Late Assessment Submission Penalty (written assessments) 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55 pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical concern. 

For any late submissions of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, students need to submit an application for Special Consideration. 

This unit involves a one hour recorded lecture, one hour weekly live lecture via zoom and one hour weekly tutorial meeting (the 1+1+1 delivery mode). Students will have access to a one-hour recorded material (video and the related PowerPoint slides) prior to the one-hour online weekly lecture, to be held via zoom. Students are strongly encouraged to review this recorded material and UC's lecture notes prior to the one-hour lecture every week.

Students are strongly encouraged to attend the weekly live lectures, which will focus on key concepts and themes and their applications. 

There is no prescribed textbook for this unit, but rather a list of essential readings, which will be accessible online. Students will be directed to work on the weekly materials including UC's recorded material, UC's lecture notes and articles.

There will also be a one-hour tutorial in the Students' allocated tutorial time. Tutorial meetings will offer students opportunities to discuss, individually and in groups, key concepts and themes through a small set of tutorial questions (1-2 questions per week). Tutorial attendance is compulsory.  This is for several reasons including (i) the fact that students' groups will work during tutorial meetings on tutorial questions that prepare them for this unit's assessment, and (ii) students will work in groups on their group work during tutorial meetings. 

Further details will be provided in this unit's iLearn page.

This unit is organised in three parts. 

Part I, from week 1 to week 7 included, provides some theoretical insights and broad historical/institutional elements to critically discuss the Asian contemporary capitalist development of the last few decades. 

This discussion will focus on 5 key global challenges, namely: 

1. the Demographic Global Challenge, 
2. the Ecology and Energy Global Challenge 
3. the Labour and Inequality Global Challenge, 
4. the Global Mode of Production Challenge, 
5. the Technological Global Challenge. 

In this part of ECON3020 we will discuss how we can understand the emergence of these global challenges in the context of capitalist development and its associated crises, and how these crises shape the business environment in key Asian countries.   

We then go on with Part II, from week 8 to week 11 included, where we contextualise these global challenges in relation to the specific contingencies as they have emerged in four key Asian countries, namely Vietnam, China, India and Japan. We will discuss how these global challenges have emerged and developed in these specific contexts, and we will investigate the way these national contexts have tried to address these global crises. 

In Part III, from week 12 to week 13 included, we return to some broad reflections on capitalist development as a context where global crises emerge. We will focus on the policy environment and the way markets, governments and communities shape policies aimed to these global challenges and offer some interesting opportunities for institutional and individual action.