ECON2293-1 : General Political Economics

Study Programmes 2016-2017

ECON2293-1

General Political Economics - Microeconomics

Duration :

30h Th, 15h Pr

Number of credits :

Bachelor in political sciences : general		4
Bachelor in human and social sciences		4
Bachelor in sociology and anthropology		4
Master en sciences du travail en alternance, à finalité		4
Master in population and development studies (120 ECTS)		4
Master in labour sciences (120 ECTS)		4
Master in labour sciences (60 ECTS)		4

Lecturer :

Fabienne Fecher-Bourgeois

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents :

Behavioral analysis of economic forces, study of consumer behavior and industrial production.
Study of different market types : competition, monopoly,...

Learning outcomes of the learning unit :

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
- Define with appropriate terms the main economic concepts ;
- Understand and explain behaviors and fundamental mechanisms on the level of individual agents (firms, consumers) and markets ;
- Represent graphically the relations between economic variables ;
- Explain with a graph the impact of the variation of an economic variable on another (comparative statics) ;
- Interpret current statistics ;
- Calculate, through simple numerical exercises, economic variables using theoretical models and formulas studied in the class.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

Nil.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

15h of tutorials

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Lectures ans tutorials.
Coaching The course includes tutorial sessions and exercises. Several groups are organised, each under the guidance of a student acting as a coach.