(BA) Bachelor of Arts
Economics with Italian
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University of Essex
University of Essex
Economics
Colchester Campus
Honours Degree
Full-time
Economics
BA L1R3
08/05/2024
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Professional accreditation
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Admission criteria
- GCSE: Mathematics B/5.
- A-levels: BBB - BBC or 120 - 112 UCAS tariff points from a minimum of 2 full A-levels.
- BTEC: DDM - DMM or 120 - 112 UCAS tariff points from a minimum of the equivalent of 2 full A-levels. The acceptability of BTECs is dependent on subject studied and optional units taken - email ugquery@essex.ac.uk for advice.
- Combined qualifications on the UCAS tariff: 120 - 112 UCAS tariff points from a minimum of 2 full A levels or equivalent. Tariff point offers may be made if you are taking a qualification, or mixture of qualifications, from the list on our undergraduate application information page.
- IB: 30 - 29 points or three Higher Level certificates with 555-554. Our Maths requirement can be met with either: 5 in Standard level Maths; 3 in Higher level Maths; or 5 in IB Middle Years Maths.
- IB Career-related Programme: We consider combinations of IB Diploma Programme courses with BTECs or other qualifications. Advice on acceptability can be provided, email Undergraduate Admissions.
- QAA-approved Access to HE Diploma: 6 level 3 credits at Distinction and 39 level 3 credits at Merit, depending on subject studied - advice on acceptability can be provided, email Undergraduate Admissions.
- T-levels: We consider T-levels on a case-by-case basis, depending on subject studied. The offer for most courses is Distinction overall. Depending on the course applied for there may be additional requirements, which may include a specific grade in the Core.
Contextual Offers:
We are committed to ensuring that all students with the merit and potential to benefit from an Essex education are supported to do so. For October 2024 entry, if you are a home fee paying student residing in the UK you may be eligible for a Contextual Offer of up to two A-level grades, or equivalent, below our standard conditional offer.
Factors we consider:
- Applicants from underrepresented groups
- Applicants progressing from University of Essex Schools Membership schools/colleges
- Applicants who attend a compulsory admissions interview
- Applicants who attend an Offer Holder Day at our Colchester or Southend campus
Our contextual offers policy outlines additional circumstances and eligibility criteria.
For further information about what a contextual offer may look like for your specific qualification profile, email ugquery@essex.ac.uk.
If you haven't got the grades you hoped for, have a non-traditional academic background, are a mature student, or have any questions about eligibility for your course, more information can be found on our undergraduate application information page. or get in touch with our Undergraduate Admissions Team.
IELTS (International English Language Testing System) code
English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall, or specified score in another equivalent test that we accept.
Details of English language requirements, including component scores, and the tests we accept for applicants who require a Student visa (excluding Nationals of Majority English Speaking Countries) can be found here
If we accept the English component of an international qualification it will be included in the academic levels listed above for the relevant countries.
English language shelf-life
Most English language qualifications have a validity period of 5 years. The validity period of Pearson Test of English, TOEFL and CBSE or CISCE English is 2 years.
If you require a Student visa to study in the UK please see our immigration webpages for the latest Home Office guidance on English language qualifications.
Pre-sessional English courses
If you do not meet our IELTS requirements then you may be able to complete a pre-sessional English pathway that enables you to start your course without retaking IELTS.
Pending English language qualifications
You don’t need to achieve the required level before making your application, but it will be one of the conditions of your offer.
If you cannot find the qualification that you have achieved or are pending, then please email ugquery@essex.ac.uk
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Requirements for second and final year entry
Different requirements apply for second and final year entry, and specified component grades are also required for applicants who require a visa to study in the UK. Details of English language requirements, including UK Visas and Immigration minimum component scores, and the tests we accept for applicants who require a Student visa (excluding Nationals of Majority English Speaking Countries) can be found here
Additional Notes
If you’re an international student, but do not meet the English language or academic requirements for direct admission to this degree, you could prepare and gain entry through a pathway course. Find out more about opportunities available to you at the University of Essex International College
Course qualifiers
A course qualifier is a bracketed addition to your course title to denote a specialisation or pathway that you have achieved via the completion of specific modules during your course. The
specific module requirements for each qualifier title are noted below. Eligibility for any selected qualifier will be determined by the department and confirmed by the final year Board of
Examiners. If the required modules are not successfully completed, your course title will remain as described above without any bracketed addition. Selection of a course qualifier is
optional and student can register preferences or opt-out via Online Module Enrolment (eNROL).
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Rules of assessment
Rules of assessment are the rules, principles and frameworks which the University uses to calculate your course progression and final results.
Additional notes
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External examiners
External Examiners provide an independent overview of our courses, offering their expertise and help towards our continual improvement of course content, teaching, learning, and assessment.
