UEH Articulation Programs

Brief Course Description

1. Course Title:

Economics

2. Language of Instruction:

Tiếng Việt

3. Course Code:

MED548005

4. Credits:

3

5. Course Objectives:

The course is to help students gain a clear understanding of basic economic concepts, such as supply and demand, and pricing, while analyzing the relationship between customers and producers' behaviors. Students will be equipped with knowledge to evaluate market models and government intervention in the economy. The course enables students to understand and analyze the economic situation of a country or region, as well as assess the macroeconomic and political impacts on national and global economies. Students will develop the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of the economy and plan for business development in both the short and long term. Through lectures, examples, assignments, group discussions, and final essays, students will be able to apply economic concepts, principles, and analytical tools to real-world situations.

6. Brief Description of Course Content:

This course seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of basic economic concepts and scarce resources, markets in which supply, demand and prices are examined in connection with consumers as well as producer behavior. The students can also evaluate various types of market structures as well as the Government intervention into the market. In addition, knowledge in the subject would enable the students not only to understand various broad economic issues of a country or a region but also to evaluate macroeconomic policies as well as economic fluctuations both in a country and in the world

The subject also provides the students with necessary abilities to evaluate economic variables of efficiency. All of this helps students plan for a company’s short-run and long-run development more effectively with consideration of effects of the government’s policies. 

It also provides students with necessary abilities to evaluate economic variables as a whole.

Concepts, principles, and analytical tools in this course will be applied to real-world problems through lecture, examples, homework assignments, group discussions, and final essays.