Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2015-16

Esta es la primera de las asignaturas de Microeconomía impartida a los estudiantes en el grado de Economía. Está programada para el primer cuatrimestre del primer año.

Se concibe esta asignatura a partir de contenidos principalmente conceptuales. En consecuencia se atenderá a desarrollar explicaciones que, manteniendo el rigor preciso de la materia, eviten el recurso a propuestas cuyos requerimientos analíticos superen los que previsiblemente atesoren los estudiantes.

El contenido de esta asignatura se dividide en seis secciones elementales. La primera de ellas tendrá un contenido introductorio; la segunda parte se centrará en el estudio de los mercados; en la tercera se abordan las virtudes de los mercados; la cuarta abordará el papel del sector público en la Economía; la quinta se centrará en el estudio de las empresas en los mercados competitivos; por último, la sexta parte profundizará en algunos temas avanzados en el ámbito de la Microeconomía.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2015-16

General Competences (CG)

  • CG3 : Capacity for self-learning.
  • CG5 : Capacity to take decisions by applying acquired knowledge to practical situations.
  • CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
  • CG9 : Capacity to synthesise.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA1 : Read and communicate in a foreign language in a professional environment, especially in English.
  • CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Contribute towards the correct management of resource allocation in both the private and public context.
  • 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.
  • CE12 : Be able to use the appropriate tools for the analysis, diagnosis and solution of economic questions and problems.
  • CE2 : Identify and anticipate relevant economic problems relating to resource allocation in general, in both the private and public context.
  • CE3 : Bring a rational approach to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
  • CE4 : Evaluate the consequences of different options for action and select the best one according to the objectives set.
  • CE9 : Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

  • Use analytical reasonings to pose economic problems and resolve them.
  • Comprise the paper of the prices in the economy and the determination of these in the distinct types of markets.
  • Comprise the basic principles of the market through the analysis of the offer and the demand.
  • See the relation between competitive markets and efficiency.
  • Enter the problematic of the open economies in his commercial and financial relations with other countries.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2015-16

  • Conocer los problemas básicos que estudia la Microeconomía: Asignación de recursos, eficiencia distributiva, mercados.
  • Entender el funcionamiento de los mercados así como las eventuales deficiencias de su actuación.
  • Entender el comportamiento racional de los agentes en entornos económicos.
  • Conocer las políticas públicas y sus instrumentos para resolver ineficiencias de los mercados.
  • Entender el funcionamiento de procesos de asignación en general.

 

 

General

Code: 35000
Lecturer responsible:
Alcalde Pérez, José
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