This core contains both theoretical and practical courses, including computer and project work. This combination of Economics and Geography has proved attractive to a variety of employers in business and public sector in recent years. The variety of subjects on offer ensures flexibility, whilst allowing for specialisation in the later years. Many of the courses are complementary with frequent opportunities to apply the knowledge acquired in one discipline to the courses of the other. The demanding workload makes for a challenging, but interesting course.
Lecturers are always approachable and there is a friendly atmosphere in both departments.
A third unit is selected from any two of the first year Geography half-unit courses, and a fourth is chosen from other courses available in Economics or, for example, in History , Mathematics or the Language Centre . Second Year Economic Theory is a specified course, as well as two half-units from Geography, normally chosen from environmental management, regional development, population geography, European integration, global poverty and Latin American development. Students are then free to select one unit of other courses each in Geography and Economics. The range of geography courses is the same as for Geography BA or BSc undergraduates. Students who wish to submit a dissertation in their third year, must complete half units on The Practice of Geography and the appropriate Methods in Geography course.