Economics

The aims of all subjects in individuals and societies are to: Encourage the systematic and critical study of human experience and behaviour; physical, economic and social environments; the history and development of social and cultural institutions. Develop in the student the capacity to identify, analyse critically and evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society. Enable the student to collect, describe and analyse data used in studies of society, and to test hypotheses and interpret complex data and source material. Promote the appreciation of the way in which learning is relevant to both the culture in which the student lives and the culture of other societies. Develop an awareness in the student that human attitudes and opinions are widely diverse and that a study of society requires an appreciation of such diversity. Enable the student to recognize that the content and methodologies of the individuals and societies group are contestable and that their study requires the tolerance of uncertainty.