Teaching Method: Lecture Scheduled Directed Student Hours: 24 Attendance Recorded: Yes Teaching Method - Seminars Description: Seminars will permit students to develop their understanding of the main themes and trends in the area. They will focus on empirical phenomena exemplifying/illustrating these themes and trends drawing on e.g. news media and simple empirical illustrations. Seminars will also enable clarification of theoretical perspectives on these themes/trends. Scheduled Directed Student Hours: 6 Attendance Recorded: Yes Self-Directed Learning Hours: 120 Description: research activity, developing critical analysis skills (reading and writing, in particular), and wider reading to support the module Skills/Other Attributes Mapping Skills / attributes: Ethical awareness How this is developed: This module will help you identify key issues in the world economy against the backdrop of trends, countertrends and paradoxe
s. Equipped with such understanding, your ethical perspective on key issues in the world today will be enhanced. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Lifelong learning skills How this is developed: The lectures and seminars are structured around contents that will stimulate curiosity, reflexivity in a manner that will develop critical thinking, problem solving and creativity. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: International awareness How this is developed: With this module concerned with the big, global picture, yet diving into particular issues in particular settings, the module puts great emphasis on global awareness. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: IT skills How this is developed: To understand trends, countertrends and paradoxes in the worl
d economy, you will need to supplement your academic readings with basic secondary research making use of data available in official reports and databases. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Communication skills How this is developed: You are encouraged to focus on your communications in all aspects of this module: in the way you communicate in seminars, via your writing styles and presentation skills. You are given advice on how to develop these skills Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Organisational skills How this is developed: During the seminars and in relation to both group and individual assessments, you will be given tasks to complete within specific deadlines. This will enable you to improve your coordination and time management skills. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Ski
lls / attributes: Teamwork How this is developed: During the seminars and the group assessment, you will be required to work in groups to accomplish certain tasks, this will enable you develop and further improve collaboration and team building skills. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Commercial awareness How this is developed: By becoming more knowledgeable of trends and developments in the global economy, and by learning to see how they interconnect, the module will help you become more capable in identifying business opportunities and challenges. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Problem solving skills How this is developed: You are asked to identify trends and countertrends as well as paradoxes in the world economy. This knowledge will help you to solve problems in informed ways taking the big picture into account. Mode of ass
essment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay Skills / attributes: Adaptability How this is developed: The reading programme as well as the assessments mean that it is a real challenge to work to manage your readings and deadlines. You will need to be flexible in your workload and adaptable in your priorities. Mode of assessment (if applicable) Individual Essay and Infographic/Critical Essay
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