This is the Dissertation module for the MA Social Justice and Education programme. The Dissertation is 15,000 words and will be submitted on a topic negotiated...

Dissertation on Social Justice and Education (EDPS0080)

This is the Dissertation module for the MA Social Justice and Education programme. The Dissertation is 15,000 words and will be submitted on a topic negotiated between the student and their tutor. It is intended that the writing of a Dissertation will offer an opportunity for the student to produce a piece of sustained writing, constituting critical theoretical/conceptual analysis as well as (in most cases) related empirical work, on a topic of direct interest to them.

Aims: This is a module for non-economists. Students will learn the conceptual-empirical basis of economic reasoning and the quantitative methods essential to...

An Introduction to Applied Economic Analysis (ECON0044)

Aims: This is a module for non-economists. Students will learn the conceptual-empirical basis of economic reasoning and the quantitative methods essential to address important policy problems and debates of our day such as climate change and inequality. It can be viewed as an introduction to the distinctive way economists think and analyse problems. In this module, we encourage students to learn economics by doing economics. Students will gain hands-on experience to use real world data to understand economic questions.

Suitable for: Students from departments other than Economics and the combined-studies degrees in Economics. It is NOT available to the following students:
Economics BSc (L100, L101, L102), Economics and Geography BSc (LL17), Economics and Statistics BSc (LG13), Philosophy and Economics BA (VL51), Mathematics with Economics BSc (G1L1), Mathematics with Economics MSci (G1LC), Statistics, Economics and Finance BSc (GLN0), and Statistics, Economics and a Language BSc (GLR0).

Prerequisites: no previous knowledge of economics is necessary.

Assumed knowledge: No previous knowledge of economics is assumed. However, students should be able to understand and make use of diagrams.