Double degree in Economics and Tourism
312 credits - Faculty of Economics and Business
The Faculties of Economics and Business, and Tourism intend to offer a double degree in Economics and Tourism so that students are able to attain both degrees in a reasonable length of time.
The synergies between both degrees have become clear in recent years, where it has become usual for students from one course to take subjects from the other. The current accreditation grids for the two degrees have enabled an attractive learning proposal to be designed for students at the university. In this sense, the UIB needs to ensure that these students attain the skills inherent to each of the two programmes. This learning pathway does not represent a new degree or syllabus and, therefore, is not subject to technical assessment by an external agency or assessment body from the Council of Universities. Indeed, it represents internal organisation at the university to provide facilities for students to obtain two separate degrees.
The UIB has designed a curricular pathway structured into 5 courses, with a total of 324 credits. The proposal is in line with the requirements of the professional sphere on the islands, with their high number of tourism enterprises and institutions, and the drive towards sustainable tourism as well as the internationalisation of the university included in its strategic focal points. In this way, the double degree is intended to be multilingual, with a particular emphasis on English in which some subjects will be taught.
Credit Summary
| Core Training | Mandatory | Elective Subjects | External Practicum | Final Degree Project | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78 | 198 | 18 | 18 | 312 |
Subject list by year and semester
Subjects
First Year
First Semester
Economic Environment*
Introduction to Markets and Financial Operations*
Mathematics*
Introduction to Tourism*
Basic Notions of Law*
Economic History*
Second Semester
Tax System*
Introduction to Business*
Microeconomics*
Cultural Heritage Management*
Analysis of Economic Data*
Optimisation*
Second Year
First Semester
Introduction to Econometrics
Games and Strategic Decisions
Macroeconomics I
Economic Structure and Situation
Welfare Economics
Tourism Marketing I
Second Semester
Industrial Organisation
Macroeconomics II
Financial Economics
Microeconometrics
Public Sector
English I
Third Year
First Semester
Information Economics
Growth
Environmental Economics
Analysis of Accounting Information
Macroeconometrics
English II
Second Semester
Economic Evaluation of Projects
Cycles and Policies
Tourism Industry Contracts
Corporate Finance
Strategic Management
Tourism Marketing II
Fourth Year
First Semester
International Economics
Tourism Operations Management
Organisational Design and Human Resources
Tourism Intermediaries
French or German I**
English III
Second Semester
Accounting
French or German II**
Quality Management and Customer Service
Fifth Year
First Semester
French III or German III**
* Core Training
** Students must select one of the two languages
*** Students must produce two Final Degree Projects worth 12 and 6 ETCS respectively, leading to a total of 18 ECTS credits.
Second Semester
Practical Placement
Final Degree Project in Economics***
Final Degree Project in Tourism***
Skills
Core Skills
- Habitually use information and communication technology in the professional workplace.
- Read and communicate in English in the workplace.
- Apply professional criteria to analysing problems using technical tools.
- Communicate fluently in the workplace and teamwork.
- Analyse problems with critical reasoning, without preconceptions, precisely and thoroughly.
- Defend a standpoint by demonstrating and appreciating the basis for other, contrary viewpoints.
- An ability to summarise.
- Contribute in your professional capacity to progress in Human Rights, democratic principles, equal opportunities and universal access, peace, solidarity and environmental protection.
Specific Skills
- Contribute to good resource allocation management at private and public organisations.
- Spot important financial problems linked to resource allocation in general, and plan for them accordingly in private and public organisations.
- Provide a rational approach to analysing and describing any aspect linked to economic realities.
- Assess the impact of different types of activity and select the best options based on the objectives.
- Produce assessment reports on specific economic situations (international, national or regional) or economic sectors.
- Undertake international, national or regional financial management projects.
- Join the business management team.
- Identify relevant financial information sources and their content.
- Comprehend economic and financial institutions as resulting from the application of theoretical or formal approaches to how the economy functions.
- Detect important information that non-financial experts would find impossible to spot.
- Analyse the economic reality by using a proposed theoretical framework whilst being aware of its strengths and weaknesses.
- Contextualise economic issues by using formal models, knowing how to incorporate wider aspects or variations into the basic model starting points that comply with the established base hypotheses, whilst being aware of their strengths and weaknesses.