Table of Contents

  1. University of London International ProgrammesProgramme Specification and Regulations for Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences (Old Regulations)
  2. Important information regarding the Programme Specification and Regulations
  3. Programme Specification
    1. Title and name of awards
    2. Level of the programmes
    3. Relevant QAA subject benchmarks group(s)
    4. Awarding body
    5. Registering body
    6. Lead College
    7. Accreditation by professional or statutory body
    8. Language of study and assessment
    9. Mode of study
    10. Programme structures
    11. Credit value of courses
    12. Entrance requirements
    13. Educational aims and learning outcomes of the programmes
    14. Teaching, learning and assessment strategies
    15. Assessment methods
    16. Student support and guidance
    17. Quality evaluation and enhancement
  4. Detailed Regulations
    1. 1. Structures of the programmes
    2. 2. Credit transfer and accreditation of prior learning
    3. 3. Registration
    4. 4. Assessment for the programme
    5. 5. Number of attempts permitted at an examination
    6. 6. Assessment offences and penalties
    7. 7. Progression within the programme
    8. 8. Schemes of award
    9. 9. Receiving the final Diploma and Diploma Supplement
    10. 10. Fees and refunds
    11. 11. Transfer of registration
    12. 12. Students with specific access requirements
    13. 13. Complaints, suspension and termination of registration
  5. Annex A: Structures - Degrees
    1. BSc Accounting and Finance
    2. BSc Accounting with Law
    3. BSc Law with Accounting
    4. BSc Banking and Finance
    5. BSc Business
    6. BSc Development and Economics
    7. BSc Economics
    8. BSc Economics and Finance
    9. BSc Economics and Management
    10. BSc Geography and Environment
    11. BSc Information Systems and Management
    12. BSc International Relations
    13. BSc Management
    14. BSc Management with Law
    15. BSc Law with Management
    16. BSc Mathematics and Economics
    17. BSc Politics
    18. BSc Politics and International Relations
    19. BSc Sociology
    20. BSc Sociology with Law
  6. Annex A: Structures - Diplomas for Graduates
    1. Diploma for Graduates: Accounting
    2. Diploma for Graduates: Banking
    3. Diploma for Graduates: Development
    4. Diploma for Graduates: Economics
    5. Diploma for Graduates: Finance
    6. Diploma for Graduates: Geography and Environment
    7. Diploma for Graduates: Information Systems
    8. Diploma for Graduates: International Development
    9. Diploma for Graduates: International Relations
    10. Diploma for Graduates: Management
    11. Diploma for Graduates: Mathematics
    12. Diploma for Graduates: Politics
    13. Diploma for Graduates: Social Sciences
    14. Diploma for Graduates: Sociology
  7. Annex A: Structures - Diploma in Economics and Diploma in Social Sciences
    1. Diploma in Economics
    2. Diploma in Social Sciences
  8. Annex A: Structures - Selection Groups
    1. 100 courses
    2. 200 and 300 courses
  9. Annex B - Syllabuses for Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences
    1. AC1025 Principles of accounting
    2. AC3059 Financial management
    3. AC3091 Financial reporting
    4. AC3093 Auditing and assurance
    5. AC3097 Management accounting
    6. AC3143 Valuation and securities analysis
    7. DV1171 Introduction to international development
    8. DV2135 World development
    9. DV2169 Economic policy analysis in international development
    10. DV3044 Economics of development
    11. DV3162 Complex emergencies and humanitarian responses
    12. DV3165 Development management
    13. DV3166 Global environmental problems and politics
    14. EC1002 Introduction to economics
    15. EC2020 Elements of econometrics
    16. EC2065 Macroeconomics
    17. EC2066 Microeconomics
    18. EC2096 Economic history in the 20th century
    19. EC3015 Economics of labour
    20. EC3016 International economics
    21. EC3022 Public economics
    22. EC3099 Industrial economics
    23. EC3115 Monetary economics
    24. EC3120 Mathematical economics
    25. FN1024 Principles of banking and finance
    26. FN2029 Financial intermediation
    27. FN3023 Investment management
    28. FN3092 Corporate finance
    29. FN3142 Quantitative finance
    30. GY1009 Human geography
    31. GY1147 Physical geography: fundamentals of the physical environment
    32. GY1148 Methods of geographical analysis (half course)
    33. GY2109 Geographies of development
    34. GY2149 Biogeography
    35. GY2150 Geomorphological processes
    36. GY2151 Environmental change
    37. GY2152 Hydrology
    38. GY2164 Economic geography
    39. GY3068 Society and the environment
    40. GY3153 Space and culture
    41. GY3154 Geomorphological applications
    42. GY3155 Biodiversity
    43. GY3156 Tropical land management
    44. GY3157 Independent geographical study
    45. IR1011 Introduction to international relations
    46. IR1034 World history since 1917
    47. IR2084 Nationalism and international relations
    48. IR2085 International institutions
    49. IR2137 Foreign policy analysis
    50. IR3026 International political economy
    51. IR3083 International political theory
    52. IR3090 International politics of East Asia
    53. IR3140 Security and international relations
    54. IS1060 Introduction to information systems
