ECON30620 Economics Research Project

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module is intended to help students develop a third year project. The first trimester will focus on building research skills and students will mostly focus on writing their project in the second trimester.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Students will learn skills that enable them to write a substantial research project in economics.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

80
Autonomous Student Learning

300
Total

404
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Approaches will include hands-on work with data, lectures on research skills, and class discussion. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Additional Information:
This module is only offered to single major students in Economics.


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Thesis/Dissertation: A research project of about 5000 words. n/a Graded No

50
Individual Project: Submit a project proposal and a dataset with some descriptive statistics. n/a Graded No

15
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Continuous assessment that may involve both in-class and homework components. n/a Graded No

10
Exam (In-person): An examination on some of the skills required to do project work. n/a Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

15
Practical Skills Assessment: Short student presentation on their planned project. n/a Graded No

10

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
Repeat Within Two Trimesters
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

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