Labour Economics, photo: Kai Stachowiak
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
Lectures (3 hours per week) and Tutorials (1 hour per week)
Activity |
Semester workload |
Lectures (3 hours per week x 13 weeks) |
39 hours |
Tutorials (2 hours per week x 13 weeks) |
26 hours |
Individual work |
85 hours |
Total number of hours for the Course (25 hours of work-load per ECTS credit) |
150 hours (total student work-load) |
The assessment is based on student’s performance in the written final examination (80%) and on a mid-term examination during the semester (20%). Written examinations deal with issues of understanding basic concepts, comparative evaluation of competitive theories, and solving numerical problems related to the content of the course. The test is of a multiple-choice format, and students are asked to choose the correct answer (40 questions) from a list of 5 alternative answers (per question). The evaluation criteria are described in the Course Syllabus, which is posted on the platform e-class upatras.
Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) (e.g. power point) in teaching. The lectures for each chapter are uploaded on the e-class platform in the form of ppt files, which the enrolled students can freely download.