BSc (Hons) Economics and Politics

1. Understand the nature and significance of politics as a human activity.
2. Apply concepts and theories used in the study of politics to the analysis of political ideas, institutions and practices.
3. Evaluate different interpretations of political issues and events.
4. Demonstrate a knowledge of the principles of economics, at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic level.
5. Demonstrate an appreciation of how these concepts can be used to understand the economic dimension of issues that arise at the level of the individual, the organisation, or society as a whole.
6. Demonstrate a knowledge of basic statistical and econometric techniques, and ability to use them to investigate particular economic hypotheses.

• A1 and A4 are developed across all programme stages, moving from broad areas of politics in stage 1 to progressively more specialised aspects at stages 2 to 3.
• A2 and A3 are present in some form in all Politics modules. A3 is also ensured through directed module choice embedded in programme pathways at stages 1 and 2.
• A4 is served by the core Economics modules BEE1029 and BEE1025 which enable students to progress from a basic to intermediate level of understanding.
• A5 is reflected in BEE2033 and BEE1025.
• The core statistics module BEE1025 ensures a basic competence of statistics (A6).

1  Exams (all 6 ILOs)

2 Essays (all 6 ILOs)

3 class exercises (all 6 ILOs)

4 individual and group presentations (all 6 ILOs)

7. Gather, organise and deploy evidence and information from a variety of sources
8. Construct reasoned argument, synthesize relevant information, and critically analyse subject material.
9. Manage own learning self-critically.

These skills are developed throughout the degree programme, with progression in B7 and B8 as students move from stage to stage. B9 is developed through peer and self assessment of assignments, staff feedback on formative assignments, and student self-appraisal.

B7 and B8 are assessed through term-time essays, oral presentations, and examinations.
B9 is not assessed (there is no requirement to do so in the subject benchmark statement).

10. CONFIDENT COMMUNICATOR: Able to adapt and adjust both written and verbal communication styles, to meet the needs of diverse audiences.
11. INNOVATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVER: Able to confidently explore challenges from different perspectives, to creatively offer practical and timely solutions.
12. PROACTIVE COLLABORATOR: Able to actively build strong working relationships with others to have positive outcomes.
13. DIGITALLY FLUENT: Able to embrace a variety of digital technologies to critically source, process and communicate information.
14. RESILIENT SELF-ADVOCATE: Able to develop self-awareness through a commitment to learning from experiences and taking responsibility for personal growth.
15. CRITICAL THINKER: Able to proactively analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources to draw independent and well-founded conclusions.
16. GLOBALLY ENGAGED: Able to recognise diverse individual and cultural perspectives, in order to communicate on interconnected world issues and sustainable decisions

10 BEE 1032 History of Economic Thought requires seminar presentations tofellow-students uninitiated in the subject. Other work is done with the assumption that audience / reader is already an expert.

11 POL 1029 Comparative Politics, BEE 1032 History of Economic Thought and BEE 3042 International Political Economy are all about differing perspectives in economics and political science. Their coursework therefore by definition involves challenges from different perspectives.

12. BEE1032 History of Economic Thought asks students to work in groups.

13. BEE1025 Statistics for Business and Management instructs students in the use of software packages such as Excel and Minitab.

14 all core modules. Students are adults and entirely responsible for their own learning and growth.

15 BEE1029 Economic Principles allows students to apply the economic way of thinking to understand microeconomic problems such as why markets allocate resources where they are most wanted; why prices and wages rise and fall; how consumers allocate their budgets, and how firms arrive at production decisions.

POL1047 Global Sustainability Governance and Policy asks students to engage critically with material and to obtain a degree of academic impartiality on the prevailing trends in the environmental policies of governments around the world

POL1029 Introduction to Comparative Politics requires students to assess the insightfulness of different interpretations of political texts and phenomena. In addition students must assimilate and analyse a range of sources in political theory;

BEE2039 Intermediate Macroeconomics asks students to critically evaluate macroeconomic policies; after completing the module, students are able to apply economic reasoning to the analysis of economic questions and policy.

POL2027 The Politics of the World Economy asks students to think critically about how the international political economy is conceived and governed, in particular through evaluating issues of power and equity.

POL2046 The Economics of Politics aims to provide students with the skills to critically evaluate and apply rational choice approaches as an analytical tool for the examination of political phenomena.

BEE3042 International Political Economy critically explores contemporary issues in international political economy such as the nature and logic of capitalism, the rise of neo-liberalism, new economic thinking and globalisation.

16 POL2027 The Politics of the World Economy instructs students about how the how the international political economy impacts on particular actors, including governments; firms and other producers; civil society

BEE3042 International Political Economy - The massive differences of income levels between countries is a well known fact. The central focus of the module is to study the factors behind economic development and growth. In this module, we focus on two factors, institutions and culture.

10. POL2027 – Essay (ILOS 1& 3) and Issue Briefing (ILO 3)

BEE3042 – Examination and essay– (ILOs 1 and 3)

11. BEE1029 – Examination 1 and 2, gropu presentation and online exercises (ILOs 4 and 8 )
POL1049 – Case study report (ILOS 2 & 3) and blog (ILOS 2&3)

POL1029 - Examination and Essay (ILOs 3 and 4)

BEE2038 – Examination and ELE quizzes (ILOs 4 and 5)

BEE2039 – Examinations 1 & 2 and homework tasks (ILOs 4 and 5)

11. POL2027 – Essay (ILOS 1& 3) and Issue Briefing (ILO 3)

POL2046 –Examination (ILOs 3, 6 and 7)

BEE3042 – Examination and essay (ILO 7)

12. POL2027 – Essay (ILOS 1& 3) and Issue Briefing (ILO 3)

14. BEE1025 – Examination and Mid-Term (ILOs 5 and 8)