ECON3208 Applied Econometric Methods - 2018

Subject Code
ECON3208
Study Level
Undergraduate
Commencing Term
Semester 1
Total Units of Credit (UOC)
6
Delivery Mode
On Campus
School
Economics

1. Course Details

Summary of Course

​This course extends econometric modelling using linear regression to cover nonlinear models such as logit and probit, regression methods for forecasting, and an introduction to the treatment of endogeneity (e.g. instrumental variable estimation). Special emphasis will be placed on the process and potential pitfalls of conducting and evaluating applied econometric research. The course will equip students with the necessary knowledge to be able to conduct their own econometric research using typical economic data.

Teaching Times and Locations

Please note that teaching times and locations are subject to change. Students are strongly advised to refer to the Class Timetable website for the most up-to-date teaching times and locations.

View course timetable

Course Policies & Support

The Business School expects that you are familiar with the contents of this course outline and the UNSW and Business School learning expectations, rules, policies and support services as listed below:

  • Program Learning Goals and Outcomes
  • Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
  • Student Responsibilities and Conduct
  • Special Consideration
  • Protocol for Viewing Final Exam Scripts
  • Student Learning Support Services

View course Policies and Support

Course Aims and Relationship to Other Courses

​The course also provides necessary skills and techniques that will be used in further study of econometrics and economics more generally. A specialization in econometrics or business statistics is designed to equip students with the more advanced statistical and quantitative skills that are widely used and increasingly demanded by employers in commercial fields and the public sector.

The primary objective of the course is to provide a solid theoretical and practical foundation for interpretation of empirical evidence in economics. The course therefore has two components: econometric theory and “Hands-on” experience.

This course is offered as part of the economics stream in the B.Com and B.Econ degrees. It represents the second in a sequence of econometrics courses designed to equip students with knowledge of the key econometric tools and methods expected of an applied economist. A prerequisite for this course is ECON2206. It aims to build on the basic theories and knowledge learnt in ECON2206.

Student Learning Outcomes

The Course Learning Outcomes are what you should be able to DO by the end of this course if you participate fully in learning activities and successfully complete the assessment items.

The Learning Outcomes in this course also help you to achieve some of the overall Program Learning Goals and Outcomes for all undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students in the Business School. Program Learning Goals are what we want you to BE or HAVE by the time you successfully complete your degree (e.g. ‘be an effective team player’). You demonstrate this by achieving specific Program Learning Outcomes - what you are able to DO by the end of your degree (e.g. ‘participate collaboratively and responsibly in teams’).

For more information on Program Learning Goals and Outcomes, refer to the course Policies and Support.

The following table shows how your Course Learning Outcomes relate to the overall Program Learning Goals and Outcomes, and indicates where these are assessed (they may also be developed in tutorials and other activities):

Program Learning Goals and Outcomes Course Learning Outcomes Course Assessment Item
This course helps you to achieve the following learning goals for all Business undergraduate/postgraduate coursework students:

On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:

This learning outcome will be assessed in the following items:

1 - Knowledge

Apply a range of econometric models and tools that are useful when dealing with discrete dependent variables.

Model and interpret data with the problems of omitted variables, endogenous regressors, problems that are prevalent in most economic data.

Use regression models to forecast future values.

Use STATA for econometric modelling.

  • Tutorial Work
  • Project
  • Final Exam
2 - Critical thinking and problem solving

Make informed decisions about the model building process and the relevance of theoretical models in conducting applied work.

Critically evaluate empirical research.

  • Tutorial Work
  • Project
  • Final Exam
3a - Written communication

Construct written work which is logically and professionally presented.

  • Tutorial Work
  • Final Exam
3b - Oral communication

Not specifically addressed in this course.

  • Not specifically addressed in this course.
4 - Teamwork

Work collaboratively to complete a task.

  • Project
5a - Ethical, social and environmental responsibility

Identify and assess ethical considerations in problems in economics and business.

  • Final Exam
5b - Social and cultural awareness

Formulate economic and business interactions in analytical terms and analyse them using tools provided by the theory.

