BSc Economics

University of Southampton

Bachelor's degree

In Southampton

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Southampton

  • Start date

    September

Introducing your course
Economics is a social science and concerns how decisions affect our wealth, well-being and income. Through the BSc in Economics, you will study macroeconomics and microeconomics and can choose from a number of optional modules such as finance, health economics or experimental economics.
You will be able to use the behavioural economics laboratory to run real experiments. You also have open access to the Bloomberg facilities, which are the same trading terminals used in the City. You can take optional modules from the Humanities and Social Sciences and interdisciplinary modules. Single Hons Economics students from the University of Southampton can also take a minor subject, such as a language, web science, criminology, demography, education, sustainability or social policy. There are over twenty minors to choose from.

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Southampton (Hampshire)
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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

  • Access
  • Options
  • Credit
  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Economics
  • University
  • Employability

Course programme

Year 1

The aim of the first year is to provide you with a firm foundation in the core subjects of your degree and an opportunity, through the choice of optional units, to broaden your field of study. Module choices in year one are dependent on whether you have studied economics at A level.

Students take optional modules each year. They can choose from Economics modules; modules from other departments and also from the Interdisciplinary modules. Note: the Economics department provides interdisciplinary modules but gives them two codes (e.g. UOSM2036 is the same as ECON1015). This is to allow our students to have access to the courses before they are offered to the whole University. UOSM modules can be taken in first, second or third year unless specified. For example, students could choose to take Social Enterprise in any year.

Everyone also takes a non-credit bearing course in Economics Skills and Employability each year to enable students to take full advantage of the opportunities on offer here.

Semester One

Students who do not have Economics A-level take Module Foundations of Microeconomics, those who have Economics A-level take Module Principles of Microeconomics. Once chosen, these modules will become core.

Core [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ECON1008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Mathematics for Economics

Compulsory

ECON1016

Economics Skills and Employability 1

Optional

You can only choose ECON1014 Economics with Experiments or UOSM2020 Economics with Experiments not both

ECON1014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Economics with Experiments

ECON1015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Topics in Economic History

UOSM2022Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Social Enterprise

UOSM2008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Living and Working on the Web

MANG1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Financial Accounting 1

CRIM1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Criminology

DEMO1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Population and Society

GEOG1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

A Global World

PHIL1006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Political Philosophy

PSYC1015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Classic Studies in Psychology: History and Implications

SOCI1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Social Problems and Social Policy

PAIR1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Political Systems

Language modules

Interdisciplinary modules

These modules are only indicative examples of the options available. There is a wide array of option modules to choose from, subject to availability.

Semester TwoCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ECON1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Principles of Macroeconomics

ECON1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Economic Perspective and Policy

ECON1007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Statistics for Economics

Optional

ECON1011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Quantitative Modelling in Economics

UOSM2021Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

More or Less

DEMO1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Demographic Methods

CRIM1004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Criminal Justice Studies

EDUC1061Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Introduction to Teachers and Teaching

ARCH1062Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Wonderful things: World history in 40 objects

BIOL3010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Topics in Ecology and Evolution

SOES1009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

The Living Earth

SOCI1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Transformations of The Modern World

PSYC2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Developmental Psychology

Language modules

Interdisciplinary modules

These modules are only indicative examples of the options available. There is a wide array of option modules to choose from, subject to availability.

Year 2

Year 2 comprises a mixture of compulsory and optional modules.

Students take two optional modules in semester 2. Students taking a minor will take two modules from their minor subject.

Semester One

Students are to choose to take either Statistical Theory 2 or Introduction to Econometrics.

Compulsory

ECON2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Macroeconomic Policy 2

ECON2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Microeconomics of Markets

ECON2033Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Microeconomics of Strategy

ECON2035

Economics Skills and Employability 2

Semester Two

If Introduction to Econometrics was chosen in semester one, then student must take Methods of Econometrics.

If Statistical Theory 2 was chosen in semester one, then student must take Econometrics 2.

Compulsory

ECON2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Topics in Macroeconomics 2

ECON2036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Research Skills for an Economist

Optional

ECON2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Development Economics

ECON2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Industrial Economics 2

MANG2017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Company Law

MANG2004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Portfolio Theory and Financial Markets

MANG2003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Financial Accounting 2

MANG2015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Financial Management

DEMO2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Population History

MANG2021Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Operations Management

SOCI2036Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Globalisation, Inequalities & Power

CRIM2006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Criminology: Policy & Practice

Language modules

Interdisciplinary modules

These modules are only indicative examples of the options available. There is a wide array of option modules to choose from, subject to availability.

Year 3

Students take five optional modules. Students taking a minor will take two modules from their minor subject.

Semester One

During year three you will study a dissertation Dissertation/Project, equivalent to two modules, which is a piece of independent research on a topic of your choice spread over both semesters.

Core [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ECON3023Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation/Project

Compulsory

ECON3010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Topics in Macroeconomics 3

ECON3033

Economics Skills and Employability 3

Optional

ECON3027Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Labour Economics

ECON3015Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Principles of Finance

ECON3031Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Applied Econometrics

DEMO3008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Population and the Environment

CRIM3002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control

SOCI3073Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Cyber Lives? New Technologies and Social Change

MANG3008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Strategic Management

SOCI2017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Class Structure and Social Inequality

SOCI3087Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Migration in a Globalising World

SOCI3002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Comparing Welfare States - Evolution, Politics & Impact

Language modules

Interdisciplinary modules

These modules are only indicative examples of the options available. There is a wide array of option modules to choose from, subject to availability.

Semester TwoCore [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

ECON3023Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 30

Dissertation/Project

Optional

ECON3016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Empirical Finance

ECON3004Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Public Economics

ECON3008Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Macroeconomic Policy 3

STAT3010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Statistical Methods in Insurance

CRIM3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Global Crime and Justice

MANG3009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

International Banking

MANG3020Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Futures and Options

MANG3032Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Risk Management

SOCI3084Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

: 15

Environment, Development and Society

Language modules

Interdisciplinary modules

These modules are only indicative examples of the options available. There is a wide array of option modules to choose from, subject to availability.

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