Politics and Economics and complimentary subjects, and our BA degree pulls together existing teaching and research expertise in both these areas. Our course allows students to focus on important issues surrounding the influence of power, governance, sovereignty, conflict, order, mediation, obligation, justice, accountability, legitimacy, security, and decision-making. Students who follow this programme will be introduced to interdisciplinary approaches to the discussions of theoretical, philosophical, institutional and issue-based concerns revolving around governance.

Alongside the Politics strand of this degree, students will also consider economic issues at local, national and international levels. Students will develop an awareness of applications of economics in areas including business management, finance and public policy.

Internships

Bangor University runs a paid internship scheme within the university’s academic and service departments.

Career

This course will prepare students for a range of employment options – especially in fields which require skills of communication, analyzing large quantities of information, and understanding issues of governance and society. Possible future career options may include local and/or national government, teaching, management and administration. This course will also be an excellent foundation prior to further postgraduate study, such as a Masters degrees in politics.

Staff in Bangor Business School have extensive links with industry, being at the top of their fields for research, widely published in books and leading journals and even conducting high level consultancy work for leading organisations such as the World Bank and the UK Treasury. This means that no matter what you go on to after graduating, you will leave Bangor with a degree that is current, relevant and in sync with the latest developments in the business and financial industries.