This course explores the core ideas of economics and applies those ideas to businesses and the business environment, preparing you for a variety of stimulating careers.
You’ll develop an in-depth understanding of the economic factors that influence business success and decision-making. You’ll combine this with the analytical, computing and communication skills required by employers in both the private and public sectors.
A range of optional modules will allow you to explore the topics that suit your interests and career plans, from the wider business environment to banking and finance, health, labour or transport economics.
Year 1 will give you a firm foundation in economic theory and the mathematical and statistical tools needed to support the rest of your studies. You’ll also develop your academic, research and professional skills during this time. You can explore economic issues in more depth through your choice of optional modules or study topics like finance or organisational behaviour.
In the following year you’ll build on your understanding of microeconomics and macroeconomics, and you’ll be introduced to the advanced quantitative and analytical skills used in economics to understand real world problems. You’ll develop a deeper understanding how firms compete and innovate, how corporate governance works and how people make decisions. Your choice of optional modules will allow you to explore other topics that suit your interests and career plans, including macroeconomic policy, health economics and international dimensions of economics.
In your final year you will deepen your understanding of public enterprise, regulation, and the strategies that business and corporations use. Diverse optional modules allow you to learn about topics including economic development, monetary economics, behavioural economics and environmental economics. You’ll also apply the knowledge and skills you have gained to an independent research project on a topic of your choice.