Main Field of Study and progress level:
Economic History: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Economic History
Contents
This course studies the long-term international economic and social development. In focus are economic growth, economic thought, trade, crises and globalization, from the early medieval period up to present day.
Expected learning outcomes
After completing the course the students have acquired:
- Basic knowledge concerning economic growth, transformation, and crises
- Basic understanding for the role of the factors of production and patterns of industrialization as well as technological, institutional and structural change
- Basic knowledge concerning changes in economic thought, trade policy, and economic integration.
- Ability to apply a gender perspective on the long-term economic and social development
- Ability to express and critically assess in writing and orally - the different perspectives, interpretations and explanations that have been presented during the course
Required Knowledge
General entry requirements
Form of instruction
The course is based on lectures, seminar discussions and both written and oral presentations
Examination modes
All exams are mandatory and individual. Depending on the actual pedagogical circumstances for teaching, e.g. numbers of students, a variety of examination modes are applied. This can e.g. be hand in - and presentations of - individual papers, activity in seminar discussions, written exams or oral exams, which is specified in the actual Study Guide. Grading will be made individually: Fail, Pass or Pass with distinction. Students who do not pass the first examination will be offered a second examination within reasonable time. All students have the right to take a test up to four times in order to pass. A student who has failed the examination twice has the right to ask the Board of the Social Sciences Faculty to appoint another teacher to examine him or her.
Academic credit transfer
The course can be combined with any other undergraduate economic history class of 15 credits and thereby correspond to 15 + 15 credits of undergraduate level studies in economic history. For foreign students the ECTS seven grade transcription model is used.
Literature
Valid from:
2012 week 2
Berend T. Iván q (Tibor Iván) An economic history of twentieth-century Europe b economic regimes from laissez-faire to globalization Cambridge : Cambridge University Press c 2006 : 2006 : 356 s. : ISBN: 978-0-521-85666-9 (hbk) Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
A concise economic history of the world : from Paleolithic times to the present :c Rondo Cameron, Larry Neal Cameron Rondo E, Neal Larry 4. ed. : New York : Oxford University Press : 2003 : 463 s. : ISBN: 0-19-512704-8 Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
