Teaching plan for the course unit

General Information

Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study

• Basic competences 
  
  — Knowledge forming the basis of original thinking in the development or application of ideas, typically in a research context.

  — Skills to enable lifelong self-directed and independent learning.

  
  General competences

  — Ability to establish research questions or original hypotheses based on a relevant theoretical framework and then evaluate or verify them empirically.

  
  Specific competences

  — Ability to search for and select relevant qualitative and quantitative data, analyse and interpret data, and transform data into useful information to conduct research on business issues.

  — Mastery of the implementation stages of business research activities, including selecting the methodological approach appropriate to tackle the problem and framing the potential contributions of solving the problem to the context of current knowledge and debate.

  — Ability to apply the most appropriate qualitative methodologies for high-quality research on how organizations function and implement these methods rigorously.

Teaching blocks

Teaching methods and general organization

Students acquire the ability to estimate and interpret panel data models. They should be able to implement multivariate analysis to conduct research in Business Studies.

Official assessment of learning outcomes

Students are expected to present an essay on each of the course’s teaching blocks. Each essay is worth 20% of the final grade.

There is also a final examination worth 60% of the final grade. To be eligible to weight their marks, students must achieve a minimum mark of 3.5 out of 10 in the final examination. Students are allowed to access all materials (books, notes, etc.) during the final examination.

Basic competences are assessed by means of the essays and the examination.

The ability to establish research questions or original hypotheses that can be empirically tested (generic competence) is assessed by means of the essays, as students have to propose a question or hypothesis and empirically test it. Similarly, in both essays students are required to search for relevant data, analyse it and interpret the results (specific competence). Students must find the appropriate technique and apply it rigorously (specific competences).

The repeat assessment examination follows the same procedure as that of single assessment.

A final examination, worth 100% of the final grade. Students are not allowed to access any material (books, notes, etc.) during the final examination. Students have to demonstrate having acquired all competences described above.