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on important information. 6. Teaching sessions Session (approx.) Contents MIT Lecture Mon 1 Introduction to the module.Monopoly, natural monopoly and regulation.Types of regulation: economic, antitrust, social, environmentalViscusi Chpts. 1 & 2 (refers to textbook listed under Readings below) 12(3 - optional) Mon 2 Contestable marketsHistory and theories of regulationViscusi Chpt. 10 45 Tue 3 Nationalization and privatizationNatural monopoly, rate of return regulation and price capsCase: electricityViscusi Chpts. 11 & 12 67 Tue 4 Franchising methods of regulationCases: CATV, railDeregulation: US telecomsViscusi Chpts. 13 & 15 89 Wed 5 Deregulation: US airlinesRegulatory change: UK railwaysViscusi Chpt. 17 1115 Wed 6 Deregulation: California’s electricity crisisIntroduction to social and environmental regulationViscusi Chpt. 12, pp.453-461 1617(19 - optional) Thu 7 Markets in pollution? Climate change and regulationViscusi Chpts. 19 & 21 2021 Thu 8 Workplace safetyIntellectual property - copyright, patents and trademarksViscusi Chpts. 23 & 24 222324 7. Student support If you require additional module support outside of lecture/seminar/tutorial times you may make an appointment to see your tutor. Enquiries of a general educational nature, which may range over a number of modules, should be addressed to the programme leader of your registered degree. If you are experiencing any other problems please see your personal supervisor who may direct you to a specialist University service. 8. Attendance The University has an Attendance Policy, which requires all students to attend all timetabled sessions for their programme of study. An attendance register will be kept for tutorial sessions and students with unauthorised absence will be subject to School and University disciplinary procedures. You are reminded that unauthorised absence may affect your course progress and if applicable your LEA grant entitlement. It is important that you have read and understood the section entitled ‘General Attendance’ in your Business School Programme handbook. 9. Blackboard The module is posted on the University’s Blackboard system. Students are expected to use the Blackboard system, monitoring it regularly for messages. 10. Personal development planning This module will help you understand the range of issues that businesses must consider when planning for the future. We introduce many useful ways of examining environmental threats and opportunities. These enable you to identify external factors that could affect your business, for better or for worse, to decide on whether they would have a small or a large impact, and to assign a probability to their occurrence. Such an ability to identify and act is essential in understanding the nature of modern business. 11. Study programme The Module teaching programme covers, typically, approximately 35 hours of class contact time, arranged over slots of approximately one and a half hours. The programme may be adapted during delivery; for example, to suit the prior knowledge and experience of students. It is only a guide, therefore, to activities over the teaching period. The breadth of the subject area means a wide range of topics will be covered. Given this, the teaching follows the module textbook, The business environment by Adrian Palmer and Bob Hartley, quite closely. Nonetheless, we take the opportunity to go beyond the book, and to ask you to think