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ECON5103 Business Economics - 2022

1. Course Details

Summary of Course

An introduction to economic analysis and policy, with particular application to decision-making in             business. The course provides students with the tools to use economic principles in decision-making and an understanding of the broader economic environment in which business decisions must be made.

Teaching Times and Locations

Please note that teaching times and locations are subject to change. Students are strongly advised to refer to the Class Timetable website for the most up-to-date teaching times and locations.

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Course Policies & Support

The Business School expects that you are familiar with the contents of this course outline and the UNSW and Business School learning expectations, rules, policies and support services as listed below:

Program Learning Outcomes

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Student Responsibilities and Conduct

Special Consideration

Protocol for Viewing Final Exam Scripts

Student Learning Support Services

Further information is provided in the Assessmentand PoliciesandSupportsections.

Students may not circulate or post online any course materials such as handouts, exams, syllabi or similar resources from their courses without the written permission of their instructor.

Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses

The aims of this course are to introduce economic concepts and methods of analysis, and to enable       students to understand and use economic arguments in business decision making. The course assumes no previous study of economics.

ECON5103 is a prerequisite for other postgraduate courses offered by the School of Economics. It is also designed to satisfy the requirements of professional bodies, which require their members to have a basic knowledge of economics.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Student Learning Outcomes

The Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) are what you should be able to demonstrate by the end of this course, if you participate fully in learning activities and successfully complete the assessment items.

CLOs also contribute to your achievement of the Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs), which are              developed across the duration of a program for all students. More information on coursework PLOs is     available under PoliciesandSupport . PLOs are, in turn, directly linked to UNSWgraduatecapabilitiesand the aspiration to develop “globally focussed graduates who are rigorous scholars, capable of leadership  and professional practice in an international community” .

For PG research PLOs please refer to the UNSWHDRGraduateAttributesandLearningOutcomes .

2. Staff Contact Details

Position

Title

Name

Email

Location

Phone

Consultation Times

Lecturer-

in-

charge

Prof

Andreas

Ortmann

Email

Room 452,

UNSW

Business

School

(02) 9065

1355

Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 - 8 am or by appointment

Lecturer

Dr

Yiyuan Xie

Email

Room tbd,

UNSW

Business

School

tbd

tbd

Communications with staff

We strongly encourage all enquiries about the subject material to be made at lectures or seminars, or during consultation time.

Email communication should be used for advising of absence or other administrative matters, or for arranging an appointment outside of consultation hours.

Please note that the lecturers have no advance notice of the date and time of the fnal exam. Student Enrolment Requests

Students can vary their own enrolment (including switching lecture streams or tutorials) via myUNSW      until the end of Week 1. In general, most other student enrolment requests should be directed to The Nucleus:StudentHub(formerly Student Central). These include enrolment in full courses or tutorials,      course timetable clashes, waiving prerequisites for any course, transfer-of-credit (international exchange, transfer to UNSW, cross-institutional study, etc.), or any other request which requires a decision about      equivalence of courses and late enrolment for any course. Where appropriate, the request will be passed to the School Offce for approval before processing. Note that enrolment changes are rarely considered   after Week 2 classes have taken place.

3. Learning and Teaching Activities

Use of your Webcam and Digital Devices: If you enrol in an online class, or the online stream of a hybrid class, teaching and associated activities will be conducted using Teams, Zoom, or similar a technology. Using a webcam is optional, but highly encouraged, as this will facilitate interaction with your peers and instructors. If you are worried about your personal space being observed       during a class, we encourage you to blur your background or make use of a virtual background.   Please contact the Lecturer-in-Charge if you have any questions or concerns.

Some courses may involve undertaking online exams for which your own computer or digital      devices will be required. Monitoring of online examinations will be conducted directly by              University staff and is bound by the University's privacy and security requirements. Any data       collected will be handled accordance with UNSWpoliciesandstandardsfordatagovernance. For     more information on how the University manages personal information please refer to the UNSW StudentPrivacyStatementand the UNSWPrivacyPolicy.

Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course

The philosophy underpinning this course and its teaching and learning strategies is based on Guidelines onLearningthatInformTeachingatUNSW . Specifcally, the lectures, seminars and assessment have     been designed to appropriately challenge students and support the achievement of the desired learning outcomes. A climate of inquiry and dialogue is encouraged between students and teachers and among  students (in and out of class). Teaching staff aim to provide meaningful and timely feedback to students to improve learning outcomes.

