The SGPE Summer School
The Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics (SGPE) five-week intensive summer school in Economics.
The summer school will review intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics, as well as key maths and statistical tools used in economic analysis. Topics to be covered include consumption, production, uncertainty and strategic interaction in microeconomics, while in macro you will discover how economies grow, why some countries have high inflation while others maintain stable prices, why all countries have positive unemployment rates and sometimes experience recessions. The course will run for five weeks, including two weeks of Intermediate Macroeconomics, two weeks of Intermediate Microeconomics and a week of Mathematics and Statistics for Economics. Each segment of the course will be examined on the last day of classes for that topic. Lectures will take place in the morning and will be followed by excercise classes in the afternoon, with extra reading to prepare for each class.
The courses will be taught by advanced doctoral students who are friendly and experienced in teaching at both undergraduate and MSc levels. The pace will be fast and the standard set high in order to encourage advanced learning. It will be challenging and students will have to study hard to complete and pass the course, but your reward will be a set of skills that will help you to succeed on our MSc. Students will also need to prepare in advance by undertaking a self study course in Maths for which they will be given details upon being made an offer to the summer school.
Click here for Intermediate Macroeconomics Course Information
Click here for Intermediate Microeconomics Course Information
Click here for a draft timetable for August & September 2011
2012 Programme Cost (to be confirmed withe Fees Office):
£1000 (covers both Micro and Macroeconomics courses)
Dates: 06 August - 07 September 2012
Eligibility: The summer school is open to students who hold a conditional offer to the SGPE MSc that is conditional on additional study at a Summer School. Students holding SGPE MSc offers with other conditions or unconditional offers may be permitted to participate, but priority will be given to those holding offers of MSc Economics or MSc Economics (Finance) at the University of Edinburgh with summer school conditions.
For more information on the courses and the Summer school, please contact SGPE Admissions