BA Economics and Politics
Entry requirements
A level: AAA (specific subject requirements) BTEC: DDD. IB: 35 overall (6,6,5 higher).
About this course
BA in Economics and Politics, an economics and politics degree centred on the institutions, principles and theories of economics, alongside modern political systems. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods. Students complete independent research through a POLIS Final Year Project and an Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project. The first year covers foundational concepts through Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A, Economic Theory and Applications, and Comparative Politics. The second year progresses to Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Approaches to Analysis. The third year builds advanced knowledge with options spanning topics such as Behavioural Economics, Advanced Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, and Advanced Statistical Analysis.
Modules
- Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A
- Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B
- Economic Theory and Applications
- The Politics of Global Challenges: Becoming an Independent Researcher
- Comparative Politics
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Approaches to Analysis
- Analysing Data in Politics, International Development and International Relations
- The Political Economy of North-South Relations
- Theories of International Relations
- Politics of Contemporary China
- State and Politics in Africa
- United States Politics
- Politics and Policy in the EU
- Global Security Challenges
- Planet Politics
- Latin America
- The Labour Party since 1945
- Ethics and Economics
- Macroeconomic Policy and Performance
- Economic Research Methods
- Mathematics for Economics and Business 2
- Labour Economics
- Statistics and Econometrics
- POLIS Final Year Project
- Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project
- The Far Right in Europe and Beyond
- Nuclear Weapons and Global Politics
- Gender, Violence and Security in Global Politics
- Advanced Statistical Analysis
- British Foreign Policy
- Global Political Economy
- Terrorism
- Video Games
- The End of British Politics?
- Europe in the World
- American Foreign Policy
- Violence and Reconciliation in Africa
- Rethinking Resistance
- The Global Politics of Climate Change
- Economics of Development
- Environmental Economics
- Applied Econometrics
- Behavioural Economics
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- International Economics: Integration and Governance
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Modern Theories of Money and Monetary Policy