BA History and Economics LV11

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
Understand the cultures and societies that shaped the past and explore the critical economic issues that influence the world today.
Discover a thousand years of History whilst experiencing all the specialist areas on offer at the University of Reading. The History Department's expertise covers a wide and diverse range of regions – from Europe and Africa to America, South Asia and the Middle East – and periods, with module choices ranging from the Crusades to the 1960s, slavery in America to Tudor monarchy and Cold War Berlin to medieval magic.
In your first year, your core modules will explore people, politics, and revolution - finding out how people struggled for power in past societies - and the culture and concepts those societies developed. We will teach you the skills you need to study and research history through an individual project of your choice. This joint degree enables you to address contemporary issues and trace them back to their historical roots.
In economics, you will study practical issues and explore the relationship between economics and society. This course places less emphasis on mathematical and statistical content, and instead you will focus on the relevance of these techniques to applied problems. You will still learn necessary maths skills in your core modules, but extensive support is available should you need it. Your core modules span a number of topics including business, policy, economic history and even the economics of climate change.
You will be taught in small interactive seminar groups, encouraging discussion and debate with teaching staff and fellow students. We place a great deal of importance on employability skills in both sides of your degree, and our modules "History education", "Discovering archives", and "Public history" all offer students short work placements and act as an introduction to career ideas. In Economics, students can take a year out to complete a paid placement.
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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

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On request

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Subjects

  • Economics
  • Politics
  • Public
  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Magic
  • Project
  • Economic History

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Journeys through History 1 (People, power and revolution)
  • Journeys through History 2 (Culture, art and ideas)
  • Research Skills and Opportunities in History (individual project)
  • Introductory Macroeconomics
  • Introductory Mathematics for Economics 1
  • Introductory Microeconomics
  • Introductory Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business 1

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Core modules include:
  • Economics of Social Policy
  • Empirical Methods for Economics and Social Sciences
  • Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
Optional modules include:
  • Europe 1450-1600: Religion, culture and belief
  • Crusading in the High Middle Ages, 1095-1291
  • Kingship and Crisis in England, c.1154-1330
  • Under the Red Flag: Labour and British Politics, 1880-1939
  • Warrior Nation: Prussia and Germany, 1740-1945
  • The Social History of Rural England, 1800-2000
  • Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
  • The Colonial Experience: Africa, 1879-1980
  • Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
  • British Government and Politics
  • Business Economics
  • Comparative Government and Politics
  • Economic History
  • Economics of Social Policy
  • Economics of the Environment and Energy
  • Historical Approaches and My Dissertation
  • Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • My Career: Working It Out
  • Political Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Women of the Medieval World
  • American History: From Colonial times to the late Twentieth Century
  • Europe in the Twentieth Century
  • Rebel Girls - the influence of radical women 1795-1919
  • Period in Modern History: Victorian Britain
  • Public History: Its Uses and Abuses
  • New Early Modern Period
  • ‘The Greatest of Terrestrial Kingdoms’: France at the crossroads of the world in the High Middle Ages

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core modules include:
  • Dissertation (either in History or in Economics)
Optional modules include:
  • Axis at War: Life and Death in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, 1936-45
  • From Darwin to Death Camps? Evolution and eugenics in European society, 1859-1945
  • Gothic: Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
  • Industrialization and its Discontents: City, Country and Utopia in England, 1800-2000
  • Race, Ethnicity and citizenship in America
  • The Struggle for a New Civilisation, 1931-1941
  • Witches, Heretics and Social Outcasts: Europe and its Outsiders c.1250-1550
  • Banking in Emerging Economies
  • Battleaxes and Benchwarmers’: Early female MPs 1919-1931
  • Discovering Archives and Collections
  • European Case Studies (3)
  • European Economic Integration
  • European Urban and Regional Economics
  • France and Europe since 1945
  • History Education
  • History of Economic Thought
  • International Economics
  • Ireland and the English in the middle ages
  • La Belle Epoque: France 1880-1914
  • Macroeconomics for Developing Countries
  • Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
  • Microeconomics for Developing Countries
  • Money and Banking
  • Popes and Emperors: Contests for Power in the Central Middle Ages
  • Processes of Long Term Political and Economic Change
  • Public Economics
  • Revolution in Britain and Ireland: 1603-1649
  • The Sixties: Politics and Culture in a Divided World
  • The United States and the Cold War

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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