Regulation* understanding of law and public policy. As Law and Governance of the Single International Political Economy of a field of study, regulation requires a multi- European Market the Environment disciplinary approach, because legal, political Comparative Public Policy Change* and economic issues are intertwined and International and European Political Science and Political each has to be understood to make sense of Environmental Law Economy: Introduction* the overall process. Science, Technology and Resistance* Political Science and Political Economy: The MSc Regulation is a truly Advanced Topics* interdisciplinary programme. You take Finance and Commercial Regulation a core seminar on Law and Politics of Management Accounting, Decisions and Public Management Theory and Doctrine* Regulation and then have the opportunity Control* or Principles of Finance Behavioural Public Policy* to specialise through your choice of options Legal Regulation of Information Technology and your dissertation topic. If you take two Jurisprudence and Legal Theory full courses (or equivalent) or a full course Regulation of Financial Markets Globalisation, Regulation and Governance* and a dissertation in one of the specialisms Regulation, Risk and Economic Life Law and Social Theory listed below, you may have this specialism included in your degree title, for example, European Monetary and Financial Modern Legal History Services Law MSc Regulation (Environmental Regulation). Corporate and Financial Crime Corporate and Financial Crime You should usually have achieved a good You may also take a course from another upper second class honours degree or its Social Regulation programme by special permission from your equivalent and have an interest in, and supervisor and the course convener. experience of, related areas of law, public Anthropology of Politics* or Anthropology administration, politics or economics. of Economy (2): Transformation and Note that not all the options will be Globalisation* or Anthropology of available every year, and some may only Compulsory courses Economy (1): Production and Exchange* be available with permission of the course proprietor. Please refer to the Government Law and Politics of Regulation or Law in Society: a Joint Course in Anthropology and Law* Department’s website (www.lse.ac.uk/ Foundations of Social Research (Research government) for a more up to date index track only) Gender and Development: of available courses. Geographical Perspectives* Dissertation MSc Risk and Stochastics graduate prospectus 233

• Joining a Department with good Compulsory courses MSc Risk and Stochastics relations with the financial services (* half unit) industry, particularly insurance and professional bodies. Stochastic Processes*

About the MSc programme Insurance Mathematics lse.ac.uk/statistics Stochastic Finance The programme is mathematically advanced Application code: G4U2 and suitable candidates will normally hold Computational Methods in Finance Start date: Mandatory pre-sessional a good BSc degree in actuarial science, and Insurance* course begins September 2011 statistics, mathematical economics or mathematics. This should include training Options Duration: 10 months full-time, 22 in analysis and linear algebra, with rigorous Choose two from: months part-time (10 month master’s proofs, and probability theory at the level Derivatives* are not compliant with the Bologna of our third year undergraduate course process which may affect the extent to Stochastic Processes. Each MSc student has a Quantitative Methods for Finance and which they are ‘recognised’. For more personal tutor who is available for guidance Risk Analysis* information on Bologna please see and advice on academic or personal Continuous Time Optimisation* page 15). concerns. The compulsory courses lay the Intake/applications in 2009: 17/226 finance and their interface. It includes a foundations in advanced stochastic models Probability and Measure* comprehensive and unified approach to all and methods and give a broad introduction Minimum entry requirement: First The Mathematics of the Black and quantitative aspects of modern actuarial to theories of risk exchange in insurance class honours in actuarial science, Scholes Theory* science. Students receive rigorous training and finance. Students can choose options in statistics, mathematical economics or The Foundations of Interest Rate, Foreign in mathematics and scientific computation statistics, mathematics and finance. mathematics (see page 33) and are introduced to a range of schemes Exchange, and Credit Risk Theory* Your application should be submitted as early English requirement: Standard (see for risk transfer, sufficiently broad to equip Time Series* as possible and must include: page 36) them for highly specialised work in insurance, Advanced Probability Theory* pensions, investment, and banking and for • A personal statement, no longer than 150 GRE/GMAT requirement: None independent research in these areas. Benefits words, outlining your reasons for wanting to Full course descriptions at: lse.ac.uk/ Fee level: £20,496 of the programme include: study Risk and Stochastics. statistics Financial support: Graduate Support • Studying in a Department with an • Course descriptions and reading lists Scheme (see page 30) international reputation for teaching and for advanced courses in mathematics Application deadline: None research in modern actuarial science and and statistics in your degree (either held mathematical finance. or pending). Notes: No references required, but you must supply contact details of an • The opportunity to study related subjects Please note that the Department of Statistics academic familiar with your work taught by other departments in the School. does not require references to be submitted with your application form. However, • Excellent prospects for employment and you should include contact details of one further study. Students can gain employment Studying at LSE person who is familiar with your academic in the finance or insurance industries. They achievements. Normally, this will be a tutor This programme is based in the Department can also go on to do a higher degree. of Statistics (see page 97). It provides from your current or previous academic high-level training in probability theory • The opportunity to live in one of the great institution. The Department may contact and statistics for random processes with financial capitals of the world. this referee if it is deemed useful when applications in the areas of insurance and considering your application. 234 graduate prospectus MSc Social Anthropology

