Building on the 1st year ‘Education in the Age of Globalisation,’ and ‘Foundations in the Sociology of Education’ modules, and linking...

Educating Minorities, Migrants and Refugees (EDPS0017)

Building on the 1st year ‘Education in the Age of Globalisation,’ and ‘Foundations in the Sociology of Education’ modules, and linking to the 2nd year ‘Educating and Organising for Social Justice’, and the 3rd Year ‘Rights, Equality and Justice in Education’ module – ‘Educating Minorities, Migrants and Refugees’ (EMMR) offers students an opportunity to:

consider both the sociological positioning of the minorities, migrants and refugees in education;
	policy approaches to educating minority populations;
	philosophical questions about inclusivity and rights to education;
	and a more comparative perspective on how different national education systems approach the issue and opportunity of minorities, migrants and refugees;
	and how in turn – these groups find strategies for succeeding within or challenging such provision.

In this module students will learn how new international economics theories and empirical evidence are used to analyse the aggregate and distributional impacts...

Advanced Topics in International Economics (ECON0122)

In this module students will learn how new international economics theories and empirical evidence are used to analyse the aggregate and distributional impacts of recent and future policy changes. The specific topics covered will vary over time to keep the applications, and theories, up-to-date and relevant.

Suitable for: Final year BSc (Econ) Economics (L100, L101 and L102) students. Students from other degree programmes can also take the module if they meet the prerequisite requirements.

Prerequisites: ECON0013: Microeconomics and Term 1 of ECON0019: Quantitative Economics and Econometrics (or equivalent). Students can be taking ECON0019 in parallel.

Assumed knowledge: It is important that you are comfortable in using microeconomics concepts and tools as utility and profit maximization, market equilibrium, and imperfect competition. You should also be familiar with the following econometrics concepts: the difference between causation and correlation, OLS regression, instrumental variables, omitted variable bias.