  • Final Exam

2. Staff Contact Details

Position Title Name Email Location Phone Consultation Times
Lecturer-in-chargeAProfRoom 4049385 9696Thursday 2-5pm

​Communication with staff

You should feel free to contact your lecturer about any academic matter. All enquiries about the subject material should be made at lectures or tutorials or during consultation time.

Email correspondence on administrative matters (e.g. advising inability to attend tute) will be responded to within 48 hours, but not over weekends. Please note that the lecturer has no advance notice of the date and time of the exam.

3. Learning and Teaching Activities

Approach to Learning and Teaching in the Course

​The philosophy underpinning this course and its Teaching and Learning Strategies are based on “Guidelines on Learning that Inform Teaching at UNSW”.

Quantitative information and statistics are pervasive not only in the study of economics and business but in understanding a wide range of phenomena. Every attempt will be made to demonstrate the relevance of the course to understanding such phenomena.

This will require applying econometric and statistical methods and techniques to practical problems in a broad set of topics.

Students who are undertaking this course will have some background in basic statistics and grounding in the principles of regression analysis. Using this knowledge as a base, an extensive discussion of the use of regression theory and some of its extensions will be provided. We demonstrate how regression models can be applied to data to estimate relationships, to forecast and to test hypotheses that arise in economics and business. We also discuss common problems that arise in most economic data.

General principles or guidelines for undertaking applied work are discussed. In particular, we stress careful data analysis, the need to evaluate estimated models and the importance of the links between econometric models and the underlying substantive knowledge or theory associated with the particular application. These issues will be related to applications drawn from various fields.

It is essential that the discussion of how to use econometric tools effectively be complemented with practice in analysing data. An important aid in this particular task will be the computing component where the popular econometrics package STATA will be used.

Learning Activities and Teaching Strategies

The examinable content of the course is defined by the references given in the Lecture Schedule, the content of Lectures, and the content of the Tutorial Program.

Lectures

The purpose of Lectures is to provide a logical structure for the topics that make up the course; to emphasize the important concepts and methods of each topic, and to provide relevant examples to which the concepts and methods are applied.

Tutorials

The object of the tutorials is to discuss various approaches to, and issues associated with the assigned exercises and topics covered in the course. Each week a document will be posted containing the exercises which are to be covered in tutorials. A number of these exercises are intended to be challenging so as to stimulate questions and discussion. Therefore, students should not feel inadequate if they have difficulty solving all the exercises before attending their tutorial. However, it is important that students attempt the assigned exercises before the corresponding tutorial sessions. Tutorials are an integral component of the course; attendance and participation in your tutorial is crucial for your successful completion of the course.

Out-of-Class Study

While students may have preferred individual learning strategies, it is important to note that most learning will be achieved outside of class time. Lectures can only provide a structure to assist your study, and tutorial time is limited.

Discussion Forum

A Discussion Forum will operate on the Course website. Tutors will monitor the discussion and answer questions when needed.

Learning strategies

While students may have preferred individual learning strategies, it is important to note that most learning will be achieved outside of class time. Lectures can only provide a structure to assist your study, and tutorial time is limited.

  • Prior to attending a lecture, read the assigned readings for the lecture. Also download and read the lecture notes for your lecture and bring them with you to the lecture. The lecture notes are available for downloading on the Applied Econometric Methods website.
  • Attend the lecture. The lecture notes form the basis for the lecture. Key concepts will be emphasised and demonstrated through worked examples.
  • Complement your lecture notes with the assigned readings and ask questions from the lecturer or your tutor if some issues are still unclear.
  • Prior to attending tutorials, attempt the assigned questions for that week. Do not be discouraged if you cannot answer all of the questions as some questions are more difficult than others. Attempting the assigned tutorial questions will provide a self-test of your understanding of particular topics and identify those topics which may require further attention. Some of the tutorial questions have been taken from past exam papers. Tutors will work through the assigned tutorial questions each week.
  • Attempt additional problems from the end-of-chapter questions in the textbook. Many of the tutorial and examination questions have a similar structure to the textbook questions. By attempting additional questions, you are able to test your own knowledge and, through practice and experience, improve your understanding of the material.

