Economics and Philosophy

Can anyone studing it tell about course structure ? ( Is it more economics or philosophy ? How many lectures a week do you have ? etc. )

I enjoy philosophy, but I would like to focus on economics, is it possible at this course, or workload for philosophy is harsh ???
It is said on Notts webpage that:

"As a joint honours degree, this course comprises core modules in the Schools of Economics and Philosophy, and you will spend exactly half your time taking modules in each School."

how does it looks in real?

And finally, is it hard to transfer from eco&philosophy to straight economics ?

thank you in advance :biggrin:

Reply 1

GYinWL

bosejiu

how does it looks in real?

How does what look in real?

Reply 2

adz

Transferring is incredibly easy. I started off doing economics with german, but transferred to economics in the first few weeks. You'll just be doing a few modules from the economics department and a few from the philosophy department.

Reply 3

bosejiu

geoff_yin

How does what look in real?

I guess time split is not equal in fact, so I would like to know the proportion of time spend on economics modules and philopsophy modules ( for example - economics mod 7h/week, philosophy mod - 6h/week )

Reply 4

sssh

I don't know about workload for joint with economics, but I'm doing philosophy and english and you do seem to get a lot more work doing joint. But of course, I don't know how much reading you'll get for economics; maybe not as much as english?

You don't get many lectures for philosophy. You'll most likely have a two week timetable, so it's hard to work out per week, but in your first term for philosophy I can tell you that if the core modules stay the same as this year, you'll have four hours of lectures a week plus two hours of seminars every two weeks. The modules for first term philosophy are Self Mind and Body, Moral Philosophy and Logic.

It's generally fairly easy to transfer to one subject of your joint degree in your second year, or so I am told by my tutor. But if you decide you don't like philosophy in the first few weeks, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to catch up on missed work as you'll only have missed stuff from one economics module. I don't know about signing up to subsids though, it might be harder doing that after a few weeks as you'd have less choice.

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