BA Economics and Geography (Joint Honours)(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of having:

- a detailed understanding of human social, industrial/commercial, political and cultural systems from spatial, environmental and economic perspectives.

- an understanding of both joint honours subjects’ intellectual development and important theoretical perspectives applied in the study of economics, space, place and the environment;

- a detailed appreciation of the practical contributions made by economists and geographers to debates and policy on societal and environmental issues, and an understanding of their potential for continuing such contributions;

- the skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities;

- skills in the use of geographical information systems, and the application of qualitative and quantitative analysis to geographical study;

- skills in the use of quantitative analysis as applied to economic study;

- skills in teamwork, investigation, presentation and communication.

Transferable (key) skills

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

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to economics and human geography;

- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;

- decision making.

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:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of economics and human geography to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;

- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to relevant to the joint honours disciplines;

- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.