ECON310-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017

Economic Thinking for Business

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 July 2017
End Date: Sunday, 19 November 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 28 July 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 13 October 2017

Description

In this course students engage in three group projects that cover a diverse range of applications of economic thinking to problems faced by real businesses and organisations. ECON310 is the compulsory capstone course for the Business Economics major although any student with the pre-requisites can enrol. This course requires active participation and attendance is mandatory. Those who are not present in the first class may not be able to complete the first project that counts for 1/3 of the assessment in the course.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
LO1: Demonstrate advanced knowledge in the area of Business Economics.
LO2: Demonstrate an ability to apply economic tools to analyse real problems facing firms.
LO3: Demonstrate an ability to communicate complex ideas to business people who are not necessarily economists.
LO4: Demonstrate an ability to prepare professional quality presentations, both in written and oral form.

Prerequisites

1) (ECON207 and ECON208) or ECON 203 2) ECON213 or ECON214

Course Coordinator

Laura Meriluoto

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Reports 60% Consulting reports (3)
Participation 10% Individual effort mark
Presentations 15% Consulting presentations (3)
Project 15% Project plans (3)

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $775.00

International fee $3,188.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All ECON310 Occurrences

  • ECON310-17S2 (C) Semester Two 2017
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