Saint-Louis University - Bruxelles
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ECGE1341 - Public policy seminar


USL-B


Credits : 5

Lecturers :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

Timetable :
Second term
Monday from 10:45 to 12:45 at 109 Marais 511

Language of instruction :
English.

Learning outcomes :
The aim of this course is to enable the BAC3 student to mobilize the knowledge acquired throughout his/her training in the context of the analysis of a policy problem, as he/she would have to do within a ministerial cabinet or a "public policy" department of a consultancy firm.

Prerequisites :
For the Bachelor : Business Engineering :

For the Bachelor in Economics and Management :

For the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering :


Co-requisites :
For the Bachelor of Science in Business Engineering :


Course contents :
The first session will be devoted to the presentation of the general objectives of the course and the exposition of the working method. Students will then form groups of 3 to 4 members. The work will be supervised by interactions with the teaching team at each class session, and will result in the submission of several intermediate reports (literature review, data analysis, etc.) before the submission of a final report and its presentation.

The theme covered in 2023 will be "climate change policies".


Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
The students will participate in a meeting with at least one member of the teaching team in each session, during which they will present the progress of their work in the framework of the intermediate report being written. The role of the teaching team members will be to guide the students in their research, but they may also take on the role of protagonists with whom economists in charge of such studies might be confronted: the head of the cabinet of the responsible minister, a representative of a stakeholder, a member of another ministry opposed to the envisaged reform, a senior member of the consultancy team in charge of the project, etc.

The teaching method chosen and described above makes participation in the course compulsory.



Assessment methods and criteria :
The final report will count for 60% of the grade. The grade will also take into account the participation of the students in the different meetings (30% of the grade), as well as the quality of the oral presentation of the final report (10% of the grade).


Recommended or required reading :
The course does not use a reference book, but relies on a bibliography that will be communicated to the members of each group according to the chosen topic.