5. Course Resources

​Course website

The website for this course is on UNSW Moodle.

The website contains: (a) the course outline, the tutorial documents and other course handouts; (b) the lecture notes; (c) data used in the tutorial problems and project; (d) past exam papers; and (e) course announcements.

Students should consult this website at least once a week as it contains important information about the course. It will be assumed that all students have seen any notice posted on the course website.

Textbook and readings

The textbook for this course is:

  • Wooldridge, J.M. (2016), Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 6th ed. South-Western.

This is the prescribed textbook for the course. It will be the primary source of extra reading for material covered in lectures. Assignments and some exercises will be taken from the book.

Another reference book recommended for the course is:

  • Stock, J.H. and M.W. Watson (2015), Introduction to Econometrics, Updated 3rd ed. Addison-Wesley.

Although Stock and Watson (2015) is not a required text, the reading list below includes chapters from the text. The material is similar to that provided in Wooldridge, but sometimes different styles or approaches in explaining the same material will be more helpful to individual students. Both texts will be available in the Open Reserve Section of the library. Also they will be available for purchase from the bookstore.

Computing work

Computing is an integral component of Econometric Methods. Apart from tutorial problems that require computing, the major project, which is worth 25% of the final grade, cannot be successfully completed without using econometric software.

Furthermore, some exam questions will ask you to interpret various generic outputs and you will need experience analysing and interpreting outputs to answer the questions appropriately.

The default econometric software is Stata. Assigned computer work may be done in the computing labs; alternatively, you can obtain a personal copy of the Stata and install it on your own PC. To purchase your own copy, you will need to fill out a form and pay the price of the version of Stata you choose to buy. For more information on Stata prices.

Notes: In all cases, the installation CD includes PDF of manuals. Small Stata can handle only up to 99 variables x 1200 observations. These prices are for the most recent version of Stata which is version 14.

Alternatively, you can use UNSW Access at to use Stata from home. More details will be available on Moodle.

There are lots of resources and support for Stata on the web. Particularly useful are the following websites:

Note that students do not need to buy their own copy of Stata and can choose to conduct their computing work on campus in the computer labs or use UNSW Access. Also, it is possible to complete the course using other software such as R, SHAZAM, SAS or E-Views. However, tutorial answers and general support for student queries will be given for Stata only. EXCEL will not be sufficient for this course.

6. Course Evaluation & Development

​Each year feedback is sought from students and other stakeholders about the courses offered in the School and continual improvements are made based on this feedback. UNSW's myExperience Survey Tool is one of the ways in which student evaluative feedback is gathered. You are strongly encouraged to take part in the feedback process.

7. Course Schedule

Week 1: 26 Feb
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Review of Topics in Regression

Analysis Categorical regressors

Assessment/Other

W: Ch. 1-19

S&W: Ch.1-3

W: Ch 2:5

Week 2: 05 Mar
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Discrete Dependent variables:

The Probit and Logit

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 17 and Appendix B

S&W: Ch. 11

Week 3: 12 Mar
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Limited Dependent Variables:

Censored and Truncated Estimation

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 17 and Appendix B

S&W: Ch. 11

Week 4: 19 Mar
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Limited Dependent Variables:

Inference and testing

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 17 and Appendix B

S&W: Ch. 11

Week 5: 26 Mar
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Instrumental Variable Estimation:

Omitted Variables/Two Stage Least Squares

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 15

S&W: Ch. 9 and 12

Mid Semester Break: 02 Apr
Week 6: 09 Apr
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Instrumental Variable Estimation:

Testing for Endogeneity /Overidentification

Assignment 1

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 15

S&W: Ch. 9 and 12

Week 7: 16 Apr
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Instrumental Variable Estimation:

Errors in Variables Problem

 

 

