Economics and Politics-BA

In the first year, in addition to the three economics compulsory modules, you take a further two compulsory modules entitled Ideas and Ideologies, and Democratic Political Systems and choose one further optional module from a selection covering International Security and International Organisation, Global Regions in International Relations, and Theory and History in International Relations.

In the second year, you study two compulsory modules in Macroeconomics and Microeconomics plus one module chosen from a selection that includes:

• Behavioural and Experimental Economics
• Business Competition
• Corporate Finance
• Economic Data Analysis
• Economics of Social Policy
• European Economics
• Intermediate Methods for Economics and Finance.

In addition three modules must be chosen from the range of second-year Politics modules, which currently includes:

• Democracy and Democratic Theory
• Foundations of Western Political Thought
• The Politics of Pacific Asia
• Middle East in the International System
• International Relations Theory
• International Organisations
• Global Political Economy.
• Islam, State and Government
• Class, Nation and British Politics

In the third year, you study a compulsory double Dissertation module that can be in either economics or politics. In addition you choose four optional modules from a selection that currently includes:

• Advanced Microeconomics
• Advanced Macroeconomics
• Applied Econometrics
• Development Economics
• Environmental Economics and Policy
• Financial Theory and Corporate Policy
• History of Economic Thought
• Industrial Organisation
• International Economics
• Labour Economics
• Monetary Economics
• Public Economics
• Security Investment Analysis
• China in Global Political Economy
• The American Presidency
• The Politics of the Middle East’s Oil Monarchies
• British Political Thought since
• The Ethics of Violence in International Relations
• Islam and Politics in the Modern World
• Theories of Liberty
• The Political Economy of the European Union
• Elections and British Politics
• Israel: Politics and Society
• Power and Political Space in Jewish Politics

Note that in the second and third years it is possible for you to take a minimum of five and a maximum of seven modules in each subject.

Students can apply for a one-year study placement in one of the following institutions: the University of California and Boston College in the USA, British Columbia in Canada, the University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore. In some cases courses are offered in English, while in others teaching is in the local language. We have an ERASMUS/Year Abroad Co-ordinator who will help you prepare for your year abroad, and who will maintain contact with you while you are away.