2023/24 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: | Julia Barrow | Contact address: | J.S.Barrow@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
- AAA at A-level. 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 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) | |
LUBS2675 | How to be a Successful Policy Economist | 10 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
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) | |
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) | |
HIST2110 | The Cult of Saints in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1500 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2220 | The Body, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1750 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2315 | Mughals, Merchants and Mercenaries: 'Company Raj' in India 1600-1857 | 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:
HIST2103 | Later Victorian England: Politics, Society and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2140 | Imperial Germany 1871-1918 | 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) | |
HIST2320 | The Lucky Country? The Social History of Australia in the Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2353 | America and the Sixties | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2360 | Bass Culture in Modern Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST2430 | The History of Africa since 1900 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | Not running in 202324 | |
HIST2442 | Black Politics from Emancipation to Obama | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2595 | Curiosities and Monstrosities: Stuff on Display in Britain, c. 1753-1851 | 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) | |
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 | Not running in 202324 | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2560 | History on the High Street | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
HIST2565 | Histories of Black Britain | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2575 | Legal Fictions of Slavery, A Documentary | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
HIST2580 | Slavery Studies Through Autobiography | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2590 | Public History and Popular Culture | 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 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
HIST3005 | The 'Russian' Civil Wars, 1916-1922 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3015 | Indonesia from Revolution to Dictatorship, 1945-1967 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3025 | History of the Manuscript Book in the Digital Age | 40 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
HIST3220 | Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement | 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) | |
HIST3260 | Tradition and Modernity in Colonial Africa: Uganda's Kingdoms 1862-1964 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3270 | The Third Reich, 1933-1945 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3290 | Popular Belief in the Medieval West 1000-c.1500 | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3330 | Europe in an Age of Total Warfare | 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) | |
HIST3388 | Teaching & Learning in Early Modern England: Skill, Knowledge, and Education | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3392 | Eastern Subjects: British Attitudes to India, 1757-1857 | 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) | |
HIST3550 | Exploration, Conflict and Cultural Encounter in Early European Expansionism | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST3650 | Stalin and Stalinism | 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) | |
HIST3745 | Secret Service: The World of British Intelligence | 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) | |
HIST3888 | The Global Vietnam War | 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:
HIST3100 | Colonial Bodies: Life and Death in British India, 1757-1900 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
HIST3493 | War, Regicide and Republic: England, 1642-1660 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3530 | Mapping the Middle Ages: space and representation from the Pacific to the Atlantic | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3689 | Order and Disorder in Early Modern France: Understanding the French Wars of Religion | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST3710 | Nazism, Stalinism and the Rise of the Total State | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3723 | Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HIST3724 | Caribbean Identity, Society and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 | Not running in 202324 | |
HIST3877 | The World of Terror | 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) |
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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