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 15

S&W: Ch. 9 and 12

Week 8: 23 Apr
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Simultaneous Equations

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 16

Week 9: 30 Apr
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Time Series: Distributed lag models/Spurious regression I

 

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 10,11,12,18

S&W: Ch. 12

Week 10: 07 May
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Time Series: Distributed lag models/Spurious regression II

Assignment 2

 

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 10,11,12,18

S&W: Ch. 12

Week 11: 14 May
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Time Series: Distributed lag models/Spurious regression III

 

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 10,11,12,18

S&W: Ch. 12

Week 12: 21 May
Activity

Lecture

Topic

Time Series: Cointegration and Error Correction Models

Assessment/Other

W: Ch 18

Week 13: 28 May
Activity

Tutorial

Topic

No lectures

Tutorials only

Project

8. Policies

Information about UNSW Business School protocols, University policies, student responsibilities and education quality and support.

Program Learning Goals and Outcomes

The Business School Program Learning Goals reflect what we want all students to BE or HAVE by the time they successfully complete their degree, regardless of their individual majors or specialisations. For example, we want all our graduates to HAVE a high level of business knowledge and a sound awareness of ethical, social, cultural and environmental implications of business. As well, we want all our graduates to BE effective problem-solvers, communicators and team participants.

You can demonstrate your achievement of these goals by the specific outcomes you achieve by the end of your degree (i.e. Program Learning Outcomes—henceforth PLOs). These PLOs articulate what you need to know and be able to do as a result of engaging in learning. They embody the knowledge, skills and capabilities that are identified, mapped, taught, practised and assessed within each Business School program.

All UNSW programs and courses are designed to assess the attainment of program and/or course level learning outcomes, as outlined in the UNSW Assessment Design Procedure. It is therefore important that you become familiar with the Business School PLOs, as they constitute the framework which informs and shapes the course components and assessments of the courses within your program of study.

Program Learning Outcomes

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate Coursework
Knowledge You should be able to identify and apply disciplinary knowledge to business situations in a local and global environment.
Critical thinking and problem solving You should be able to identify and research issues in business situations, analyse the issues, and propose appropriate and well-justified solutions.
Written communication You should be able to prepare written documents that are clear, concise and coherent, using appropriate style and presentation for the intended audience, purpose and context.
Oral communication You should be able to prepare and deliver oral presentations that are clear, focussed, well-structured, and delivered in a professional manner.
Teamwork You should be able to participate collaboratively and responsibly in teams, and reflect on your own teamwork, and on the team’s processes and ability to achieve outcomes.
Ethical, social and environmental responsibility
  1. You should be able to identify and assess ethical, environmental and/or sustainability considerations in business decision-making and practice.
  2. You should be able to identify social and cultural implications of business.
Workplace skills (Co-op programs only) You should be able to conduct yourself in a professional manner in the work environment, communicate effectively in diverse workplace situations and be able to apply discipline knowledge and understanding to real business problems with initiative and self-direction.
Related PLO Documents View the Undergraduate Honours PLOs (pdf)
Knowledge You should be able to identify and apply current knowledge of disciplinary or interdisciplinary theory and professional practice to business in local and global environments.
Critical thinking and problem solving You should be able to identify, research and analyse complex issues and problems in business and/or management, and propose appropriate and well-justified solutions.
Written communication You should be able to produce written documents that communicate complex disciplinary ideas and information effectively for the intended audience and purpose.
Oral communication You should be able to produce oral presentations that communicate complex disciplinary ideas and information effectively for the intended audience and purpose.
Teamwork You should be able to participate collaboratively and responsibly in teams, and reflect on your own teamwork, and on the team’s processes and ability to achieve outcomes.
Ethical, social and environmental responsibility
  1. You should be able to identify and assess ethical, environmental and/or sustainability considerations in business decision-making and practice.
  2. You should be able to identify social and cultural implications of business.
Related PLO Documents View the Master of Philosophy PLOs (pdf)
 View the Doctor of Philosophy PLOs (pdf)

UNSW Graduate Capabilities

The Business School PLOs also incorporate UNSW graduate capabilities, a set of generic abilities and skills that all students are expected to achieve by graduation. These capabilities articulate the University’s institutional values, as well as future employer expectations.

