BA Economics and History

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

1. Evaluate insightfully how individuals and groups have existed, acted, and thought in a range of societies and cultures across a broad chronological and geographical span;
2. Assess the range, value, and challenges of the primary source material available for historical study and apply selected concepts or theories to the analysis of sources;
3. Understand and apply key basic economic concepts, theories, ideas and tools and the social and historical contexts of their development
4. Apply examples of how economics has been used to solve theoretical and empirical problems.

Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Apply effective approaches to communicate with different audiences;
2. Develop positive working relationships with team members in group work;
3. Effective writing skills, including essay structure, citation, bibliography, and presentation of equations and empirical evidence;
4. Apply basic IT and quantitative skills appropriate to the study of economics.

Assessment

BA Economics and History uses a combination of different assessment methods to capture the range of ways that students learn on the programme. At Level 1 assessment types across our compulsory and optional modules typically include: podcasts, presentations, wikis, as well as academic essays, primary source essays, reflective essays, and online exams.