Choosing Final Year Courses

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BA(Econ)

• Choosing Final Year Courses
• Examination Conventions

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Choice of Third Year Modules
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Areas of Study

• Accounting
• Finance
• Business Studies
• Criminology
• Development Studies
• Economic History

• Economics
• Politics
• Social Anthropology
• Sociology

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• Specified Law Courses
• Free Choice Units
• Maximum of 20 Credits

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Free Choice Units

• Use free choice options form to register with the
  School running the course see booklet for
  details
• Languages Only if taken in second year!

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• Total Credit Rating Of 120 for Honours
• Minimum of 50 Credits and Maximum of 70 Credits
  in Each Semester
• Maximum of 20 Credits from Second Year Courses if
  listed in Schedule 3
• (includes free choice and Law)

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• Single Honours
• At Least 80 Credits in One Area
• Joint Honours
• At Least 50 Credits in Each of Two Areas

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• Note Area Prerequisites
• Note Basic Courses
• Note Individual Course Prerequisites

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REGISTRATION

• Pre - Register online with Campus Solutions from
  20th July
• (but not for courses with prerequistes in
  which you have resits)
• Look out for Quotas Q
• Registration beginning of September
• Read Instructions in the booklet

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EXAM CONVENTIONS

• To pass the exam as a whole you need
• Passes in course units totalling 100 credits
  pass mark is 40
• An aggregate of 480 to compensate for the failed
  course units
• A minimum of 30 in any failed unit.

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In addition to passing exam as a whole

• Accounting and or Finance Students must pass core
  units
• Economics students must pass course or area
  prerequisites.

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Second Year Marks Count Towards Final Degree
Classification

• The average mark is weighted as 14 of the final
  degree classification
• Based on your first attempt!!

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Resits in August

• 24th Aug. 4th Sept.
• Keep this period free

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After ResitsStudents who have not passed the
year as a whole

• Ordinary Degree
• Average 40 in best 100 credits
• Pass 60 credits
• At least 30 in the remainder
• Resit for honours
• Pass 100 or 110 credits
• Exclusion

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• Check Exam Timetable
• ABSENCE FAIL

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• Exam Results are expected to be published in
  early July

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Illness or Other Problems

• Contact Shau Chan or Bernadette Julien in the
  Undergraduate Office in Arthur Lewis Building