BA Economics and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: A*AA including Mathematics and a social sciences or humanities subject. IB: 37 with 766 in higher level subjects, including Mathematics and a social science or humanities subject. If you are not taking Mathematics at higher level, we can accept standard level Mathematics at grade 7. We do not accept 'Mathematical Studies' at standard level to meet this requirement.
About this course
BA (Hons) Economics and Politics is an undergraduate degree placing the course within economics, politics and international relations. Core topics include Statistics, Mathematical Modelling, Research Methods, Policy Analysis and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course explores the links between the two disciplines, and students may apply to add a placement year or a year abroad, increasing the degree from three years to four. The first year provides foundations in both disciplines, with compulsory modules covering micro- and macroeconomic theory, economic methodology and supply and demand, mathematical and statistical tools such as matrix algebra, calculus, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, and world trade and the international financial system through Global Economic History; optional first-year choices have included Researching Politics and International Relations, Introduction to Political Theory, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Introduction to International Relations and Perspectives of Political Economy. In the second year students choose either both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics or the combined Economic Theory module, and must also choose between Econometrics and a Research Project. Year-two optional modules have included Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Intermediate Economics Methods, Microeconomic Applications and Policy, Macroeconomic Applications and Policy, Politics and International Relations of East Asia, Foundations of Western Political Thought, Sovereignty, State and Empire, Global Political Economy, Debates in Political Theory, and Class and Nation in British Politics. The final year centres on a compulsory Dissertation in either Economics or Politics, examining a chosen area in detail and developing independent research planning and management. Final-year economics options have included Applied Econometrics, History of Economic Thought, International Economics, Labour Economics, Monetary Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy, Development Economics, Advanced Microeconomic Theory, Advanced Macroeconomic Theory, and Game Theory and Applications, while politics and international relations options have included Elections and British Politics, Democracy and Discontent in the European Union, Social Justice and Marginalised Groups, The Politics of Inequality, Poverty or Prosperity?, The Political Economy of Development, Climate, Nature and the Global Economy, Decolonising International Society, Crises, Governance, and Struggle: Finance and the World Economy, Intelligence, The State and International Security, Environmental Politics, and Democracy and its Critics.
Modules
- Principles of Economics
- Economic Methods
- Global Economic History
- Example optional modules
- You can choose EITHER:
- BOTH Macroeconomics
- AND Microeconomics
- OR Economic Theory
- Choose one of the following two modules:
- EITHER Econometrics (20 credits):
- OR Research Project (20 credits):
- Example optional modules
- Dissertation
- Example optional modules