Options 1 Social Anthropology and MSc Social Anthropology Darwinian Theories* (* half unit) Children and Youth in Choose courses to the value of one unit Contemporary Ethnography* from the following: Anthropology and Media* lse.ac.uk/anthropology The Anthropology of Religion Anthropological Approaches to Questions The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex Application code: L6U5 of Being* and Gender Start date: 29 September 2011 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia* Anthropology of Politics* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 The Anthropology of Borders Anthropology of Economy (1): Production months part-time and Boundaries* and Exchange* Intake/applications in 2009: 26/105 Ethnography of a Selected Region* Anthropology of Economy (2): Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Transformation and Globalisation* Medical Anthropology* any discipline (see page 33) Please note that only a limited selection of Options 2 English requirement: Standard (see the optional courses will be available each page 36) year. Of these, some will be on anthropologi- Choose courses to the value of one • Previous graduates have found cal themes and some will be on ethnographic GRE/GMAT requirement: None unit from the following: employment in national and international regions; when you are offered a place you Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; organisations and agencies, including those An additional unit from the options listed will be advised about availability for your year overseas £15,888 concerned with development. under options 1 above of study. Financial support: Graduate Support The Anthropology of Christianity* About the MSc programme Scheme (see page 30) The Anthropology of South-East Asia* This programme is intended for graduates Application deadline: None – rolling with a good first degree in any discipline, The Anthropology of Industrialisation and admissions. Apply early, however, as including those who may have studied Industrial Life* places will fill up anthropology within the context of a more The Anthropology of Melanesia* general degree. It will prepare you for The Anthropology of Southern Africa* Studying at LSE research work or provide a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the subject if The Anthropology of Development* This programme is based in the Department you plan a career which may benefit from an Anthropology of Learning and Cognition of Anthropology (see page 47) and offers the education in social anthropology. following benefits: Law in Society: a Joint Course in You take a compulsory core course, a choice Anthropology and Law • The very strong tradition of fieldwork- of options to the value of two full units, based research within the Department and complete an essay (dissertation) to be Anthropology and Human Rights* directly informs and enhances teaching. submitted by early September. Investigating the Philippines: New • The MSc is an excellent and intensive Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts* introduction to the discipline of anthropology. Compulsory courses China in Comparative Perspective • The programme is an ideal preparation Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography The Anthropology of India* for research work in anthropology and Dissertation related fields, and many graduates go on to The Anthropology of South Asia* complete PhDs. MSc Social Anthropology (Learning and Cognition) graduate prospectus 235

MSc Social Anthropology (Learning and Cognition) (formerly MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition)

• The course is an ideal preparation for Compulsory courses lse.ac.uk/anthropology research work in anthropology and related Anthropology of Learning and Cognition Application code: L6U6 fields, especially for those with interests in the areas of learning, child development, Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography Start date: 29 September 2011 schooling and cognition. Dissertation Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 months part-time About the MSc programme Options This programme is intended for graduates Intake/applications in 2009: 4/22 Choose one from: with a good first degree in any discipline Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in and an interest in the cross-cultural study of Anthropology of Religion any discipline with an interest in cross- human learning and cognition. The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex cultural study of human learning and and Gender cognition (see page 33) The MSc builds on insights drawn from anthropological and psychological studies English requirement: Standard (see of learning and cognitive development. page 36) You will be presented with a range of GRE/GMAT requirement: None theoretical issues relevant to the study of Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; cultural knowledge and its transmission. overseas £15,888 In addition to its unique focus on learning and cognition, the course will offer you Financial support: Graduate Support a sound introduction to the discipline of Scheme (see page 30) social anthropology as a whole. Although Application deadline: None – rolling the programme is not vocational, it will admissions. Apply early, however, as help those who are interested in pursuing places will fill up careers in psychology and/or education and child development to achieve their aims, as well as providing a foundation for graduate Studying at LSE anthropological research. This programme is based in the Department The programme involves completing two of Anthropology (see page 47) and offers the compulsory core courses, choosing an option, following benefits: and preparing a long essay (dissertation) to • Students engage in the study of cross- be submitted by early September. cultural learning and cognitive development in a department which combines a strong tradition of fieldwork based research with innovative experimental research. • Students benefit from our links to internationally based initiatives and research on culture and cognition. 236 graduate prospectus MSc Social and Cultural Psychology

MSc Social and Cultural Psychology About the MSc programme The Social Psychology of Economic Life* To be considered for a place you should Social Psychology of Health Communication* normally have a good honours degree in a Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary social science related discipline. Social Psychology* This programme will increase and Knowledge Processes in Organisations* lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology update your knowledge and professional Representations, Institutions Application code: L7U1 competence in the area of social and cultural psychology. It combines the study and Communities* Start date: 29 September 2011 of theoretical and applied issues with a Corporate Communications* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 sophisticated training in a broad range of Science, Technology and Resistance* months part-time research methods. Organisational and Social Decision Making* Intake/applications in 2009: 35/133 The programme involves completing four course units, and a research report of 10,000 Issues in Organisational and Social Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 words. Optional courses cover key areas of Psychology: Organisational Life* degree in a social science discipline (a applied social and cultural psychology and background in psychology is desirable Psychoanalysis and Communication* are intended to equip you for a career in but not a requirement) (see page 33) business organisations, communities, health, Cognition and Culture* social sciences, where social and cultural English requirement: Standard the media, development and international Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture psychology is in close contact with (see page 36) agencies, government or in research. and Resistance* sociological, anthropological, economic, and GRE/GMAT requirement: None social policy debates. Please also note that the programme Theory and Practice of Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; structure is currently under review and Organisational Development* • An extensive choice of specialist courses the structure offered may differ from that overseas £15,888 Not all these courses may be available in within the Institute and the School, listed below. Financial support: Graduate addressing a variety of theoretical and applied any one year. For more details and the Support Scheme (see page 30). Hilde issues in social and cultural psychology and in Compulsory courses latest information please see lse.ac.uk/ Himmelweit Scholarship (£2,000) the social sciences as a whole. socialPsychology. (* half unit) Application deadline: None – • A unique approach emphasising the Contemporary Social and rolling admissions development of critical thinking and Cultural Psychology analytical skills, which integrates theory and Research Methods Studying at LSE practice for the construction of research and intervention at the individual, institutional Research Report This programme is based in the Institute of and community levels. Social Psychology (see page 93) and offers • An MSc degree with research training Options the following benefits: recognition from the Economic and Social Choose courses to the value of one • A high quality academic training Research Council UK, from which students full unit from the following: addressing the relations between may progress to a research degree or Gender and Media Representation* psychological, social and cultural employment in the public and private sectors. phenomena, providing extensive coverage Globalising Sexualities* of both theoretical and applied issues. Cultural Constructions of the Body* • The experience of studying in a culturally Social Representations* vibrant international environment, within the world’s leading institution of the Current Communication Research* MSc Social Policy (Research) graduate prospectus 237

