Economics - 7412

Program Summary

Faculty: Australian School of Business

Contact:  Australian School of Business Student Centre

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Typical Duration: 0.5 Years

Typical UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC Per Semester: 6

Max UOC Per Semester: 24

Min UOC For Award: 24

Award(s):

Graduate Certificate

Program Description
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Students should always follow the program requirements according to the year they started their degree. For more information please visit Previous UNSW Online Handbooks.


Enrolments for this program will commmence from semester 2, 2014


The Graduate Certificate in Economics is offered as an on-campus program. Students are required to complete 4 courses (24 Units of Credit) comprised of one course each from 3 core areas and one elective course. All courses are 6 Units of Credit.

Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Economics program, students will have demonstrated:
  1. the cognitive skills and capacity to analyse economic problems using advanced modern tools used in economics;
  2. the ability to synthesize mathematical economic analysis and provide economic intuition for the results;
  3. the capacity to use econometric estimation techniques to analyse empirical problems.
  4. communication skills in delivering knowledge and ideas.

Program Structure
Core Microeconomics Course

Students are required to complete one course (6 UOC) from the following:
Core Quantitative Course

Students are required to complete one course (6 UOC) from the following:
Core Econometrics Course

Students are required to complete one course (6UOC) from the following:
Elective

Students are required to complete one elective course (6 UOC) which may be taken from the lists of core courses above, or one of the following:

Academic Rules
Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Economics (24 UOC) with an average mark of 70% will be eligible to enrol in the Masters of Economics (48 UOC).

Fees
For information regarding fees for UNSW programs, please refer to the following website:  https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/fees/FeesMainPage.html

Program Entry Requirements
The minimum entry requirement is:
  • a bachelor degree from an Australian university or equivalent overseas institution in economics (BEc); OR
  • other advanced cognate disciplines with required technical skills (e.g. mathematics, finance, or statistics) with WAM of 65%, plus a compulsory component of intermediate level microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics as well as competency in mathematical and statistical methods; OR
  • equivalent as determined by the Australian School of Business.
Entrance to the program also requires that applicants should:
  • have achieved an average of 65% or higher in the last two years of economics and quantitative methods courses in their bachelor degree; and
  • satisfy the University's English Language requirement.
Applicants without an adequate background may be required to undertake some preliminary coursework in intermediate microeconomics, macroeconomics as well as econometrics.

Further Information
Please note that these requirements may be subject to change.

Students are advised to follow requirements according to the year they commenced. Please refer to previous editions of the Online Handbook for your program requirements.

Contact the
Australian School of Business Student Centre for advice.
tel: + 61 2 9385 3189
location: Level 1, room 1028, Quadrangle Building
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