Programme requirements (2020/2021) | Master of Arts (Honours) Economics and Middle East Studies

Master of Arts (Honours) Economics and Middle East Studies

MA (Hons) Economics (Joint Honours): First year ECNECNJJ1A_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
((		Macroeconomics	20		AND
		Microeconomics	20	)	OR
(	EC1004	Economics Not running in 2020-2021	20	))	AND
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: EC1003, EC1008			AND
		Mathematics for Economists	20
		Finance	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Remaining credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Students who have passed MT1002 are exempt from EC1003. EC1003 may be taken in second year

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): First year MESMESJJ1_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: ME1003, MO1007 - MO1008		AND
		The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000)	20
		The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770)	20
		Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001)	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Between 0 and 80 credits from Level 1000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Economics (Joint Honours): Second year ECNECNJJ2A_2021
		Code	Module name	Credits
	^		Intermediate Microeconomics	20	AND
	^		Intermediate Macroeconomics	20	AND
			Statistics for Economists	20	AND
			Mathematics for Economists	20	AND
		Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Students who have passed MT1002 are exempt from EC1003. Students who have passed MT2004 or MT2508 are exempt from EC2203. Automatic entry to Honours requires pass at first sitting and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Second year MESMESJJ2_2021
		Code	Module name	Credits
	*		Introduction to Middle Eastern History	20		AND
(	~		History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts	20		OR
	~		Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.)	20		OR
	~		Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000)	20	)	AND
		Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in the academic year Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits Automatic entry to Honours requires an average grade of 11 or above at first sitting must be attained in certain requisite 2000 level modules marked * Qualified Entry to Honours requires; a grade of 4.0 or above in each of the requisite modules marked * and passing the Honours Entry examinations for the modules marked * in which a student did not previously achieve a grade of 11.0 or above, such that the conditions for automatic entry to Honours Entry are met when the best grade now achieved in each module marked * is considered. An Honours Entry examination can only be taken in the same academic year as the first completed enrolment in the relevant requisite module. an average grade of 11 or above at first sitting must be attained in certain requisite 2000 level modules marked ~ Qualified Entry to Honours requires; a grade of 4.0 or above in each of the requisite modules marked ~ and passing the Honours Entry examinations for the modules marked ~ in which a student did not previously achieve a grade of 11.0 or above, such that the conditions for automatic entry to Honours Entry are met when the best grade now achieved in each module marked ~ is considered. An Honours Entry examination can only be taken in the same academic year as the first completed enrolment in the relevant requisite module.

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.

MA (Hons) Economics (Joint Honours): Third year ECNECNJJ3A_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: EC3301 - EC3350, EC4401 - EC4489		AND
		Econometrics	20
		Decision and Game Theory	20
		Economic Growth	20
	EC3304	Mathematical Economics	20
		Incentives, Contracts and Markets	20
		Economic Fluctuations	20
	EC3307	Computational Economics	20
		Advanced Econometrics	20
		Economic History	20
		Health and Education	20
		Economics of the Environment	20
	EC4406	Experimental Economics	20
		Behavioural Economics	20
		Industrial Organisation and Regulations	20
		International Macroeconomics	20
		International Trade	20
	EC4411	Economics of Labour	20
	EC4414	Macroeconomic Policy	20
	EC4415	Public Economics	20
	EC4416	Innovation Economics	20
		Financial Economics: Asset Pricing	20
		Financial Economics: Corporate Finance	20
	EC4419	Economics of Development	20
	EC4420	Inequality and Redistribution	20
		Political Economy	20
	EC4422	Communication and Public Engagement in Economics and Finance	5
		The Economics of Migration	20
		Econometrics of Impact Evaluation	20
		Practical Financial Modelling	20
	EC4427	Philosophy of Economics	20
		Portfolio Management	20
		Development and Finance	20
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Third year MESMESJJ3_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules
		A Survey of Islamic Art	30
	AH4050	Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book	30
		Conflict in the Middle East	30
	IR3301	Politics and State Formation in the Middle East	30
	IR3302	Democracy and Revolution in North Africa	30
		The Arab - Israeli Conflict	30
		The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics	30
		The Medieval Castle	30
		The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople	30
	ME3164	Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th)	30
	ME3602	The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives	30
	ME3608	Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750	30
		The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565	30
	ME3612	Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century	30
		Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200)	30
		Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shi忙ism in the Medieval Muslim World	30
		The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate	30
		The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722)	30
		The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700	30
		Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords)	30
	MO3381	French Algeria (1830-1962)	30
		Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution	30
	MO3386	Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911)	30
		Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s)	30
		From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century	30
		From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953	30
		A Survey of Islamic Art	30
	AH4050	Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

