Politics and Economics BA Honours
UCAS Code: LL21
(3 Years)
Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.
Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.
Stage 1
Compulsory modules
- ECO1002 Economic Analysis
- ECO1005 Economic Applications and Data Analysis
- ECO1010 Mathematics for Economics
- POL1131 Studying Political Economy: Ideas, Theories and Skills
Optional modules
You choose two modules from the list below:
- POL1017 Governing Under Pressure: The Politics of the UK & EU
- POL1022 Introduction to Political Thought
- POL1046 Order & Disorder: The shaping of the 21st Century
- POL1047 Power, Participation and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You choose up to three modules from the following list:
- POL2012 Politics of the Middle East
- POL2022 Government and Politics of the USA
- POL2034 The Politics and Policy of the European Union
- POL2078 Critical International Politics
- POL2079 Political Thought: Hobbes to Marx
- POL2080 Political Thought: Conservatism, Nationalism and Fascism
- POL2082 Political Violence and the Modern State
- POL2087 Contemporary Russian Politics
- POL2088 The Politics of Africa: Africa's Place in Global Politics
Other optional modules may also be available from within the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology or the wider University.
Stage 3
Optional modules
You choose 60 credits of optional ECO modules from the list below:
- ECO3001 Advanced Microeconomics
- ECO3002 Advanced Macroeconomics
- ECO3004 Labour Economics
- ECO3005 Behavioural Economics and Experimental Methods
- ECO3006 Economics of Banking
- ECO3007 Financial Stability
- ECO3009 Price Discrimination
- ECO3014 Public Economics
- ECO3018 Financial Economics
- ECO3021 Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
- ECO3022 Health Economics
- ECO3026 Industrial Economics and Policy
- ECO3027 Economics of Development, Transition and Reform
You choose 60 credits of optional modules from the following list, to bring your total up to 120 credits:
- POL3046 Dissertation in Politics
- POL3047 Project in Politics: Semester 1
- POL3048 Project in Politics: Semester 2
- POL3059 Democracy and the Constitution
- POL3063 European Union: Decision-Making Simulation
- POL3071 Student Exchange: Semester 1
- POL3076 Student Exchange (Dissertation Students)
- POL3077 Global Poverty and Global Politics
- POL3078 Britain and the European Union
- POL3079 The Government and Politics of Italy
- POL3081 International Political Thought
- POL3082 Feminist Political Theory
- POL3084 Student Exchange Semester 2 (dissertation/research project)
- POL3085 Student Exchange: Semester 2
- POL3090 The Rise and Fall of New Labour
- POL3092 Political Parties and Elections in the UK
- POL3095 The United Nations in a Global World
- POL3100 History of World Political Thought
- POL3098 War, Genocide, Terror: Understanding Organised Violence
- POL3099 Power, Security and Protest in the Middle East
- POL3101 Postcolonial Politics
Other optional modules may also be available from other subject areas offered by the University.
