(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)
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.
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.
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