Economics and Management Studies (with a professional placement year) BSc (Hons)

Modules

• Year 1 at Sussex

  Your modules

  Core modules

  Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

  Autumn teaching

  • Digital, Data and Decision-Making Skills
  • Introduction to Economics
  • Introduction to Mathematics for Finance and Economics
  • Sustainable Business Management

  Spring teaching

  • Business School Career Preparation
  • Introduction to Marketing
  • Macroeconomics 1
  • Microeconomics 1
  • Principles of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

  Your degree

  Combining practical management knowledge with analytical economics skills, you’ll gain a competitive edge in your future management career. You’ll explore different perspectives on issues, such as the role of investment within the economy and its influence on the business cycle.

  Teaching

  Teaching methods typically include lectures, seminars and workshops.

  

  50%: Lecture
  40%: Seminar
  10%: Practical

  Assessment

  Assessment methods typically include examinations and coursework.

  Contact hours and workload

  This year of study includes approximately 1,200 hours of work. This breaks down into about 260 hours of contact time and about 940 hours of independent study.

  Engage and actively participate throughout your studies to get the most out of your course.

• Year 2 at Sussex

  Your modules

  Core modules

  Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

  Autumn teaching

  • Information Systems in the Digital Age
  • Macroeconomics 2
  • Managing Operations
  • Microeconomics 2

  Spring teaching

  • Introduction to Statistics (L5)
  • Management of Innovation
  • Managing Digital Work

  Options

  Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

  While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

  Spring teaching

  • Advanced Macroeconomics
  • Advanced Microeconomics
  • Environmental Economics

  Your degree

  You’ll learn the principles of economics and their application to a range of practical and topical issues. You’ll also gain a solid grounding in diverse aspects of management and understand the context in which modern business is conducted.

  Teaching

  Teaching methods typically include lectures, seminars and workshops.

  

  50%: Lecture
  40%: Seminar
  10%: Practical

  Assessment

  Assessment methods typically include examinations and coursework.

  Contact hours and workload

  This year of study includes approximately 1,200 hours of work. This breaks down into about 260 hours of contact time and about 940 hours of independent study.

  Engage and actively participate throughout your studies to get the most out of your course.

• Placement

  Placement (optional)

  To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optional placement as part of your course. You’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. Our dedicated careers team can provide you with information and advice. If you’re successful in obtaining a placement, this will form part of your course.

  Find out more about placements and internships

  Our careers team offers dedicated support to help you obtain a placement, including:

  • finding an employer
  • drafting an application
  • preparing for interviews
  • ongoing help throughout a placement.

  Don’t worry if you’re not successful in securing a placement, you’ll simply transfer to a non-placement version of your course.

  Please note that if you’re receiving – or applying for – USA federal Direct Loan funds, you can’t undertake your placement in the USA if the number of credits for the placement/internship exceeds 25% of the total credits for your course. Find out more about American Student Loans and Federal Student Aid

• Year 3 at Sussex

  Your modules

  Core modules

  Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

  Autumn teaching

  • Strategy

  Options

  Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

  While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

  Autumn teaching

  • Climate Change Economics
  • Digital Transformation and AI in Business
  • Economics of European Integration
  • Entrepreneurship and Small Firms (ENT)
  • Experimental Economics: Markets, Games And Strategic Behaviour
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Industrial Organization
  • International Trade
  • Labour Economics
  • Leadership for Sustainable Impact
  • Monetary Theory and Policy
  • Topics in Growth and Inequality

  Spring teaching

  • Behavioural Economics
  • Economics of Crime
  • Economics of Education
  • Economics of Sports
  • Enterprise in the Circular Economy
  • Ethics and Organisations: Responsibility and Justice
  • Financial Economics
  • International Human Resource Management (HRM)
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship
  • The British Economy in the Twentieth Century
  • The Economics of Development

  Your degree

  You’ll develop communication, analytical, management and numeracy skills. These skills mean you could go into a range of management positions in local and global organisations, government, banks, consultancies, marketing companies, as well as insurance and accounting firms.
  

  Teaching

  Teaching methods typically include lectures, seminars and workshops.

  

  50%: Lecture
  40%: Seminar
  10%: Practical

  Assessment

  Assessment methods typically include examinations and coursework.

  Contact hours and workload

  This year of study includes approximately 1,200 hours of work. This breaks down into about 260 hours of contact time and about 940 hours of independent study.

  Engage and actively participate throughout your studies to get the most out of your course.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

We’ll do our best to provide as much optional choice as we can, but timetabling constraints mean it may not be possible to take some module combinations. The structure of a small number of courses means that the order of modules or the streams you choose may determine whether modules are core or optional. This means that your core modules or options may differ from what’s shown here.