Key learning outcomes

After completing the Bachelor in Economics and Management, students will have acquired the following skills:

Acquisition of theoretical and methodological skills in economics and management:

• Mastery of fundamental concepts and basic models of economic theory and management disciplines;
• Development of a scientific approach, familiarisation with its tools, and more specifically with modelling;
• Formalisation of an economic or management problem and ways to provide answers to it;
• Reflexive attitude to theory;
• Development of a rigorous reflection on the ethical and political dimensions of economic analysis and management.

Acquisition of skills in quantitative methods applied to economics and management:

• Use of mathematical modelling in the analysis of economic or management issues;
• Mastery of basic statistical methods;
• Mastery of fundamental computer tools and applied mathematics;
• Production of abstract reasoning through the use of a formal language and the adoption of a reflexive attitude to this formalisation.

Acquisition of knowledge in other fields of social and human sciences:

• Knowledge of the major currents of thought that found social and human sciences: philosophy, law, history, sociology, psychology, political science…
• Mobilisation of the concepts of these disciplines to address economic and social problems,
• And more generally, to adopt a reflexive attitude towards theoretical knowledge.

Acquisition of Language skills in English and Dutch:

• Receptive and productive skills in English and Dutch, and more specifically, the ability to engage in a general or specialised conversation (in the field of social and human sciences) in both languages;
• Ability to understand, study and reproduce a theoretical content in both languages;
• Familiarisation with an active allophone environment (travel abroad)

Acquisition of transferable intellectual skills:

• Capacity for critical reading and analysis of scientific texts;
• Ability to conduct and complete a research and work of academic standards, including by manipulating statistics,
• Ability to write a report in compliance with the standards of scientific writing;
• Ability to produce personal and rigorous reasoning, and to defend it in written and oral form;
• Ability to link the various disciplinary skills and to identify complementarities;
• Taste for participation in the collective intellectual dynamic.

In addition, for students enrolled in multilingual programmes:

• the ability to follow a course, study it and present its ensuing oral or written assessment in the target language (Dutch and / or English)
• and, more broadly, a knowledge of the cultural world, the specific characteristics and ways of thinking associated with the target language (Dutch and / or English)

More specifically, 

• for students enrolled in an English oriented multilingual programme: the ability to conduct research in the field of economics, and to write a substantial work of academic scope in English (see: Seminar in Economics).

• for students enrolled in a Dutch oriented multilingual programme: the ability to conduct research in the field of economics, and to write a substantial work of academic scope in Dutch (see: Seminarie in Economie).