Economic and Business History (2 º Sem 2014/2015)

In accordance with the spirit of the Bologna Process, this unit course aims to develop several basic competencies that are essential for future graduates, both at the level of learning outcomes and at the level of the development of generic and specific competences.
At the level of learning outcomes we aim to develop the following capacities:
- To acknowledge the relevance of social background in explaining economic facts and of time and space variables in explaining social and economic facts;
- To analyse the performance of economies and organisations in different social, political and cultural contexts.
At the level of the development of generic and specific competences we aim to develop the following instrumental and interpersonal capacities:
- Selecting and working on relevant data;
- Analytical and synthesising skills;
- Oral and written skills;
- Team work.