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Undergraduate Course: The Origins of Modern Commerce (LAWS10181)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Law CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThe course provides an introduction to the main aspects of commerce during the early modern period. It surveys the main changes in the financial and economic structure of trade and the relevant legal instruments. The course will devote special attention to the development of the Netherlands and of Dutch commerce, so to understand the evolution from medieval to modern trade and the development of British commerce, which in many aspects followed the Dutch. Banking, corporations, insurance, negotiable instruments and public debt will be studied following their historical evolution and within the broader political, economic and institutional context.
Course description The course will trace the main developments of commerce within the historical, social and economic framework of the early modern period. Specific attention will be devoted to the Netherlands.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Law (including Erasmus students on a Law-specific Exchange). Exchange students outside of Law and independent study abroad students are not eligible to enrol in this course, with no exceptions.

**Please note that 3rd year Law courses are high-demand, meaning that they have a very high number of students wishing to enrol in a very limited number of spaces.**
Priority will be given to students studying on exchange within the Law department, and it is highly unlikely that there will be additional spaces for general exchange students & independent study abroad students to enrol; we will look into this on a case-by-case basis in September/January. Visiting students are advised to bear in mind that enrolment in specific courses can never be guaranteed, and you may need to be flexible in finding alternatives in case your preferred courses have no available space.

These enrolments are managed strictly by the Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the department, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Knowledge and Sources of Law: Demonstrate and/or work with: - Knowledge that covers and integrates most of the principal areas, features, boundaries, terminology and conventions of a subject discipline. - A critical understanding of the principal theories, concepts and principles. - Detailed knowledge and understanding in one or more specialisms some of which is informed by or at the forefront of a subject/discipline. - Knowledge and understanding of the ways in which the subject/discipline is developed, including a range of established techniques of enquiry or research methodologies.
  2. Subject-specific Skills: Critically identify, define, conceptualise, and analyse complex/professional level problems and issues. Offer professional level insights, interpretations and solutions to problems and issues. Critically review and consolidate knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in a subject/discipline.
  3. General Transferable Intellectual Skills: Demonstrate some originality and creativity in dealing with professional level issues. Make judgments where data/information is limited or comes from a range of sources.
  4. Key Personal Skills: Knowledge and understanding as well as the practice of it, transferable cognitive skills, communication and ICT skills, autonomy, accountability and the ability to work with others.
  5. Subject-specific Legal and Ethical Values: An appreciation of the value of history in recreating the past and influencing the present.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsThe Origins of Mod Commerce
Contacts
Course organiserDr Guido Rossi
Tel: (0131 6)50 2052
Email: Guido.Rossi@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Tracy Noden
Tel: (0131 6)50 2053
Email: Tracy.Noden@ed.ac.uk
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