2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Economics and History
Programme code: | BA-ECON&HIST | UCAS code: | VL11 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Sara Barker | Contact address: | s.k.barker@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
- AAA at A-level, including A in History, plus Grade A in GCSE Mathematics. General Studies is not accepted.
- International Baccalaureate: 34 points overall, including a minimum of 16 at Higher Level and a minimum of 6 in History at Higher Level and a minimum of 5 in Mathematics at Standard Level.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of History
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
Joint Honours
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.
Students must pass 100 credits and all core modules as identified in the programme.
At level 1, students are required to pass a minimum of 40 credits in each of their two main subjects. The further 40 credits may consist of elective modules in a third subject or further modules in one or both main subjects.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
HIST1000 | Exploring History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS1285 | Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1B | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS1295 | Economics and Global History | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS1951 | Economic Theory and Applications | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students without an A-level Maths (Statistics) qualification will have to take the following module:
LUBS1275 | Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
In addition to studying HIST1000, students will study at least 20 credits from the following list of optional modules:
HIST1060 | Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1310 | The Medieval World in Ten Objects | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1320 | Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1510 | Global Empires | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST1520 | Global Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST1530 | The Making of the Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Depending on the pathway, candidates may have up to 30 remaining credits to use in Discovery modules, which they may wish to choose in a third subject or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must pass:
Economics: a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 at level 2 and 60 at level 3)
History: a minimum of 100 credits (at least 40 at level 2 and 60 at level 3)
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at level 2 and all core modules to proceed to the next level of the programme.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
LUBS2140 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2610 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules:
HECN2010 | Introduction to Health Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2040 | Theories of Growth, Value and Distribution | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2050 | Industrial Economics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2230 | Mathematics for Business and Economics 2 Pre-requisite for: LUBS3005; LUBS3505; LUBS3525 | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2281 | Macroeconomic Policy and Performance | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2400 | The International Economic Environment | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2401 | International Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2420 | Business Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2430 | Economics Research Methods | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2575 | Statistics and Econometrics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS2590 | Labour Economics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS2665 | Economics of Innovation | 10 credits | ||
LUBS2675 | How to be a Successful Policy Economist | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS2680 | Ethics and Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
TRAN2010 | Transport Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
TRAN2030 | Project Appraisal | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
If students are interested in studying Economics at postgraduate level, BA students are recommended to choose LUBS2230 and LUBS2670 which are often seen as pre-requisites for entry to postgraduate courses in Economics at leading UK Universities.
Students wishing to enrol on LUBS3302 Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project at Level 3 must choose LUBS2430.
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following History option modules, including at least one module from each group. These MUST be taken in different semesters.
GROUP A
Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the list below:
HIST2030 | The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2045 | Transformations of the Roman World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2065 | The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2073 | Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2080 | Voices of the People: Speech, Language and Oral Culture in Early Modern Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2090 | Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2105 | Medieval Romans and the shape of Afro-Eurasia today | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2112 | Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2115 | Charles the Great to Alfred the Great: Franks, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in the Ninth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2117 | Conquerors and Conquered: England, 1000-1135 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2135 | Britain and the Industrial Revolution | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2170 | Patient Voices: Medicine and Healthcare in the Middle Ages | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2220 | The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV2085 | Medieval Narratives in the Modern World: Nationalism, Terrorism, Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
GROUP B
Candidates are required to study 20 credits from the list below:
HIST2015 | Australia and the World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2050 | Material Legacies: Objects and British Cultural Heritage, c. 1783-1851 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2103 | Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2140 | Imperial Germany 1871-1918 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2291 | 20th Century Britain: Progress and Uncertainty 1945-1990 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2301 | The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union, 1921-1993 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2309 | Communist Eastern Europe, 1945-89 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2360 | Bass Culture in Modern Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2420 | Nationalism, Colonialism and 'Religious Violence' in India, 1857-1947 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2432 | Lost Colonists: Failure and the Family in Southern Africa, 1880-1939 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2435 | The Popular Caribbean: A History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2441 | Race, Gender and Cultural Protest in the US since 1865 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2442 | Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2645 | The Rise of Modern Japan: From the Meiji Restoration to the Present Day | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2653 | American Business History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2654 | Global Business History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2658 | Mao Zedong and Modern China, 1949-Present | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
The following modules offer you the chance to explore the diversity of approaches to the study of the past. Some of the modules give you the chance to research and practise History in collaboration with others, both within and outside the University:
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2240 | Hands on Heritage | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2505 | Archive Intelligence: Unlocking the Archive | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2557 | Thinking about History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2710 | Public Historians: Applied History, People’s History and the Uses of the Past | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students cannot take level 3 modules at level 2. Students are only permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at levels 2 and 3, with the exception of skills discovery modules.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules over level 2 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 120 credits in total.
