BA (Hons) History/Economics

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Course Overview

This BA in History and Economics unites two complementary disciplines to provide a deep understanding of how economic forces have shaped human societies across time. You will learn to apply economic theories to historical contexts and use the past to analyze contemporary economic challenges. Graduating from two research-intensive departments, you will become a critical thinker and a creative, analytical problem-solver.

Key Program Highlights

  • Integrates economic theory with historical analysis to solve modern problems
  • Examines the social and political causes and consequences of economic trends
  • Taught by two highly-ranked, research-intensive academic departments
  • Develops critical skills in analysis, communication, and creative problem-solving
  • Provides a powerful lens to understand the dynamism of global economic systems

Requirements

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Modules

  • Principles of Economics
  • Societies and Economies in World History
  • Evidence and Methods
  • Foundations of Economic Theory
  • Maths for Economists
  • Knowledge and Belief in World History
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy
  • Historical Thinking
  • Econometric Analysis
  • Topics in Economic History
  • Dynamic Modelling
  • Development Economics
  • Econometric Theory
  • Alternative Perspectives in Economics
  • Industrial Organisation Strategy
  • Environmental Economics
  • Empire and Cultural Exchange in Asia 1500-1700
  • Black Radicalism
  • Ancien Régime France, 1610-1789
  • From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
  • China: An Economic and Environmental History, 1870-1970
  • Difficult Pasts and Haunted Presents: Memory and its Discontents c. 1945- c. 2010
  • Humanism, Magic & Science, c.1500-c.1700
  • Before the Mongols: Nomadic Empires of Central Eurasia, 900-1200
  • Using and Abusing the Past in Britain, 1835-2018
  • Gender, Enlightenment and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
  • Health for all? International Health from Colonial Medicine to Covid Vaccine
  • Powerful Impressions: Culture and Politics in the Post-1945 United States
  • Heterosexual Africa? Sexuality, Power, and Politics in Africa since 1900
  • Persecution and Toleration in Early Modern Britain
  • Catherine the Great
  • Social Science and Modern Britain, c1880-c1970
  • Crime and Society in Britain and Ireland since 1750
  • Bankers, Merchants, and Poets: Florence and the Roots of the Renaissance
  • Communist Europe: Crisis, Transformation & Memory after the Second World War
  • Historical Fictions and Frictions: Fictionalising the Past
  • Chivalry, Identity and Love 1350-1450
  • Vikings and Historians: Historiographical Dialogues through the Ages
  • The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1700
  • Containing Multitudes: Inequality and the City in Britain and its Empire post-1800
  • Contemporary Economic Issues and Analysis
  • History Dissertation
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Bubbles, Panics and Crashes
  • Commodities Markets and Derivative Securities
  • Econometric Methods for Research
  • Economics of Social Policy
  • Experimental and Behavioural Economics
  • Financial and Time-Series Econometrics
  • Game Theory
  • Health Economics
  • International Economic Growth and Development
  • International Economics
  • Labour Economics
  • Macroeconomics: Topics in Theory for Policy
  • Monetary Economics
  • Political Economics
  • Structure and Regulation of Financial Markets
  • Empires
  • Violence
  • Animals
  • Commemorations
  • Travel
  • Beauty
  • Communisms
  • From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth-Century Caribbean
  • Imperial Japan, 1890-1950
  • Popular Politics? The History of British Political Culture since 1945
  • The French Wars of Religion
  • Race, Place and Health in Britain and its Empire, 1880-1960
  • Hong Kong: Decolonisation and Development, 1945-97
  • Thomas More: Learning, Politics and Religion in England, 1500-35
  • Ploughing the Sea? The Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1750-1830
  • Rome Reborn: Culture and Society c.1575-c.1655
  • Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, 1650-1750
  • Prussia and the Unification of Germany, 1815-1918
  • Mao and Maoism
  • Children and Childhood in Britain and Empire, 1830-1990
  • Reading and Writing in Medieval England
  • Ireland in the Age of Revolution
  • The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the nineteenth century
  • The First Islamic Empire
  • Exiled Lives: English Nuns in Catholic Europe, 1600-1800
  • The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
  • Poverty and the Welfare State in Post-War Britain
  • Rebellion and Revolution: Britain, 1637-1653
  • Joan of Arc
  • Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, & Religious Ferment, c.1200
  • Francis Bacon: Myth, Magic and Morals
  • Black British History and Decolonisation
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