MA (Hons) Economics (Joint Honours): Fourth year ECNECNJJ4A_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: EC3301 - EC3350, EC4401 - EC4499, EC5201 - EC5203, ID4002
		Econometrics	20
		Decision and Game Theory	20
		Economic Growth	20
	EC3304	Mathematical Economics	20
		Incentives, Contracts and Markets	20
		Economic Fluctuations	20
	EC3307	Computational Economics	20
		Advanced Econometrics	20
		Economic History	20
		Health and Education	20
		Economics of the Environment	20
	EC4406	Experimental Economics	20
		Behavioural Economics	20
		Industrial Organisation and Regulations	20
		International Macroeconomics	20
		International Trade	20
	EC4411	Economics of Labour	20
	EC4414	Macroeconomic Policy	20
	EC4415	Public Economics	20
	EC4416	Innovation Economics	20
		Financial Economics: Asset Pricing	20
		Financial Economics: Corporate Finance	20
	EC4419	Economics of Development	20
	EC4420	Inequality and Redistribution	20
		Political Economy	20
	EC4422	Communication and Public Engagement in Economics and Finance	5
		The Economics of Migration	20
		Econometrics of Impact Evaluation	20
		Practical Financial Modelling	20
	EC4427	Philosophy of Economics	20
		Portfolio Management	20
		Development and Finance	20
		Research Project in Economics	20
		Dissertation in Economics	40
		Macroeconomics	20
		Microeconomics	20
		Econometric Methods and Applications	20
	ID4002	Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Access to EC5201 - EC5203 is only available with the permission of the Director of Teaching to students in the Second Year of an Honours Programme who have achieved at least 17.5 in a relevant module, namely, EC3303 or EC3306 for EC5201, EC3302 or EC3505 for EC5202, in EC4401 for EC5203

MA (Hons) Middle East Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth year MESMESJJ4_2021
	Code	Module name	Credits
(	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: Various Groupings of AH, IR, ME and MO Modules			AND
		A Survey of Islamic Art	30
	AH4050	Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book	30
		Conflict in the Middle East	30
	IR3301	Politics and State Formation in the Middle East	30
	IR3302	Democracy and Revolution in North Africa	30
		The Arab - Israeli Conflict	30
		The International, Modernity and Contemporary Gulf Politics	30
		The Medieval Castle	30
		The Imperial City: Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople	30
	ME3164	Archaeology of Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic Middle East: Architecture and Representations of Power (C4th-C12th)	30
	ME3602	The Crusades viewed from the other side: Muslim perspectives	30
	ME3608	Eastern Approaches: Early Medieval Armenia c. 500 - 750	30
		The Eastern Roman Empire in the Reign of Justinian 527 - 565	30
	ME3612	Cataclysm and Consolidation: the Reconfiguration of the Middle East in the Seventh Century	30
		Arabs, Persians and Turks in the Early Islamic East in the Age of the Caliphates (600 - 1200)	30
		Missionaries, Assassins and State-builders: Militant Shi忙ism in the Medieval Muslim World	30
		The Mamluks And The Mamluk Sultanate	30
		The Iranian World from the Timurids to the Safavids (1370 - 1722)	30
		The Ottoman Empire 1300 - 1700	30
		Persia in the 18th Century, 1722-1834 (Age of the Warlords)	30
	MO3381	French Algeria (1830-1962)	30
		Modern Iran from 1834-1941: Enlightenment, Nationalism & Revolution	30
	MO3386	Religion and State in Iran from the Rise of the Safavid dynasty until the Constitutional Movement (1501-1911)	30
		Gender and Sexuality in South Asia (1800s-2000s)	30
		From World War 2 to Thermidor: Iran in the Short 20th Century	30
		From Second World War to Cold War and Coup d'Etat: Iran Between 1941 and 1953	30
		A Survey of Islamic Art	30
	AH4050	Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: IR4099, IR4600 - IR4650, HI4997 - HI4999, HI4794			AND
		Honours Dissertation in International Relations	60
	IR4600	Ideologies and Social Movements in the Middle East	30
		Political Order and Violence in the Middle East	30
		International Relations of the Middle East	30
		Political Islam and International Relations	30
	IR4606	Propaganda, Persuasion and Information War in the Middle East	30
		Britain and Iraq 1914-2004	30
		Recording the Past	30
		Honours Project in History	30
		Honours Dissertation in History	30
		Joint Dissertation (30cr)	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996		)	OR
	ID4002	Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities	15
		Communication in History	15
		Presenting the Past	30
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
	Hide list View list	60 credits from Module List: ME4850 - ME4895, MO4850 - MO4895			AND
	ME4852	From Leo VI to Basil II: Byzantium in the Tenth Century	60
		Crusaders, Mongols and Mamluks: West and East in the Mid-Thirteenth Century	60
	ME4856	From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire	60
		The Mongol Empire and the Islamic World	60
		Britain and Iran in the Modern Era	60
	MO4852	Experiencing the Past in the Middle East	60
		Under a Bright Red Star: Iranian Marxism in the 20th Century	60
		Equality, Institutions and the Development of the Modern State	60
	Note: - Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester - Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Further requirements Choose 120 credits in academic year Access to HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee. With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101. Access to level 3000 and 4000 level IR modules requires permission from the Honours Advisers in Middle East Studies and International Relations. Students will normally be expected to have met the requirements for Honours entry to the School of International Relations.

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