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DEV3001 – Development and Change in the Global South
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Alison Hulme
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Development And Change In The Global South (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: This module provides an interdisciplinary perspective on development and change and the inter-relationship of politics and society in the Global South. There are no pre-requisites, but the module is particularly appropriate for Level 6 students of Sociology and International Relations and Politics who wish to extend the scope of their studies to include the 'developing world', and for BA and Joint Honours International Development students. Students will be encouraged to make connections, where appropriate, with themes and issues covered in other parts of their degree programme.
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ECN3013 – Econometrics
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Georgia Giordani
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: ECN2019
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Econometrics, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Econometrics (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics;
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with statistical, interpretive and practical skills they need to move seamlessly into graduate workforce by using advanced econometrics techniques. Also, to equip students with skills to manipulate data, evaluate, estimate and model business problems, functions and phenomena.
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ECN3018 – Economics for Decision Making
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Marco Gundermann
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Economics For Decision Making, Coursework: 40% Exam: 60%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Finance;
Description: The module provides students with the opportunity to explore contemporary tools for making economic and business decisions at both micro and macro levels. Students develop analytical skills through exploration of key topics in moder micro and macro economic theory, macroeconomic behaviour and stabilisation, and their application to business decision making.
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ECN3020 – International Trade, Cooperation and Bargaining
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Hanane Abouelkheir
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - International Trade, Cooperation And Bargaining, Coursework: 100% STDFF - International Trade, Cooperation And Bargaining (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics; BSc Economics (4 Year Programme);
Description: This module explores key questions and issues of the international economy, including bargaining over climate change, raw material prices, as well as human and labour rights. Furthermore, students examine patterns of international trade and globalisation including barriers to trade and strategic trade policy
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ECN3021 – Advanced Applied Macroeconomics
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Antonis
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: ECN2018
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Advanced Applied Macroeconomics, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Advanced Applied Macroeconomics (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics;
Description: This module provides students with the opportunity to explore modern macroeconomic theory, policy and practice. The module will equip students with skills needed to analyse macroeconomic behaviour and policies. In addition, the module enables students to analyse topical debates in the theory of economic policy.
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ECN3022 – Advanced Applied Microeconomics
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Zia Khan
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: ECN2013
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Advanced Applied Microeconomics (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Advanced Applied Microeconomics, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics;
Description: The module will equip students with skills needed to develop technical, as well as critical analysis of modern microeconomic policy issues, including cost-benefit analysis. Throughout the module emphasis is given to the idea of economics as a political as well as theoretical field, so as to obtain the abilty to apply advanced models in microeconomics.
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ECN3024 – The Economics of Developing Countries Since Independence
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Shawky Nasser
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - The Economics Of Developing Countries Since Independence (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - The Economics Of Developing Countries Since Independence, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics; BSc Economics (4 Year Programme);
Description: The purpose of this module is to provide students with a firm basis in the strategies of economic development in developing countries since independence. The module covers the economics of the post-independence era and explores the shift in the economic policies that occurred in the 1970s. While the module is focused on economics, it considers the social and political aspects related to developing countries. The module also covers the role of international institutions in the Global South.
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ECN4001 – Economics Dissertation
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Zia Khan
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Economics Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Economics Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BSc Economics;
Description: This module is designed to provide students with the skills to be able critically analyse key debates/theories/views associated with the chosen topic. Students must choose to research, analyse and discuss a `contemporary issue in economics?. Students will be expected to look at the topic chosen from an economics perspective while possibly incorporating other areas (politics or business, for example) into the discussion. The dissertation represents a significant final element of study where students can develop their own academic and intellectual interests. The module also allows students to develop their skills in research and independent work. The dissertation allows students to draw together different aspects of their study. They will have been required to select the topic and do the initial proposal as part of the Level 5 Research Methods for Economists module. The dissertation, therefore, represents a continuation of that work.
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ECN4002 – Economics Project
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham Wilkinson
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Economics Project, Coursework: 100%
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Description: This module aims to provide an opportunity to explore a specific economic issue in an independent study context and can only be taken by students not following a 40 points dissertation. A specific economic issue is selected in which the student can develop a significant awareness of the core aspects/figures/theories associated with it. Provide students the opportunity to independently research a topic which relies largely on a review of the existing literature and evidence. Wherever possible, students will be encouraged to undertake research in areas linked to the interests of tutors.
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ECN4003 – Economics Joint Dissertation
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Joseph Bamidele
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: An Interdisciplinary Dissertation/Project module in a second subject must be taken with this module.
