1. BSc International Development with Economics
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
June 2017

2. Overview What is the course about? Its structure
Our approach to teaching and learning
Why Bath?
The Faculty and Department
Related courses
Careers
Admissions
Questions

3. What is International Development with Economics all about?
How are life prospects for ALL people across the world changing?
What explains variation in this: by country, gender, generation..?
How should and could our prospects be improved?
How do we turn ideas into action?
It’s about fireman’s helmets!
… sustainability …wants … welfare … poverty … wellbeing … justice … inequality … basic needs … rights …

4. International development studies
What is International Development with Economics all about?
International development studies
Politics and international relations
Economics
Social anthropology, sociology, social policy
Philosophy
Others?!
Policy sciences
Geography

5. Course aims
To enable you to study economic, social and political aspects of ID both separately and together.
To combine a historical approach to understanding development (how the world is) with a normative approach (how it could and should be changed).
To allow you to specialise in different areas as the course progresses.
To emphasise economics throughout the degree because of its importance to international development as a field of work, and because of the transferable work skills it provides.

6. Course structure Economics Politics Sociology & anthropology
Interface stream
Year 1
Development economics – micro;
Introductory economics;
Modern world Economy
The politics of development
Thinking and working cross-culturally
Academic and research skills;
Introduction to international development
One option (including from economics, politics, or sociology)
Year 2
Development economics - macro
International politics of development
Researching social change
Development policy & practice;
Qualitative & quantitative research methods
Four options, including: Civil Society & NGOs; Humanitarianism; Social Sciences of Climate Change (also from economics, politics, sociology or languages)
Year 3
Optional professional placement
Final Year
Development finance
Up to six options, including Field work placement; Institutions and ideas; Social identities in ID;
Inequality;
ID dissertation

7. Our approach to teaching and learning
Intensive - studying five units each semester, with two rounds of assessment each year.
Varied (subjects and styles) - stats and graphs but not much algebra. Lectures and seminars.
Structured – common core as a foundation for increasing choice and specialisation.
Grounded AND theoretical – responding to real issues but also critically reflecting about how we know what we know.

8. Why Bath?
A core group of specialist ID staff within a larger community of social scientists
A leading centre for development studies research across Asia, Africa and Latin America.
One of the top fifty ID centres in the World according to the “QS Top University” rankings.
University reputation, facilities, city…

9. Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Approximately 2,300 students
Six departments:
Social & Policy Sciences
Economics
Education
Health
Politics, Languages & International Studies
Psychology

10. Department of Social & Policy Sciences
45 Academic Staff
350 Undergraduates
Sociology
Social Policy
Sociology and Social Policy
Social Sciences
ID with Economics
All courses with or without a placement year

11. Related courses Department Social & Policy Sciences
Politics, Languages & International Studies
Economics
Courses
Social science;
Social policy
Politics with economics;
Politics with IR
Economics;
Economics and Politics
Key difference
Less emphasis on: (a) global poverty and wellbeing (b) economics
Less emphasis on (a) global poverty and inequality (b) social analysis
More specialised, technical and mathematical

12. International Development with Economics as a career platform
Grounding in economics concepts and ideas within a wider understanding of social science principles and methods (quantitative and qualitative).
Core analytical skills: researching, interpreting and reconciling diverse and often conflicting views on complex and multi-level issues.
Placement opportunities.
Reputation of the University among employers.

13. Admissions criteria
Minimum entry requirement is AAB at 'A' level, 36 points IB, or equivalent.
An appetite for addressing global issues.
An interest in international and cross-cultural understanding.
A willingness to challenge established ideas and to see your own ideas challenged.
No post-GCSE subject prerequisites, but students with strengths in maths, languages, and/or across broad combinations of subjects are particularly welcome.

14. University website www.bath.ac.uk Director of Studies Aurelie Charles
Admissions Team
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