External Examiners are normally academics from other higher education institutions, but may be from the industry, business or the profession as appropriate for the course.
They comment on how well courses align with national standards, and on how well the teaching, learning and assessment methods allow students to develop and demonstrate the relevant knowledge and skills needed to achieve their awards.
External Examiners who are responsible for awards are key members of Boards of Examiners. These boards make decisions about student progression within their course and about whether students can receive their final award.
Programme aims
1. To provide students with an academic training in the principles of economics.
2. To achieve at least level 5 proficiency in Italian, including: ability to understand a wide range of advanced authentic written and spoken materials, and to analyse and synthesise them and respond to questions on them; command of a range of styles and registers in spoken and written Italian; ability to present ideas and argue in a fluent and coherent manner; substantial vocabulary and command of a substantial range of idiomatic expressions; ability to translate specific types of text from Italian into English and conversely.
3. To provide students with an awareness of the quantitative methods appropriate for knowledge of economic principles and applied economics.
4. To foster in students an appreciation of the appropriate level of abstraction and simplification needed to explore a range of economic issues.
5. To encourage in students the acquisition of autonomous study skills and the adoption of an investigative approach to tackle economic problems.
6. To develop in students the ability to construct logical arguments, to communicate arguments clearly in writing, and to appreciate, evaluate and respond to potentially conflicting interpretations of economic phenomena.
7. To provide students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills constructively to one or more specialist areas of economics and the associated policies.
8. To allow students, through the study of economics, to acquire critical, analytical and research skills, problem-solving skills, and transferable skills.
9. To provide students with a foundation for further studies in economics and allied disciplines.
Learning outcomes and learning, teaching and assessment methods
On successful completion of the programme a graduate should demonstrate knowledge and skills as follows:
A: Knowledge and understanding
A1: Knowledge of the fundamental principles of economics, including microeconomics and macroeconomics.
A2: Understanding of the application of economic reasoning to the study of relevant problems and policies.
A3: Knowledge of the mathematical methods needed to comprehend economic principles.
A4: Awareness of the sources of economic information and/or knowledge and understanding of sources available for historical research.
A5: Knowledge of statistical methods needed for the analysis of economic issues.
A6: Appreciation of one or more specialist areas of economics in depth.
A7: An appropriate level of phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, pragmatic and discourse competence in Italian, and ability to undertake translation, and creative writing.
A8: Knowledge of linguistic concepts and metalanguage used to describe and analyse Italian, and techniques used to analyse texts and other authentic materials in Italian from a variety of perspectives.
A9: Knowledge of aspects of Italian culture and society, and ability to compare and contrast relevant aspects of that culture with one's own.
Learning methods
Economics Lectures are the principal method of delivery for the principles, concepts and arguments in A1-A6.
Students are also assigned readings from textbooks, academic journal papers, unpublished research papers and on-line resources.
Students’‘‘‘ understanding is reinforced by classes, especially for outcomes A1, A2, A3, A5.
Laboratory sessions are provided to support learning of quantitative methods (A5).
Individual supervision of the final year project provides additional support especially for outcomes A4 and A6, and reinforces A2, A3, A5.
Lectures and classes in final year courses are particularly important to enable students to achieve A6.
Italian Classes are the main method of delivery for A7, A8 and A9.
Students’‘‘‘ knowledge is reinforced via laboratory work (A7), group discussions (A7, A8, A9), use of computer software packages (including web-based materials) (A7) and individual staff contact during office hours or via email (A7, A8, A9).
Assessment methods
Economics Achievement of knowledge and understanding is assessed through marked assignments (A1, A2), tests (A1, A2, A3, A5), term papers (A1, A2, A4, A6), project work (A1-A6) and unseen closed-book examinations (A1, A2, A3, A5, A6).
Learning outcomes A2, A4 are assessed by tests and unseen closed-book examinations.
Learning outcome A6 is assessed by term papers and unseen closed-book examinations particularly in final year, EC3xx, economics courses.
Learning outcome A4 is assessed especially via term papers (in second year and final year economics courses) and the final year project.
Italian Coursework and final examinations formally assess skills A7, A8, A9.
These methods are complemented with role-plays (A7), oral class presentations (A7, A8, A9), class tests (A7), book reports (A8, A9) and project work (A7, A8, A9).
B: Intellectual and cognitive skills
B1: Analyse a specified problem and choose the most suitable methods for its solution.
B2: Assess the relative merits of a range of theories, techniques and tools needed to articulate arguments and policies.
B3: Synthesise and interpret information from a range of sources (lectures, classes, journals, books, etc.) developing a critical evaluation of the importance and relevance of the sources to an area of study.
B4: Construct reasoned, informed and concise descriptions and assessments of economic ideas.
