Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2020-21

This course will follow CORE’s textbook Economy, Society, and Public Policy (ESPP).

The textbook is freely available online at www.core-econ.org

In order to be well-governed, a democracy needs voters who are fluent in the language of economics and who can do some quantitative analysis of social and economic policy. We also need a well-trained cadre of researchers and journalists who have more advanced skills in these fields.

Many students in other disciplines are drawn to economics so that they can engage with policy debates on environmental sustainability, inequality, the future of work, financial instability, and innovation. But, when they begin the study of economics, they find that courses appear to have little to do with these pressing policy matters, and are designed primarily for students who want to study the subject as their major, or even for those going on to post-graduate study in the field.

The result: policy-oriented students often find they have to choose between a quantitative and analytical course of study¿—economics¿—that is only minimally policy oriented in content and that downplays the insights of other disciplines, or a policy and problem-oriented course of study that gives them little training in modelling or quantitative scientific methods.

Economy, Society, and Public Policy changes this.

This textbook is the result of a worldwide colla­boration among researchers, educators, and students who are committed to bringing the socially relevant insights of economics to a broader audience.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2020-21

Transversal Competences

  • CT1 : Capacitats informàtiques i informacionales
  • CT2 : Ser capaç de comunicar-se correctament tant de forma oral com a escrita
  • CT3 : Capacitat d'anàlisi i síntesi
  • CT4 : Capacitat d'organització i planificació

 

General Competences

  • CG2 : Valorar amb esperit crític la realitat internacional i els seus problemes específics
  • CG3 : Usar l'anglès amb propietat segons la terminologia científica i acadèmica pròpia de les relacions internacionals
  • CG4 : Obtenir i gestionar la informació relativa a l'àmbit de les relacions internacionals
  • CG7 : Adquirir la capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom

 

Specific Competences

  • CE11 : Identificar i comprendre les dades macroeconòmiques i els principals fluxos econòmics per a analitzar la conjuntura econòmica mundial.
  • CE13 : Conèixer el paper que les empreses multinacionals exerceixen en les organitzacions internacionals i en les relacions internacionals en general.
  • CE3 : Diferenciar les diferents competències i funcions de l'Estat, les organitzacions internacionals i els actors no estatals en el sistema internacional.
  • CE7 : Comprendre els fonaments teòrics generals de l'economia i de l'estructura econòmica internacional.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2020-21

This course has been created specifically for students from social science and other disciplines, who are not economics majors. The aim of this course is to engage, challenge, and empower you with an understanding of economics. Students taking this course will acquire the tools to articulate reasoned views on pressing policy problems.

 

 

General

Code: 28204
Lecturer responsible:
CUEVA HERRERO, CARLOS
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