Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2018-19
- Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
- Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
- Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2018-19
Course context for academic year 2018-19
In this course you will learn economics principles by first participating in experimental classroom markets and then studying the related economic theory and applications. The subject of economics is ideally suited to an experimental approach. By participating in economic experiments, you will be able to observe economic principles in action. After you have participated in an experiment and recorded the results, I will present economic theories designed to explain what happened in the laboratory. With the data collected from the classroom experiments, you can discover how well or how badly each theory works in predicting the experimental outcome. With this motivation, theories come to life and once they seem real, they become interesting.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
Transversal Competences
- CT1 : Capacidades informáticas e informacionales
- CT2 : Ser capaz de comunicarse correctamente tanto de forma oral como escrita
- CT3 : Capacidad de análisis y síntesis
- CT4 : Capacidad de organización y planificación
General Competences
- CG2 : Valorar con espíritu crítico la realidad internacional y sus problemas específicos
- CG3 : Usar el inglés con propiedad según la terminología científica y académica propia de las relaciones internacionales
- CG4 : Obtener y gestionar la información relativa al ámbito de las relaciones internacionales
- CG7 : Adquirir la capacidad de aprendizaje autónomo
Specific Competences
- CE11 : Identificar y comprender los datos macroeconómicos y los principales flujos económicos para analizar la coyuntura económica mundial.
- CE13 : Conocer el papel que las empresas multinacionales desempeñan en las organizaciones internacionales y en las relaciones internacionales en general.
- CE3 : Diferenciar las distintas competencias y funciones del Estado, las organizaciones internacionales y los actores no estatales en el sistema internacional.
- CE7 : Comprender los fundamentos teóricos generales de la economía y de la estructura económica internacional.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2018-19
You will come to appreciate the great power and some of the shortcomings of economic theory in explaining the economic world in which we live.
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