a personal supervisor. For students continuing Social Policy and Development MSc Social Policy (Research) to a PhD this will often form the basis of Urbanisation and Social Policy in the their eventual doctoral thesis. For students Global South* accepted on a ‘1+3’ basis, transfer from the one year MSc programme to the three year Behavioural Public Policy* • Study in a Department which has achieved MPhil/PhD programme is dependent on lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy International Housing and one of the highest ratings in the UK for the obtaining high marks in the courses taken. Human Settlements* Application code: L4UA quality of its research. See also MSc Social Research Methods (Social Housing, Neighbourhoods Start date: 29 September 2011 • Students can progress to research degrees Policy) (see page 241), which involves greater and Communities* (subject to normal admissions procedures at methodological content (two taught units on Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Methods for Population Planning* LSE and other institutions) or employment methods, rather than one), but no optional months part-time in the public, private or voluntary sector. The subject papers. Social Policy: Goals and Issues* Intake/applications in 2009: 11/43 MSc is recognised as research training by the Demography of the Developing World* ESRC (for students seeking later funding for Compulsory courses Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 doctoral research). Social and Political Aspects of Regional and in any discipline, with social science Foundations of Social Research 1 or Urban Planning* background and/or work experience • Teaching by specialists who are at Foundations of Social Research 2 Gender and Social Policy: Theory in the social policy field advantageous the forefront of research into British, Social Policy Research but not essential (see page 33) European and global social policy and and Practice* by experts in different social science Dissertation English requirement: Higher (see Gender and European Welfare States* research methodologies. page 36) Options Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development • A comparative, international and GRE/GMAT requirement: None Students choose courses equivalent to multidisciplinary environment with links Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy* one full unit. The options list is wide so as Fee level: UK/EU £6,672; to several specialist research groups based Education Policy, Reform and Financing* to permit students to choose an option overseas £15,888 in the Department as well as to LSE’s that fits with the proposed subject of their Basic Education and Social Development* Methodology Institute. Financial support: Graduate Support dissertation. Students without a background Scheme (see page 30) the programme Globalisation and Social Policy* About the MSc programme in social policy are strongly encouraged to is also eligible as the first year of ESRC take the ‘core’ half unit: Social Policy: Goals Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* 1+3 funding for UK/EU students also Applicants with a good first degree from and Issues in the Michaelmas term. Measuring Health System Performance* accepted for study towards a PhD, (see within any subject background will be www.esrc.ac.uk) considered. A social science background and/ The following courses may be taken: Social Rights and Human Welfare* or work experience in the social policy field Application deadline: None – (* half unit) Rural Development and Social Policy* are advantageous, but not essential. rolling admissions Criminal Justice Policy The Third Sector* The programme is provided in conjunction European Social Policy European Social Policy Social Policy Studying at LSE with the Methodology Institute, and offers advanced training in both quantitative and and Development Health Economics* This programme is based in the Department qualitative methods along with a specialist The Economics of European Social Policy* of Social Policy (see page 90) and aims to taught course in applications of different Social Security Policies* Welfare Analysis and Measurement provide a set of high quality, integrated research approaches to social policy Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy* courses to equip students in social policy questions. It consists of four course units, or any other courses subject to the approval Social Exclusion, Inequality and the with transferable research skills before they including compulsory and optional courses. of the programme director ‘Underclass’ Debate* move on to substantive research, whether A key component of the MSc is a dissertation doctoral or in employment. It offers the of up to 10,000 words on a topic individually NGOs and Development following benefits: selected, to be prepared in conjunction with Foundations of Health Policy* 238 graduate prospectus MSc Social Policy and Development

courses and through writing a 10,000 Compulsory course MSc Social Policy and Development word dissertation. Social Policy and Development • To compare experience of social policy Dissertation and planning in a variety of countries and development institutions, drawing on the • The opportunity to acquire Options contrasting professional experience of course lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy understanding of policy analysis and participants in seminars and workshops. (* half unit) Application code: L4U7 planning concepts and methods. • To develop analytical, organisational and Courses to the value of two full units • Specialised study of particularly important Start date: 29 September 2011 planning skills, and enhance written and oral from the following: aspects of social development, through communication skills. Duration: 12 months full-time only optional courses. NGOs and Development Intake/applications in 2009: 44/228 There is strong competition for places and Urbanisation and Social Planning* About the MSc programme you normally need a first degree in a relevant Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Foundations of Health Policy* academic subject at a standard equivalent to relevant discipline, and normally work This programme is aimed primarily at a British university first class or upper second Demography of the Developing World* experience in developing country (see participants from or working in Africa, class honours degree. In US terminology this page 33) Asia, Latin America and post-communist Basic Education for Social Development* societies. Currently about two thirds of means a 3.5 grade point average out of 4. Globalisation and Social Policy* English requirement: Standard (see students come from these regions and in a You should also normally have relevant work page 36) typical year we have representatives from experience in a developing country. A degree Health and Population in Developing and GRE/GMAT requirement: None 25 or more different countries. Some course qualification is not always necessary if you Transitional Societies* participants are development professionals have exceptional professional experience. In Fee level: UK/EU £10,472; Rural Development and Social Policy* from central planning ministries and sectoral some cases we will also consider applications overseas £16,088 social service ministries such as education, from academically well qualified applicants Globalisation, Gender and Development seeking to begin a career in development. Financial support: Graduate Support rural development, housing, social security International Housing and In the second term you will take part in a Scheme (see page 30) and social work services, while others are Human Settlements* three-day residential workshop on applied Application deadline: None – drawn from northern and southern non- social planning at Cumberland Lodge in Cities and Social Change in East Asia* rolling admissions governmental development organisations (NGOs) such as Oxfam, Action Aid, Christian Windsor Great Park. The £200 cost of this Development, Diaspora and Migration* Aid, Médecins sans Frontières and Save workshop is included in the fee level quoted. Behavioural Public Policy* Studying at LSE the Children Fund. We also have students You must submit a 3,000 word essay in April The Economics of European Social Policy* This programme is based in the Department who are representatives of multilateral aid as part of your course assessment. You will of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the bodies such as the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, also prepare a 10,000 word dissertation on a Any other option within the Department of following benefits: UNICEF, UNHCR, the WHO, ILO and IPPF. The topic in the field of social policy and planning Social Policy course is also suitable for development policy in developing countries. An outside option (with permission) • Study in a Department which has achieved researchers in institutions of higher education Teaching is by a mixture of lectures, student- the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the and think tanks. quality of its research. led seminars, workshops and tutorials. The programme has four aims: Assessment is through a combination of • Staff with expertise in Asia, Africa and unseen examinations, course essays, the Latin America, who maintain research • To develop understanding of the project planning essay and the dissertation. and advisory links with key international theory and practice of social policy in development organisations. developing countries. • To allow deeper study in development policy areas of particular interest through the choice of a wide range of optional MSc Social Policy and Planning graduate prospectus 239

MSc Social Policy and Planning Options Courses to the value of two full units chosen from the following (subject to availability): • Links to leading research groups based Urban Policy and Planning* lse.ac.uk/socialPolicy in the Department specialising in social Criminal Justice Policy Application code: L4U2 exclusion, health and social care, education, and criminology. European Social Policy Start date: 29 September 2011 • A high quality student body from many Financing Health Care* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 countries with diverse experience. months part-time Social Security Policies* Intake/applications in 2009: 25/127 About the MSc programme Social Exclusion, Inequalities and the ‘Underclass’ Debate* Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 Applicants with a good first degree from in any discipline, with social science within any subject background will be Social Policy Research background and/or work experience considered. A social science background and/ Gender and Social Policy: Theory in the social policy field advantageous or work experience in the social policy field and Practice* but not essential (see page 33) are advantageous, but not essential. Gender and European Welfare States* English requirement: Higher (see This is a flexible programme allowing Child Rights, Child Poverty and Development page 36) students to tailor their degree to their own areas of interest. Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Social Policy* GRE/GMAT requirement: None A key component of the MSc is a long Education Policy, Reform and Financing* Fee level: UK/EU £6,672; essay (dissertation) of up to 10,000 words Globalisation and Social Policy* overseas £15,888 on a topic individually selected, to be Financial support: Graduate Support prepared in conjunction with a personal Measuring Health System Performance* Scheme (see page 30) supervisor. This offers the opportunity to Social Rights and Human Welfare* pursue an area in depth, often related to Application deadline: None – past or future career interests. Crime and Society: Concepts and Method rolling admissions The Third Sector* Note: Flexible programme allowing Compulsory courses International Housing and students to tailor their degree to their (* half unit) area of interest Human Settlements* Social Policy: Goals and Issues* Behavioural Public Policy* Studying at LSE Social Policy: Organisation and Innovation* Housing, Neighbourhoods Dissertation and Communities* This programme is based in the Department of Social Policy (see page 90) and offers the The Economics of European Social Policy* following benefits: Welfare Analysis and Measurement • Study in a Department which has achieved A further full or half unit course from another the highest rating in the UK (5*) for the MSc programme (with permission) quality of its research. • A comparative, international and multi- disciplinary environment. 240 graduate prospectus MSc Social and Public Communication

• Conceptual frameworks for analysis, Options MSc Social and Public Communication evaluation and design of public Options will allow students to specialise communication. in communication issues. Choose one • Developments in the analysis, evaluation full unit from: and design of public communication in these fields who need to deepen their Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology politics, business, development, health and lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology understanding of communication processes science and technology. Social Representations* with a social-psychological perspective. Application codes: L7U5 The programme is not simply a training Current Communication Research* • Graduates can find employment programme in social marketing offering Start date: 29 September 2011 in a range of fields involving public The Social Psychology of Economic Life* you a box of tools and tricks for efficient Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 communication including journalism, and effective persuasion. It is an Social Psychology of Health Communication* months part-time publishing, advertising, public relations, academic, research based programme that education and various public bodies. Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary and Intake/applications in 2009: 22/96 will enable you, through a range of core Social Psychology* • Study in a research led Institute Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in and topical courses to engage critically which has the largest concentration Knowledge Processes in Organisations* social science and relevant professional with existing tools of analysis, evaluation of social psychologists in Europe and experience (see page 33) and design of communication endeavours. Representations, Institutions excellent multimedia computing and We offer a comparative approach and Communities* English requirement: Higher (see technical support. across a range of domains where public Corporate Communication* page 36) communication is pivotal. This includes About the MSc programmes GRE/GMAT requirement: None an awareness of international attempts Science, Technology and Resistance* To be considered for a place you should to establish professional competence in Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; Modern Social Psychology* normally have a good honours degree in public communication. The programme is overseas £15,888 Organisational and Social Decision Making* one of the social sciences and have relevant exclusively recognised by the professional Financial support: Graduate Support professional experience. certification of the Chartered Institute of Issues in Organisational and Social Scheme (see page 30). Public Relations. Psychology: Organisational Life* This programme will explore communication Application deadline: None – as a social psychological process central to The programme involves completing four Psychoanalysis and Communication* rolling admissions course units, including a research report the conduct of everyday life. Communication Cognition and Culture* of 10,000 words. Note: Some options may be counted is both the foundation of social life as well Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture towards the CIPR Diploma (exemption as a professional activity to influence and Please also note that the programme and Resistance* from up to two units) persuade, to gain advantage, to build structure is currently under review and and sustain trust, and to reach a common the structure offered may differ from that Theory and Practice of understanding on a controversial issue. listed below. Organisational Development* Studying at LSE You will be provided with an overview of A half unit from another programme various theories of public communication Compulsory courses This programme is based in the Institute of (with approval) that enable you to analyse communication Social Psychology (see page 93) and offers (* half unit) events and the practical dilemmas faced by Not all these courses may be available in the following benefits: those working in different domains of public Social Psychology of Communication any one year. • The programme provides a link between communication. Central themes will include: Research Methods academic thought and research and the • The psychological and societal process practical dilemmas of an increasingly Research Report involved in public communication. mediated and communication based society. • The programme may also be of particular interest to those already employed in MSc Social Research Methods graduate prospectus 241

