Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

It is the second mathematics subject scheduled for the first course. As a continuation of Mathematics I, taken in the first term, it presents Calculus tools, now with functions of several variables. The core of the subject contains optimization techniques applied to economic and business problems.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

General Competences (CG)

  • CG2 : Capacity to work in a team.
  • CG3 : Capacity for self-learning.
  • CG4 : Apply professional criteria based on using technical instruments to analyse problems.
  • CG5 : Capacity to take decisions by applying acquired knowledge to practical situations.
  • CG6 : Obtain important information that is impossible for non-professionals to recognise from the data.
  • 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.
  • CGUA2 : Use computer tools and information and communications technology as a matter of course throughout one's professional career.
  • CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE11 : Understand the most common strategic analysis tools for analysing companies in their context.
  • CE12 : Understand and apply different economic analysis tools to study companies in their context.
  • CE2 : Integrate oneself in any functional area of a small, medium or large company or organisation and carry out all the management tasks involved without problems.
  • CE3 : Valorar a partir de los registros relevantes de información la situación y previsible evolución de una empresa.
  • CE6 : Understand economic institutions as the result and application of theoretical or formal representations of how the economy works.
  • CE7 : Ser capaz de aplicar diversos instrumentos técnicos de marketing e investigación comercial al análisis de la empresa en su entorno.
  • CE8 : Use accounts to analyse a company in its context by using different technical instruments.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

After completing this course, students should have developed a clear understanding of the use of mathematical techniques to solve optimization problems that arise in Economics and Business.

 

 

General

Code: 22005
Lecturer responsible:
Peris Ferrando, Josep Enric
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Area: FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught