Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

13005 (v.2) WASM International Resource Competitiveness 601


Area: WASM Mineral Economics Teaching Area
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 16.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 4 x 4 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 10949 (v.4) WASM International Resource Trade 601 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 10939 (v.4) WASM Natural Resources Economics 601 or any previous version
Syllabus: World production and trade in minerals, international competitiveness: its meaning and measurement, international resource competitiveness: comparing Canada, Australia and other nations. International trade theory: classical theory, neoclassical theory, modern theories, inter-industry and intra-industry trade, theories of international competitiveness: the Porter model, other views, globalisation and its effects. Competitive strategies of mining companies. Sources of and challenges to international competitiveness in mining: the natural resources base, industrial relations, technology, mining services, market size and market power, government policy, protection, infrastructure, environmental legislation, the interests of Indigenous populations. Actual tuition undertaken as 16 hours of class in a four day module.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 091900 Economics and Econometrics (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Bentley Campus Study Period 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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