Teaching GuideTerm
Faculty of Economics and Business
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Grao en Economía
 Subjects
  The World Economy
   Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Supervised projects A2 A3 B7 Continuous asessments: The projects will include different topics, quantitative analysis and explanation of the methodology used. The projects will be supervised by the teacher before the oral presentation 20
Mixed objective/subjective test A9 A12 C1 C3 The mixed test corresponds to the final written exam to evaluate the level of knowledge that the student has acquired at the end of the course. 40
Oral presentation A12 C1 Continuous assessment: part of the course work related to oral presentations. 20
Workshop A3 A9 A12 B6 B8 C3 C4 C6 C7 Continuous assessment: Includes readings, problem solving and class participation 20
 
Assessment comments

This course is organized to help (and oblige) the student to be up to date with the work. The final exam represents 40% of the final grade, the course projects 40%, and  the workshop 20 %. The continuous assessment is fundamental to pass the course.

In order to pass the course, it is necessary to obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 (final grade) and a minimum of 4 points out of 10 in the final exam.

"Second opportunity". The same grading criteria will be applied. The students will retake the final exam (40 per cent of the final grade) and they will be allowed to do additional work to make up for the workshop (20 per cent of the final grade)

Qualification of "No presentado" . For students whose participation in the assessment activities is less than 20 % of the total assessment, regardless of the qualification achieved.

Conditions of conducting the final written exam. It is forbidden to access the classroom  with any device which allows communication with external and/or storage of information.

Advance opportunity:

Being a first semester course, the conditions will be the same as for the rest of the courses (60% continuous evaluation + 40% written exam).

Students with recognition of part-time dedication or academic exemption of attendance exemption:

They might be allowed to substitute the group project for an individual project. Personalized tutoring will be mutually agreed between teacher and student.

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