Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2016-17

Globalization Economy was created to provide students different basic tools and knowledge necessary to understand the current phenomenon of globalization, according to the different changes within this process such as technological, social and economic.

This subject is related to "Global Economy" and it focuses on fundamental aspects to understand the keys of future economic development, settled in innovation processes: from the internet 3.0 to nanotechnology, through smart cities.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity to find and analyse information.
  • CG2 : Capacity for team work.
  • CG3 : Capacity for self-learning.
  • CG6 : Obtain important information from the data that is impossible for non-professionals to recognise.
  • CG8 : Analyse problems using critical reasoning, without prejudices, precisely and rigorously.
  • CG9 : Capacity for synthesis.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA2 : Use computer, I.T. and communications technology tools as a matter of course in all of one's professional activities.
  • CGUA3 : Capacity for oral and written communication.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE12 : Be able to use the appropriate tools for the analysis, diagnosis and solution of economic questions and problems.
  • CE3 : Bring a rational approach to the analysis and description of any aspect of economic reality.
  • CE8 : Identify the sources of relevant economic information and their content.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

The specific learning objectives of the subject are as follows:

- To acquire the skills needed to find relevant information on the international economic situation and be able to analyse it.

- To learn how to work cooperatively, evaluating group performance and diagnosing and resolving any possible conflicts.

- To be aware not only of individual learning but also of that of the rest of the group, so that group work is successful.

- To assume individual responsibility for the learning process.

- To acquire the capacity for independent learning in issues relating to the globalisation of the economy.

- To know how to analyse and interpret data on international economic activity.

- To use rational and objective criteria to analyse the international economy.

- To be able to synthesise matters relating to economic globalisation.

- To acquire Internet skills to search for relevant information on international economics.

- To develop skills in the use of information and communication technologies.

- To acquire the ability to express oneself in an ordered, coherent and intelligible manner, to defend arguments in public and actively participate in debates.

- To understand the concepts regarding International Economy and Globalisation.

- To be able to analyse and interpret globalisation patterns in world economic activity.

- To be able to analyse the international activity of companies.

- To understand the effects of economic globalisation on the stock, services, capital and labour markets.

- To acquire knowledge regarding information society, Internet and technological innovation, and their relevance to the economic system.

- To identify the main sources of economic information at an international level.

- To acquire the skills necessary to find information from relevant economic information sources.

- To know how to recognise and identify relevant economic information at an international level.

- To apply theoretical knowledge to an analysis of the international economic situation.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2016-17

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General

Code: 35039
Lecturer responsible:
MORENO IZQUIERDO, LUIS
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,60
Practical credits: 0,80
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: APPLIED ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    Area: APPLIED ECONOMICS
    Theoretical credits: 1,6
    Practical credits: 0,8
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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