The aim of this module is to give students an opportunity to explore grand challenges facing our global society and to propose imaginative solutions to specific challenges in one or more country.

Students will critically reflect on the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals and think about how Loughborough University's Creating Better Futures. Together Strategy might contribute to them.

Students will engage with ideas and approaches to possible solutions from their own programme and gain diverse insights from Loughborough University London's interdisciplinary ecosystem. This will involve solution-oriented thinking and a balance between criticality and possibility, leading to a deep understanding of grand challenges and imagining creative responses to them.

The aims of this module are to: 

• Equip students with a knowledge of the key principles and institutions of international law.
• Enable students to critically appraise the role and potential role played by international law in the context of a series of contemporary global issues.
• Enable students to appreciate how different theoretical approaches to international law frame how current issues and problems are, and might be, understood and addressed.

The aims of this module are to:

• Understand the core concepts and principles related to finance, including financial markets, instruments and practices.
• Familiarise with the roles of different financial institutions and their products.
• Equip students with the fundamental knowledge in corporate finance and investments.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the evolution and change in diplomatic practice in the contemporary digitised world, through a range of conceptual tools, cases and issue areas. The main objectives are:

• To equip students with theoretical approaches, concepts and debates enabling the critical interrogation of diplomacy in the contemporary digitised world through theoretical and empirical exploration of the relationship of diplomacy to the following key organising categories: sovereignty, representation, communication, power, knowledge production, gender, and sustainability. In so doing, it aims to uncover the role of both state and non-state actors in diplomacy in the contemporary digitised world, thus adopting an enlarged approach to diplomacy, entailing diplomacies in the plural--of multiple actors, in multiple issue areas, and of multiple modalities.
• To showcase skills and various ways of being a diplomat in the contemporary digital world, through introducing and unpacking the real-life applications of such skills and ways, integrating practitioner contributions where possible; as well as through examining various and often overlooked pathways of practicing diplomacy (such as public diplomacy, paradiplomacy, protodiplomacy, NGO and advocacy diplomacy).

This module aims to equip students with in-depth knowledge of world trade law and regulation; the contribution it makes to the evolution of international economic law; and the challenges it faces in light of competing theories of development, economic and social globalisation, and inter-state and inter-regional economic conflicts.

The aim of this module is to understand the main features, concepts and practices of international negotiations. It provides an overview of the most important elements of negotiation and offers an application to a number of case studies.

The aim of this module is to critically examine and understand key theories and debates associated with the field of international development. The module aims to deconstruct the epistemological underpinnings informing dominant theories of development and examine how they translate into the practice of international and sustainable development as seen amongst key stakeholders such as UN agencies, national governments, companies, civil society organisations and social movements.

This module examines the growing critique of development and explores the diversity of thought reflected in the epistemologies of the South. By further assessing how colonial history, patriarchy and capitalism have influenced discourses and practices of development this module seeks to complexify and nuance our understandings of theories of development and actors of change.

The aim of this module is to provide students with a wider understanding of the role the international regulation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays in the socio-economic well-being of countries. It will develop students' understanding of the relationship between states' right to regulate in the public interest and foreign investment protection; and of the legal, practical and theoretical implications of FDI regulation. It will enable students to place FDI regulation within economic, social, and political contexts and to recognise the different perspectives on FDI regulation articulated by states, investors, civil society actors and theorists.

This module aims to:

• Equip students with a comprehensive critical overview of the principles, policy debates and theoretical issues underlying tax law.
• Combine a lawyerly perspective on taxation with interdisciplinary insights from political economy and fiscal sociology.
• Provide students with a strong foundation on which to build specialist tax expertise on a variety of tax topics in a practitioner, academic, or other expert role.
• Enable students to recognise and critically appraise the role played by tax law in the economic life of a world in crisis.

The aims of this module are to equip students with the necessary academic skills to understand the challenges firms face in different developing countries and assessing different ways in which firms can overcome these challenges.

The aims of this module are to equip students with a working knowledge of the accounting and commercial skills required both to monitor and evaluate company performance, and to understand the financial consequences of business decisions, particularly for relatively small and young firms; be able to critically assess alternatives.

The aim of this module is to understand the role that sport plays in political and diplomatic issues at a national and international level.

Using contemporary examples from developed, transitioning, developing, and fuel-based economies, the module will explore how sport can be used to positive (e.g., facilitating socio-economic plans) or negative (e.g., whitewashing human rights violations) ends. In doing so, the module aims to promote a critical, evidence-based understanding of the interplay between sport, politics, and diplomacy.