Students take on roles as country delegates and work in groups over 14 weeks to collect economic data and create posters about their assigned countries. Their goal is to present these posters at a final international investors conference to convince investors to invest in their country. Assessments include in-class activities, short term application tasks, online quizzes and readings, with the country poster and data collection worth 15% and a final exam comprising 60% of the total grade. The course aims to help students understand the global economic environment, apply economic tools to analyze problems, and improve their learning autonomy, English skills, and performance.

1. Long term In-class activities
During fourteen weeks students, as Countries’
Delegates have to prepare to take part in a final
International Investors Conference. Each one has to
collect a series of relevant data about the assigned
country and communicate all through a poster. The
best posters will be presented in the Conference
having the opportunity to convince investors to
invest in their countries.
Learning Outcomes
• Understand the main issues of the
world economic environment
• Apply basic concepts and
economic tools to analyse global
problems
• Collect and interpret relevant data
about different countries
• Discuss and debate about the main
problems presented and the
results processed
• Share and communicate
information related with the topics
presented and the data collected
• Improve the students’ learning
autonomy and the awareness of
the quality of their own
performance
• Improve students’ English, both
through technical and
communicative skills
Out-of-Class assignments: Using Uniovi
Virtual Campus students have to
• Watch videos and other multimedia resources to have
their first contact with course materials
• Answer on-line questionnaires related to the content
and procedures in order to aid in-class performance and
detect major comprehension problems.
Course narrative
The module is presented as a sequel of the World
Economic Forum from Davos, which has just finished in
Switzerland and was on the news the days before the
semester opens. Each student is converted in a country’s
delegate of the World Economic Forum held in Oviedo
and the Professor organizes them in groups of four from-
different-continent countries. Twelve permanent
“Country’s Delegates Committees” support collaborative
learning through the semester
Short term In-Class activities
Application daily tasks about video contents seen that week like:
• Autarky-free trade-protectionism graphical analysis through
problem solving
• Analyse and present the history and main elements from WTO
through a designing posters puzzle session
• Apply of factor movements models through case study
• Research about multinational Ownership-Location-
Internalization framework through additional information
sharing
• Exchange rates-FEX markets graphical analysis through
problem solving
• Elaborate and interpret countries’ Balance of Payments
through case analysis
• Read and answer online quizzes about technical papers and
newspaper articles.
Assessment:
• 40% of final grade is
associated to In-Class
activities (15% Short
term activities, 10%
readings and 15%
country poster and data
collection)
• 60% Final exam.
Núria Hernández-Nanclares
(nhernan@uniovi.es)
Mónica Pérez -Rodríguez
Dpto. Economía Aplicada
EMI Symposium 2017: Building Bridges for a Better
Understanding
Thursday 22nd June 2017
Department of Education