Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2022-23

Mathematics in Economics, in addition to providing important tools for modeling and solving economic problems, has promoted the development of Economics as a science. For this reason, algebra, calculus and other areas of mathematics have become part of the background that economists should be able to use systematically.

Mathematics II is the second mathematics subject programmed for the first year of the degree in Economics. As a continuation of the Mathematics I course, taken in the first term, it presents calculus tools, now with functions of several variables.

 

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG2 : Capacity for team work.
  • CG3 : Capacity for self-learning.
  • CG4 : Apply professional criteria based on the use of technical instruments to analyse problems.
  • CG5 : Capacity to take decisions by applying acquired knowledge to practical situations.
  • CG6 : Obtain important information from the data that is impossible for non-professionals to recognise.
  • CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
  • CG9 : Capacity for synthesis.

 

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, 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)

  • 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.
  • 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 of mathematical language and its application in the representation and interpretation of economic models.
  • To develop the ability to use mathematical reasoning and apply it to real situations in the economic world.
  • To be able to use computer techniques for problem solving.
  • To develop the ability to access the economic information provided by mathematical models.
  • To develop the capacity for the analysis and resolution of problems, both individually and in groups.
  • Knowledge and use of multivariable calculus tools and their interpretation/application in the economic world.
  • To develop the ability to use mathematical optimisation techniques, use of appropriate computer software and its application in the economic world.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2022-23

Mathematics II is devoted to the study of functions of several variables. The core of the subject is the study of mathematical optimization techniques applied to economic problems.

 

 

 

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General

Code: 35008
Lecturer responsible:
SUBIZA MARTINEZ, MARIA BEGOÑA
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