The qualification as “Non-presented” corresponds to the student when he only participates in evaluation activities that have a weight lower than 20% in the final qualification, regardless of the grade reached.

Final qualification: To pass the subject, it will be necessary to have done at least the 20% of the tests of continuous evaluation ("workshop").

The evaluation of the second opportunity (July) will be carried out with the same criteria that the evaluation of the first opportunity.

Those students who have opted to the evaluation of the early opportunity will be treated with the same criteria applied for the July opportunity, i. e., 60% final exam and 40% continuous evaluation.

Students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic assistance waiver exemption. Except for the dates approved by the Faculty Board for the mixed tests, for the remaining tests will be agreed at the beginning of the course a specific timetable compatible with their dedication.

Conditions for doing the final exam and the evaluation activities: The professors in charge of each group will communicate the students the material required for the realization of both the different activities of continuous evaluation and the final exam.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
To know the explanatory principles of the main processes of economic policy	A2 A3 A5 A6 A7 A8	B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9
To analyze and understand the impact of policymakers’ decisions on the economic reality	A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13	B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8	C4
To have capacity of logical and critical thinking to apply the knowledge acquired in the analysis of economic policy problems and of their possible solutions in changing contexts	A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13	B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9	C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8

Topic	Sub-topic
Part I. Theoretical foundations of Economic Policy	1.1. Introduction 1.2. Economic Policy as analysis field 1.3. Reasons and limitations of government's intervention in the economy 1.4. Economic functions of public authorities
Part II. The process of elaboration of the Economic Policy	2.1. Introduction 2.2. The aims-means scheme 2.3. Active agents in the process of elaboration of Economic Policy 2.4. Stages and problems of the elaboration process of Economic Policy
Part III. Models and Economic Policy	3.1. Introduction 3.2. The decision-making models. 3.3. The models of interdependence between politics and economics 3.4. Other problems and restrictions of the economic policy
Part IV. Stabilization Economic Policy versus Structural Economic Policy	4.1. Introduction 4.2. The economic cycle and the stabilization policy 4.3. The monetary policy 4.4. The fiscal policy
Part V. Objectives and instruments of Economic Policy	5.1. Introduction 5.2. Full employment 5.3. Price stability 5.4. Economic growth 5.5. Income redistribution

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Document analysis	A2 A3 A7 B1	5	10	15
Workbook	A2 A3 A4 A5 B8 B9 C4 C7	3	6	9
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A1 A2 A3 A4 A8	17	51	68
Workshop	A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B2 B1 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C8	21	21	42
Objective test	B2 B1 B3	2	12	14

Personalized attention		2	0	2

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Document analysis	Different documental resources will be used to contribute to reach the objectives of this subject. They will help both to secure theoretical knowledge and to carry out the workshop activities.
Workbook	In each part of the program the professors may provide the students some document(s) that could help them to deepen in the theoretical contents of the subject. This documentation may also be used as support material for the rest of methodologies of more practical nature.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	The main aspects of the subject are explained.
Workshop	Different activities that require the active participation of students will be carried out. The students’ analysis and reasoning capacity will be valued, deepening in the contents characteristic of the subject. As for the student's specific work, questions of short answer will be posed to value both the learning grade and the synthesis capacity; furthermore, there will be questions of wide answer related with aspects of the subject usually with reference to a text, a graph, a piece of news, etc. and where appropriate, there could also be multiple-choice questions.
Objective test	At the end of the course a written exam will be carried out. It seeks to get a global objective valuation of the knowledge acquired by each student throughout the course and his/her reasoning capacity.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Workshop	A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B2 B1 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C8	Activities carried out throughout the course	40
Objective test	B2 B1 B3	Final exam of the subject that will be carried out in the dates approved officially by the Economics and Business Faculty	60

Assessment comments
The qualification as “Non-presented” corresponds to the student when he only participates in evaluation activities that have a weight lower than 20% in the final qualification, regardless of the grade reached. Final qualification: To pass the subject, it will be necessary to have done at least the 20% of the tests of continuous evaluation ("workshop"). The evaluation of the second opportunity (July) will be carried out with the same criteria that the evaluation of the first opportunity. Those students who have opted to the evaluation of the early opportunity will be treated with the same criteria applied for the July opportunity, i. e., 60% final exam and 40% continuous evaluation. Students with recognition of part-time dedication and academic assistance waiver exemption. Except for the dates approved by the Faculty Board for the mixed tests, for the remaining tests will be agreed at the beginning of the course a specific timetable compatible with their dedication. Conditions for doing the final exam and the evaluation activities: The professors in charge of each group will communicate the students the material required for the realization of both the different activities of continuous evaluation and the final exam.

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