UNSW Graduate CapabilitiesBusiness School PLOs
Scholars capable of independent and collaborative enquiry, rigorous in their analysis, critique and reflection, and able to innovate by applying their knowledge and skills to the solution of novel as well as routine problems.
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Knowledge
  • Oral communication
  • Research capability
  • Teamwork
  • Workplace skills
  • Written communication
Entrepreneurial leaders capable of initiating and embracing innovation and change, as well as engaging and enabling others to contribute to change
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Knowledge
  • Oral communication
  • Workplace skills
  • Written communication
Professionals capable of ethical, self- directed practice and independent lifelong learning
  • Ethical, social and environmental responsibility
  • Workplace skills
Global citizens who are culturally adept and capable of respecting diversity and acting in a socially just and responsible way.
  • Ethical, social and environmental responsibility
  • Oral communication
  • Written communication

The Business School strongly advises you to choose a range of courses that assist your development against these PLOs and graduate capabilities, and to keep a record of your achievements as part of your portfolio. You could use these records for work or further study. For support with selecting your courses contact the UNSW Business School Student Centre.

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Academic Integrity is honest and responsible scholarship. This form of ethical scholarship is highly valued at UNSW. Terms like Academic Integrity, misconduct, referencing, conventions, plagiarism, academic practices, citations and evidence based learning are all considered basic concepts that successful university students understand. Learning how to communicate original ideas, refer sources, work independently, and report results accurately and honestly are skills that you will be able to carry beyond your studies.

The definition of academic misconduct is broad. It covers practices such as cheating, copying and using another person’s work without appropriate acknowledgement. Incidents of academic misconduct may have serious consequences for students.

Plagiarism

UNSW regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct. UNSW has very strict rules regarding plagiarism. Plagiarism at UNSW is using the words or ideas of others and passing them off as your own. All Schools in the Business School have a Student Ethics Officer who will investigate incidents of plagiarism and may result in a student’s name being placed on the Plagiarism and Student Misconduct Registers.

Below are examples of plagiarism including self-plagiarism:

Copying: Using the same or very similar words to the original text or idea without acknowledging the source or using quotation marks. This includes copying materials, ideas or concepts from a book, article, report or other written document, presentation, composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or software, website, internet, other electronic resource, or another person's assignment, without appropriate acknowledgement of authorship.

Inappropriate Paraphrasing: Changing a few words and phrases while mostly retaining the original structure and/or progression of ideas of the original, and information without acknowledgement. This also applies in presentations where someone paraphrases another’s ideas or words without credit and to piecing together quotes and paraphrases into a new whole, without appropriate referencing.

Collusion: Presenting work as independent work when it has been produced in whole or part in collusion with other people. Collusion includes:

  • Students providing their work to another student before the due date, or for the purpose of them plagiarising at any time
  • Paying another person to perform an academic task and passing it off as your own
  • Stealing or acquiring another person’s academic work and copying it
  • Offering to complete another person’s work or seeking payment for completing academic work

Collusion should not be confused with academic collaboration (i.e., shared contribution towards a group task).

Inappropriate Citation: Citing sources which have not been read, without acknowledging the 'secondary' source from which knowledge of them has been obtained.

Self-Plagiarism: ‘Self-plagiarism’ occurs where an author republishes their own previously written work and presents it as new findings without referencing the earlier work, either in its entirety or partially. Self-plagiarism is also referred to as 'recycling', 'duplication', or 'multiple submissions of research findings' without disclosure. In the student context, self-plagiarism includes re-using parts of, or all of, a body of work that has already been submitted for assessment without proper citation.

