MAE301 - Choice, Strategies and Dilemmas

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes: Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

MAE201 or MAE214 

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

1 x 2 hour on-campus lecture (recordings provided) and 1 x 1 hour on-campus seminar (recordings provided) each week.

Scheduled learning activities - online

1 x 2 hour recorded lecture each week and 1 x 1 hour online seminar in weeks 4, 7 and 10.

Content

This unit begins by exploring individual rationality and decision making; it then builds upon this by considering behaviour in strategic interactions with others; it concludes by considering how individuals make decisions within groups. Throughout, the unit explores a variety of topics and applications including risk and uncertainty, paradoxes of choice, other-regarding preferences, the role of information in economic and social situations, the tragedy of the commons, and voting systems. The unit emphasises an understanding of analytical concepts in an intuitive and relevant manner and includes behavioural extensions to neoclassical concepts in economics.

Hurdle requirement

Hurdle requirement: Achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the end-of-unit assessment task to evidence a minimum proficiency in the aligned discipline learning outcomes included in this unit.

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