What do the Departmental Tutor and Undergraduate Tutor do?
The Departmental Tutor and Undergraduate Tutor work together in co-ordinating undergraduate teaching and tutorial arrangements in the Economics Department. (See the Economics Undergraduate Handbook for more information on the undergraduate programme.) They support and supplement the Personal Tutors, who provide your main contact with the Department. Student queries should, in the first instance, be directed to the Undergraduate Tutor, rather than the Departmental Tutor. • The Undergraduate Tutor is Dr Judith Shapiro (S687, extension 7127, email: Econ-tutor@lse.ac.uk). The Undergraduate Tutor is responsible for considering requests to change degrees, change courses and change the times of classes and for signing the appropriate forms. She is also available, in addition to your personal tutor, to provide advice on more difficult academic and personal issues, to provide additional letters of reference and to help direct you to relevant resources elsewhere in the LSE. • The Departmental Tu