Dr M Bray, STC. S476 and others

This course is for MSc Economics, MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, MSc Economics and Philosophy, MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Management and Economics, MRes/PhD Economics, and for other graduate students taking EC-prefixed courses, with the permission of the course tutor. Students on MSc Economics and Philosophy do not take Mathematics for Macroeconomics unless they plan to take a macroeconomics course as part of their MSc.

The aim of this pre-sessional course is to provide students with the essential mathematical, statistical, economic and econometric background for the core Economics courses of these programmes.

The course starts with mathematics revision sessions and progresses to sections covering mathematics for microeconomics, mathematics for macroeconomics, and probability and statistics.

MSc Finance and Economics students attend lectures on quantitative methods for finance instead of the mathematics for macroeconomics.

MSc Management and Economics students attend lectures on literacy in accounting instead of the mathematics for macroeconomics.

Approximately 25 hours lectures and 36 hours classes during September.

Students will be advised of recommended readings in the Summer.

Students will be required to complete a set of self-testing exercises during the course. At the end of the course, students will be examined in mathematics for microeconomics and macroeconomics, and in probability and statistics.

Students on MSc Management and Economics and MSc Finance and Economics are examined on statistics, and two mathematics modules (revision mathematics and mathematics for microeconomics).

All other students are examined on statistics, and three mathematics modules (revision mathematics, mathematics for microeconomics and mathematics for macroeconomics).