IB Economics 11:
The IB Diploma Programme standard level economics course aims to provide students with a core knowledge of economics, encourage students to think critically about economics, promote an awareness and understanding of internationalism in economics and encourage students’ development as independent learners. Alongside the empirical observations of positive economics, students of the subject are asked to formulate normative questions and to recognize their own tendencies for bias. In addition, the course is designed to:
• Encourage the systematic and critical study of human experience and behavior; physical, economic and social environments; and the economics and development of social and cultural institutions
• Develop the capacity to identify, analyse critically and evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society
• Enable students to collect, describe and analyse data used in studies of society, test hypotheses, and interpret complex data and source material
• Promote an appreciation of the way learning is relevant to both the culture in which the student lives and the culture of other societies
• Develop an awareness that human attitudes and beliefs are diverse and that the study of society requires an appreciation of such diversity
• Enable the student to recognize that the content and methodologies of the subjects in group 3 are contestable and that their study requires the toleration of uncertainty.
The IB Diploma Programme standard level economics course aims to provide students with a core knowledge of economics, encourage students to think critically about economics, promote an awareness and understanding of internationalism in economics and encourage students’ development as independent learners. Alongside the empirical observations of positive economics, students of the subject are asked to formulate normative questions and to recognize their own tendencies for bias. In addition, the course is designed to:
• Encourage the systematic and critical study of human experience and behavior; physical, economic and social environments; and the economics and development of social and cultural institutions
• Develop the capacity to identify, analyse critically and evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society
• Enable students to collect, describe and analyse data used in studies of society, test hypotheses, and interpret complex data and source material
• Promote an appreciation of the way learning is relevant to both the culture in which the student lives and the culture of other societies
• Develop an awareness that human attitudes and beliefs are diverse and that the study of society requires an appreciation of such diversity
• Enable the student to recognize that the content and methodologies of the subjects in group 3 are contestable and that their study requires the toleration of uncertainty.