Teaching & modules
Modules
Required Modules
You are required to take the following modules:
- Advanced Microeconomics (15 credits)
- Advanced Econometrics (15 credits)
- Advanced Macroeconomics (15 credits)
- Evaluating Public Policy (15 credits)
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Optional Modules
You will take an additional 60 credits from a range of optional modules that may typically include:
- Internship module
- Development Economics
- The Political Economy of Corruption (15 credits)
- Causal Inference (15 credits)
- Ethics and Public Policy (15 credits)
- Institutions and Economic Development (15 credits)
- Experimental Economics (15 credits)
- Political Economy of Discrimination (15 credits)
- The Political Effects of Extreme Weather Events (15 credits)
- Managing the UK economy: Fiscal and monetary policy since 1945 (15 credits)
- Identity Economics (15 credits)
- Topics in Applied Microeconomics (15 credits)
- From Blair to Brexit: Britain since 1997 (15 credits)
- Political Economy of the Global South (15 credits)
- Economic History (15 credits)
- Political Economy of Discrimination (15 credits)
- Economics of AI (15 credits)
Students may select as options up to 30 credits of other level 7 modules offered by Faculties in King’s College London, with the approval of the programme director. These Faculties include; Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, King's Business School, and Dickson Poon School of Law.
Structure
Full-Time Programme:
- 4 x 15 credit compulsory modules (Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Evaluating Public Policy, Advanced Macroeconomics)
- 1 x 60 credit core dissertation
- At least 2 x15 credit modules from a prescribed list and 2 further optional modules
Part-Time Programme:
Year One:
- Year 1 - 4 x 15 credit compulsory modules (Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Evaluating Public Policy, Advanced Macroeconomics)
- A choice of 2 x 15 credit modules from a prescribed list
or 2 x 15 credit optional modules
or 1 x 15 credit module from a prescribed list and 1 x optional module.
Year Two:
- Year 2 - 1 x 60 credit core dissertation;
- 2 x 15 credits as year 1 so long as at least 2 x 15 credits from the prescribed list are taken across the programme.
- Optional modules will only be taken from an approved module list unless permitted.
Optional modules are subject to availability. Not all modules are available every year.
Typically, one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Teaching methods - what to expect
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written examinations. Assessment patterns will vary across modules, but examples of typical assessments for 15-credit modules would be a 3,000-word referee report, presentations on original work using the tools taught in the module, or a 2-hour unseen examination.
The assessment of the dissertation module will be through a 1,000 word research proposal (10%) and a 10,000-word dissertation (90%). Dissertations are expected to be quantitative and use the tools taught in the degree.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/Practical Examinations
- Assessed Essays
- Presentations
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include written examinations, coursework, assessed essays and presentations. You may also benefit from some informal assessment during individual modules to help steer your studies and enhance your learning.