BA History and Economics
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including History or a humanities-based essay subject. Humanities-based essay subjects include: Classical Civilisation, English Language, English Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies. IB: 30 points overall including 5 in History or a humanities-based essay subject at higher level.
About this course
BA in Economics and History, combining the study of past societies with economic analysis. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Financial Analysis, and Historical Research. The first year covers core economics alongside history modules on political culture and revolution. Students can undertake short placements in museums and heritage organisations, take a paid placement year in economics, or study abroad for a semester.
Modules
- Perspectives in History
- Making History and You: Practices and Possibilities
- Principles of Economics 1
- Principles of Economics 2
- Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis
- After Malthus: Sex, Society, Sustainability and the Politics of Population in the Long Nineteenth Century
- US Environmental Diplomacy from Nixon to Obama
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Going Public: Presenting the Past, Planning the Future
- Preparing for your Dissertation
- People, Power and Revolution: Political Culture in Seventeenth-century England
- Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154–1330
- ‘The brightest jewel in the British crown’: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
- Europe in the Twentieth Century
- Revolutionary Cities
- American Century: United States History since 1898
- Black Britain: Race and Migration in Post-war Britain
- Women and Medieval History
- The Colonial Experience: Africa Since 1879
- Hollywood Histories: Film and Past
- Rebel Girls: The Influence of Radical Women 1792-1919
- Reform and Revolt in the Modern Middle East: Egypt from Ataturk to the ‘Arab Spring’
- Encountering the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
- Noise Annoys: British Youth Culture, Popular Music and Social Change, 1950s-90s
- 'Apocalittici e integrati': Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
- Medieval Medicine
- Being British, Representations of the People: Democracy and Society in Britain 1838-1928
- Business Economics
- Games and Economic Behaviour
- Economics of Social Policy
- Economic History
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules
- Dissertation in History
- Dissertation in Economics
- Utopia: The Quest for a Perfect World
- Poor Law to Hostile Environment: Repatriation, Deportation and Exclusion from Britain, 1800-2016
- The American Civil War
- Public Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Behavioural Economics
- Industrial Organisation
- Financial Economics
- International Economics
- Development Economics
- Money and Banking
- Reasoning and Choice: Game Theory for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- Religion and Politics in the Medieval West, 1050-1492
- Gender in Africa: From Eighteenth Century ‘Amazons’ to Twentieth Century Child Soldiers
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Empire, Slavery, and Society, 1550-1750
- Optional Language or University Wide Modules