Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Economics and Commerce (Volume 3 page 202)
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Year 4 Economics.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Professor J Creedy.
Prerequisite: A three-year sequence in economics.
Contact: A series of 1-hour seminars held at various times throughout the year, not exceeding 30 hours in total.
Timetable: Double semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- initiate and successfully execute small economic research projects with little supervision;
- give good written and oral presentations of research findings;
- conduct surveys of the literature in any branch of economics efficiently and well.
Content:
The research essay consists of no more than 10,000 words, inclusive of bibliography, footnotes, tables and charts, and appendices. The topic must be approved by the Coordinator of the essay program by the end of the fifth week of the first semester. Students will give a brief description of their essay near the end of the first semester. Students will also present a short seminar to report the findings of their research and/or work-in-progress in the middle of the second semester. A number of semiars will be held at the beginning of each semester to discuss various aspects of the program including bibliographic and other resources available to students. The essay itself is unsupervised but a number of staff are appointed to deal with specific queries which arise in the course of the student's research. Three copies of the essay are to be submitted to the Department Office on or before Monday in the last week of the second semester.
Assessment:
The essay itself is examined. It is to be submitted by the end of the second semester.
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