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A multimedia assignment designed to introduce first year undergraduates to independent research and to academic collaboration.
The First Year Challenge is a multimedia assignment designed to introduce first year undergraduates to independent research and to academic collaboration. Small groups of students are assigned to specific locations in Central London. In their groups they are asked to produce a 3 minute multimedia clip which relates to their meeting point and the theme “Capitalism, Growth and Inequality”, which is discussed in Unit 1 of The Economy, the free online textbook produced by the CORE project.
You will be introduced to the First Year Challenge in the Induction Week.
The motivation behind the First Year Challenge was to introduce students to research-based education as a prelude to the empirically-focused education they would receive in their first year in the economics department. We also wanted to create bonding opportunities among our large (~300 students) cohorts which included students from around the world and across the UK, and to highlight the diverse skills that this varied study body brings to the table.