B5: Abstract and synthesise information from a variety of authentic written and spoken materials in Italian.
B6: Analyse texts and other authentic Italian materials from a variety of perspectives.
B7: Engage in rational debate in (written and spoken forms of) Italian, expressing one's own ideas (and responding to those put forward by others).
Learning methods
Economics Students’‘ acquisition of intellectual and cognitive skills, B1-B4, is enabled primarily through lectures and further sustained via classes.
Outcome B1 is developed particularly in exercises designed for core economic theory, mathematical methods and quantitative methods classes.
Outcomes B2, B3 and B4 are key elements in students’‘ preparation for assignments.
Individual project supervision and guidance for term paper study are especially important in providing opportunities for students to acquire B2, B3 and B4.
Italian Outcomes B1, B3, B5 and B6 are developed primarily through preparation of coursework and for final examinations, lectures, classes and staff guidance in office hours or via email.
Outcomes B5, B6, B7 are sustained through class-based discussion, group discussion, oral presentations, role-plays and staff guidance in office hours or via email
Assessment methods
Economics Achievement of intellectual/cognitive skills is assessed through marked assignments (especially B1 and B3), tests (especially B1), term papers (especially B2, B3, B4), project work (especially B2, B3 and B4) and unseen closed-book examinations (especially B1, B2 and B4).
Italian Skills B1, B3, B5 and B6 are assessed via written coursework and written examinations.
Achievement of skill B7 is assessed primarily though listening tests, reading comprehension tests and oral examinations/presentations.
These forms of assessment are also relevant for skills B5 and B6.
C: Practical skills
C1: Identify, select and gather information, using the relevant sources.
C2: Organise ideas in a systematic way.
C3: Present economic and/or historical ideas and arguments coherently in writing.
C4: Use and apply economic terminology and concepts.
C5: Organising and presenting ideas in Italian in written and oral forms, including taking notes and producing a range of materials (e.g. social and business letters, summaries, reports, etc.) in Italian.
Learning methods
Economics Skill C1 is developed via directed reading from textbooks and academic journal articles together with searches for online materials.
Skill C2 is acquired during lectures and classes, and as a consequence of studying course materials.
Skill C3 is articulated in the preparation of assignments and term papers.
Skill C4 is developed in classes and is emphasised in the preparation of assignments, term papers and projects.
Italian C1 and C2 are developed during class based instruction and in contact with teachers during office hours and via email.
C5 is acquired in class-based instruction and in contact with teachers during office hours and via email.
Assessment methods
Economics Achievement of practical skills C1, C3 and C4 is assessed directly through marked assignments, tests, term papers, project work and unseen closed-book examinations.
Skill C2 is assessed indirectly via assignments, term papers, projects and final examinations.
Italian Skills C1 and C2 are directly assessed directly through written coursework and unseen final examinations.
Skills C2 and C5 are assessed indirectly via coursework and final examinations, and directly via oral examinations and presentations.
D: Key skills
D1: Communication in writing, using appropriate terminology and technical language:
(a) the articulation of economic theories,
(b) the description of economic evidence,
(c) the critical assessment of economic arguments and policies
D3: Understanding of quantitative methods, an awareness of the contexts in which the methods are relevant and a knowledge of how they are applied in practice to analyse economic data.
D4: Understanding of how economic reasoning is used to address problems involving opportunity cost, incentives, households' and firms' decision-making, strategic thinking, expectations and market outcomes in equilibrium and disequilibrium.
D6: Capacity to:
(a) organise and implement a plan of independent study;
(b) reflect on his or her own learning experience and adapt in response to feedback; and
(c) recognise when he or she needs to learn more and appreciate the role of additional research
Learning methods
Economics Students are guided in lectures, classes and individual advice from teachers in acquiring skills D1, D3, D4, D6.
Skills D3 and D4 are reinforced through the quantitative methods course and courses in theoretical and applied economics.
Skill D6 is enhanced as students reflect upon the knowledge they need when researching term papers and their final year projects.
Italian D1: class discussion; written coursework.
D6: coursework, independent learning.
Only minimal formally assessed requirements for the completion of the programme are listed here.
In reality, the overwhelming majority of BA Economics with Italian students acquire a much broader range of key skills, and at greater depth, in ways that are integrated seamlessly throughout their studies of the subject.
Assessment methods
Economics Skills D1 and D4 are assessed through marked assignments, tests, term papers, projects and unseen closed-book examinations.
Skill D3 is assessed particularly through tests and unseen closed-book examinations for quantitative methods courses.
Skill D6 is assessed indirectly through students' capacity to construct submitted work (assignments, term papers and projects for which feedback is given) and their study plans for unseen tests and examinations.
Italian D1: written coursework/exams; oral presentations D6: regular assessed coursework/exams.