Study Abroad

Programme

Autumn 2023

Term dates

Full-time orientation – 27/28 September 2023

Teaching begins – 2 October 2023
End of semester – 20 December 2023

The following are the modules/courses that we expect to run in Autumn 2023 and are
subject to change.

Bayes Business School

Accounting and Finance
Module/Course Notes/Pre-requisite
AF1101 Introductory Financial Accounting
AF2100 Assurance Pre-requisite: introduction to financial and
management accounting
AF2101 Intermediate Financial Accounting Pre-requisite: introduction to financial
accounting
AF2102 Management Accounting Pre-requisite: financial accounting and
introduction tomanagement accounting
AF2204 Corporate Law Pre-requisite: business law

Actuarial Science
AS1101 Probability and Statistics 1
AS2110 Probability and Statistics 2
AS2111 Stochastic Models
AS3015 Extreme Event Statistics
AS3303 General Insurance
AS3304 Pensions and Other Benefits
Yearlong students only
Yearlong students only.
Pre-requisite: university level study of probability
and statistics
Pre-requisite: university level study of probability
and statistics
Pre-requisite: intermediate university study of
probability and statistics
Business and Management
BM1103 Fundamentals of Marketing
BM1200 Quantitative Methods and Analytics
BM2100 Technology and Innovation
Management
BM2101 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
BM2102 Introduction to Finance
BM2103 Human Resource Management
BM3100 Research Methods and Data
Analysis
BS3100 Strategy for Business
BM3101 Business in Society
MS3102 Virtual Organisations
BM3103 New Venture Creation
BM3104 International Business Strategy
BS3105 New Product Development Pre-requisite: an introduction or principles of
marketing
BM3200 Advanced Management Practice Pre-requisite: previous study of management
BM3206 Creativity and Innovation

Finance
FR1101 Finance and Investment
IF1105 Microeconomics
FR1202 Mathematics for Finance
FR2202 Financial Econometrics
FR2211 Derivatives Trading and Hedging
FR3100 Fixed Income Portfolio Management
FR3102 Asset-Liability Management
IF3108 Corporate Finance Pre-requisite: introduction/principles of finance
course
IF3207 Corporate Restructuring Pre-requisite: introduction/principles of finance
course
School of Communication and Creativity
English and Journalism
EN2003 Creative Writing Workshop
EN2006 Literary London Workshop
EN2010 Shakespeare
EN2014 Writing Women Workshop
EN2015 Concerning Futures
EN3005 Literary Journalism
EN3006 Print and Digital Innovation
EN3008 Writing the Global City
EN3012 Literatures of Conflict
JO2204 Data Journalism
JO2350 Visual Journalism
JO3122 Arts and Culture Journalism
JO3409 Conflict Reporting

School of Health and Psychological Sciences

Psychology

PS1004 History and Theory of Psychology

PS1005 Biological Approaches to Mind and
Behaviour
PS2002 Cognitive Psychology Pre-requisite: introduction to cognitive
psychology
PS2004 Biological Psychology Pre-requisite: introduction to biological
psychology
PS2008 Introduction to Clinical Psychology
PS3003 Decision Making and Behavioural
Economics
PS3007 Approaches to Autism Pre-requisite: development psychology
PS3012 Health Psychology and Behavioural
Change
School of Policy and Global Affairs
Economics
EC1003 Topics in Applied Microeconomics Taken with EC1008 or taken an introduction to
microeconomics previously
EC1008 Introduction to Microeconomics
EC1012 Introduction to Law
EC2013 Intermediate Microeconomics Pre-requisite: introduction to microeconomics
EC2015 Intermediate Macroeconomics Pre-requisite: introduction to macroeconomics
EC2017 Introductory Econometrics
EC2019 Global Financial Markets
EC2022 History of Economic Thought
EC2023 Digital Economy and Global Markets
EC2028 Money and Banking
EC3011 Introduction to Financial Derivatives
EC3012 International Finance
EC3017 Applied Econometrics
EC3019 Labour Economics
EC3022 Industrial Organisation
EC3100 Financial Management

International Politics and History

HI1002 Conflict, Conquest and Cultural
Encounter in World History
IP1014 Myths and Mysteries in World
Politics
IP1017 The Making of the Modern World
Economy
IP1018 Politics and Power in World History
IP1021 Principle of Economics: Markets and
Prices
IP1032 Introduction to Political Theory
HI2006 The American Century: The US in the
20th Century
IP2020 Advanced Theories of Global Politics
IP2024 Security Studies - Conceptual
Approaches
IP2026 Foreign Policy Analysis
IP2028 Religion and Politics in the Age of
Global Change
IP2031 Comparative Political Economy
IP2040 Political Risk Analysis
IP2042 Political Psychology
IP2054 The Global Political Economy of
Development
IP3018 Global Governance
IP3025 Global Ethics: Power and Principle in
World Politics
IP3027 The Theory and Practice of Conflict
and Peace
IP3041 The Multinational Corporation
IP3044 China and the World

Sociology, Criminology and Media Studies

SG1005 Media History and Society
SG1016 Sociology in Action
SG1019 Criminology
SG1021 Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
SG1030 Culture and Society
SG2021 Understanding Social Change
SG2028 Contemporary Social Theory
SG2042 Gender, Crime and Justice Pre-requisite: introduction to criminology
SG2043 Key Issues in Criminology Pre-requisite: introduction to criminology
SG2051 News and Society
Cultural Studies

LA2017 Performing Arts in London

LA2018 Historic London
LA2277 European Business Culture
MU2999 Popular Music in Britain

All study abroad students can take a language either for credit or for proficiency. Students
will take a diagnostic test at the start of the semester to be allocated the correct level.

Spanish – Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced

French – Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced
German – Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced

Module/Course descriptions
Links to course descriptions are for the academic year 2022/23 and are subject to change.
City is unable to guarantee the running of any course, or the availability of places. If a course
description is not available, please contact the Study Abroad Office for the most up-to-date
version.

General pre-requisites
Applicants for Level 2000 courses should have a background in the subject area, for example
one or two successfully passed university level courses in the subject area or with
transferable skills/knowledge. Applicants for Level 3000 courses should be a major in that
subject or have extensive knowledge of the subject area.

Credit
All courses on the Study Abroad Programme are worth 15 UK credits/7.5 ECTS, and most US
universities award 4 US credits. A full load at City is 60 credits.

Results and transcript

Students studying in Autumn 23 would expect to receive their results and official transcript
in mid-February 2024