ØASØK3300 Offentlig økonomi Emneplan

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

This course is run in collaboration with Louisiana Technology University. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the course will be offered online (digitally). The majority of the instruction will take place asynchronously (in Canvas), with periodic 1-hour long synchronous meetings, in Zoom or Teams.

In line with best teaching practices from the field of professional communication, the following teaching methods will be used (listed here in order of priority and frequency of use):

• Active learning and flipped classroom methods
• Peer review and peer-learning

• Short lectures and presentations by instructor(s), followed by discussions and informal assessments

The role of the teacher is to be a facilitator and an expert-coordinator of course work, who guides the students through the content of the course.

1. Three written assignments

1. Weekly reading response and peer-review assignments. A minimum of 75% (9 out of 12) out of the reading response and peer-review assignments must be approved.

Detailed description of all assignments will be provided to the students in Canvas.

The following assignment must have been completed and approved in order for a student to take the exam:

• Up-to-date and approved project description
• A syllabus of at least 2,000 pages chosen by the student must be approved by the supervisor before a student can submit his/her master's thesis for grading
• At least one presentation of his/her own work and one presentation acting as an opponent in relation to another student's work at master's seminars

Grade scale A - F

One internal examiner. External examiners are used periodically.

Professor Pavel Zemliansky

All master's theses are assessed by two examiners, one of whom must be external.

Vibeke Lohne