Economic History 2: the Global Economy since 1500 (U03890)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 8 ? Acronym : HCA-2-EH2

The course explores the rise of the global economy over the past 500 years. Our chief concerns are with the forces of economic globalization, in particular with the issues surrounding trade, and the international migration of labour, capital, and technology, and their impact on incomes throughout the world economy. Ultimately we seek to understand the processes of economic development, why economies grow and why some have grown more quickly than others, and how the connections within the world economy have stimulated or have retarded economic development over the past half-millennium. The work of the first semester considers the earlier foundations of the global economy 1500-1800 while semester 2 focuses on the rise of the global economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : A pass in a first level history course or Economics 1A, or Economic Principles and Applications.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Economic and Social History, (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Schedule E)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 2nd year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	11:10	12:00	Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	15:00	15:50	Central
Lecture	Tuesday	15:00	15:50	Central
Lecture	Thursday	15:00	15:50	Central

? Additional Class Information : The Monday lecture slot in semester 1 will be used for project-related work.
Plus tutorials, one each week, which will be time-tabled at the start of the course.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course it is intended that students should be able to demonstrate, by way of essays and the end of course examination:

- familiarity with the contours of world economic development since 1500.
- an understanding of the forces shaping economic development.
- awareness of the evidence on which the historical record is based.
- literary skills, and the ability to construct coherent argument and analysis.

and by way of tutorials, written assignments and examination, they should be able to develop and demonstrate:

- presentational and verbal skills.
- the ability to interpret and deploy descriptive quantitative data.

Assessment Information

Two essays worth 26% of final assessment and two shorter assignments worth 14% of final assessment. One 3-hour examination worth 60% of final assessment.