Programme And Module Handbook
 
Programme Specification


Date Specification Approved 21/12/2015
College College Social Sciences
School Birmingham Business School
Department Economics
Partner College and School Geography
Collaborative Organisation and Form of Collaboration
Qualification and Programme Title B.Sc. Geography and Economics Full-time
Programme Code 2067
Delivery Location Campus
Language of Study English
Length of Programme 3 Year(s)
Accreditations This programme has no outside accreditations
Aims of the Programme BSc Geography and Economics is based in the Department of Economics and it is taught jointly with the Department of Geography. The programme combines the analytical rigour of an economics degree which provides training in quantitative subjects with the opportunity to acquire specialist knowledge in physical and human geography.

This programme provides students with an understanding of economic concepts, principles and tools, and their application. The programme aims to stimulate students intellectually through the study of economics and to lead them to appreciate its application to a range of problems and its relevance in a variety of contexts. Students should receive a firm foundation of knowledge about the workings of economic systems, urban and regional planning, physical and biological environments and human society and their interactions, human and/or physical geography topics. Student will develop the relevant skills for the constructive use of that knowledge in a range of settings.

The programme provides students with a range of analytical tools that are applicable to the study of Economics/Geography and transferable to other areas, including analytical and quantitative skills and an ability to develop simplifying frameworks for studying the real world. On graduating, students will be well prepared to work in a range of graduate careers, for example in banking, finance or general management careers.
Programme Outcomes
Students are expected to have Knowledge and Understanding of: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
A coherent core of economic principles including microeconomic issues of decision and choice, the production and exchange of goods, the interdependency of markets, economic welfare, and macroeconomic issues such as employment, inflation, balance of payments, national income, growth, business cycles, money, finance.
Analytical methods and model-based arguments, and appreciate the existence of different methodological approaches.
Relevant quantitative methods and computational techniques.
Application of economic principles and reasoning to a variety of policy issues.
Application of economic principles to an appropriate number of applied topics
The nature of change in physical and biological environments nand human society and the interactions between them
The perspectives of cultural, social, political and economic geographies in relation to the contemporary world.
The ways in which the distinctiveness of place, at different spatial scales, is contested, constituted and constantly remade
The ways in which urban and regional planners and others conceive the world and be able to contest and challenge the provisional nature of that knowledge and understanding.
The process underpinning physical and biological systems and environmental change at a range of temporal and spatial scales
Presentation of economic ideas and analysis utilising various media.
Lectures, small-group classes, practical classes, fieldwork, computer-based learning, project work, independent learning and research.
Unseen written examinations, coursework, problem sets, tests.
Students are expected to have attained the following Skills and other Attributes: Which will be gained through the following Teaching and Learning methods: and assessed using the following methods:
Ability to abstract and simplify in order to identify and model the essence of a problem and apply this approach to different contexts.
Ability to apply logical reasoning, analysis and assumption-based models to enhance problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Ability to compare different economic outcomes, before and after a change in the underlying parameters and consider parameter changes in broader social and political contexts.
Ability to assimilate, structure, analyse, evaluate and interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
Analyse, evaluate and synthesise published planning information.
Communicate geographical concepts, ideas and results to a professional standard and through reasoned argument by written, oral and visual means.
Lectures, small-group classes, practical classes, fieldwork, computer-based learning, project work, independent learning and research.
Unseen written examinations, coursework, problem sets, tests.