About the MSc programme constraints, and as approved by the course MSc Social Research Methods manager, to the value of one course unit. You take core courses in research design, quantitative analysis and qualitative research Philosophy methods, and a unit in a specialist field. You also submit a research report of 10,000 Philosophy of Science lse.ac.uk/methodology words on a topic related to your specialist Philosophy of the Social Sciences field of study, and you have the chance to Institute Philosophy of Economics take short courses on computer packages Application code: L3T1 for qualitative analysis and interviewing skills Social Policy Start date: 19 September 2011 during the year. Social Policy Research Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Core courses months part-time Statistics (* half unit) Intake/applications in 2009: 15/76 Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis* Quantitative Analysis from basic to advanced Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in (two half units) Research Design for Experimental and social science. Relevant professional Observational Studies* experience can also be considered (see Qualitative Social Research: Interview, Text and Image* Multilevel and Longitudinal Modelling* page 33) • A syllabus that goes some way beyond Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods English requirement: Standard (see the Economic and Social Research Council’s Fundamentals of Research Design* and Computation* page 36) (ESRC) requirements for the first year of a Dissertation 1+3 PhD programme. The MSc is designed GRE/GMAT requirement: None Decision and Policy Sciences as a training for doctoral research and as a Options Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; pre-professional training for careers in social Any course from MSc Decision Sciences, Choose to the value of one unit from overseas £15,888 research in the public and private sectors. subject to timetabling constraints, and as the range of optional courses in your approved by the course tutor. Financial support: Graduate Support • Almost 50 per cent of the graduates of this chosen specialist field: Scheme (see page 30) programme have entered PhD programmes, Government or are working in social research in Sociology Application deadline: None Any graduate level course(s) in Government, universities or national and local government. Politics and Society subject to timetabling constraints, and as Note: This programme is designed • Study within LSE’s Methodology Institute, Crime and Society: Concepts and Method approved by the course tutor, to the value of as training for doctoral research or which is a base for cross-disciplinary research one course unit. pre-professional training careers in and teaching in the broad area of social Sociology of Employment I: Social Relations social research science methodology. at Work* Development Studies • The Institute has links with both Sociology of Employment II: Contemporary Any graduate level course(s) in Development Studying at LSE governmental and private sector research Management and Globalisation* Studies, subject to timetabling constraints, groups. In particular, staff in the Institute Gender and Societies* and as approved by the course tutor, to the This programme is based in LSE’s are heavily involved in the Joint Research value of one course unit. Methodology Institute (see page 86) and Non-traditional Data: New Dimensions in Programme between LSE and the National offers the following benefits: Qualitative Research* Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Management • An advanced training in quantitative and • The programme is taught jointly with other Social Psychology Any graduate level course(s) in Management, qualitative social research methods, in the subject to timetabling constraints, and as departments in the School. Any graduate level course(s) in Social context of a disciplinary specialisation. approved by the course tutor, to the value of Psychology, subject to timetabling one course unit. 242 graduate prospectus MSc Sociology

Population MSc Sociology, MSc Sociology (Research) Population Analysis: Methods and Models* MSc Sociology (Contemporary Social Thought) Plus choose one half unit from MSc Sociology (Economic Sociology) the following: the master’s programme, normally in the Population and Development: An Analytical lse.ac.uk/sociology following year. Approach* Application codes: L3U2, L3UF • The chance to progress to a research degree Methods for Population Planning* (Research), L3UH (CST), L3UI (ES) (MPhil/PhD) following completion of your Reproductive Health Programmes: Design, Start date: 29 September 2011 MSc. The MSc dissertation will provide you Implementation and Evaluation* with the chance of exploring the possibility of Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 writing on a particular subject in some depth. Demography of the Developing World* months part-time • Receive knowledge of the ways in which Gender and European Welfare States* Intake/applications in 2009: 29/134 societies work, and skills in critical social Health and Population in Contemporary Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in understanding, techniques of social enquiry Developed Societies* social science (see page 33) and communication through systematic and lucid argument. The skills that you develop Health and Population in Developing and English requirement: Higher (see in research techniques and computing will Transitional Societies* page 36) • The opportunity to study with faculty enable you to assemble, interpret and use of established national and international Please note that not all options will be avail- GRE/GMAT requirement: None social statistics. able every year and the choice of options reputations in the Department’s areas of Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; • Students go into a wide variety of may be constrained by timetable limitations. research expertise. The MSc Sociology overseas £15,888 programme streams allow students to take professions, such as teaching, research, Financial support: Graduate Support a core programme offering a foundation in politics, public administration, the Scheme (see page 30). The research sociological research together with flexibility social and health services, advertising, track is eligible for ESRC 1+3 funding in option choices, or to specialise in key journalism, other areas of the media, (see www.esrc.ac.uk) areas: advanced social research methods; law, publishing, industry, accounting, contemporary social thought; or economic marketing, personnel and management. Application deadline: None – sociology. Option courses reflect the rolling admissions Department’s academic strengths, including: About the MSc programmes classical and contemporary social theory; These programmes cover the most significant Studying at LSE political sociology; the sociology of economic recent developments in sociology and enable life; race, ethnicity and postcolonial studies; These programmes are based in the students to specialise in particular areas, gender and society; crime and control; cities Department of Sociology (see page 94) and developing their critical skills and advancing and urbanism; bio-sciences and society. offer the following benefits: their knowledge of modern sociology. These courses reflects the Department’s You take a total of three course units through • The chance to study sociology at commitment to sociology’s critical range and a combination of full and/or half units and graduate level in the only specialist contemporary relevance. institution for the social sciences in the you complete a dissertation of up to 10,000 • The opportunity to extend your knowledge UK. The research MSc offers you the words on a subject of interest related to the and understanding in areas of special opportunity to complete an Economic and courses and approved by the Department. interest related to sociology. If you have Social Research Council (ESRC) recognised You will be advised on the dissertation little or no knowledge of the social sciences, research training programme that will topic by your academic adviser, in our Diploma in Sociology provides a good qualify you to apply for an ESRC research conjunction with the tutor of your chosen one-year foundation before proceeding to studentship. MSc programme. You choose the topic, MSc Sociology of Crime, Control and Globalisation graduate prospectus 243

