Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

This module allows students to take a closer look at a current socio-economic issue.

In the previous semester, the instructor and students discuss which themes could be relevant and interesting.

Learning objectives

Knowledge

The goal is that the student, after the module, has knowledge of:

• Scientific issues within the socio-economic field and can identify these.
• The economic theories relevant to the issue.
• The advanced learning styles and processes that motivate their own learning both individually and/or in a group context.

Skills

The goal is that the student, after the module, has skills in:

• Applying economic theory, methods, and tools to specific issues from an empirical or theoretical standpoint at an advanced level.
• Selecting and using relevant methods and tools to generate knowledge about an issue within a socio-economic problem in collaboration with external parties, including a supervisor, from an empirical or theoretical standpoint.
• Preparing a written and oral presentation of the project’s issue, method, analysis, and conclusions in a scientific, clear, and correct language.

Competences

The goal is that the student, after the module, has competencies to:

• Identify and formulate objectives within socio-economics and be able to present and discuss the contextual factors that affect the realization of these objectives.
• Develop understanding and solutions to a central socio-economic issue based on scientific analyses at an advanced level.
• Independently initiate and carry out professional and interdisciplinary collaboration and take on professional responsibility.

Type of instruction

For information see §17.

Exam

Exams