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Economics & Society
2019-2020	EnISTC - L'ECOLE DES MANAGERS DE LA COMMUNICATION ( ISTC )
Class code :	1920-ISTC-M5A-UE27-HIDE	UE27

Level	Year	Period	Language of instruction
Master	5	A	EnFrench

Academic responsibility	V.BUISINE
Lecturer(s)	-

ISTC > Master in Economics and Business - Specialisation in International Business and Economics Engineering > Semester 1 > 2,00 ECTS
ISTC > Master in Economics and Business - Specialisation in International Business and Economics Engineering > Semester 2 > 2,00 ECTS

Prerequisites

Students need to know about the evolution of societies since the Industrial Revolution.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this course, students should be able to understand the main paradigms of economic analysis.

This course develops the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analysing and interpreting one’s environment (general knowledge), including the global context.
- Developing your personality with an emphasis on values of integrity, open-mindedness, tolerance, and respect.
- Applying “principles” to every action: diligence, autonomy, interdisciplinarity, innovation, inventiveness.

Course description

Six topics are broached during five 3-hour sessions:

- the purpose of economic analysis.
- the concept of value.
- role and function of currency.
- the welfare state and the government’s economic interventions.
- development policies.
- the current international economic environment (globalisation, internationalisation, externalisation).

This course is complemented by a choice of 6 conferences which students have to summarise.