Presentation

BCO221 GLOBAL ECONOMICS (4 ECTS) Task brief & rubrics

Professor: Nelson Ferreira

Presentation assignment

Please, consider what kind of factors can signalize a potential economic crisis and explain in which way they affect the business environment through an

example. Finally, explain how you would suggest an organization to be prepared for it.

Formalities:

• These presentations must be individual and must take place on campus, unless major health issue.

• Students cannot touch the screen, neither the keyboard. Only person in the room that have access to the keyboard and screen.

• Each student will have 5 minutes for presenting his/her answer.

• Powerpoint slides used for presentation must be uploaded to turnitin, once reviewed, 48h after the presentation.

Submission: Week (10) – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Due in week 10 Sunday 18th April

Weight: This task is a 20% of your total grade for this subject.

It assesses the following learning outcomes:

• Outcome 1: understand the working of international financial markets and global economy.

• Outcome 2: evaluate the state of the economy and the early warnings of a crisis

• Outcome 3: Illustrate the key issues related to the business environment and formulate an analysis of firm´s behavior in the global context.

• Outcome 4: apply the theoretical concepts to real world scenarios

Rubrics

Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69

Knowledge & Understanding

(20%)

Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts, uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner and achieves a good holistic control of Global economics’ outcomes

Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary. Achieves an acceptable good holistic control of Global economics’ outcomes

Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary.

Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary.

Application (30%) Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class to real cases

Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class to real cases.

Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident.

Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident.

Critical Thinking (30%)

Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors.

Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors and references.

Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant.

Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not quote appropriate authors, and does not provide valid sources.

Communication (20%)

Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck

Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident.

Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident.