- Docente: Mounir Tahir Abdul Al Khudri
This course will attempt to cover key economic subjects, moving from macroeconomic to microeconomic issues. Stronger focus will be placed during this term on financial issues.
Rather than being a tutorial in economics proper, this course is an endeavour to understand, from a linguist's standpoint, the key concepts in this knowledge area, but also the main writing techniques and distinctive features of the economic discourse.
The material will be drawn from a wide variety of sources ranging from magazine articles to publications of central banks, companies, or international organizations. Students will be encouraged to do their own research and share their findings with the rest of the class.
At the end of this course, students should be able to translate, with fair confidence, different types of economic texts that come their way, whether expository or persuasive. They shall have decent knowledge of the constituent elements of the economic discourse and a broad understanding of most common economic terminology.