which can be empirical or theoretical in its Politics and Society approach. The dissertation gives you the MSc Sociology of Crime, Control Crime and Society: Concepts and Method opportunity of thinking sociologically and and Globalisation at length on a sociological problem, issue Cultural Theory* or debate within sociology itself. Economic Sociology* issues in the investigation of crime, deviance Compulsory courses for Cultural Constructions of the Body* lse.ac.uk/sociology and crime control policy. MSc Sociology Approaches to Human Rights Application code: L3U8 • Teaching by some of Britain’s most (* half unit) Political Reconciliation* Start date: 29 September 2011 distinguished criminologists in one of Europe’s strongest centres of criminology. Social Research Methods Regulation, Risk and Economic Life Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 • The opportunity to study a diverse Dissertation Sociology of Employment Part I: Social months part-time range of options including human rights, Relations at Work* Intake/applications in 2009: 9/45 Compulsory courses for policing, criminal justice policy, law and MSc Sociology (Research) Sociology of Employment Part II: Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in social theory as well as addressing the key Contemporary Management social science, or degree in another theoretical developments in criminology Social Research Methods and Globalisation* field with relevant practitioner and their relevance for contemporary Quantitative Analysis Part I* criminological issues. Cities by Design* experience (see page 33) Quantitative Analysis Part II* • The chance to develop or enhance existing Gender and Societies* English requirement: Higher (see research skills through methods training Dissertation page 36) Nationalism (both quantitative and qualitative). GRE/GMAT requirement: None Compulsory courses for Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Britain • The opportunity to study with a diverse Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; MSc Sociology (Contemporary (post 1945)* range of students from all over the world and Social Thought) overseas £15,888 Classical Social Thought* to work with criminal justice practitioners and Contemporary Social Thought Financial support: Graduate Support researchers who study the MSc to develop Modern Social Thought* Scheme (see page 30) their appreciation of core criminological Dissertation Families in Contemporary Societies: a Life Application deadline: None – issues which might help inform their Compulsory courses for Course Perspective rolling admissions professional practice. MSc Sociology (Economic Racial Formations of Modernity* • The opportunity to become part of a Sociology) vibrant intellectual community in the only Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Post Studying at LSE specialist institution for the social sciences in Economic Sociology* Colonial Studies This programme, formerly MSc the UK. You can attend the highly successful Dissertation New Media, Development and Globalisation Criminology, is based in the Department seminar programmes run by the Mannheim Race and Biopolitics* of Sociology (see page 94) and is Centre for the Study of Criminology and Options taught by leading researchers from the Criminal Justice addressed by eminent Contemporary Social Thought (* half unit) Departments of Sociology, Social Policy criminologists, as well as public lectures by Please note that not every course is and Law. This inter-disciplinary programme internationally renowned speakers in other Choose a total of one full course necessarily available each year. gives students the opportunity to study social science disciplines. unit MSc Sociology (Research) or two crucial issues in theoretical and applied full course units MSc Sociology and • This programme features a unique criminology at master’s level, and offers MSc Sociology (Contemporary Social opportunity to take up an internship in the following benefits: Thought) or two and a half units MSc criminal justice agencies, non-governmental Sociology (Economic Sociology): • Training at an advanced level in the core organisations and other bodies to gain theoretical, empirical and methodological practical experience and, where appropriate, Approaches to Globalisation* 244 graduate prospectus MSc Statistics

possibly to prepare materials for the 10,000 • Investigate both traditional and word dissertation. contemporary methods of crime control in a MSc Statistics comparative and transnational context. A number of leading academic and research staff at LSE have an interest • Examine the relations between theory, in the sociology of crime control and policy and practice. globalisation, including Professor Stan • Train students to produce, and lse.ac.uk/statistics Cohen (Emeritus Professor of Sociology), evaluate, rigorous sociological and Frances Heidensohn (Emeritus Professor), Application code: G4U5 criminological research. Dr Janet Foster (Sociology), Professor Dick Start date: 29 September 2011 Hobbs (Sociology), Professor Nikolas Rose The programme is composed of three Duration: 9 months full-time (9 month (Sociology), Professor Tim Newburn (Social compulsory courses and one optional course. master’s are not compliant with the Policy), Dr Coretta Phillips (Social Policy), Bologna process which may affect the Dr Paddy Rawlinson (Sociology), Professor Compulsory courses extent to which they are ‘recognised’. Robert Reiner and Dr Judith Rumgay, Dr Crime and Society: Concepts and Method For more information on Bologna please Michael Shiner (Social Policy). Visiting Criminological Research Methods see page 15). 21 months part-time; with professors currently include Frances Summer Project: 12 months full-time, 24 Heidensohn and Maurice Punch. 10,000 word dissertation assessed as the equivalent of a whole course. You months part-time These and other LSE staff are working may choose any subject that interests Intake/applications in 2009: 15/177 Studying at LSE actively on research and policy projects in you under the broad sociology of crime, sociology, criminology, policing and closely Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 This programme is based in the Department control and globalisation rubric – using related areas such as: biometrics and degree with substantial amount of of Statistics (see page 97). It provides original research or secondary sources. surveillance, human rights, refugee and statistics and mathematics (see page 33) high level training in statistics with After consultation with the appropriate asylum studies, hate speech and freedom applications in the social sciences, finance supervisor, your topic is approved at the English requirement: Standard of expression, ethnicity, urban sociology, and econometrics. Students learn to end of the second term. (see page 36) globalisation and global government. analyse and critically interpret data, build GRE/GMAT requirement: None Teaching on the programme is closely Options statistical models of real situations, and use linked to this current research, and provides Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; statistical software packages. Benefits of the One optional course from those offered a highly stimulating opportunity to study in overseas £15,888 programme include: for the LLM, MSc Sociology, MSc Criminal a context informed by that research. • Study in a Department with an Justice Policy, MSc European Social Policy, Financial support: Graduate Support international reputation for teaching and About the MSc programme MSc Social Policy and Planning and MSc Scheme (see page 30) research in statistics for the social sciences. Social Policy and Development. These This programme is ideal for students with an Application deadline: None – include subjects like policing, juvenile • The opportunity to study related subjects upper second or first class honours degree rolling admissions justice, rehabilitation and crime control taught by other departments in the School. (or equivalent) in the social sciences. We policy, and human rights. Your choice Notes: Graduates are awarded will consider applicants with a good first • Excellent opportunities for employment must be approved by your supervisor and Graduate Statistician (GradStat) status degree in any discipline who have (and and further study. Former students have the department concerned and there may by the Royal Statistical Society. can demonstrate) a special interest and/or taken up positions in consulting firms, banks be timetabling restrictions. No references required, but you must practical experience in this area. and in the public sector. Many go on to take supply contact details of an academic higher degrees. This programme aims to: familiar with your work. Your personal • Graduates of the MSc are awarded • Develop a sophisticated understanding statement should not exceed 150 words Graduate Statistician (GradStat) status by the of crime and criminal activity, from youth Royal Statistical Society. crime, sub-cultures and gangs, to organised criminality, corporate and state crime. MSc Theory and History of International Relations graduate prospectus 245

