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This unit introduces basic principles of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory and the methods of economic analysis . You will examine the demand-supply model, market equilibrium, elasticity, and how the prices of goods and services, and the cost and revenue curves are determined. You will compare the key market structures: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly and examine why government intervention is necessary in order to correct market failure and achieve allocative and productive efficiency. You will be introduced to the key macroeconomic indicators and their role in managing the economy. You will be given the opportunity to explore the dynamics of macroeconomic policies, and their effectiveness in achieving national economic objectives and dynamic efficiency to achieve long term economic growth.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
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Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Through Moodle Site
More explanation and interpretations of graphs required.
Unit Coordinator and the campus lecturers will spend more time on explaining graphs during lectures and review the understanding during the tutorial sessions.
Feedback from Through Moodle Site
I have a much broader understanding of economics through examples, and how it affects every area of our lives in ways we never knew!
Unit Coordinator and the campus lecturers will continue to provide theory to practice examples relating micro-economics and macro-economics to everyday life.
Feedback from In Class and Unit Evaluation Comments
The theory to practice exercises and revision quizzes helped to score high marks in the quiz test and assignment. But I feel a more interactive approach would help with this unit.
Unit Coordinator will continue to provide revision quizzes and other H5P inter-active activities to suit diverse learning style of the students, to increase moodle engagement, learning from all types of diverse resources and assignment task.
Feedback from Unit Evaluation Comment
Having a zoom tutorial session from 5 to 7pm is great especially for distance students.But having the option where distance students who work can attend the tutorial session is a really nice thing
Timetabling will consider to continue to have evening zoom tutorial session from 5pm-7pm for distance ad offshore students.
- Describe the scope of the discipline of microeconomics and macroeconomics and the methodology of economic analysis and interpretation of tables and graphs, applying theory to practice.
- Describe the definitive characteristics of four different market structures, and rate each in terms of efficiency and the firm’s production decisions.
- Demonstrate how government intervention may be beneficial in cases of market failure in order to achieve more desirable outcomes for the economy and the society.
- Explain macroeconomic goals and assess various macroeconomic policies to stabilise the economy.
- Demonstrate why countries gain from international trade, globalisation, and exchange rate determination.
This Core Unit as well as the proposed changes, meets the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) professional outcomes, standards and assessment tasks as required by the external accounting accrediting bodies.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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| 1 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 50% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
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| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||