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Introduction

This module allows students to develop an understanding of fundamental and intermediate concepts in microeconomic analysis by equipping them with a range of appropriate analytical skills, including descriptive, graphical and mathematical methods. This allows students to develop the capacity to apply analytical techniques to real world problems.

Principal Aims

• To develop in students an understanding of fundamental and intermediate concepts in microeconomic analysis

• To equip students with a range of appropriate analytical skills, including descriptive, graphical and mathematical methods; and

• To develop the capacity to apply analytical techniques to real world problems and build economic models that enable students to better understand the world around us

Principal Learning Outcomes

Subject Knowledge and Understanding:...demonstrate knowledge of economic behaviours, outcomes, trends, developments, phenomena, institutions and policies.

Subject Knowledge and Understanding:...demonstrate an understanding of key concepts, principles, theories and models in Economics

Subject Specific/Professional Skills:...demonstrate the capacity for abstract reasoning and to simplify economic problems through the application of theoretical models.

Subject Specific/Professional Skills:...demonstrate the capacity to interpret economic data and to use data to inform the selection and application of appropriate economic tools of analysis.

Syllabus

Context

Optional Module

Y602 - Year 1, G300 - Year 1

Pre or Co-requisites

This module is available to all students outside the Department of Economics (and other than students in WBS) conditional on having achieved a Grade B or better in Mathematics at A-level, or the equivalent. Students wishing to take EC136 in the same year as EC137 should instead take EC107.

Assessment

Assessment Method

Coursework (20%) + Centrally-timetabled examination (On-campus) (80%)

Coursework Details

Centrally-timetabled examination (On-campus) (80%) , Test (20%)

Exam Timing

Summer

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