A joint degree programme in business administration and law: experience on educational innovation applying ECTS, tutorials, and e‐learning in the context of the European convergence 1

Abstract

Since 2003 the University of Valencia Law School and the Economics and Business School have participated in the projects for the development of experience in educational innovation in the University of Valencia in the context of the European convergence (http://www.uv.es/oce). At the present time, the projects in which we are developing this experience are: a joint degree programme in business administration and law, a degree in economics, a degree in political sciences and another in criminology. We focus on some of the key objectives of the Bologna process (1999): establishment of a system of credits as a means of promoting students' mobility, promotion of European cooperation in quality assurance, promotion of European dimensions particularly for curricular development, and inter‐institutional cooperation. The Bologna process creates a number of challenges for the design, content and organisation of the curriculum and this double degree programme may be a test to examine joint degrees in terms of some ...