About the MSc programme Options MSc Theory and History of You should have or expect to gain an upper Choose to the value of three full second class honours degree, or equivalent, units from: International Relations which includes a substantial amount of Multivariate Methods* statistics and mathematics. Well qualified applicants who do not meet this requirement Stochastic Processes* lse.ac.uk/international will be considered on merit. Generalised Linear Modelling and History Survival Analysis* Applications need to be submitted as early Application code: V1S8 as possible and must include a personal Research Design for Experimental and Start date: 29 September 2011 statement outlining your reasons for wanting Observational Studies* to study statistics. This should be no longer Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 Multilevel and Longitudinal Modelling* than 150 words and you are advised to be months part-time concise and clear in your statement. Nonlinear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Intake/applications in 2009: 30/179 Time Series* Please note that the Department of Minimum entry requirement: 2:1 in Statistics does not require references to Developments in Statistical Methods* any discipline (see page 33) be submitted with your application form. Time Series* However, you should include contact English requirement: Higher (see details of one person who is familiar with Econometric Analysis page 36) international context, and where over half the graduate students come from elsewhere your academic achievements. Normally, Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis* GRE/GMAT requirement: None this will be a tutor from your previous in Europe or further afield. Mathematical Programming: Theory Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; institution. The Department may contact • The tight coherence of course choices and Algorithms* overseas £15,888 this referee if it is deemed useful when enables students from related disciplines considering your application. Population Analysis: Methods and Models* Financial support: Graduate Support such as political science, modern Scheme (see page 30). UK/EU students Each MSc student has a personal tutor Advanced Probability Theory* languages, economics, law or journalism may apply for Arts and Humanities who is available for guidance and advice to make the transition to the study of Other course(s) outside the Department (to Research Council on academic or personal concerns. The international relations. the value of one unit, with permission) (www.ahrc.ac.uk) funding compulsory courses consolidate students’ • Through required and optional courses understanding of fundamental ideas in MSc in Statistics (Research) Application deadline: None – in international relations and international probability and statistics and introduce rolling admissions history, the combination of theoretical Students have the option to register for the advanced topics. Students can choose issues with sound empiricism in different options to focus on statistics with MSc in Statistics (Research) branch of the Studying at LSE proportions depending on your interests. applications in social science or in finance programme in the first few weeks of the • The opportunity to specialise in a wide and econometrics. Michaelmas term. This branch is similar to This programme is based in the Department range of geographical regions or other the MSc Statistics nine month programme of International History (see page 69) and aspects of international relations including Compulsory courses but involves a compulsory dissertation which offers the following benefits: replaces one unit’s worth of optional courses world wars, East-West conflict, European (* half unit) • Study in a Department whose teaching integration, the role of political doctrines Full course descriptions at: www.lse. Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and research have been rated as excellent and ideologies, revolutions and national ac.uk/collections/statistics/study/ and Computation in national assessment exercises and press liberation struggles. prospective/mscstatistics.htm league tables. • Engaging at an advanced level with • Study in a Department focused on the latest academic research and the history of international relations and undertaking your own research based the treatment of national histories in an term work and dissertation. 246 graduate prospectus MSc Theory and History of International Relations

• Superb library and IT facilities, and easy Foreign Policy Analysis The International History of the Balkans since access to a world class range of nearby 1939: State Projects, Wars and Social Conflict International Institutions libraries and archives. The European Welfare State After World Strategic Aspects of International Relations About the MSc programme War II The EU in the World Western Intellectuals and the Challenge Students interested in combining a theoretical International Politics: Asia and the Pacific of Totalitarianism and empirical approach to contemporary international relations have a unique International Relations of the Middle East War Cultures, 1890-1945 opportunity to do so in this programme. Conflict and Peace Studies The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Students take core courses in both the Economic Diplomacy Society and Diplomacy International Relations and the International History Departments, take a third course European Union Policy-Making in a East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, from the wide range of options offered by Global Context* 1839-1945 the two departments, and complete the International Security (Advanced) Cultural Encounters from the Renaissance to programme with a dissertation on a relevant the Modern World historical topic. Introduction to International Political Theory* Persecution in Europe: From Witch-Hunts to The International Political Theory of The programme provides an excellent Ethnic Cleansing preparation for careers in business or Humanitarian Intervention* Nationalism consulting, government or international The Politics of International Law* agencies, the media, politics and law, or for The West: Identity and Interests* advanced academic research. Europe, the US and Arab-Israeli Relations* An international relations course from Course Russia and Eurasia: Foreign and Note that not all the courses listed will 2 (not already taken but subject to space and Security Policies necessarily be available in any one year. by agreement with the course convenor) International Organisations and Regimes Course 1 A further course from the Course 1 Course 3 selection list (subject to approval by the Choose one from: programme director) Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, Choose one full unit course from: Course 4 1914-1991 European Integration in the Dissertation on a relevant historical topic Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Twentieth Century from Roosevelt to Reagan 1933-1989 Democracy, Dictatorship and Foreign Anglo-American Relations from World War Intervention: Spain and the Great Powers, to Cold War, 1939-1991 1931-1953 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 Bin Laden Crises and Détente in the Cold War, Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa 1962-1979 International History since 1900 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1997 Course 2 The European Enlightenment, c1680-1830 (* half unit) The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, Choose one full unit from: 1917-1990 MSc Urbanisation and Development graduate prospectus 247

