Public University of Navarre



Castellano | Euskara | Academic year: 2011/2012 | Previous academic years:  2010/2011 
Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration at the Universidad Pública de Navarra
Course code: 172101 Subject title: BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Credits: 6 Type of subject: Basic Year: 1 Period: 1º S
Department: Business Administration
Lecturers:
URTASUN ALONSO, AINHOA   [Mentoring ]

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Contents

This course explains the nature of business and its environment. In addition, a detailed examination of the essential value-chain business functions necessary to create goods and services that people will want to buy is provided.

The main objective is to provide students with a global and integrated picture approach to the firm.

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Descriptors

Business, Management, Functional Areas.

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General proficiencies

Generic competences students should acquire in this course:

  • CG01. Analysis and synthesis skills
  • CG08. Decision making skills
  • CG09. Team work skills
  • CG12. Social skills
  • CG15. Ethic behavior in the job
  • CG16. Working in stressful environments
  • CG17. Self-directed learning

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Specific proficiencies

This course provides the following specific competences:

  • CE02. Identify relevant economic information and its content
  • CE03. Recognize information from data in a professional way
  • CE04. Apply professional criteria and technical tools to solve business problems
  • CE13. Identify the firm as a system and recognize the existing interdependences among the different functional areas

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Methodology

Lectures or theoretical sessions: class hours: 42 hours. In these theoretical sessions, I will lecture on the topics listed in the course outline. I will invite class discussion and ask questions, and I will call on people (using the class list) to answer them. I recommend students reading the lecture notes and any additional assigned readings before the class meeting. Besides, some seminars lectured by foreign professors could take place during the semester. These theoretical sessions will take place within the “big group”, with all the students registered in the course.

 

Practical sessions: class hours 14 hours. Each unit will be covered both by theoretical and practical sessions. The practical sessions will take place within “small groups”, with half of the students registered in the course.

 

Tutorials: I can evaluate the student’s learning process using tutorials of one or a few students. Also students can use tutorials to solve their questions and difficulties in their learning process in relation to this course.

 

Exams: A final exam, with both theoretical and practical contents about the topics presented in the course, will take place at the end of the semester to measure the students’ global knowledge. Also, during the semester, a partial exam regarding some specific topics will be administered.

 

Students’ work: Students are expected to do various kinds of work for this course. The different tasks and the total number of hours students should devote to each task are provided in the following table:
 
Tasks
Number of hours

Attending lectures or theoretical sessions – “Big group”
42

Attending practical sessions – “Small group”
14
Taking examinations
4

Total number of in-class hours

60
Completing evaluable homework
25

Studying and preparing both theoretical and practical sessions
30
Studying and preparing exams
30
Attending and preparing tutorials
5

Total number of out-of-class hours
90
TOTAL
150

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Evaluation

Learning Activities
Weights
Competences
Individual work
Exams
70%

CG01, CG16, CG17, CE04, CE13
In-class participation
5%
CG08, CG16, CE04, CE13
Oral presentation
5%
CG01, CG16, CG02, CG03
Solving cases and exercises
5%
CG01, CE03
Team work
Business plan
10%
CG08, CG09, CG12, CG15, CG16, CE13
Solving cases and exercises
5%

CG09, CG12, CG15, CE04, CE13

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Agenda

Unit 1. Introduction to business

Unit 2. Understanding how economics affects business

Unit 3. Options for organizing business

Unit 4. Business environment

Unit 5. Business growth

Unit 6. Acounting and financial statements

Unit 7. Management

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Bibliography

Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.


Each topic has lecture notes available on MiAulario

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Languages

English.

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