This degree builds on a foundation of economic theory and the necessary mathematics and statistics in the foundation units. It deepens that intellectual platform in the further  units that are available: a wide choice of more specialised options including economic policy, and the application of economic theory to particular topics. Depending on your choice of units, the study of economics will give you greater understanding both of particular areas such as public economics, international trade or economic development, and of the broader behaviour of economies. While much of the subject is settled territory one of the excitements of economics is that it remains work in progress, as the recent international economic crisis makes clear.