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Introduction to Economic and Business Sciences

Code:

CC008

Sigla:

ICEE

Áreas Científicas
Classificação	Área Científica
CNAEF	Management and administration

Ocorrência: 2020/2021 - 2S

Ativa?	Yes
Curso/CE Responsável:	Professional Higher Technical Course in Civil Construction

Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos

Sigla	Nº de Estudantes	Plano de Estudos	Anos Curriculares	Créditos UCN	Créditos ECTS	Horas de Contacto	Horas Totais
CC	15	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2020	1	-	4	45	108

Língua de trabalho

Portuguese

Objetivos

1. To Provide the basic concepts of micro-economic analysis defined as a study of the behaviour logic of individual economic agents(families and companies) and the markets where they operate with regard to the production, consumption and exchange of goods and services;  


2. To Understand and interpret the behaviours that determine the demand and supply of goods, the allocation of productive resourcesthrough the market system, the determination of individual income and the profitability of companies;


3. Identify and understand the basic models of the market structure and how companies behave in these different structures;


4.  Identify, understand the importance and relate the different functions of business management, including planning, organisation, management and control;


5. Generally, understand the measures of the country's economic activity.

Resultados de aprendizagem e competências

1. provide the basic concepts of micro-economic analysis defined as a study of the behaviour logic of individual economic agents(families and companies) and the markets where they operate with regard to the production, consumption and exchange of goods andservices;   


2. Understand  and interpret the behaviours that determine the demand and supply of goods, the allocation of productive resources through the market system, the determination of individual income and the profitability of companies;


3. Identify  and understand the basic models of the market structure and how companies behave in these different structures;


4.   Identify, understand the importance and relate the different functions of business management, including planning,organisation, management and control;


5. Generally, understand the measures of the country's economic activity.

Modo de trabalho

Presencial

Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)

Not apply

Programa

Microeconomics

1. Fundamental concepts of economics
   • Economics as a science
   • Scarcity problem
     • Free goods and economic goods

1.2.2 Frontier of production possibilities

• Functioning of the economic system

2. Elementary theory of supply and demand
   • Supply and demand function.
   • Determinants of demand and supply.
   • Shifting of demand and supply curves.
   • Market balance.
   • Changes in market balance.
   • Elasticity
   • State intervention.

 

3. Rational consumer choice
   • Budgetary constraint.
   • Theory of
   • Optimal consumer
   • Consumer

 

4. Company theory
   • Production
     • Production with one variable input
     • Production with two variable inputs
   • Cost

 

5. Market structures

 

1. Organization management
   1. Main concepts
   2. Introduction to the general theory of the organization

 

1. Macroeconomics
   1. Measure of economic activity
   2. Real aggregates and nominal aggregates

Bibliografia Obrigatória

Samuelson, P. E Nordhaus, W. ; Economia, 19a Ed., , McGraw Hill, 2011

Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem

Theoretical-practical classes where concepts based on situations of family, business and global economic status are transmitted.

Students are encouraged to reflect on real situations through exercises as a way to consolidate theoretical concepts.

 

     If it is not possible to take the test and/or exam in person, because of the pandemic, an oral test may be required for all students who obtain a rating greater than or equal to 10.

 

Tipo de avaliação

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Componentes de Avaliação

Designation	Peso (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Teste	90,00
Total:	100,00

Componentes de Ocupação

Designation	Tempo (Horas)
Estudo autónomo	63,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Total:	108,00

Obtenção de frequência

Not apply

Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final

Distributed evaluation with final exam.