Competencies and objectives

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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

  • 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