MAE101 - Economic Principles
Unit details
Year: | 2021 unit information |
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Important Update: | Unit delivery will continue to be provided in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. This may include a mix of on-campus and online activities. To find out how you are impacted, please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Unit sites open one week prior to the start of each Trimester/Semester. Thank you for your flexibility and commitment to studying with Deakin in 2021. Last updated: 4 June 2021 |
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Warrnambool, Waterfront (Geelong), Online Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online Trimester 3: Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Helen Scarborough Trimester 2: Aaron Nicholas Trimester 3: Munirul Nabin |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | MAEM101 |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Campus: 1 x 1 hour class, 1 x 2 hour seminar per week; independent online learning activities via the unit site
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Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Cloud (online): 1 hour class recording (or equivalent instructional videos), 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week; independent online learning activities via the unit site |
Content
This unit is about the behaviour of consumers and producers and their interaction in the marketplace. The study of how markets operate is essential to understanding any form of economic behaviour in the global arena. The tools of market analysis developed in the unit provide the foundation for an understanding of issues such as coordinating people's needs with the world's limited resources, corporate pricing strategies, monopoly power, government regulation, the environment, income inequality, the economic relationships between countries and foreign trade.
ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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ULO1 | Describe, analyse and apply key microeconomic concepts, including the rational basis upon which consumers and producers make decisions; the operation of markets and determination of market prices, the basis for, and gains from international trade; different types of market structures which exist in a mixed economy such as Australia’s and the efficiency and equity implications arising from these; and the economic costs of externalities such as pollution, along with comparison and contrast of different ways of approaching these issues. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Explain, present and interpret economic tools (including graphs and basic algebra) used in the analysis and application of microeconomic concepts. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO3 | Obtain and present information and data related to a real world issue, and critique approaches to the issue in a global context. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
Assessment 1: (Individual) Written assignment: includes graphs and/or calculations using digital technologies, finding and presenting information and/or data, explanations, analysis and critique | 2,000 words | 30% | Week 8 |
Assessment 2: (Individual) Online quizzes | - | 20% | To be advised |
Examination | 2-hours | 50% | Exam period |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: MAE101 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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