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LSE100 is an innovative new course set up as part of a major series of initiatives to improve teaching at LSE. It introduces first year undergraduates to the fundamentals of thinking like a social scientist, by exploring some of the great intellectual debates of our time from different perspectives. In this film, Director of LSE100, Dr Jonathan Leape, sets out the thinking behind the course. "No issue can be understood through a single lens," he says. "We need to be able to adopt different perspectives to understand fully what is involved in a particular issue". Focussing on questions such as "How should we manage climate change?" and "Why are great events so difficult to predict?" LSE100 offers students the chance to explore different approaches to evidence, explanation and theory used in the different social sciences taught at LSE - from anthropology to economics, from statistics to international relations. Leading academics at LSE, all of whom teach on the course, comment on its int

LSE is known for having one of the most active student bodies in the world and LSE is working to create a world class building that will feature the best facilities for students and will enhance the student experience. In this short film, LSE students Sophie Giscard D'estaing and Andrew Rajanathan set out to discover why the School is building a new students' centre and what the building will look like. 'It's a shame to lose a very old building' comments Andrew after a tour of the St Philips building, which will be demolished to make way for the new centre, 'but it's not very practical right now is it? The corridors are really small and it's quite dark and dingy. I can see now why they want to change it.' The architects working to create a far more open and engaging building are Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey. But the new build is about more than designing a more accessible building. 'What we always hear from our societies is that they need bigger and better facilities to expand, to

Vox pop interviews with people who are occupants or visitors of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, by Rod McAllister and William Pine, commissioned by LSE Estates Division.

2015 marks the centenary of the birth of Arthur Lewis, LSE’s first black academic and the first black person to win a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1979. LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly discusses Lewis’s achievements at the School, the academics who influenced him the most and how the Second World War boosted his career.

The School's public face for much of its 120 year history, Houghton Street is changing. The Centre Buildings Redevelopment project began in Spring 2015 and the East Building, Clare Market, St Clement's and the Anchorage will all be demolished to make way for the new building. Here LSE Archivist Sue Donnelly shares the secrets of the East Building, touring the site just before its closure and demolition. See also - LSE History blog - Tales from Houghton Street: an LSE oral history - SoundCloud - /tales-from-houghton-street-an-lse-oral-his... LSE Website - Credits: Music - 29 Ghosts IV by Nine Inch Nails

A film about the LSE Centre Buildings Redevelopment, the largest ever building project LSE has commissioned in its 120 year history. Contributors - Allister Architecture: Rod McAllister, William Pine LSE: Julian Robinson RSHP: Tracy Meller, Lord Rogers, Ivan Harbour Bensound.com Further information about the Centre Buildings Redevelopment -

A new PhD Academy opened at LSE provides doctoral students with a specially designed space that includes a common room, a teaching room and central services all in one location for the first time in the School’s 120-year history. For further information please visit:

Hear from Professor Paul Kelly, Pro-Director (Education), as he describes all of the initiatives, programmes and new facilities LSE is launching for its students over the next few years.

LSE was founded with the aim of understanding the causes of things and for the betterment of society. This ideal is still at the heart of LSE and we know whatever new challenges 2017 brings, our students will be prepared for bright futures in world-changing roles.

In the centenary year of the first votes for women in the UK, LSE's Towers buildings on Clement's Inn are being renamed after three leading campaigners from the women's suffrage movement. Find out more with LSE Director Minouche Shafik. Further information about the women's suffrage movement at LSE: