Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Economics with Art History

at New College of the Humanities United Kingdom

The central aim of our PPH program is to increase your understanding of, and ability to engage with, central questions, arguments, and texts in Philosophy, Politics and History, and to provide a lively sense of interrelations between these subjects. With the Philosophy, Politics & History BA (Hons) at NCH, history will be your major and you will study the other two as joint minors. In each year, you’ll study two courses in your major subject, and one course in each of the remaining two minor subjects.

Explore events through history and how they have been communicated from various perspectives and to varying degrees of truth. Develop your understanding of how history shapes our present-day political systems and economic infrastructure. Complement these studies with your Psychology minor, which trains you in the major areas of the contemporary scientific discipline, allowing you to understand how the personality dynamics and behavioural characteristics of key figures through history have played a part in shaping our modern world.

Our History with Psychology BA (Hons) allows you to realise the enormous variance of human experience, both individually and as societies.
Explore events through history and how they have been communicated from various perspectives and to varying degrees of truth. Develop your understanding of how history shapes our present-day political systems and economic infrastructure. Complement these studies with your Psychology minor, which trains you in the major areas of the contemporary scientific discipline, allowing you to understand how the personality dynamics and behavioural characteristics of key figures through history have played a part in shaping our modern world.

This innovative degree will give you critical thinking, communication and psychosocial expertise, transferable to careers in public and private sectors such as policymaking, marketing and communications, civil service and business.

The Art History with English BA (Hons) will allow you to study the full range of artistic expression. You’ll have the opportunity to interpret moments of history as manifested in works of art from antiquity to the contemporary, originating from as diverse cultures as Europe, China, and North America. Survey courses are combined with more media-specific subjects, such as architecture, landscapes, painting, and in English, a range of literary forms and critical responses to them.

Poised at the intersection of the humanities and technology, the MA Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence combines the exploration of theoretical and ethical issues related to computing, data, and information processing with opportunities to develop some of the data science skills that underpin recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Engaging an inherently fascinating subject-matter, this cutting-edge masters degree can equip you with a combination of analytical, technical, ethical, and communications skills that is highly sought by employers.

The MA Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence combines exploration of a range of philosophical issues, including ethical issues related to computer data, with opportunities to develop the skills and techniques of data science. Poised at the intersection of the humanities and technology, this innovative masters degree can equip you with the combination of thinking, communication, and technical skills currently sought by employers in sectors ranging from financial and professional services, to the creative industries, government and policy-making.

Presupposing no background in either philosophy or programming, it ensures students are equipped with the skills and knowledge needed for graduate study in philosophy, and offers opportunities to acquire relevant coding abilities, and knowledge of the techniques of data science that underpin recent advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence, should students so desire.

This degree programme enables you to study Art History and Philosophy for your combined honours degree. The study of Art History gives you the opportunity to see and interpret moments in history through their architecture and material culture. The central aim of the Philosophy minor is to bring clarity and rigour to your thinking and to advance your understanding of, and ability to engage with, fundamental philosophical questions, arguments, theories and texts.

Explore world culture without geographical or temporal limits, from Europe to China and antiquity to the modern-day while developing an understanding of the social and cultural behaviours which underlie the development of art over time across the world. This innovative degree will develop your critical thinking and analytical skills, both in response to visual culture and human behaviours, giving you an edge in an ever-changing employment market.

The Psychology minor explores fundamental principles, concepts, and issues in the major areas of contemporary scientific psychology, which informs your study of Art History by allowing you to dive into the social and cultural behaviours which underlie the development of art over time across the world.

This innovative degree will allow you to develop your critical thinking, analysis and applied skills, both in response to visual culture and human behaviours, giving you an edge in an ever-changing employment market.

Through your Economics major, you will learn to develop quantitative skills and study the structures which affect real-life decisions around the world. Your Data Science minor will complement your major by training you to analyse data and effectively extract useful information.

Develop quantitative skills and study the structures which affect real-life decisions around the world while looking closely at works of art, architecture and design, in order to understand their aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts.

Through your Economics major, you will learn to develop quantitative skills and study the structures which affect real-life decisions around the world. Your Art History minor will complement your major by training you to look closely at works of art, architecture and design, and to understand their aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts.

The Law with Politics & International Relations LLB (Hons) is a Qualifying Law Degree, covering all of the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board required areas of study to permit progression onto the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister.

The Law with Politics & International Relations LLB (Hons) will allow you to prepare for your career and follow your passions. In your degree, you will take all of the courses required for a Qualifying Law Degree, preparing you to take the professional training courses for qualification as a solicitor or barrister. Your Politics minor will enable you further to understand and analyse the relationship between the individual and the state, and the sources of state authority and forms of government.

Analyse political institutions and their actions effectively gaining a deeper understanding of states, how they interact with each other, and the comparisons between them, as well as learning about the wider structures which influence human well-being and wealth. Develop the quantitative skills needed to engage with academic economics as commonly practised.

The Politics & International Relations with Economics BSc will equip you to analyse political institutions and their actions effectively. You will gain a deeper understanding of states, how they interact with each other, and the comparisons between them, as well as learning about the wider structures which influence human well-being and wealth. You will also develop the quantitative skills needed to engage with academic economics as commonly practised. You will take a course in political theory, and compare that with your knowledge of current political institutions and the real-life economic events and decisions which take place within them.