    55. IS1129 Introduction to programming (half course)
    56. IS1168 Introduction to computer systems architecture and programming
    57. IS2062 Information systems development and management
    58. IS2136 Information systems and organisations
    59. IS2138 Information and communication technologies: principles and perspectives
    60. IS3139 Software engineering: theory and application
    61. IS3159 Research project in information systems
    62. IS3167 Management and Innovation of e-business
    63. MN1107 Introduction to business and management
    64. MN2079 Elements of social and applied psychology
    65. MN3027 The law of business organisations
    66. MN3028 Managerial economics
    67. MN3032 Management science methods
    68. MN3077 Management: international and comparative perspectives
    69. MN3119 Strategy
    70. MN3127 Organisation theory: an interdisciplinary approach
    71. MN3141 Principles of marketing
    72. MT105A Mathematics 1 (half course)
    73. MT105B Mathematics 2 (half course)
    74. MT1173 Algebra
    75. MT1174 Calculus
    76. MT2076 Management mathematics
    77. MT2116 Abstract mathematics
    78. MT2117 Advanced calculus (half course)
    79. MT2118 Advanced linear algebra (half course)
    80. MT3040 Game theory (half course)
    81. MT3041 Advanced mathematical analysis (half course)
    82. MT3042 Optimisation theory (half course)
    83. MT3043 Mathematics of finance and valuation (half course)
    84. MT3095 Further mathematics for economists
    85. MT3170 Discrete mathematics and algebra
    86. PS1114 Democratic politics and the State
    87. PS1130 Introduction to modern political thought
    88. PS2082 Comparative politics
    89. PS3086 Democracy and democratisation
    90. PS3088 Politics and policies of the European Union
    91. PS3105 Contemporary political theory: liberalism and its critics
    92. PS3108 Political analysis and public choice
    93. SC1021 Principles of sociology
    94. SC1158 Reading social science (half course)
    95. SC2145 Social research methods
    96. SC2163 Sociological theory and analysis
    97. SC3055 Sociology of development
    98. SC3057 Social policy
    99. SC3144 Historical sociology
    100. SC3160 Population and society
    101. ST104A Statistics 1 (half course)
    102. ST104B Statistics 2 (half course)
    103. ST3133 Advanced statistics: distribution theory (half course)
    104. ST3134 Advanced statistics: statistical inference (half course)
  10. Annex B - Laws syllabuses
    1. LA1010 Criminal law
    2. LA1020 Public law
    3. LA1031 Common law reasoning and institutions
    4. LA1040 Elements of the law of contract
    5. LA3001 Law of tort
    6. LA3002 Law of trusts
    7. LA3003 Land law
    8. LA3004 Civil and criminal procedure
    9. LA3005 Jurisprudence and legal theory
    10. LA3007 Evidence
    11. LA3008 Administrative law
    12. LA3012 History of English law
    13. LA3013 Public international law
    14. LA3014 Conflict of laws
    15. LA3016 Succession
    16. LA3017 Commercial law
    17. LA3018 Labour law
    18. LA3019 Family law
    19. LA3021 Company law
    20. LA3024 EU law
    21. LA3025 Criminology
    22. LA3026 Intellectual property
    23. LA3028 Introduction to Islamic law
    24. LA3029 International protection of human rights
  11. Annex C: Credits and accreditation of prior learning
  12. Annex C: Table of Automatic Accreditation of Prior Learning 2011-12
  13. Annex D: Scheme of award
    1. Guidelines applying to all programmes
    2. Programme-specific guidelines - Degrees through the Standard Route
    3. Degrees through the Graduate Entry Route
    4. Diplomas for Graduates
    5. Diploma in Economics and Diploma in Social Sciences
  14. Annex E: Assessment Criteria
  15. Glossary of terms
  16. Related documents and other sources of information
  17. Corrections
    1. 1. MT2117 Advanced calculus and MT2118 Advanced linear algebra (6th July 2011)
    2. 2. Table of Automatic Accreditation of Prior Learning 2011-12 (6th July 2011)
    3. 3. DV2169 Economics Policy Analysis and International Development (DV1171 or DV2135) (6th July 2011) (6th July 2011)
    4. 4. BSc Mathematics and Economics (6th July 2011)
    5. 5. Correction is made to the advice about effective dates of registration (6th July 2011)
    6. 6. Advice in 11.46 (6th July 2011)
    7. 7. MN3028 Managerial economics/EC2066 Microeconomics exclusion (6th July 2011)
    8. 8. IS3139: Software engineering: theory and application (25th July 2011)
    9. 9. Diploma in Economics and Diploma in Social Sciences (15th August 2011)
    10. 10. Correction is made regarding the re-sitting of failed courses (30th August 2011)
    11. 11. BSc Accounting and Finance Graduate Entry Route (30th August 2011)
    12. 12. IS1129 and IS1168 are exclusions (30th August 2011)
    13. 13. Amendment to final examination date for EC2096 for the Diploma in Economics (7th October 2011)
    14. 14. Amendment to final examination date for EC2096 for the Diploma in Social Sciences (7th October 2011)
    15. 15. Amendment to final examination date for EC2096 for Selection group F(i) (7th October 2011)
    16. 16. EC2096 added to list of options for Selection group E (7th October 2011)
    17. 17. Amendment to syllabus notes for DV1171 Introduction to international development (7th October 2011)
    18. 18. Correction is made to the characteristics of the Assessment Criteria (22nd November 2011)