经济学家研究人们如何在生活中做出选择以及决策的后果。这意味着他们在个人和市场（微观经济学）和国民经济（宏观经济学）层面上关注消费者，工人，工业，商业和政府。该学位的重点是分析这些以及其他影响经济体生产的商品和服务，生产中使用的资源以及产出分配的因素。经济学还关注当代问题，例如世界市场的全球化，国际货币体系，工业私有化和经济管理，其中包括案例研究，演讲，小组工作和项目，以及带有教程支持的更正式的讲座。
Economists study how people make choices in life and the consequences of their decisions. This means that they are concerned with consumers, workers, industry, commerce and government at the level of the individual and the market (micro-economics) and the national economy (macroeconomics).The focus of this degree is to analyse how these and other factors influence the goods and services an economy produces, the resources it uses in production, and the distribution of its output. Economics also focuses on contemporary issues such as the globalisation of world markets, international monetary systems, privatisation of industry and the management of the economy which include case studies, presentations, group work and projects as well as the more formal lectures with tutorial support.