• Located at the heart of one of the world’s Options MSc Urbanisation and Development most exciting and cosmopolitan cities, LSE (* half unit) is an excellent base from which to explore contemporary urbanism and offers access to You select additional courses of study a wide range of development organisations totalling one unit from a broad list and civil society organisations (CSOs). that includes: lse.ac.uk/geography AndEnvironment • Graduates enter a wide variety of Gender and Development: employment including non-governmental Geographical Perspectives* lse.ac.uk/international and civil society organisations, international Contemporary Urbanism Development organisations, research, consultancy, and the Cities, Culture and Politics in the South* Application code: L8U6 public sector. Cities, People and Poverty in the South* Start date: 29 September 2011 About the MSc programme Cities and Social Change in East Asia* Duration: 12 months full-time, 24 This programme is intended for graduates months part-time with a good first degree in social science, Planning for Sustainable Cities* Intake/applications in 2009: 16/113 such as geography, development, Economic Appraisal and Valuation* sociology, planning and anthropology. Minimum entry requirement: Good Race and Space* Applicants with degrees in other subjects 2:1 in social science subject such as Department of International Development will be considered, especially if they have Development, Diaspora and Migration* geography, anthropology, sociology, (see page 67). It offers the following benefits: work or voluntary experience relevant to planning, development, or a degree Cities Politics and Citizenship* • A unique interdisciplinary approach cities and/or development. in another field with work experience towards this increasingly important field, Poverty* At a time when three-quarters of the relevant to cities and/or development drawing on the wide ranging disciplinary world’s urban population and 90 per Population and Development: An (see page 33) expertise and experience of staff in both the cent of urban population growth will Analytical Approach* English requirement: Standard (see Department of Geography and Environment be in the developing world, it is vital page 36) and the Department of International African Development* we understand relationships between Development (formerly known as DESTIN). Complex Emergencies* GRE/GMAT requirement: None urban and development issues from both • Teaching staff are leading researchers in Fee level: UK/EU £10,272; theoretical and empirical standpoints. The Mananging Humanitarianism* the field supplemented by visiting professors programme reviews urbanism from colonial overseas £15,888 HIV/AIDS and other Emerging Health and an intense schedule of outside speakers, to the contemporary period, emphasising Threats* Financial support: Graduate Support seminars and conferences. demographic, social, economic, cultural and Scheme (see page 30) Other urban and/or development courses • A focus on developing graduates’ abilities political processes. The programme pays available in the School as approved by Application deadline: None – rolling to integrate recent theoretical developments particular attention to the origins and claims the programme director and subject to applications. Early application is advised with practical experience and concerns. of development theory and practice, and the aims and achievements of contemporary admittance by course director • The opportunity to select from a range of urban policy from a wide variety of thematic Studying at LSE options, allowing you to shape your studies and theoretical perspectives. to your needs. The MSc Urbanisation and Development programme offers students • An active, international community of Compulsory courses an integrated and up to date course on graduates studying on a range of master’s Urban Policy and Practice in the South urban development, which draws on the courses, many related to urban and Development: History, Theory and Policy breadth of research expertise and practical development issues. experience in the Department of Geography Dissertation and Environment (see page 61) and the 248 graduate prospectus Index Index

1+3/2+2 programmes 31, 33 Application deadline see Comparative Politics (Conflict Studies) – Development Studies – MSc 136 programme entries and page 42 MSc 130 A Development Studies (Research) – Application tracking 42 Comparative Politics (Democracy) MSc 136 About the Prospectus 1 – MSc 130 Athletics Union 28 Development, Anthropology and – Academic support services 18 Comparative Politics (Latin America) MSc 125 B – MSc 130 Accommodation 26 Development, Environment and – MSc Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society – MSc Accounting department/research degrees Comparative Politics (Nationalism and 148 127 Ethnicity) – MSc 130 46 Development, Gender and – MSc 163 Bologna process 15 Comparative Politics (Politics and Markets) Accounting and Finance – Diploma 100 Development, Health, Community and – MSc 130 Accounting and Finance – MSc 122 C – MSc 169 Comparative Politics (Research) – MSc 132 Accounting, Law and – MSc 188 Campus map inside front cover Development, International – MPA 103 Conflict Studies (Comparative Politics) – Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Career development loans 32 Development, Local Economic – MSc 191 MSc 130 – MSc 123 Careers and alumni 22 Development, Media, Communication and Contacting us 42 Advice and counselling 16 – MSc 209 Careers Service 22 Counselling and advice 16 Advice and support (academic) 18 Development, NGOs and – MSc 211 Catering 26 Crime, Sociology of – MSc 243 Adviser to Male Students 17 Development, Population and – MSc 225 Chaplaincy 16 Criminal Justice Policy – MSc 133 Adviser to Women Students 17 Development, Social Policy and – MSc 238 China in Comparative Perspective – Criminology – Mannheim centre 97 Affaires Internationales and either MSc 128 Development, Urbanisation and – MSc 247 International Relations or International Culture and Society – MSc 134 Cities Programme – research degrees 49 Diploma in Accounting and Finance 100 Political Economy – LSE-Sciences Po D Diploma in Sociology 101 Double Degree 106 City Design and Social Science – MSc 129 Data protection 44 Diplomas (types of study) 9 Agents 39 Communication, Media and Development – MSc 209 Dates of terms 2011/12 and 2012/13 1 Director (message from) 2 AHRC 31 Communication, Social and Public – Deadline, Application see Disabled student allowance 16 Alumni 24 MSc 240 programme entries and page 42 Disabled students, dyslexia, long-term Anthropology – department/research Communications, Global Media and Decisions (when sent) 43 medical conditions 16 degrees 47 – MSc 109 Decision Sciences, Management Science – Diversity and equality 1 Anthropology and Development – MSc Communications, Media and – MSc 203 125 Dual programmes 11 department/research degrees 85 Democracy (Comparative Politics) – Anthropology, Law and – MSc 190 Communications, Media and – MSc 206 MSc 130 E Anthropology, Social – MSc 234 Communication, Method and Departments, Institutes, Centres 45 Early years centre 16 Applicable Mathematics – MSc 126 (Governance) – MSc 208 Development Management – MSc 135 Index graduate prospectus 249

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