Competencies and objectives
- Course context for academic year 2023-24
- 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 2023-24
Course context for academic year 2023-24
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 body 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 textbook that will form the basis for this course is The Economy, by the CORE Project. This book is the result of a worldwide collaboration between researchers, educators, and students who are committed to bringing economic thinking and its social and political implications to a wider audience. Unlike more traditional introductory economics courses, this course will give special emphasis to real problems in society from a theoretical and empirical point of view. The course will go beyond the models traditionally studied in introductory courses, to familiarize the student with the most important ideas of modern economic thought.
The textbook is freely available online at www.core-econ.org in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Finnish.
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 2023-24
The aim of this course is to engage, challenge, and empower students with an understanding of economics. Students taking this course will acquire the tools to articulate reasoned views on pressing policy problems.
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