The lectures will be delivered online (in real time / "synchronously"), and lecture recordings will be also    available to stream and download to accommodate students studying from alternate time zones. Covid  restrictions permitting, seminars will be offered in two formats: face-to-face and online (in real time /       "synchronously"). Students should check their individual timetables for an indication of the delivery mode pertaining to the seminar stream in which they are enrolled. Seminars will not be recorded.

Learning Activities and Teaching Strategies

The examinable content of the course is defned by the references given in the lecture schedule, the content of lectures, and the content of the seminar program.

Lectures

The purpose of lectures is to provide a logical structure for the topics that make up the course; to              emphasise the important concepts and methods of each topic; and to provide relevant examples to which the concepts and methods are applied. It's highly recommended that students attend the lectures in real   time. While the course is being taught online, we encourage students to engage with their peers through   the chat function.

Seminars

The purpose of the seminars is to reinforce and clarify the concepts and issues covered in the lectures and identify and remedy any problems with understanding. Students are expected to prepare for, and   contribute to, seminar discussions.

A program for seminars will be distributed in the frst lecture and will be posted on the course website. In the seminar program, each seminar will consist of:

Review Questions. Students should attempt these before attendance at their seminar class. Questions

which pose diffculties can be raised with the tutor.

Submission questions. See Section 4. Assessment - Seminar Submission Questions for further detail.

Out-of-Class Study

While students may have preferred individual learning strategies, most learning will be achieved outside of class time. Lectures can only provide a structure to assist your study, and seminar time is limited.

An idealstrategy (on which the provision of the course materials is based) might include:

Reading of the relevant chapter(s) of the text and any other assigned readings before the lecture. This

will give you a general idea of the topic area.

Attendance at lectures. Here the context of the topic in the course and the topic's relevance and

important elements are identifed, as well as the key concepts pertaining to the topic. Students should download a copy of the lecture slides from the website before the lecture. These slides can then be    used in lectures for students to make additional notes. All slides will be posted on the course website.

Attempting the Review Questions before the seminar and checking the answers. A sketch of the         suggested answers to Review Questions (to the extent that they are not already given in the textbook) will typically be posted on the course website a couple of days after they have been covered in the

seminars.

Preparing notes for the class discussion of the Submission Questions. (Even if the Submission          Question for a specifc seminar is not the one you have been allocated to submit, you should prepare notes to contribute to the discussion.)

Attending seminars and asking the tutor to explain those Review Questions which posed diffculties. Presenting (if allocated) or contributing to the class discussion of the Submission Questions.

4. Assessment

Formal Requirements

In order to pass this course, you must:

achieve a composite mark of at least 50 out of 100;

meet any additional requirements described in the Assessment Summary section.

You are expected to attempt all assessment requirements in the course.

Assessment Structure

Assessment Task

Weighting

Length

Due Date

In-session test

25%

1 hour and 15 mins

Week 5. Details to be provided.

Seminar Submission Question (in-class presentation plus written submission)

20%

Written submission: About 1000 words

Once during the term. Details provided on

Moodle.

Seminar Participation

10%

Answering questions in seminars

Regular attendance and contribution to seminars by asking and answering questions. Attendance and participation records will be             maintained.

Final Exam

45%

2 hours and 15 mins

University Exam Period

Total

100%

Assessment Summary

As a student at UNSW you are expected to display academicintegrityin your work and interactions.         Where a student breaches the UNSWStudentCodewith respect to academic integrity, the University may take disciplinary action under the Student Misconduct Procedure. To assure academic integrity, you may be required to demonstrate reasoning, research and the process of constructing work submitted for        assessment.

To assist you in understanding what academic integrity means, and how to ensure that you do comply   with the UNSW Student Code, it is strongly recommended that you complete the WorkingwithAcademic Integritymodule before submitting your frst assessment task. It is a free, online self-paced Moodle        module that should take about one hour to complete.

In-session test (25%)

There will be an in-session test held in Week 5. It will cover materials from Weeks 1 to 4 (inclusive). The  in-session test will be designed to be completed by a well-prepared student in approximately 75 minutes. It will have an online (and open book) format. Details will be advised on the course website via Moodle.

