Economic Globalization

Code: ECN13103M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Legal-Political Theory and International Relations

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

It is intended that students will be able to:
1. Have the ability to analyze global economic dynamics from a historical perspective
2. Understand current trends in trade flows of goods, services and productive factors in the context of the world economy
3. Promote understanding of current migration flows
4. Identify the environmental causes and effects caused by economic globalization and evaluate the influence of European Union public policies in an attempt to minimize such effects.
5. Promote understanding of the role of international economic organizations in defining rules and supervising them
It is also intended that students develop skills:
6. independent reflection, decision-making, written and oral communication and teamwork
7. to frame the issue of globalization in the field of public policies, allowing better insertion in the job market
8. for roles in the research domain

1. Conceptual framework and historical aspects of economic globalization
2. International trade
3. Capital movements: foreign direct investment and international portfolio investment
4. Migratory flows
5. Environmental consequences of globalization
6. Effects of globalization: the perspective of the European Union and developing countries
7. International economic institutions

Teaching Methods

The main concepts and theories are presented in expositive sessions, but contact hours also have an applied
component, consisting of discussions of economic globalization news. The objective of the latter is to
distinguish between the different approaches to the discussion of economic globalization.
There are three evaluation hypothesis:
1) One written examination, supervision of classroom discussion of news and a research paper (40%, 30%,
30%).
2) One written and one oral examination (50%, 50%).
3) One written examination and a research paper (50%, 50%).

Assessment

The assessment will be carried out through the continuous assessment or exam regime. The continuous assessment regime involves carrying out work, a report and a final test.
1. Report (25% of the final grade)
Objective: Analyze and present an article in class, suitable for the UC. Fundamental aspects of the article (objective, state of the art, methodology, results and lines of research, etc.) with a maximum of 5 pages.
2. Work (50% of the final grade). Develop the state of the art on one of the topics indicated by the teacher, which will be based on a research question.
3. Individual written test (25%). A grade below 7, even if the average is positive, requires an oral test.