To see if you understand plagiarism, do this short quiz: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism-quiz

Cheating

The University also regards cheating as a form of academic misconduct. Cheating is knowingly submitting the work of others as their own and includes contract cheating (work produced by an external agent or third party that is submitted under the pretences of being a student’s original piece of work). Cheating is not acceptable at UNSW.

If you need to revise or clarify any terms associated with academic integrity you should explore the 'Working with Academic Integrity' self-paced lessons available at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/aim.

For UNSW policies, penalties, and information to help you avoid plagiarism see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism as well as the guidelines in the online ELISE tutorials for all new UNSW students: http://subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/elise. For information on student conduct see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/conduct.

For information on how to acknowledge your sources and reference correctly, see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/referencing. If you are unsure what referencing style to use in this course, you should ask the lecturer in charge.

Student Responsibilities and Conduct

Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to university policies in relation to class attendance and general conduct and behaviour, including maintaining a safe, respectful environment; and to understand their obligations in relation to workload, assessment and keeping informed.

Information and policies on these topics can be found on the 'Managing your Program' website

Workload

It is expected that you will spend at least nine to ten hours per week studying for a course except for Summer Term courses which have a minimum weekly workload of eighteen to twenty hours. This time should be made up of reading, research, working on exercises and problems, online activities and attending classes. In periods where you need to complete assignments or prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater. Over-commitment has been a cause of failure for many students. You should take the required workload into account when planning how to balance study with employment and other activities.

We strongly encourage you to connect with your Moodle course websites in the first week of semester. Local and international research indicates that students who engage early and often with their course website are more likely to pass their course.

View more information on expected workload

Attendance

Your regular and punctual attendance at lectures and seminars or in online learning activities is expected in this course. The Business School reserves the right to refuse final assessment to those students who attend less than 80% of scheduled classes where attendance and participation is required as part of the learning process (e.g., tutorials, flipped classroom sessions, seminars, labs, etc.).

View more information on attendance

General Conduct and Behaviour

You are expected to conduct yourself with consideration and respect for the needs of your fellow students and teaching staff. Conduct which unduly disrupts or interferes with a class, such as ringing or talking on mobile phones, is not acceptable and students may be asked to leave the class.

View more information on student conduct

Health and Safety

UNSW Policy requires each person to work safely and responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury and to protect the safety of others.

View more information on Health and Safety

Keeping Informed

You should take note of all announcements made in lectures, tutorials or on the course web site. From time to time, the University will send important announcements to your university e-mail address without providing you with a paper copy. You will be deemed to have received this information. It is also your responsibility to keep the University informed of all changes to your contact details.

Special Consideration

You must submit all assignments and attend all examinations scheduled for your course. You can apply for special consideration when illness or other circumstances beyond your control, interfere with your performance in a specific assessment task or tasks. Special Consideration is primarily intended to provide you with an extra opportunity to demonstrate the level of performance of which you are capable.

General information on special consideration for undergraduate and postgraduate courses can be found in the Assessment Implementation Procedure and the Current Students page.

Please note the following:

  1. Applications will not be accepted by teaching staff. The lecturer-in-charge will be automatically notified when you lodge an online application for special consideration
  2. Decisions and recommendations are only made by lecturers-in-charge (or by the Faculty Panel in the case of final exam special considerations), not by tutors
  3. Applying for special consideration does not automatically mean that you will be granted a supplementary exam or other concession
  4. Special consideration requests do not allow lecturers-in-charge to award students additional marks

Business School Protocol on requests for Special Consideration

The lecturer-in-charge will need to be satisfied on each of the following before supporting a request for special consideration:

  1. Does the medical certificate contain all relevant information? For a medical certificate to be accepted, the degree of illness and its impact on the student must be stated by the medical practitioner (severe, moderate, mild). A certificate without this will not be valid. Students should also note that only medical certificates issued after physically visiting a registered medical practitioner will be accepted. Medical certificates submitted for Special Consideration should always be requested from a registered medical practitioner that you have seen at a medical practice. Certificates obtained online or via social media may be fraudulent and if relied upon could result in a breach of the UNSW Student Code.
  2. Has the student performed satisfactorily in the other assessment items? To understand what Satisfactory Performance means in this course, please refer to the 'Formal Requirements' section in Part A of your Course Outline

