Hello, I'm Dr. Michael Nolan,
and I'm a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Hull.
And I'd like to talk to you a bit about our economics undergraduate
degree, BSc Economics.
If you're thinking about studying economics as an undergraduate,
you're probably already aware that it's a very wide ranging subject.
Economics offers major insights about big policy questions
like the inflation that we've seen very recently,
or about economic growth and how that can be sustained whilst
allowing the human race to continue to live successfully on planet Earth,
or also on major societal issues like
inequality and poverty.
But economics also allows us
to think about our own individual decisions
that we make on a day to day basis in everyday life.
Amongst the distinctive aspects of the BSc Economics at the University of Hull
is the way we like to focus primarily
on the interesting economic issues
with the tools and analysis from economics being secondary
and very much in service of looking at the interesting issues themselves.
We enable students to find answers to important policy questions.
In doing this, we also like to give, where we can,
some choice as to the topics that they consider.
Our degrees are also relatively unusual compared to most UK economics degrees,
in that there is relatively little concentration on examinations.
Instead, our assessment is more focussed on a more authentic
representation of the sorts of task
employers might ask an economics graduate to undertake
to try and focus on a particular or address
a particular issue or problem.
If this approach to studying economics seems attractive, then we look forward to
welcoming you onto the BSc Economics at the University of Hull.