Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Introduction to course. Outline of semester. Survival game – what values do we place on human characteristics? |
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2) |
Love and marriage and choices of partners. How do we translate our values into the expression of love? “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood |
Reading. |
3) |
Introduction of partners. Interviewing another student and presenting him/her to the class. Practice of presentation skills. |
Interview. |
4) |
“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguo. The idea of sacrifice and honor. Discussion of film and characters, themes. |
Research. |
5) |
Poetry about love, marriage and choices. Selections include Browning, Shakespeare, Sexton and Frost. |
Reading. |
6) |
“Il Postino” and the poetry of Pablo Neruda. One poet and his vision of love and life. |
Reading. |
7) |
Presentations of poets and songwriters. Power point presentation of Shakespearean sonnets and various ways of presenting. |
Powerpoint. |
8) |
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9) |
“The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. Values and how we are transformed. |
Reading. |
10) |
Presentations. |
Research for presentation. |
11) |
Debates and controversial subjects. Commercials and capitalism and how we are subliminally affected. |
Research. |
12) |
Presentations. |
Research. |
13) |
“A Christmas Carol” by Dickens. An adaptation of the novella into a play format. Reading and discussion of themes and characters. |
Reading. |
14) |
Debates in teams. |
Research. |
15) |
Final. |
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16) |
Final. |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. |
3 |
2) |
Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. |
2 |
3) |
Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. |
1 |
4) |
Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. |
3 |
5) |
Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. |
2 |
6) |
Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. |
2 |
7) |
Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. |
3 |
8) |
Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. |
2 |
9) |
Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. |
2 |
10) |
Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. |
3 |