Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2011-12
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Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2011-12
General Competences (CG)
- CG1 : Capacity to find and analyse information.
- CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
- CG9 : Capacity to synthesise.
General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)
- CGUA2 : Use computer, I.T. and communications technology tools as a matter of course in all of one's professional activities.
- CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.
Specific Competences (CE)
- CE10 : Capacity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired to solve theoretical and applied economic problems.
- CE11 : Analytical skills for developing theoretical frameworks that simplify study of the real economy and the capacity to set appropriate levels of abstraction when studying different economic questions.
- CE3 : Bring a rational approach to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
- CE5 : Issue expert reports on specific economic situations (international, national or regional) or on sectors of the same.
- CE6 : Draft economic management projects at international, national or regional level.
- CE8 : Identify the sources of relevant economic information and their content.
- CE9 : Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- To develop the ability to analyse an individual’s labour supply as the result of the optimum division of time between work and leisure.
- To understand the acquisition of education as an investment in human capital, and its influence on the current and future labour supply.
- To develop the ability to analyse a company’s demand for work as the result of a resource optimisation problem.
- To understand how salaries are fixed and labour efficiency when mobility is perfect and markets are competitive.
- To understand the role of the State and trade unions in the labour market: understanding how fiscal policy, labour regulation and collective bargaining can influence employment levels.
- To understand how the labour market works from both a microeconomic and a macroeconomic standpoint.
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2011-12
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General
Code:
35035
Lecturer responsible:
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Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
1,50
Practical credits:
0,90
Distance-base hours:
3,60
Departments involved
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Dept:
FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Area: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Theoretical credits: 1,5
Practical credits: 0,9
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
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DEGREE IN ECONOMICS
Course type: OPTIONAL (Year: 4)