This module aims to provide a sound, basic understanding of modern macroeconomics, its historical development and its application to theoretical and real-world problems, using diagrams, simple mathematics and writing.

This module aims to develop an understanding of consumer and producer behaviour, market outcomes and government policy using diagrams and simple mathematics.

This module aims to help students to experience the mathematics which is useful for all three years of the economics degree. Emphasis is on calculus-based approaches to economic models. Provision is made for students with and without an A level mathematics background.

The aim of this module is to introduce students to the contributions of great economic thinkers. Emphasis on ethical approaches to economic analysis and models.

The aims of this module are to:

• Explore the origins and concepts of responsible management practice (RMP).
• Examine RMP within a range of contemporary contexts.
• Develop expertise in key academic skills for university life and beyond.

This module aims to examine some basic tools of data analysis employed in the evaluation of economic statements or arguments, and to acquire an initial set of IT skills to carry out some applied, basic statistical analysis.

This module aims to examine some statistical analysis tools employed in the evaluation of economic problems and arguments.

This module aims to provide additional maths support for the student with less of a background in mathematics. Students who do not have an A in A Level Maths are strongly encouraged to register for this optional module.

The aims of this module are to:

• provide an introduction to financial accounting, its key concepts and context;
• develop students' skills in preparing and interpreting financial statements;
• explore the subjective nature of financial reporting, its benefits and its limitations;
• develop students' analytical and written presentational skills;
• develop and enhance transferable skills.

The aims of this module are

• Prepare students with a sound foundation of behavioural and organisational concepts for subsequent management modules.
• Develop an understanding of individual, group, and organisational characteristics and processes and their influence on organisational outcomes.
• Develop an understanding of contextual influences on individuals and groups at work.

The aims of this module are:

• To introduce basic legal concepts relevant to commercial activity, and to explain their relevance as a parameter of business decision-making.
• To explain how legal principles are created by both case law and statute.
• To illustrate their relevance to all aspects of business activity.

The aims of this module are to introduce students to key concepts in social and cultural geography, examine case studies of social and cultural change in the global North and global South, and familiarise students with writers and texts in social and cultural geography.

This module introduces students to key concepts and theories used in the study of advanced democracies. Taking the United Kingdom as its starting point, it provides an overview of key historical and contemporary debates and draws on quantitative and qualitative research traditions in Comparative Politics.

This module introduces students to the development of welfare state by examining topical debates and case study examples of social policy in practice. It introduces students to the chronological development of the welfare state that acts as a historical framework for understanding pertinent contemporary social issues.

This is a 10 credit module from the University-wide language programme.