BSc (Hons) Economics Bachelor's degree at East London

Prepare yourself for the professional world by building key career skills that employers value. You'll explore career pathways, practise job application essentials, create a professional LinkedIn profile, and develop networking confidence through workshops and real-world activities. Supported by academic staff and career coaches, you'll reflect on your strengths, set goals, and build a strategy for personal development. Scenario-based learning, digital skills training, and guest speaker sessions

Strengthen your academic and professional skills while gaining a clear understanding of what university study demands. You'll work through real-world scenarios to build essential abilities in time management, research, digital literacy, and academic communication. Guided by industry experts and academic staff, you'll practise using digital platforms, refine your study techniques, and learn how to approach higher-level learning with confidence. With a focus on reflection and skill-building, you'l

Confidence with numbers is vital in today's professional world. This module builds your skills in interpreting data, solving practical problems, and using digital tools for analysis and visualisation. You'll work on tasks like calculating financial data, understanding averages, and applying basic probability to real business scenarios. Through guided workshops and digital practice, you'll become comfortable analysing information and using it to make decisions, an essential ability for higher ed

Communication is a key driver of business success. You'll learn to adapt your speaking and writing styles to different audiences, develop persuasive techniques, and refine your digital communication skills. Practical activities in scenario-based learning spaces, alongside industry speakers, will sharpen your professional voice. Through real-world tasks, you'll also practise active listening, negotiation, and effective teamwork. By the end of this module, you'll understand how powerful communicat

Understanding how businesses succeed requires a broad grasp of core functions like marketing, HR, finance, and operations. In this module, you'll explore how businesses operate within a competitive environment, how they innovate, and how they respond to external pressures. Interactive workshops, scenario-based tasks, and live projects bring business theory to life. By building critical thinking and applied business analysis skills, you'll create a strong foundation for future specialist business

The module aims to enable you to develop an understanding of the basic economic concepts, theories, ideas and tools and their real-world application.

The module aims to deepen your knowledge of relevant mathematical concepts and statistics used in the business world.

This module will introduce you to a variety of work organisations. You will also understand and explore the psychological, sociological and economic explanations of human behaviour in organisations.

This module will develop and prepare you for entry into the professional workplace or further studies in accounting and finance. As part of this module, you will learn and develop a sound basis of theory and principles, accounting techniques and skills necessary as a foundation for further study and practical experience in accounting.

This module will provide you with knowledge of the constitution and forms of business entities. You will understand the relevant principles of UK law and the legislation governing the formation, structure, and operation of a business and its obligations. As part of the module, you will explore the legal obligations of a professional practitioner and of a professional practice in respect of employees. As you study the module and attend the law clinic, you will be able to analyse problems confront

The module will equip you to succeed in both your studies and subsequent career. This includes the development of individual non-cognitive intelligence; digital proficiency; and cultural intelligence.

This module will deepen your understanding of economic concepts in the areas of microeconomics. This module introduces tools that are fundamental to all the various forms and extensions of economics and is extremely useful for making decisions in business, government, and everyday life.

This module will deepen your understanding of economic concepts in the areas of macroeconomics. This module introduces tools that are fundamental to all the various forms and extensions of economics and is extremely useful for making decisions in business, government, and everyday life.

This module considers the main theoretical and applied aspects of the finance discipline. The main aim is to deepen your understanding of the workings of national and international capital markets and the interaction between such markets and economic units, such as households, firms, and financial institutions.

This module is designed to expand your knowledge of contemporary developments over trading relations in an international sphere, with emphasis on different theoretical approaches as well as contemporary developments in the global financial system.

The module aims to provide a good understanding of the theoretical foundations of econometrics, and to equip you with the statistical tools to analyse empirical data.

This module will provide you with the opportunity to document the development of core employability skills and allow you to acquire tangible evidence to support your employability narrative at interviews.

The aim of this module is to present you with the principles and methods of behavioural economics, contrasting them with those of standard models. The module will also critically examine the rapidly growing literature in behavioural economics and explain the policy implications of behavioural approaches.

The aim of this module is to deepen your knowledge of how to predict macroeconomic and financial variables such as inflation, growth, consumption, and return on financial assets, and to create econometric models and programmes that can be used to forecast responses to economic and business policy. This course complements the knowledge acquired in the introductory course in data analysis and econometrics.

The module will develop a critical appreciation of issues related to globalisation, European integration and the power-shift to Asian economies, such as China and advance an understanding of monetary and financial institutions in macroeconomics and the way in which they interact with sovereign executives and democratic politics.

This module will develop your knowledge and understanding of research methods, with a focus on the economics domain. The heterogeneous nature of academic approaches deployed in these fields is explored, and various research methods and methodologies are examined and situated within an explicatory framework.

The module aims to develop a critical appreciation of the key principles of business ethics, corporate responsibility/citizenship and sustainability, and the relation of these to the workplace. It will encourage you to critique theories of management and leadership from the perspective of ethics.

This module will develop core employability skills and allow you to develop and demonstrate skills in (i) the analysis of a problem (ii) planning and organising a task, including time management (iii) exercising judgement in the light of observed and published data (iv) compiling a report, (v) teamwork and collaboration and (vi) use of appropriate technologies.