ökb021 - Private households and businesses (Complete module description)

ökb021 - Private households and businesses (Complete module description)

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Module label Private households and businesses
Modulkürzel ökb021
Credit points 6.0 KP
Workload 180 h
Institute directory Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Economics Education)
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls
  • Dual-Subject Bachelor's Programme Economic Education (Bachelor) > Basismodule
  • Dual-Subject Bachelor's Programme Politics-Economics (Bachelor) > Basismodule
  • Erweiterungsfach Gymnasium Politik-Wirtschaft (Extension tray) > Module
Zuständige Personen
  • Schröder, Rudolf (module responsibility)
  • Loerwald, Dirk (module responsibility)
  • Lehrenden, Die im Modul (Prüfungsberechtigt)
Prerequisites
Skills to be acquired in this module
Students:
• develop an understanding of the functions of private households and consumers in the economic process
• have a command of behavioural theory principles in economics
• analyse explanatory models of consumer behaviour
• understand the pricing mechanism in perfect markets
• analyse the functions of businesses in the economic process, in both the general economic process and regional economies
• deal with fundamental attributes of businesses (esp. organization, management, legal forms)
• apply the fundamentals of external accounting
• develop questions for the orientation internship.
Module contents
Principles of micro- and macroeconomic aspects of private households
• Functions of private households in the economic process
• Consumers in the market economy
• Starting points for the explanation of consumer behaviour
• Development of a simple market model

Principles of the organisation of economic and social processes in businesses
• Businesses in the economic cycle
• Attributes of businesses
• Preconditions for entrepreneurial activity
• Legal principles, esp. legal forms and sales contracts
• Principles of external accounting
• Basic functions and management

Accompanying session for the orientation internship: Regional economies and career orientation – Preparation for orientation internship
• Development of questions for the orientation internship
• Fulfilment of the orientation internship
• Evaluation of the orientation internship

(28 contact hours & 152 self-study, see PB)
Literaturempfehlungen
Breisig, T. (2009): Betriebliche Organisation, Oldenburg: IÖB. Krol, G.-J./Karpe, J./Zoerner, A. (2014): Die Stellung der Privaten Haushalte im Wirtschaftsgeschehen, 3. aktualisierte Auflage, Oldenburg: IÖB. Mankiw, N./Taylor, M. (2012): Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 5. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Weber, W. (2014): Unternehmen als ökonomische und soziale Aktionszentren, Oldenburg: IÖB.
Links
https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nc/studium/studiengang/?tab=profile&id_studg=131 und https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/nc/studium/studiengang/?tab=profile&id_studg=546
Language of instruction German
Duration (semesters) 1 Semester
Module frequency jährlich
Module capacity unlimited
Reference text
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Examination Prüfungszeiten Type of examination
Final exam of module
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Für den Studiengang **Ökonomische Bildung** - Klausur (2 Stunden) Für den Studiengang **Politik-Wirtschaft** 1 Modulprüfung - Klausur (120 min.) 
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