Course summary

The BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics course will provide you with the knowledge of significant topics, problems and issues in all three disciplines. You will also join a vibrant intellectual community. You will learn how key insights can be applied to pressing policy concerns, to gain a rich set of intellectual and critical skills. You will critically evaluate competing arguments about political events, ideas and institutions. It will give you the ability to effectively evaluate economic policies, and economics in its broader institutional and political context. In Politics, you will analyse the behaviour of government from local, national and international perspectives, providing an understanding and rationale behind policy decisions that affect all of us. Studying politics shows that you can research and reference your argument and use arguments from political theory to reinforce your position in a debate. In Philosophy, you learn to develop and express rational arguments and use logical reasoning and critical analysis to defend your position and critique opposing viewpoints. Economics gives you the tools to analyse the economic environment around us. You gain a grounding in quantitative methods such as mathematics and statistics or econometrics. You will develop an understanding of the wider economy from the reasoning behind macroeconomic government policy to the microeconomic behaviour of individual firms.