BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year / programme, students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- demonstrate grasp of basic concepts and theories relevant to standard features of the three disciplines;
- critically read complicated texts for arguments;
- reconstruct arguments from complicated texts;
- raise and respond to objections to arguments;
- demonstrate grasp of the basic fundamentals of political systems;
- critically appraise key aspects of political systems and political concepts;
- access and utilize key readings within the discipline of political analysis, philosophy and economics;
- evaluate both qualitative and quantitative data;
- discuss classical texts in political theory and philosophy;
- demonstrate grasp of appropriate mathematical and statistical concepts to the analysis of business related problems;
- demonstrate grasp of spreadsheet and database programs for problem solving in economics;
- demonstrate grasp of basic concepts and models in micro- and macroeconomics.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- accessing library materials;
- accessing online materials;
- ability to construct and defend written arguments;
- ability to construct and defend orally presented arguments;
- ability to evaluate competing interpretations;
- ability to organize time;
- ability to submit completed work to deadline;
- ability to work with others in completing set goals.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- completing essay/exam work in which students will evaluate aspects of philosophical arguments;
- completing essay/exam work in which students will evaluate aspects of political systems, processes and theories/concepts;
- completing exam work in which students will employ methods in micro- and macroeconomics.