BA Political Economics
Bachelor's degree
In Colchester
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Colchester
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Duration
3 Years
About the course
How do governments try to influence economic processes? How do markets influence politics, policies, and political outcomes? How far should big businesses influence governments? Should health or education systems be run like businesses?
Based in the top politics department in the country, this course focuses on political and commercial decision-making in an interconnected world
The course prepares students to work in international and national governmental and non-governmental agencies; obtain strategic roles in private companies and in politics; and to develop policy and decision-making through research and analysis
You study topics including:
International organisations
Games, strategy and politics
Corruption
How voters, politicians, and private markets shape economic policy
Political institutions and democracy
Politics at Essex is all about moving from opinions to evidence
You will quickly learn to ask – and how to answer – the “how do you know?” question
We train our students to be fearless and independent, to question everything and to draw on the broadest possible range of facts and ideas
Our Department of Government is one of the most prestigious in Europe, with an outstanding record of teaching, research and publication
We are rated top in the UK for research (REF 2014), and have consistently been the highest-rated politics department in the country since national assessments began
Study abroad
Your education extends beyond the classroom
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Subjects
- Politics
- International
- Teaching
- Democracy
- Private
- Decision Making
- Political Economics
- Economics
Course programme
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
Politics and Economic Policies
Scientific Reasoning for the Social Sciences
Institutions of Democracy
Comparative Political Analysis
Career Portfolio
Introduction to Politics (optional)
Democracy: Forms and Futures (optional)
Politics and Power (optional)
Truth, Justice, and the Nature of Politics (optional)
Year 2
Games, Strategy and Politics
Violent Non State Actors: Violence, Crime and Conflict
Political Analysis: Introduction to OLS
International Organisations
Career Portfolio
International Relations: Theories and Approaches (optional)
Development, N.G.Os and Foreign Aid (optional)
Ethics and Public Policy (optional)
The European Union: Institutions and Policies (optional)
Final year
Domestic Politics and International Relations
Authoritarianism
Political Economy of International Development
Environmental Politics
Career Portfolio
Quantitative Political Analysis (optional)
Political Economy (optional)
Placement
On a placement year you gain relevant work experience within an external business or organisation, giving you a competitive edge in the graduate job market and providing you with key contacts within the industry. The rest of your course remains identical to the three-year degree.
Year abroad
On your year abroad, you have the opportunity to experience other cultures and languages, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable, and organised. The rest of your course remains identical to the three-year degree.
Teaching
Teaching is arranged to allow a lot of freedom in how you organise your learning experience
Lab sessions allow you to improve your technical research skills
Opportunities to gain work experience on placements and internships
Assessment
Assessed through a combination of written coursework, presentations, class participation, and end-of-year examinations
If you undertake a placement, you will prepare an assessed report on this experience
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BA Political Economics