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MSc in ISE

Please note that the MSc in ISE is not running in 2013-14. (to see our programmes on offer for 2013-14 please visit our Prospective Students web pages.)

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Welcome to the MSc in ISE course, in the School of Economics & Finance at St Andrews. The course grew out of two previously successful programmes, the MLitt in Management, Economics and Politics (MEP) and the MLitt in Management, Economics and International Relations (MEIR). It aims to bring together good quality students for a year of illuminating studies, with the intention of their going on to successful careers.

There are two types of students on this programme. Some are on the Postgraduate Diploma in ISE course, which runs full-time for two semesters. They are appraised by both continuous assessment during the teaching of modules and by their performance in end of semester examinations in January and May. Others are on the MSc in ISE course which runs full-time for the full academic year. They are appraised by continuous assessment, end of semester examinations and by a dissertation of up to 15,000 words (but not less than 10,000 words) which is returned by the end of August. The dissertation carries a 60 credit weight. A basic requirement is that both Diploma and MSc students must gain a total of 120 credits from taught modules taken. All candidates take three compulsory taught modules in ISE in the first semester. Each module carries a credit weight of 20 credits. They must then study three further optional modules in the second semester, each of 20 credit weight. Both Postgraduate Diploma and MSc candidates are appraised by continuous assessment, and by an exam paper in each module chosen which occurs at the end of the semester in which it is taught. Subject to performance, students may proceed to write the 60 credit Dissertation for the MSc in ISE.

PRELIMINARY READING

It is expected that all students will have studied and mastered a significant body of the preliminary reading, as given below.

Jeffrey Sachs (2008) Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Allen Lane.

Joesph E. Stiglitz (2008) Making Globalization Work, W W Norton.

Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw (1998) The Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy, Simon & Schuster, N.Y.

Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner (2006) Freakonomics, Penguin Books Ltd.

Tim Harford (2006) The Undercover Economist, Little Brown.

And for fun:
John Kay, (2006), The Hare and the Tortoise, an informal guide to business strategy