Economics Degrees at Aberystwyth University
Economics Degree (L100)
Available as a joint honours or as a major-minor degree with other subjects
Economics Degree
Undergraduate degrees in Economics focus on a wide range of issues impacting on every-day life including the creation of employment, inflationary pressures, international trade issues, the process of business competition, innovation and growth, the development of third world countries, the protection of natural resources and government policy making.
Economics may be understood as the study of human choice on the production, distribution and consumption of resources. Microeconomics deals with the choice at the individual level whereas macroeconomics analyses the economy as a whole.
Here at Aberystwyth, you will study your Economics degree in a Department, which:
- makes world-leading contributions to research and practice;
- combines traditional academic teaching with up-to-date training in the skills you will need for business;
- works with you as an individual to optimise your career opportunities;
- enables you to combine Economics with a fantastic range of other disciplines, from Accountancy to International Politics;
- is part of a University which, year after year, has one of the highest student satisfaction ratings in the UK.
Economics Degree Year 1
No prior knowledge is assumed, so Year 1 of your Economics degree lays the grounding for your studies, equipping you with the fundamental techniques you need: but it also whets your appetite for the discipline by introducing the hottest up-to-date topics in the field. You’ll also do a module called Introduction to Financial Management: a topic which most first year students could usefully study, whatever their discipline!
The core modules in the first year are:
- Economic Principles and Skills;
- Statistics for Economists;
- Introduction to Financial Management;
- Hot Topics in Economics.
Economics Degree Years 2 and 3
In Years 2 and 3 you apply the skills you have learned to measuring the performance of Economic systems large and small. You will also start to be introduced to the intricacies of probability and prediction, and the problems of uncertainty.
The cores modules in Years 2 and 3 are:
- Intermediate Microeconomics, Consumers and Producers;
- Macroeconomic Behaviour and Systems;
- Econometrics.
In years 2 and 3, as you progress and get more experience, you can add more topics of your own choice to these core subjects, from a range including Economics in relation to the Developing World, or in relation to the Use and Exploitation of Labour.
- You can find out more about Economics here
Combining Economics with other subjects
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