Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Economics and Business |
Grao en Economía |
Subjects |
The World Economy |
Methodologies |
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Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
Subject | The World Economy | Code | 611G01011 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Second | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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Methodologies | Description |
Introductory activities | Presentation of the course where it is explained to the students the syllabus (main content of the course), the basic tools for the measurement of the economy, the bibliography (sources that will be used during the course), and the requirements for the continuous assessment and the grading policy |
Document analysis | Introduction of the main databases, national and international ones, with relevant economic information for the analysis of the world economy to study the world economy |
Collaborative learning | Learning in work groups following a specific work strategy to achieve the previously established objectives |
Directed discussion | Oriented to debate, reflection, and discussion on issues related to the global economy in a context of globalization |
Workbook | Readings and synthesis of articles and reports of interest that the professor will propose for analysis and subsequent debate |
Oral presentation | Oral presentation of the tutored projects that will be orally presented and defended to the class |
Mixed objective/subjective test | Written test on the acquired knowledge of the subject |
Guest lecture / keynote speech | This teaching method will be used in order to provide the students with organized information on the fundamental knowledge related to the different topics |
Problem solving | Problems and exercises aimed to applying the basic tecniquees of economic analysis |
Seminar | Work in small groups in the classrooms either doing some follow-up tests or supervising the projects |
Supervised projects | There will be tutored group projects related to a topic of the syllabus that will be selected by the teacher. The steps to follow are: topic selection, documentation, index, periodical sessions with the teacher to follow-up, search and processing data and preparation of the oral presentation |
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