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Seminar in Economics and Commerce A (ECON20014)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Contact information
Semester 2
Steven Williams: steven.williams@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
| Availability(Quotas apply) | Semester 2 |
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This subject teaches research-level economics and thinking to students with a passion for economics. It introduces these students to frontier-research methods and topics from the core fields in economics, including economic theory, applied microeconomics and macroeconomics. Students will be exposed to classic economics papers as well as concurrent papers and state-of-the-art techniques. Students will be encouraged to develop a research-mindset and an eye for open questions and a sense for what constitutes a well-defined research question.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Appreciation and understanding of some of the major intellectual themes of economics, and how they came about;
- Development of the student's ability to think independently about economic topics, thereby initiating the student into research;
- Develop the student's writing skills.
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:
- High level of development: oral communication; written communication; problem solving; interpretation and analysis; critical thinking; evaluation of data and other information; receptiveness to alternative ideas.
- Moderate level of development: collaborative learning; team work.
- Some level of development: statistical reasoning; application of theory to practice; synthesis of data and other information.
Last updated: 19 March 2024