There will be no supplementary assessment offered for the in-session test. Students who fail to submit     the test will need to apply for SpecialConsideration . Special Consideration applications will be assessed  centrally by the Case Review Team within Student Lifecycle (not by the course staff). Students granted      Special Consideration will have their mark in the remaining assessment tasks re-weighted to include the   weight of the mark reserved for the missed test. In all other cases of non-submission students will receive a grade of zero.

Seminar Submission Question (20%)

The purpose of the Seminar Submission Question is to cover the core principles of a topic and to provide some practice in applying the principles for analysis of economic issues. All students should prepare     notes on all questions to contribute to the discussion of these questions in the seminar class.

In the frst seminar, you will be placed in a group with two (+/- one) other students and the group will be     allocated a Submission Question. Details and rules related to group formation will be given at that time.    Students allocated to a question will be required to lead their seminar group's discussion with an oral        presentation of their planned answer, in the week covering the material of their submission question. Each group will then be required to submit a written answer to its allocated question (approx. 1000 words) in     the class of the following week. One of the aims of the presentation in class is to allow you to incorporate any useful comments from the class discussion into your written answer. If the oral presentation cannot   be conducted by any of the group members (e.g., due to time zone differences), submitting a recorded      presentation to be played to the class is acceptable. In this case, all group members should send a written notifcation to the tutor at least 48 hours before the scheduled presentation.

The formation and conduct of the group should follow the guidelines available at https:// student.unsw.edu.au/groupworkand this fle will also be available on the course Moodle site. Group        members will be required to complete a group contract before group work commences detailing each     member’s role and responsibilities, and details of any meetings the group will attend together, which they all sign.

The group members are also required to complete a peer assessment. The peer assessment will be used to assess the quality of each member’s teamwork and contribution. In the event of a big discrepancy        between the average peer assessment marks earned by students in the same group, the mark allocated   to each member will beweighted by their peers’ assessment. Detailed procedures for the peer                   assessment (including the threshold of discrepancy) will be made available via Moodle. More information and details will be provided at the frst seminar.

You should type up your fnal answer to the Submission Question in the form of a report of about 1000    words. Where appropriate you should include diagrams and acknowledge sources and references. This   report should be attached to the signed Assignment Cover Sheet (see the course website) and submitted by the due date.

Students should be prepared to contribute to the discussion of Submission Questions, even if the            Submission Question for a specifc seminar is not the one you have been allocated to submit. A record of attendance and participation in seminars will be kept by the tutor.

Students must sign on by 10 minutes from the start of seminar to qualify as in attendance’. Signing on for another student will be treated as misconduct. If, owing to illness or other exceptional circumstances, you are unable to attend your usual seminar, you may try to attend another seminar in the same week. Inform  the tutor of the reasons in class and confrm in writing after the seminar. Cc: the Lecturer-in-Charge in       your message.

In-class pop quizzes pertaining to the assigned readings may occur throughout the term, and at least one of these will be given, and feedback provided, by the end of Week 4 and possibly another one before the   end of Week 9. These quizzes will not count toward your fnal mark, but they are important to test your     knowledge and get you prepared for the test technologies used in the in-session test and fnal exam.

Seminar Participation (10%)

The item assesses your attendance and contribution to seminars through asking and answering  questions. Attendance and participation records will be maintained. For details, see SUBMISSION QUESTION (AND MARKING) GUIDE which you will fnd on the course Moodle site.

Final Exam (45%)

The fnal exam will be held in the University examination period and will be designed such that a well-      prepared student could complete it in 2 hours and 15 minutes. The fnal exam will cover the entire course but have an emphasis on the materials from Weeks 6-9. As with the in-session test, the fnal exam will     have an online and open-book format.

Further information on the content of the fnal exam will be provided towards the end of the term. All material covered in the lectures and seminar program is examinable.

Assignment Submission Procedure

Students must submit an electronic copy of their Submission Question via Moodle. Instructions (including exact due time) will be announced on the course Moodle site. Browse and upload a copy of your                document - do not paste text. Use your student ID in the fle name. One student from each group should    submit the group's report, clearly identifying all other students whose Submission Question requirement is covered by the submission.

Electronic copies of assignments may be checked for plagiarism via the Turnitin software to which the  assignments are uploaded. See notes on Plagiarism in the Course Outlines Policies page. Also note that the Turnitin software will automatically check against all other assignments submitted. Therefore, it is   important to not submit the same assignment twice.