Economics Seminar

Code:

1EC304

Acronym:

SECO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Economics

Instance: 2018/2019 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Agrupamento Científico de Economia
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Economics

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LECO	217	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	3	-	3	21	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The purpose of the course is to supply students with conditions for both collective work and research, monitored by the respective teacher, that will allow:

- to think critically about some specific issues;
- to acquire methodology and scientific research skills;
- to develop the capacity of working autonomously and collectively in new areas of learning;
- to stimulate the use of both reason and imagination in order to deal with economic issues.

Learning outcomes and competences

There is a double result from this aprenticeship: 

• Acquire a research methodology and a capability of self-learning, that allow a better performance when facing new situations needing a technical and scientific interpretation.

• Develop specific subjects or analyse new issues of the economy and of the social reality.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

• Students must have a good training in Economics;

• A high working capacity and studying method is required;

• A good general culture is recommended.

Program

• The course's program is built by the students and by the workgroups. Teachers will only play the role of orienting, organizing and evaluating the work students are doing. Each teacher is entitled with one or more themes with which play the roles previously mentioned.
  
  There will be a single class taught in English language. Foreign students are also welcome in classes taught in Portuguese.

Themes:

Álvaro Almeida

• Fiscal Policy. Monetary Policy. Financial system. Health economics.

 

Argentino Pessoa

• Economic Growth, Development and Structural Change. Innovation and Innovation Policy..

Isabel Soares

. Digital Economy. Competition Policy and Economic Regulation. Sustainable Development. Market Behavior and Firm Strategy.

 

Luís Delfim Santos

• Economics of Tourism. Methods and Techniques of Regional Analysis.

Manuel Luís Guimarães da Costa

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  Industrial Organization: sectoral studies and institutional aspects of markets operation. Budgeting Policy and public choice: rules,institutions and budget procedures.

  
  

Maria da Conceição Ramos

• Labor and Heath. International Migrations and Human Rights. Social Economics and Social Responsibility. Environment and Sustainable Development. Cities and Urbanism.

Maria do Pilar Gonzalez

• Portuguese and European Labor Market. Gender and Employment. Collective Work Relations.

Maria Manuel Pinho

• Economia política. Economia pública. Escolha pública. Política orçamental.

 

Pedro Cosme Vieira

       . Behavioral Microeconomics. Industrial Economics, Competition and Regulation. Monetary Economics and Public Finance


Miguel Reis da Fonseca

. Regional economic integration Agreements; Foreign Direct Investment: new trends, regulation, perspectives from the receiver and the investor

Mandatory literature

Sá Alberto 070; +112i dicas para investigar em ciências sociais e humanas. ISBN: 978-989-8549-24-2

Comments from the literature

Other bibliography needed for developing the different themes will be presented in the respective class

Teaching methods and learning activities

The methodology is identified with the teaching method.

• The methodologies adopted during the course will be defined inside the class; they include the following steps:
• Workgroups of about two or three elements will be constituted.
• Each group will make the jobs distributed by the teacher through individual and collective work;
• A subject of research will be defined for each group;
• Students will make a research about the defined subject;
• Each group will make a preliminary verbal presentation about the on-going research;
• Each group will present a final paper with the result of research. (35000 characters as a maximum, spaces included). This paper must be delivered in two versions (electronic and paper) until a date to be indicated.
• For each group, it will be an oral defence of the final paper in a date fixed in accordance with the teacher. This defence will be made in a session open to whom want be present.

In every lesson it will be work with the groups, including with each one element, in the wayprogrammed by the teacher.
Every activity is taken in account in final assessment. The work is made in group but the assessment is individual.

Software

Word ou compatível
PowerPoint ou compatível
EndNote

keywords

Social sciences > Economics

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	4,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	14,00
Estudo autónomo	12,00
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Total:	80,00

Eligibility for exams

For granting the frequency, students must be present at least 75% of lessons.

Calculation formula of final grade

Distributed assessment without final exam is the only type of evaluation for all students, except FEP’ students in mobility programs abroad. Although students should work in-group, assessment is individual. There are several moments of assessment:

• Every reunion with teacher;
• The making of the exercises indicated by the teacher;
• The research work;
• The text with the result of research;
• Oral debates

Classification improvement

After the final grade is attributed in consequence of distributed assessment, any student with grade equal or higher than 10 can ask a review of his/her final grade. In this case, the student must be submitted to a supplementary verbal debate about the final paper’s content.

This debate is realized by the whole group and not only by the student that ask the grade review.

Observations

The regular visit to the page of Economy Seminar in the Sigarra is strongly recommended.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Mandatory participation in the sessions available to receive information about the databases available in library of FEP respectively on the 2nd and 4th weeks of the lecturing semester.

Classes on the regular schedule will start on the 17th  September 2018.

DEADLINE FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE RESEARCH WORK: until 24 hours of January 4, 2019 (in the way agreed with your professor).