BSc Geography and Economics (Regional Science) LL17
Bachelor's degree
In Reading
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Reading
Full Time: 3 Years
Economic and geographic issues dominate the news and shape the world we live in. This area covers everything from globalisation and consumerism to sustainability and responses to epidemics.
This joint degree combines the study of human geography and economics by focusing on the spatial implications of economic processes and the economic implications of social processes.
You will gain analytical skills and specialist knowledge of economics as you develop through this course, giving you a valuable edge over other applicants when it comes to getting a job.
Research techniques include a range of methods of quantitative analysis as well as interviewing and ethnographic approaches making graduates some of the most sought-after from the university.
You can also choose to take a full year of study abroad or professional experience as part of your degree, usually between your second and third year of study. Recent destinations for study abroad year include Melbourne, Australia and Ottawa, Canada.
Placement
This course provides opportunities for you to work with partner organisations on research projects. Recent examples include Thames Water, the Environment Agency, Reading Borough Council, the Earth Trust, Reading Buses and West Berkshire Wildlife Group.
You will benefit from the links that members of staff have with industry and with external organisations such as NGOs, local authorities, and government departments. Most recently, a final year student undertook field work for her dissertation at the Environmental Studies Centre in Cyprus, benefiting from the expertise and facilities available in a challenging and exciting environment overseas.
The department also runs one of the most successful Erasmus+ study abroad schemes in the UK and enjoys active links with approved partner universities in Europe. In the autumn term of your final year, you will have the chance to study abroad for a term – either in the Netherlands (Groningen), Denmark...
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Subjects
- Economics
- Human Geography
- Macroeconomics
- Politics
- Microeconomics
Course programme
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Foundation in Human Geography
- Human Geography: Principles & Practice
- Introductory Macroeconomics
- Introductory Mathematics for Economics 1
- Introductory Microeconomics
- Introductory Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business 1
- Economy, Politics and Culture from the fall of Rome to the rise of feudalism
- Economy, Politics and Culture in the Roman World
- Economic Policy and Social Problems
- Introduction to Economic Institutions and Policy
- Introductory Mathematics for Economics 2
- Introductory Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business 2 and Study Skills
- Techniques in Geography & Environmental Science
- The Economics of Climate Change
- Research Training
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Culture, Identity and Place
- Growth, Degrowth and Sustainability
- Business Economics
- Crete June Field Class
- Crete September Field Class
- Economic History
- Economics of Social Policy
- Economics of the Environment and Energy
- Energy Resources
- Geographies of Development
- Human Geography Fieldclass
- Introductory Econometrics
- Spatial Data in the Digital Age
- Web Page Development
- European Urban and Regional Economics
- Consumption, Globalisation and Sustainability
- Work, Employment and Development
- Banking in Emerging Economies
- Business Economics
- Business and Management in Emerging Markets
- ERASMUS Exchange Programme
- Economics of Labour
- European Economic Integration
- Geographies of Children & Youth
- History of Economic Thought
- International Climate Politics and Justice
- International Economics
- Macroeconomics for Developing Countries
- Microeconomics for Developing Countries
- Money and Banking
- Neighbourhood Renewal and Regeneration
- Processes of Long Term Political and Economic Change
- Public Economics
- Resilience for Sustainable Development
- Socio-Ecological Transformations: Theories and Case Studies
- Water Resources
BSc Geography and Economics (Regional Science) LL17