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Business Economics: Module Study Guide
Version 1.2 amended 22 September 2011

Business Economics

Module Study Guide module code MS5003E

Level 5 (year 2) core module for students on all undergraduate business programmes taking the module from week beginning 26 September 2011 to 16 January 2012

all classes: Fridays

lecture: 11.00 to 13.00 in TC128

seminars:

Group A: 10.00 to 11.00 in TC262
Group B: 14.00 to 15.00 in TC258
Group C: 15.00 to 16.00 in TC258

You must stay with the group to which you are allocated.

|Andreas Kyriacou |Preethike Dias |Andrew Dunnett |
|andreas.kyriacou@uwl.ac.uk |preethike.dias@uwl.ac.uk |andrew.dunnett@tvu.ac.uk |
|0208 231 2962 | |andy.dunnett@tvu.ac.uk |
|A300 |A300 |0208 231 2924 |
| | |A300 |

Index

Welcome to the module 3

Week by week in outline 4

Overview 5

Aims and Learning outcomes 6

Assessment in outline 7

Blackboard 8

Core texts and other resources 10

Library 14

Assessment in more detail 15

Welcome to the module

Look at the picture.

If you can look at it without feeling a sense of wonderment about our modern world – and perhaps a sense of disquiet – then this module is not for you. But if you look at it and ask the question “Why?” then it is for you. The module will give you insights into questions that perhaps you never even asked yourself until now. Why don’t we

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