BA Economics and History
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (specific subject requirements) BTEC: We will consider this qualification in combination with other qualifications. Please contact the Admissions Office for more information. IB: 35 points overall with 17 at Higher Level and 5 in Mathematics at Standard Level (or 4 in Mathematics at Higher Level)
About this course
BA in Economics and History, a combined degree centred on the intersection of economic theory and historical development across global contexts. Core topics include Statistics and Research Methods. The course culminates in both a History Long Essay and an Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project. The first year establishes foundational knowledge through Exploring History, Diverse Histories of Britain, Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B, and Economic Theory and Applications. Year two advances analytical capacities through Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, History in Practice, and The International Economic Environment. The final year focuses on specialised inquiry and independent research via History Long Essay, Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project, Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952, and Economics of Development.
Modules
- Exploring History
- Diverse Histories of Britain
- Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B
- Economics and Global History
- Economic Theory and Applications
- The Medieval World in Ten Objects
- Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs
- Global Empires
- Global Decolonization
- The Making of the Twentieth Century
- Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A
- Darwin, Germs and the Bomb
- Economic Perspectives and Controversies
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- History in Practice
- Australia and the World
- The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603
- Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715
- Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700
- Britain and the Industrial Revolution
- Imperial Germany 1871-1918
- 20th Century Britain: Progress and Uncertainty 1945-1990
- Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89
- India 1857-1947
- Mathematics for Business and Economics 2
- The International Economic Environment
- International Economics
- Business Economics
- Statistics and Econometrics
- Labour Economics
- How to be a Successful Policy Economist
- Ethics and Economics
- Evolution of Economic Ideas
- Economic Research Methods
- History Long Essay
- Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project
- Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952
- The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
- Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998
- The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968
- The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945
- The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007
- Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800
- White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power
- Georgians at War
- The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire
- The Korean War
- Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State
- In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day
- 'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World
- Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I
- Economics of Development