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Lectures and coursework is provided by NUI Galway, as well as members
of the IDARI consortium, and is constituted as follows:
- Economics (120 hours)
(i) Micro and macroeconomics (60 hours): a general
course on themes in micro and macroeconomics, pertinent
to rural development analysis: decision theory, labour
markets, capital markets, entrepreneurship, spatial theories,
etc.
(ii) Institutional Economics (20 hours + 20 hours approximately
of guest lectures)
(iii) Economics of Innovation (20 hours)
(iv) Theory of the Firm: alternative perspectives (20
hours)
- Scientific methodology (20 hours)
(i) Formulating theory, approaches to testing
theory – different schools of thought
- Statistical Methods (1x25 hours)
(i) Socioeconomic variables: measurement, correlation
and causality
(ii) General Linear Model: quantitative and qualitative
variables
(iii) Other statistical models
(iv) Data sources: secondary data and sampling
- Specialist courses:
(i) Transition Economics (20 hours)
(ii) Sustainable Rural Development: Theory and Policy
(with particular reference to the EU) (20 hours)
(iii) Environmenal/Ecological economics (20 hours)
(iv) Advanced econometrics (20 hours) (Optional
- Seminars (Topics related to focus of theses)
In addition to and after the coursework delivered in Galway,
there will be an ongoing delivery of course material and
dialogue between IDARI Ph.D. students and lecturers through
the internet medium Blackboard, which will be operated
from Galway. Blackboard will also be utilised as the communication
medium between supervisors and students.
- Summer Term
- Autumn Term
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Prof. Thomas Boylan)
- Qualitative Research Methods (Dr. Rachel Hilliard)
- Rural Development (Prof. Michael Cuddy, Catherine Murray)
- Winter Term
- Econometrics
- Transition Economics
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