synthesise theoretical and Working through problem solving, practical understanding in case study activities and problem solving exercises and participating in class discussions case studies; during seminars and workshops; present cogent, reflective and, Executing a suitable piece of where appropriate creative research involving planning, arguments that demonstrate structuring, data collection, advanced understanding of analysis/evaluation and write up of banking and finance; a dissertation. critically interpret and evaluate financial information and data; Assessment Method pursue an independent and Students’ cognitive skills are assessed original line of enquiry in by written coursework, examination identifying and researching a and writing a dissertation. dissertation effectively organise, structure and produce a dissertation at an advanced level. C. Practical skills Teaching/learning methods On completion of the programme Students learn practical skills through the successful student will be able workshops which show from to: where and how data can be source banking, financial and sourced; economic data from a range of seminar exercises, which require different sources including solving qualitative and numerical electronic databases and use problems, analysis of data and this to support his/her learning; working through case studies; analyse and interpret banking, completing exercises in financial and economic data at econometric model building and firm, industry and country level; analysis in computer lab sessions; demonstrate problem solving workshops which demonstrate skills; how to review and evaluate formulate empirically testable theoretical and empirical literature; banking, financial and completing coursework economic models; assignments, such as conducting use econometric software to an applied econometric which investigate relationships in requires students to source data, banking, financial and analyse data using econometric economic data; techniques and interpret/evaluate interpret and evaluate the the results. results of econometric analysis. Assessment Method Students’ practical skills are assessed by Problem solving, case study analysis (in seminars), evaluation of literature and computer exercises (in econometric labs) are part of the programme’s formative assessment. Practical skills are assessed in students' coursework, tests, and examinations and in the production of their dissertation.
synthesise theoretical and practical understanding in problem solving exercises and case studies; present cogent, reflective and, where appropriate creative arguments that demonstrate advanced understanding of banking and finance; critically interpret and evaluate financial information and data; pursue an independent and original line of enquiry in identifying and researching a dissertation effectively organise, structure and produce a dissertation at an advanced level. Working through problem solving, case study activities and participating in class discussions during seminars and workshops; Executing a suitable piece of research involving planning, structuring, data collection, analysis/evaluation and write up of a dissertation. Assessment Method Students’ cognitive skills are assessed by written coursework, examination and writing a dissertation. C. Practical skills On completion of the programme the successful student will be able to: source banking, financial and economic data from a range of different sources including electronic databases and use this to support his/her learning; analyse and interpret banking, financial and economic data at firm, industry and country level; demonstrate problem solving skills; formulate empirically testable banking, financial and economic models; use econometric software to investigate relationships in banking, financial and economic data; interpret and evaluate the results of econometric analysis. Teaching/learning methods Students learn practical skills through workshops which show from where and how data can be sourced; seminar exercises, which require solving qualitative and numerical problems, analysis of data and working through case studies; completing exercises in econometric model building and analysis in computer lab sessions; workshops which demonstrate how to review and evaluate theoretical and empirical literature; completing coursework assignments, such as conducting an applied econometric which requires students to source data, analyse data using econometric techniques and interpret/evaluate the results. Assessment Method Students’ practical skills are assessed by Problem solving, case study analysis (in seminars), evaluation of literature and computer exercises (in econometric labs) are part of the programme’s formative assessment. Practical skills are assessed in students' coursework, tests, and examinations and in the production of their dissertation.
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