Form C4
Version 4.0 (2010/2011)
Heriot-Watt University - Course Descriptor Template
1. Course
Code
C20AF
2. Course
Title
Advanced Economic Policy 2
3. SCQF
Level
5. School
Management and Languages
7. Delivery:
Location &
Semester
Edin
SBC
Orkney
Dubai
IDL
Collaborative Partner
Approved Learning Partner
Sem 2
Sem…….
Sem………..
Sem……..
Sem….
Name…………………….....Sem..…...
Name …………………………………Sem………..
6. Course
Co-ordinator
10
4. Credits
15
Prof K. Turner
8. Pre-requisites
Advanced Economics 2
9. Linked Courses
(specify if synoptic)
10. Excluded Courses
11. Replacement Courses
None
None
Code:
Date Of Replacement:
13. The course may be
delivered to:
UG only
PG only
C20AH
1st Sept, 2013
UG & PG
12. Degrees for which
this is a core course
All programmes within the undergraduate discipline of
economics
14. Available as an Elective?
Yes
No
15. Aims
To demonstrate the application of analytical techniques in microeconomics in addressing questions of economic policy.
In particular, the course will enable students to relate differences in economic policy recommendations to differences in the theoretical and empirical features of the
economic analysis underlying such recommendations.
16. Syllabus
The syllabus will be revised annually to reflect topical economic policy issues.
Areas covered may include:
Public expenditure and taxation policy
Industrial and regulatory policy
Environmental policy
Labour market policy
Financial market regulation
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17. Learning Outcomes (HWU Core Skills: Employability and Professional Career Readiness)
Subject Mastery
Personal Abilities
Understanding, Knowledge and Cognitive
Skills
Scholarship, Enquiry and Research (Research-Informed Learning)
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- implement established techniques of scholarly enquiry in analysing economic policy issues
- relate differences in economic policy recommendations to differences in the theoretical and empirical features of the economic analysis which
underlie such recommendations
- discuss how economics as a discipline may contribute to economic policy formulation
- demonstrate an understanding of the key economic institutions in the UK economy set within the wider international context
Industrial, Commercial & Professional Practice
Autonomy, Accountability & Working with Others
Communication, Numeracy & ICT
The course aims to equip students with the following skills:
- the ability to deploy key transferrable concepts in addressing economic problems, including opportunity cost, incentives, equilibrium, the
relevance of marginal considerations, the possible gains from voluntary exchange, systems and dynamics.
- the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively, drawing on text-based, mathematical, graphical and statistical sources of information to
analyse economic problems and to communicate the results of the analysis to specialist and non-specialist audiences
- the ability to use a wide range of routine skills (word processing, database manipulation, online literature searches, etc.) in order to interpret
and present a variety of data through a variety of means and media as part of professional level practice.
18. Assessment Methods
19. Re-assessment Methods
Method
Duration of Exam
Weighting (%)
Synoptic courses?
Method
(if applicable)
Coursework
Duration of Exam
Diet(s)
(if applicable)
100%
20. Date and Version
Date of Proposal
March, 2013
Date of Approval by
School Committee
Date of
Implementation
September, 2013
Version
Number
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