Assessment: STD - Economics Joint Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
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Description: This module is available to students registered for a joint award in two subjects. Combined with the co-requisite module in the second subject, it provides an opportunity for students to complete a 40 credit dissertation/project or equivalent on a topic, theme or issue which links the two subjects studied.
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IRD3037 – Global Ethics and Identities
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham McBeath
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Global Ethics And Identities (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to engage with ethical questions and perspectives in the context of increasing globalization. Is it possible to develop a global ethics? Does the increasing pluralisation of identities render impossible the idea of a universal ethics? From classical to contemporary approaches to ethics, the module explores a range of different responses to these types of question.
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IRD3041 – Propaganda, Power, Scandal
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham McBeath
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Propaganda, Power, Scandal (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to explore propaganda, scandal and gossip nationally and internationally, as intensive forms of circulating information which create and destroy reputations, political credibility, and power via a wide range of media platforms and techniques upon which most of politics now stands, not least in fragmenting or divided societies.
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IRD3050 – The Politics of the Dispossessed
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Suzanne McDonald-Walker
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - The Politics Of The Dispossessed, Coursework: 100% STDFF - The Politics Of The Dispossessed (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
Designated for: Designated for: BA International Relations & Politics;
Description: Through its focus on the trans-national global order, International Relations often concentrates on the voices of the powerful, whether governments or major institutions. This module seeks to redress this balance by exploring the voices which been subsumed by history and shall reveal both the essentially contested nature of international relations and the processes through which the current seeming fixity of relations and arrangements came into being.
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IRD3066 – Global Ethics and Identities
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham McBeath
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Global Ethics And Identities, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Global Ethics And Identities (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to engage with ethical questions primarily via debate and discussion in a time of ethical contestations drawing from classical and contemporary forms of ethical reasoning, the module sessions put into question the commonplace justifications we use to answer some of the most contentious issues surrounding us today.
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IRD3067 – Politics and Culture
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham McBeath
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Politics And Culture (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Politics And Culture, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The module will draw upon theoretical explanations in order to evaluate how culture is critically focused around aesthetics, ideology and power. It will explore ways in which images, music, text are `assembled' and made public to put into question or to reinforce established systems of value and socio-political order.
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IRD3068 – Contemporary Russian Foreign Relations
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: David Waller
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Contemporary Russian Foreign Relations (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Contemporary Russian Foreign Relations, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to develop an understanding of how Russia has re-asserted its geo-political power in the post-Soviet era in terms of its relations with its neighbours and former enemies. Students consider how the Russian political system and political culture have affected the conduct of foreign policy.
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IRD3069 – Social Movements
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Graham McBeath
Credit Value: 10
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 2
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Social Movements (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Social Movements, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The purpose of this module is to analyse the power of social and cultural movements since the 1960s. Students survey the range of radical as well as reactionary groups and organisations which have aimed to disrupt the status quo in pursuit of alternative political agenda at national and international levels.
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IRD3070 – Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Eddie Tembo
Credit Value: 20
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: Semester 1
Pre-requisites: None
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STD - Terrorism And Counter-Terrorism, Coursework: 100% STDFF - Terrorism And Counter-Terrorism (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: In this module students will explore the meaning of terrorism, assess the motivations and actions of terrorist organisations and analyse counter-terrorism approaches. By the end of this module students will have gained an understanding of different types of terrorism including left-wing, right-wing and religious terrorism.
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IRD4022 – International Relations and Politics Dissertation
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Eddie Tembo
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: IRD2097 (18/19 AY) IRD2097 and IRD2101 (19/20 AY)
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - International Relations And Politics Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100%
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Description: The dissertation provides students with the opportunity to study a particular area of International Relations and Politics in detail. The dissertation will be produced under the guidance of an individual tutor/supervisor, with the aim of encouraging students to produce an analytical and well-organised piece of research.
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IRD4027 – Politics and International Relations Dissertation
Field: ECONOMICS, INT RELATIONS AND DEV
Co-ordinator: Suzanne McDonald-Walker
Credit Value: 40
Level: 6
Timetable Slot: All Year
Pre-requisites: IRD2097
Co-requisites: None
Assessment: STDFF - Politics And International Relations Dissertation (4 Year Programme), Coursework: 100% STD - Politics And International Relations Dissertation, Coursework: 100%
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Description: The dissertation provides students with the opportunity to study a particular area of Politics and International Relations in detail. The dissertation will be produced under the guidance of an individual tutor/supervisor, with the aim of encouraging students to produce an analytical and well-organised piece of research.