BA Modern History with Economics
Entry requirements
A level: AAA including History
About this course
BA in Economics and History, focusing on the intersection of economic systems and historical developments over time. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The curriculum covers modules ranging from microeconomics and macroeconomics to specialized historical studies.
Modules
- Microeconomics 1
- Macroeconomics 1
- History in Practice
- Capitalism in Historical Perspective: 1700-1913
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Fundamentals of Finance
- Business Economics
- Fundamentals of Financial Reporting B
- Fundamentals of Management Accounting
- An Introduction to Development Studies
- Introductory Mathematics
- Advanced Mathematics
- Advanced Statistics
- Modern China: from the Opium Wars to the Olympic Games
- Histories of the Islamic World
- Imperial Nation: Empire and the Making of Modern Britain, 1783-1902
- An Introduction to the Medieval World
- Forging a New World: Europe c.1450-1750
- States, Nations and Empires. Europe, c.1750-1914
- ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: Black and South Asian British Histories
- Histories of Information
- Bodies in History: An introduction to the History of Medicine
- The History and Sociopolitics of Palestine/Israel (1882-1967)
- History and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
- Politics of the Global Economy
- Introduction to Political Theory
- The Making of Modern Russia: 1552-1917
- Humanities in Public: The Politics and Value(s) of Knowledge
- Power and Culture: Inequality in Everyday Life
- Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective
- Introduction to Business Anthropology: Consumers, Companies and Culture
- Inequalities in Contemporary British Society
- Introductory Statistics for Economists
- Independent Research Project
- From Jamestown to James Brown: African-American History and Culture
- The American Civil War
- Fundamentals of Finance
- Business Economics
- Fundamentals of Financial Reporting B
- Introduction to Corporate Finance and Financial Instruments
- Marketing
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- Firms and Management in Comparative Perspective
- Organisations and Employment
- The Conquering Hero: The Life, Times and Legacy of Alexander The Great
- The Roman Empire 31BC - AD313 Rome's Golden Age
- Politics and Society in Classical Greece
- Roman Women in 22 Objects
- Managerial Economics I
- Advanced Mathematics
- Advanced Statistics
- Environmental Economics
- Econometrics
- Introduction to Mathematical Economics
- Economic History
- Quantitative Methods
- Microeconomics 2
- Macroeconomics 2
- Development Economics: Growth, Capital Accumulation and Structural Change
- Development Economics: Understanding The Causes of Underdevelopment
- Economics for Public Policy
- History of Economic Thought
- Energy Economics and Policy
- Economic Geography: Understanding the economy. creating economic spaces
- Weimar Culture? Art, Film and Politics in Germany, 1918-33
- Making of the Modern Mind: European Intellectual History in a Global Context
- Winds of Change: Politics, Society and Culture in Britain, 1899 -1990
- Late Imperial China: the Great Wall and Beyond
- The Cultural History of Modern War
- Colonial Encounters: Race, Violence, and the Making of the Modern World
- The Stuff of History: Objects Across Borders, 1500-1800
- Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of History
- Histories of the Islamic World
- A Transnational History of Europe in the Short Twentieth Century, c.1917-1991
- Revolutionary Cities: The Urban World of the Middle Ages
- From Cholera to COVID-19: A Global History of Epidemics
- In Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science Fiction in Literature and Film.
- Animals in History: An Introduction to human-animal relationships and why they matter
- Aesthetics and Politics of Italian Fascism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Themes in the Histories of Arab and Jewish Nationalisms
- The Politics of Globalisation
- The Politics of Development
- Religion, Culture and Gender
- 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia
- The Revolutions of 1989 and their Aftermaths: Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
- Between East and West: Culture, Empire and Nation in Russia
- Political and Economic Anthropology
- Sustainability, Consumption & Global Responsibilities
- History of Latin America
- Entrepreneur: Innovator and Risk-Taker
- History Dissertation
- Slavery and the Old South
- Management of Knowledge and Innovation
- Marketing
- Investment Economics and Innovation
- Microeconomics 3
- Microeconomics 4
- Macroeconomics 3
- Macroeconomics 4
- Topics in Inequality & Poverty
- The Chinese Economy
- Mathematical Economics I
- Micro Econometrics
- Econometrics
- Topics in Development Economics
- Topics in Economic History
- Money, Banking & Financial Markets
- Managerial Economics II
- Advanced Econometrics
- Climate Change Economics and Policy
- Behavioural Economics
- International Trade and Policy
- Health Economics
- Topics in Labour Economics
- Culture and Society in Germany 1871-1918
- 'A Nation In The Making': India, 1800-1947
- Empire, Gender and British Heroes, c.1885 - 1985
- Wealth and Welfare: Reconceptualising British Economy and Society between 1832 and 1942
- China and the West: the Age of Empire and Beyond
- Heroes and Holy Men: The Irish Sea World in the Viking Age, c. 780-1100
- The Holocaust: History, Historiography, Memory
- The Comparative and Transnational History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
- John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1960s
- Defining the Deviant: Crime and British Society, 1888-2000
- The Aftermath of War in France, Britain and Germany: Violence and Reconstruction after WW1 and WW2
- Ceaseless Revolution: France, 1781-1871
- The Black Freedom Movement, 1955-1975
- Material Encounters in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800
- 'Brains and Numbers': Intellectual Life in Victorian Britain
- Pirates: The Sea, The Empire and The Other
- Becoming Christian in The Early Middle Ages
- The Normans and the Kingdom of Sicily in the Mediterranean World (1000-1200)
- Spatial History: Mapping the Past
- From New Left to New Times: Socialist Ideas in Post-War Britain
- Black Britain: Power, Neighbourhoods and the Everyday, 1948-1990
- Africa and Development: A Political History of the Social Sciences
- Cultural Entanglements: Life and Death in Colonial America
- The Anglo-American Connection & National Identity in the long C19: Race, Reform & National Identity
- Contesting Hitler's Empire:Resistance,Collaboration,and Mass Violence in Occupied Europe (1939–1945)
- Global China in the Second World War
- Democracy and Authoritarianism in Latin America’s Twentieth Century
- Islam in China
- People and Power in the Digital Age
- Madness and Society
- Fossils: Global Histories of Natural Heritage, Science and Empire
- The Nuclear Age: Global Nuclear Threats from Hiroshima to Today
- From Sherlock Holmes to CSI: a History of Forensic Science and Medicine
- Climate Change & Society
- Tools and Techniques for Enterprise
- Tools & Techniques for Enterprise
- Enterprise Feasibility
- Global Capitalism, Crisis and Revolt
- Culture, Media and Politics in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia
- History of the Spanish Atlantic World: Empire, Trade, War