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Honours Programmes in Economics (2019)
778 Honours programme in Economics
Admission requirements
A bachelor's degree with an average mark of 60% for Economics 3. A minimum of 60% in the intensive mathematics course that precedes the formal programme.
Mathematics in the final Senior Certificate (Matric) Examination:
- Minimum of at least a 5 (60%)
Selection
Selection of students in accordance with the University's official selection policy may be unavoidable due to the limited number of students that can be accommodated on the programme.
Duration
12 months. Programme must be completed within 3 years of date of first registration. If not, the compulsory modules need to be redone.
Credits
A minimum of 120 credits. A maximum of 20 credits may be earned from a related and approved field of study.
Assessment
Examinations are written at the end of the first semester in June and at the end of the second semester in November. Examination results are supplemented by the assessment of course work, including a relatively large number of essays and an assignment.
Programme content
One of two streams can be chosen for the honours programme: General economics or Financial economics.
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14 October 2019While incoming data on the global economy remains downbeat, the mood was lifted last week after progress was made on US-China trade talks and Brexit negotiations. On the domestic data front, mining and manufacturing data for August added to growing evidence that real GDP growth likely slowed significantly in 2019Q3 after the nice rebound recorded in...
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BER Weekly
14 October 2019While incoming data on the global economy remains downbeat, the mood was lifted last week after progress was made on US-China trade talks and Brexit negotiations. On the domestic data front, mining and manufacturing data for August added to growing evidence that real GDP growth likely slowed significantly in 2019Q3 after the nice rebound recorded in...
Read the full issue