tailieunhanh - MA ECONOMICS PROGRAM: Department of Economics & Statistics California State University, Los Angeles

Consumption and government spending are also forecast to contribute to the improved growth performance. Growth in consumption is forecast to rise from per cent in 2005 to per cent in 2006 and to rise again to per cent in 2007. The contribution of net exports to overall growth will be somewhat muted. Although export volumes are forecast to accelerate due to growth in the global economy, so too are import volumes, partly in response to the growth in consumption | MA ECONOMICS PROGRAM Assessment Report Department of Economics Statistics California State University Los Angeles Innovative Instruction Award Program 2001-02 Li-Hsueh Chen Ashish Vaidya June 2002 1 Table of Contents I. Description of the Program. 3 II. Assessment Plan. 11 III. Assessment Results. 12 IV. Timetable for Continued Assessment. 17 Exhibits 1. Core Competency 2. GRE Appendices 1. MA Student Entrance Survey. 19 2. MA Exit 3. MA Course Competency Grids. 24 2 I. Description of the Program The purpose of this assessment report is to promote continuous improvement of the curriculum for the Master s degree in Economics. During the mid 1990s a thorough assessment and revision of the MA at Cal State Los Angeles was undertaken and implementation of a completely new MA program was begun in the fall of 1997. This report reviews initial assessment efforts to date for this new program in order to provide a foundation for future assessment efforts and enhancement of the curriculum. The MA program has three parts 1 Required Core courses 24 units 2 Option courses 16 - 21 units and 3 Culminating Experience 0 - 5 units for a total of 45 units. The Core courses provide the theoretical and applied concepts and quantitative tools in microeconomics macroeconomics and econometrics. The Department offers two options Financial Economics and Global Economics. The Financial Economics option provides students with analytical and technical skills in economic and financial analysis. The Global option provides students with knowledge of the global economy and an ability to make policy decisions. Finally the culminating experience is in the form of a comprehensive examination which is taken in the final quarter of the student s program or a thesis. In addition this plan includes initial efforts at indirect assessment of the MA. While direct assessment measures student learning through exams projects and other demonstrations of student skill and .

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