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Welcome to the Department of Economics

Running order

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Welcome by Head of Department Professor Jo Swaffield

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Dr Maria Garcia Reyes Department Supervisor Co-ordinator

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Dr Paulo Santos Monteiro Chair Board of Studies & Staff/Student Liaison Committee

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Dr Michael Thornton Chair, Department Teaching Committee

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Kelly McDonald – Careers Consultant, Careers Service

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Hizzer Ramzan & Saj Theivendran (Economics Society), Anna Kpikpi (Department Rep), Faz Kazmi (Investment Finance Society, IFS) and Adam Davis & Joel Chweidan (York Community Consulting)

 Academic staff: including your personal supervisor  PhD Teaching Scholars – our PGR/PhD students  Board of Studies - Chair, Dr Paulo Santos Monteiro  Administrative staff: Department and University  Student Services Manager - Diane Atkinson  Student representatives - by cohort and by module

Academic Community

A large and international department

 Undergraduates  four degrees within department  six combined degrees  Home students

Overseas students

 625 students 70 students  Postgraduates  ten 1-year MSc degrees  MPhil & PhD research degrees  192 MSc students  55 research degree students  Students from 40 countries

General information

 General information about the Department

can be found in the Student Handbook

 The student handbook can be found on the

Department web pages

• You have been assigned an academic supervisor.
• The University requires all students to see their

supervisor at least once every term of every year.

• All academic staff are supervisors and have

‘Office hour & feed back sessions’ each week, displayed on their door or personal webpage.

Supervisor

• You should attend lectures
• Unless specified otherwise, attendance is compulsory at all

seminars, tutorials and practicals which form part of the modules you are studying. In most cases there will also be specified requirements for submitted coursework.

• If you are unable to attend your usual session or submit

required non-assessed coursework, you must: inform your seminar tutor as soon as possible explaining the reasons and arrange to attend an alternative seminar session

Lectures, tutorials etc

Finding Programme Information

Yorkshare

 For information on courses, tutorials and lectures

please see Yorkshare. Each module has a dedicated area in Yorkshare, which contains lecture notes, examples and other useful information.

 Exam dates will be in your e:Vision account.  Contact details for members of staff can be found

• n the departmental notice boards in the

Economics Department Reception area and on the web pages

• Please keep your University of York email

account accessible and also check it regularly

• Complete the online plagiarism module (it is a

progression requirement)

IMPORTANT

Enjoy your University life

• University is a special period in your life.
• Economics is an exciting subject, and now is a

particularly interesting time to study our discipline.

• Best experiences of student life include strong

academic commitment and motivation.

And in less than three years ...

… this will be you