Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

Dublin descriptors.
1. Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge on how an economic systems works in aggregate, so as to lay the ground for the study of macroeconomic policies. Understanding the motivations and macroeconomic consequences of public policies is, indeed, an essential expertise with respect to the job placement performance of this laurea degree. The progress of understanding by students will be assessed with a daily frequency during the course, through the adoption of interactive teaching methods that stimulate discussions among students and reveal comprehension gaps, if any.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding:
In training experts in the economics and administration of firms, professors are required to infuse the ability to critically analyze the economic reality wherein firms operate. Comparisons among theories and empirical evidence will therefore occupy a central role in the course. Knowledge application abilities will be assessed through exercise sessions and exam simulations, in which students, guided by the professor, will solve the macroeconomic models presented during the course and will apply them to case studies in macroeconomic policy, focusing also on recent events.
3. Making judgements:
Judgment and critical skills will be stimulated by illustrating the main limitations of the existing macroeconomic theories and policies, in light of the empirical evidence and of methodological and epistemological questions.
4. Communication skills:
students are supposed to learn skills related to communicating their newly acquired knowledge with the appropriate technical terms, in such a way to demonstrate analysis, synthesis, and application skills. Communications skills will be verified even before the oral examination, through the exercise sessions, in which students will be asked to explain how to solve exercise and apply theories and policies.
5. Learning skills: at the end of the course, the exam, together with exercise sessions, the analysis of case studies, student debates and exam simulations will provide enough information to evaluate the learning skills.