Structure of the Economic Competence of Bachelors of Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activity of the Educational Program «Commodity and Commercial Activity»

Abstract

The article characterizes the basic requirements for the professional training of bachelors of entrepreneurship, trade, and exchange activity based on the Standard of Higher Education (Specialty: 076 «Entrepreneurship, Trade, and Exchange Activity»), the educational program «Commodity and Commercial Activity». The paper presents modern scientific approaches to determining the essence and structure of the economic competence of specialists in various fields. Taking into account the competency approach and the relevant standard, the essence of the economic competence of future professionals in the field of entrepreneurship, trade, and exchange activity is determined. It has been discovered that the economic competence is characterized by a set of educational elements, including the system of economic knowledge, skills, values, attitudes towards economic knowledge. The structural components of the economic competence of future specialists in this field have been revealed: value-motivational, cognitive, personal, activity-communicative.