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UCAS Course Code: LV11

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 3 years
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 13
Applications shortlisted for interview: 49.4%
Successful applications: 14.9%

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Contact details

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History and Economics

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A typical weekly timetable

You will be expected to attend about five lectures a week during the first year, participate in regular meetings with tutors to discuss work, research in libraries and write at least one essay a week. In the second and third year you will have the opportunity to write a thesis on economic history, which will enable you to do a piece of independent research.

1st year
Courses

Four papers are taken:

  • Introductory economics
  • General history (primarily European): four options available
  • Historical methods (available options: Approaches to history; Historiography: Tacitus to Weber; Foreign texts)
  • Optional subject (involving the use of primary sources)
Assessment

First University examinations:
Four written examinations

2nd and 3rd years
Courses

Core courses in Economics and Economic History:

  • Macroeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Quantitative economics
  • History Core papers:

  • A period of British history (7 options) or of general history (18 options).
  • History Further Subject
  • British economic history since 1870

Optional paper:

  • History Further Subject, or British history or general history paper; or Economics Optional Subject: including Money and banking; International economics; Economics of industry; Economics of developing countries

Compulsory thesis

  • A thesis from original research, usually in Economic History
  • Assessment

    Final University examinations:
    Seven written papers, and
    one compulsory undergraduate thesis

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