Course summary

Throughout the year, core modules will develop your fundamental knowledge and skills. As well as macroeconomics and microeconomics, you’ll study econometrics and its application to real-life situations. Building on your knowledge and experience from the core modules, you’ll be able to choose a number of optional modules, allowing you to specialise in particular areas of economics and expand your knowledge in directions of your choice. Optional modules include, for example, ‘Environmental Economics and Policy’, which introduces a micro-economic approach to pressing environmental issues. On this module, you’ll conceptualise environmental problems and explore environmental policies that seek to restore optimal allocation of resources. ‘Global Economic Coordination and Governance’ is another optional module which explores the past, present and possible futures of global economic coordination and governance. Here you’ll consider the challenges of designing a sustainable, productive global economics structure and financial-governance framework for the future. Throughout the year you’ll also develop your understanding of research methods and practices. In your dissertation, you’ll apply these skills to produce an independent research project on a topic of your choice, to be submitted by the end of the course.