Special Consideration and the Final Exam in undergraduate and postgraduate courses

Applications for special consideration in relation to the final exam are considered by a Business School Faculty panel to which lecturers-in-charge provide their recommendations for each request. If the Faculty panel grants a special consideration request, this will entitle the student to sit a supplementary examination. No other form of consideration will be granted. The following procedures will apply:

  1. Supplementary exams will be scheduled centrally and will be held approximately two weeks after the formal examination period.

    Supplementary exams for Semester 1, 2018 will be held during the period 14 - 21 July, 2018. Students wishing to sit a supplementary exam will need to be available during this period.

    The date for all Business School supplementary exams for Summer Term 2017/2018 is Wednesday, 21 February, 2018. If a student lodges a special consideration for the final exam, they are stating they will be available on this date. Supplementary exams will not be held at any other time.

  2. Where a student is granted a supplementary examination as a result of a request for special consideration, the student’s original exam (if completed) will be ignored and only the mark achieved in the supplementary examination will count towards the final grade. Absence from a supplementary exam without prior notification does not entitle the student to have the original exam paper marked, and may result in a zero mark for the final exam.

The Supplementary Exam Protocol for Business School students is available at: http://www.business.unsw.edu.au/suppexamprotocol

For special consideration for assessments other than the final exam refer to the ‘Assessment Section’ in your course outline.

Protocol for Viewing Final Exam Scripts

The UNSW Business School has set a protocol under which students may view their final exam script. Please check the protocol here.

Given individual schools within the Faculty may set up a local process for viewing final exam scripts, it is important that you check with your School whether they have any additional information on this process. Please note that this information might also be included in your course outline.


Student Support and Resources

The University and the Business School provide a wide range of support services and resources for students, including:

Business School EQS Consultation Program
The Consultation Program offers academic writing, literacy and numeracy consultations, study skills, exam preparation for Business students. Services include workshops, online resources, individual and group consultations.
Level 1, Room 1035, Quadrangle Building.
BUS.EQS.Consultations@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 4508

Business School Student Centre
The Business School Student Centre provides advice and direction on all aspects of admission, enrolment and graduation.
Level 1, Room 1028 in the Quadrangle Building
02 9385 3189

UNSW Learning Centre
The UNSW Learning Centre provides academic skills support services, including workshops and resources, for all UNSW students. See their website for details.
Lower Ground Floor, North Wing Chancellery Building.
learningcentre@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 2060

Educational Support Service
Educational Support Advisors work with all students to promote the development of skills needed to succeed at university, whilst also providing personal support throughout the process. Check their website to request an appointment or to register in the Academic Success Program.
John Goodsell Building, Ground Floor.
advisors@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 4734

Library services and facilities for students
The UNSW Library offers a range of collections, services and facilities both on-campus and online.
Main Library, F21.
02 9385 2650

Moodle eLearning Support
Moodle is the University’s learning management system. You should ensure that you log into Moodle regularly.
externalteltsupport@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 3331

UNSW IT
UNSW IT provides support and services for students such as password access, email services, wireless services and technical support.
UNSW Library Annexe (Ground floor).
itservicecentre@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 1333

Disability Support Services
UNSW Disability Support Services provides assistance to students who are trying to manage the demands of university as well as a health condition, learning disability or who have personal circumstances that are having an impact on their studies. Disability Advisers can arrange to put in place services and educational adjustments to make things more manageable so that students are able to complete their course requirements. To receive educational adjustments for disability support, students must first register with Disability Services.
Ground Floor, John Goodsell Building.
disabilities@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 4734

UNSW Counselling and Psychological Services
Provides support and services if you need help with your personal life, getting your academic life back on track or just want to know how to stay safe, including free, confidential counselling.
Level 2, East Wing, Quadrangle Building.
counselling@unsw.edu.au
02 9385 5418


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