UNDERGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2013 - 2014 THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II COURSE CODE: ECON 3050 COURSE TITLE: ECONOMETRICS II CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: ECON 3049 RECOMMENDED: ECON 2016 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course, a follow up to ECON 3049, deals with modern econometric methods, principally those involving time series analysis like unit root testing, cointegration, VAR modeling, ARIMA modeling and so on.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II COURSE CODE: ECON 3056 COURSE TITLE: PROJECT EVALUATION CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: ECON 2000 AND ECON 2001 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides the tools for planning projects (industrial, infrastructural, agricultural and social) in an economy. The issues addressed include project identification, the project cycle, project appraisal and investment and project finance.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: I COURSE CODE: ECON 3051 COURSE TITLE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: ECON 1001 / AGBU 1005 AND ECON 1002 / AGBU 1006 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course introduces the student to some of the main development issues that have contributed to the development paths pursed either collectively or individually by countries of the Caribbean. In this regard the course examines some of the fundamental theories on Caribbean Economic Development such as those as proposed by Sir Arthur Lewis and Lloyd Best. Current development concerns and issues which are particularly important to Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), e.g. health, education and natural disasters are also dealt with in this course. This course includes an on-line component worth 40% of final marks and a final exam which accounts for 60% of final marks. Students must pass both components of the course.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: I COURSE CODE: ECON 3057 COURSE TITLE: HEALTH ECONOMICS CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: ECON 2000 AND ECON 2002 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to the issues surrounding the objective of providing health care consistent with the reality of scarce resources and the overriding concern with improving the quality of life. Students will be exposed to the use of economic analysis in the design of health policy. Special emphasis will be placed on elucidating the relationship between epidemiology and the allocation of resources. LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II COURSE CODE: ECON 3066 COURSE TITLE: CORPORATE FINANCE CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: NONE RECOMMENDED: ECON 2000 AND ECON 2001 AND ECON 2002 AND ECON 2003 CO-REQUISITES: ECON 3011 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: The objective of this course is to provide students with the basic practical tools of Portfolio Analysis and Investment in the Modern Corporate Economy.
LEVEL: III SEMESTER: II COURSE CODE: ECON 3052 COURSE TITLE: FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CREDITS: 3 PREREQUISITES: ECON 2002 AND ECON 2003 DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ECONOMICS COURSE DESCRIPTION: The theoretical and empirical significance of the fiscal disequilibrium problem in developing countries. Approaches to the fiscal disequilibrium problem: Budget and Expenditure Reform. The disequilibrium problem: Tax Reform, Fiscal Policy options for a small open economy.
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