BA Politics and Economics
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in Economics and Politics and International Relations. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Policy Analysis. Studies are split 50:50 between politics and economics, with each informing the other. A strong mathematical component underpins the quantitative demands of the discipline, and an optional work placement is available.
Modules
- Analysing Economic Data
- Mathematics for Economics
- Economic Analysis
- Studying Political Economy: Ideas, Theories and Skills
- UK Politics: Westminster and Beyond
- Key Concepts in International Politics
- Order and Disorder: The Shaping of the 21st Century
- Power and Inequality: How to Study Global Politics ... and Change the World
- Politics of Happiness
- State, People and Politics: Comparative Politics in a Globalised World
- Microeconomic Analysis
- Macroeconomic Analysis
- Econometric Analysis
- Politics of the Middle East
- Becoming a Political Researcher
- Government and Politics of the USA
- The Politics and Policy of the European Union
- Power and Poverty in the Global Economy
- A Global History of Political Thought
- International Politics from ‘elsewhere’
- Political Violence and the Modern State
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: Social Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy
- Politics Work Placement
- Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies
- Critical Security Studies
- Democracy or Autocracy? What are the differences and how do we analyse them
- Sex, Gender and Power
- The Politics of Race
- International Organizations and Diplomacy
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods
- Monetary Economics
- Public Economics
- Financial Economics
- Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
- Health Economics
- Industrial Economics and Policy
- Game Theory
- Development Economics
- Happiness Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Final Year Dissertation
- Final Year Project: Semester 1
- Final Year Project: Semester 2
- Ethics, Justice and Global Futures
- Political Leadership in Britain
- Who and why votes for far right? Using data for political analysis
- The Politics of Protest in the Middle East
- Student Exchange : Semester 1
- Student Exchange (Dissertation students)
- Political Parties and Elections in the UK
- Community-based Research in Politics
- Politics of Immigration
- Politics of Citizenship
- Apartheid regimes - from the local to the global
- Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Middle East
- Public Policy: Theories, Cases, Skills
- Politics as a Way of Life
- Public Policy Placement
- Power and Policy: Understanding Impact