EC3030 Important Points to Note
 Check programme requirements and choose
courses THIS WEEK
 Very good evaluations in last four years. Usually
80 to 100 students take course
 Visiting students, if not registered already, email
me (johagan@tcd.ie) so that I can add name to
email list for EC3030
 Many visiting students take EC3030: 15 to 25
usually
 Development on and very similar to EC2020.
 Dedicated
web
site
for
EC3030:
www.tcd.ie/economics/staff/johagan/ec3030/
 On this will be: lecture acetates, course handout, assessment hand-out (next week), and class
timetable and allocations (next week). You need
consult nothing else.
 Lectures not compulsory but if attending NO
talking at lectures: to allow other students to
listen and hear properly.
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 Assessment Module A: one hour test in
Teaching Week 8 (20%), essay due first day HT
(20%), summer exam (60%).
 One term students: see hand-out
 Test and essay cover examination material
directly: so both preparation for exam and not
separate.
 Classes in Teaching Weeks 4-6 (for test revision)
and Week 12 (for essay and exam preparation).
 Teaching Week 1 = Week 5 on College
timetable.
 Avoid an F2 in any paper in JS: cannot be
compensated no matter what your other marks.
 Many need an overall 2.2 this year: 55, 55, 50,
50, 45, 45, much better than 75, 75, 75, 75, 65,
30!
 Different though for TSM
 Average mark around 58 (2.2), but about 55%
get a 2.1 (60-69) and around 12% a 1st (70+)
 Taking TWO modules but one core book
 Acetates NOT lecture notes. If you cannot
attend some lectures make sure you know
someone who can.
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 Assessment hand-out the ‘gospel’. For example,
Block A.
 A1 (i) What do you think were the main factors
behind the emergence of the European ‘project’
in the early post-war period? (1.1) (ii) What do
you think were the main political economy
issues arising in the EU from the end of the
1950s to the early 2010s? (1.6). (iii) What
have been in your opinion the major issues
facing the EU in the last five years, paying
particular attention to the crisis in Greece and
deeper euro zone integration and the issue of
non-EU in-migration? (1.8, lectures plus parts of
Chapters 2 and 3).
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