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Course code: BBS10282o16Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Basics of Economics
Major: Biology
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Stanisław Minta
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student: W1 – has general knowledge about market and its functioning [KB_W16]; W2 – defines supply and demand [KB_W16]; W3 – knows the basic concept of inflation, unemployment and business cycles [KB_W16]; W4 – knows the various forms of individual entrepreneurship [KB_W16]. Skills: Student: U1 – uses of the available sources of information for the preparation of speeches and papers taking into account economic aspects [KB_U17]; U2 –is able to perform simple calculations of costs associated with the economic analysis of experiments, field studies or observations [KB_U15].
Competences: Personal and social competences (attitudes and behaviors): Student: K1 – on the basis of acquired knowledge, is able to conduct business activities useful in biology [KB_K10]; K2 – is oriented on a cost-effective and secure collaboration [KB_K09].
Prerequisites: basics of mathematics
Course content: the concept of economics, types of economies, the market and its mechanism of action, demand and supply and its determinants, competition in the economy and market structures, enterprise and its environment, cost, revenue and profits, money, inflation and unemployment, cyclical economic processes, the specificity of economic conditions in nature and agribusiness.
Recommended literature: 1. Rekowski M., 2005: Mikroekonomia. Wyd. Akademia. Poznań; 2. Milewski R., Kwiatkowski E., (red.), 2007: Podstawy ekonomii. Wyd. PWN. Warszawa; 3. Materiały uzupełniające: Prezentacje multimedialne z zakresu ekonomii dostępne na portalu ekonomicznym Narodowego Banku Polskiego (www.nbportal.pl).
Assessment methods: Written credits in 45 minutes (20 closed multiple choice questions and 2 tasks) in a class session. If credits has not been positively written in the first period, the student has the right to re-take them orally or in writing in a period of improvement.
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