These 120 credits will comprise any compulsory modules stated as well as a mix of Optional and/or Discovery modules as required by the rules of the programme.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must pass:
- Economics: a minimum of 100 credits (60 credits must be taken at level 3)
- History: a minimum of 100 credits (60 credits must be taken at level 3)
It is not possible for students to take discovery modules at level 3.
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3). Students must pass at least 100 credits at level 3 and all core modules to proceed to gain the degree.
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study one of the following project modules:
HIST3430 | History Long Essay | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3302 | Economics Joint Honours Final Year Project | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study between 40 and 60 credits from the following optional modules, depending on the choice of final year project. (Students are required to study 60 credits of Economics modules in level 3.)
HECN3010 | Introduction to the Economic Evaluation of Health | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3005 | Advanced Microeconomics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS3011 | Contemporary Issues in Economic Growth | 10 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
LUBS3250 | Transnational Corporations in the World Economy | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS3330 | Economic Development | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3340 | Economics of Famines | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3365 | Environmental Economics | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS3370 | Applied Econometrics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3375 | Behavioural Economics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3430 | Modern Theories of Money and Monetary Policy | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3435 | Public Enterprise and Regulation | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3505 | Advanced Macroeconomics | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
LUBS3590 | International Economics: Integration and Governance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
LUBS3785 | The Economics of Unions | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
LUBS3930 | Economics of Business and Corporate Strategy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits from the following Special Subject modules:
HIST3001 | Conquest, Convivencia and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Spain, 711-1212 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3002 | Back to School in the Middle Ages: Schools, Teachers and Pupils in north-western Europe 700-1200 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3235 | Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3240 | The Harlem Renaissance: Black Culture and Politics 1919-1940 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3270 | The Third Reich, 1933-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3330 | Europe in an Age of Total Warfare | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3332 | The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3360 | Body, Mind and Senses: The Social and Cultural History of Disability in Britain, 1833-1998 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3362 | American Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3370 | Black British Culture and Black British Cultural Studies | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3382 | The Cultural History of Venice, 1509-1797 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3390 | The Soviet Sixties: Politics and Society in the USSR, 1953-1968 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3395 | The Troubles: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968-Present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3440 | The Photographic Age: Photography, Society and Culture in Britain, 1839-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3498 | Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3590 | White Africans: Intimacy, Race and Power | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3650 | Stalin and Stalinism | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3685 | Georgians at War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3687 | The Later Elizabethan Age: Politics and Empire | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3695 | The Korean War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3743 | From Byron to Bin Laden: Transnational War Volunteers | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3747 | The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 1979 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3760 | A Revolutionary Century: Resistance, Reform, and Repression in Central America, 1900- present | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3785 | Europe on the Move: Refugees and Resettlement, 1919-59 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3888 | The Global Vietnam War | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3930 | The First World War: A Global Conflict | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may be required to study to 20 credits from the following optional modules, depending on their choice of Final Year Project (candidates must study 60 credits of History at level 3). Candidates who have NOT chosen to do a History Final Year Project MUST choose 20 credits from this list:
HIST3251 | Twentieth Century Southeast Asia: From Empire to Independence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3453 | The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3455 | Consumer Society in Historical Perspective | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3493 | War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3530 | Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3723 | Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3724 | Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3726 | In the Shadow of Franco: Terror and its Legacy in Spain, 1936-Present Day | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3728 | The Breaking of Contemporary Britain: Challenges from the Post-War Period | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3790 | Gender and Slavery in Latin America, 1580-1888 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3880 | 'Parasites' and 'Cockroaches': Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Modern World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3999 | Doomed to Failure? European Great Power Politics from Bismarck to the Outbreak of World War I | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MEDV3411 | Medieval Women Mystics: Visionaries, Saints and Heretics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MEDV3610 | The Age of Chivalry: The Idea of Knighthood in Medieval Europe, 1050-1450 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students are only permitted to take a maximum of 20 credits below their year of study at levels 2 and 3, with the exception of skills discovery modules.
Discovery modules:
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