EC35420 - BUSINESS ECONOMICS PROJECT

Module Identifier

EC35420

Module Title

BUSINESS ECONOMICS PROJECT

Academic Year

2004/2005

Co-ordinator

Miss Ceris L Jones

Semester

Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters)

Pre-Requisite

All core modules in the Business Economics degree scheme

Mutually Exclusive

EC35720

Course delivery

Seminars / Tutorials

12 Hours

Lecture

6 Hours

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment Length/Details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	Semester One: 6000 word group report (including 15% for a presentation)	30%
Semester Assessment	Semester Two: 6000 word individual report	70%
Supplementary Assessment	Re-submission of the individual project	100%

Learning outcomes

During the course of this module students will:

learn to investigate the current economic environment of a firm and analyse and evaluate its economic strategy with respect to particular features of its external or internal environment. The group part of this project includes, as objectives, the development of team-working and presentational skills, and its methods of assessment are designed to encourage these.

develop, individually, business economic research skills, including those of networking with other people and investigating other firms in the same sector.

Aims

This module is the final year focal point of the L113 Business Economics degree. Its aims are for students to integrate learning from various parts of the scheme, develop practical skills in business economic reasearch methods, develop team work, time-management, initiative, report writing and presentational skills.

Brief description

This is a final year core module involving supervised preparation of group and individual reports on economic aspects of the operating environment of a business sector and a firm or organisation within that.

Content

Report writing structure, and style; leadership, motivation and delegation; team-building; presentations; research methods; sources of information; company/organisational/institutional analysis; report-writing, drafting, revision and finalisation.

Transferable skills

Project work will develop students' ability to work both in a team context and also independently; IT and information handling skills will be developed and reports are expected to be word processed; students will be expected to manager their own time in order to meet submission deadlines.

Reading Lists

Books
The nature of this module is such that there is no set text. Students are expected to use in their work, concepts learned in other modules of their degree schemes. Consequently, they will need to refer back to reading material and notes from previous modules. Students will also be expected to use their own initiative and to undertake extensive research on their chosen industry/firm.

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6