IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject (*) CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION Code 16675101
Study programme
International Markets (2016)
 Cycle 2nd
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
3 Compulsory First 1Q
Language
Anglès
Prerequisites
Department Economics
Coordinator
IRANZO SANCHO, SUSANA
 E-mail susana.iranzo@urv.cat
Lecturers
IRANZO SANCHO, SUSANA
Web http://gandalf
General description and relevant information <p>The course examines the different phenomena and issues brought about by globalization in today's world and how they affect economic, social and political relations.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A1 Analyse the international markets through advanced techniques and approach which allow facilitating important information to international companies and/or companies willing internationalisation.
 A7 Evaluate potential threats and opportunities for public institutions at the local and regional levels of processes linked to economic globalization.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 CT5 Communicate complex ideas effectively to all sorts of audiences.
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A1 Acquire advanced knowledge of international economic relations and the new contexts that arise from globalisation, incorporating a multidisciplinary perspective.
Being able to select among the international financial instruments the most appropriate ones for each business project, based on their profitability and risk.
 A7 Being able to identify the opportunities and threats which arise from the new global realities and design strategies which address these challenges.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
 CT5 Students can produce a quality text, with no grammatical or spelling errors. They know how a text should be formally presented, and make appropriate and consistent use of formal and bibliographic conventions.
Students can construct texts that are structured, clear, cohesive, varied and of the appropriate length, and transmit complex ideas.
Students produce texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation, consistent and persuasive, and transmit complex ideas.
Students can use non-verbal communication and the expressive resources of the voice to make a good oral presentation.
Students can construct a discourse that is structured, clear, cohesive, rich and of the right length, and which can transmit complex ideas.
Students can produce a discourse that is persuasive, consistent and precise, and which can communicate complex ideas. They can interact effectively with the audience.
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Basic concepts: markets, supply and demand model, comparative statics
Trade and trade barriers
Offshoring, trade and economic inequality
Technological change and automatization
Labor standards and child labour
Migration
Globalization and the environment
Economics of pandemias

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
A1
 2 6 8
Lecture
A1
 14 23 37
Presentations / oral communications
A1
A7
 10 7 17
Personal attention
A1
 2 3 5
 
Mixed tests
A1
A7
 2 6 8
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Overview of the course and refresher of basic concepts
Lecture Presentation of the core material
Presentations / oral communications Students will present the group projects they will work on
Personal attention Office hours to discuss individual questions

Personalized attention
Description

Students can have individual attention during the professor's office hours or other times by appointment


Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Presentations / oral communications
A1
A7
 Presentation of the class projects that will be carried out in groups 40%
Mixed tests
A1
A7
 Final exam where the students will develop argumentative essays based on the contents leant in the course 45%
Others  

Class participation

15%
 
Other comments and second exam session

The second chance exam for 100% of the overall mark


Sources of information

Basic John McLaren, International Trade, 2013, Wiley


Complementary Martin Wolf, Why Globalization Works, 2004, Yale University Press

Recommendations
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.