Compulsory

Corporate Finance for Non-Specialists (15 credits)

The aims of this module are:

  • Introduce core issues in corporate finance suitable for a non-specialist audience.
  • Provide an understanding of how corporate finance relates to, and integrates with, other corporate managerial activities.
  • Develop relevant transferable and practical skills.

The Global Financial System under Climate Change (15 credits)

The central aims of this module are to:

  • develop a diversity of perspectives to examine the contemporary financial system; and
  • critically consider the relations between the global financial system and climate change.

Research Design and Practice (15 credits)

The aims of this module are to consolidate students' experiences of undertaking research in both the social science and humanities traditions and to equip them with the appropriate intellectual and practical methodological, writing and reflexive skills to successfully undertake an independent and original piece of critical research on an issue of relevance to their programme.

Governing Crises (15 credits)

The module will enable students to develop a critical understanding of the processes and mechanisms available to governments to respond and manage crisis at different levels. The module will introduce students to the key theories, concepts and applications of the emerging field of crisis management. It has been designed to foster students' capacity to critically analyse and apply this knowledge to a diverse range empirical cases and sites.

Dissertation in International Financial and Political Relations (60 credits)

The principal aim of this module is to produce an original critical piece of research specific to the programme on which a student is registered, using appropriate theoretical material, research methodologies and skills in data analysis, interpretation and writing-up.