Courses on the Arabian Gulf
Undergraduate courses
Below are some sample undergraduate courses that are tailored to the GPA credit-bearing system. The courses cartridges contain: syllabi, slides (including audio-visual media), handouts, learning objectives, assessment material (including test banks) and grading rubrics.
Principles of Macroeconomics
This course is an introduction to macroeconomic analysis and its application to Arabian Gulf and Middle Eastern economies. It considers how the size, composition and distribution of national income are determined, and goes on to explore inter alia, the problems of inflation and unemployment.
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Principles of Microeconomics
The course introduces students to models of decision making by individual economic agents: consumers, workers and businesses. Students begin by exploring the product and factor markets using the concepts of demand, supply, and equilibrium, moving on to examine the various market structures from perfect competition to monopoly. Students also study the role of the government in the market economy influencing resource allocation and income distribution.
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Money & Banking
This course examines the nature of money and the banking system, including: monetary policy; the role played by the commercial and central banking systems in the expansion of the money supply. It also covers foreign exchange markets and exchange rate targeting policies, with particular reference to the economies of the Arabian Gulf.
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International Economics & Globalisation
This course introduces the concepts of international economics and international business, focusing on two main themes: international trade and globalisation. The course covers Ricardo’s comparative advantage theory and the allocation of trade based on specialization and opportunity costs, the Heckscher-Ohlin model of resource abundance and factor intensity as the main source of comparative advantage and direction of international trade in the modern world, the role of different market structures, such as monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition, in international trade from the business perspective, and the welfare implications of barriers to trade, such as tariffs, quotas, and regulations.
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Research Methods
The course will enable students to develop skills necessary to conduct applied research in economics, business or an allied field. During the course students will learn how to develop original research question/s and hypotheses, conduct a literature review and use bibliographic software to manage their citations and references, analyze the problem/s using appropriate research methods (quantitative/qualitative) according to ethical standards, test their analysis or model of the problem, interpret their results, and write up the findings using appropriate academic language.
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Energy Economics
This course introduces some of the key concepts and terms of reference within the field of energy economics and it then focuses, in particular, on the oil-rich Arabian Gulf countries.
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Postgraduate courses
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 erutledge.com  Dr Emilie J. Rutledge Emilie has published over 20 peer-reviewed papers and is the author of “Monetary Union in the Gulf.” Her current research focus is on employability, the feasibility of universal basic incomes and, the oil-rich Arabian Gulf’s economic diversification and labour market reform strategies. On an ad hoc basis, Emilie provides consultancy on developing interactive university courses, alongside analytical insight on the political-economy of the Arabian Gulf. |