Econ719No 01. Introduction

Organizational Matters

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Syllabus

Course Topics Materials Grading and Testing Content and Procedures

Macroeconomics: Content

Macroeconomics describes: The evolution of aggregate activity in an economy

Distinguished from microeconomics, which focuses on individuals and firms, or individual markets

Key variables: Output (Real GDP) Unemployment Interest rates Exchange rates Imports and exports Price level and inflation

Course Materials

Textbook: Abel and Bernanke, Macroeconomics, 5e Comes as e-book with Course Compass

Course Compass (homework) Follow the link provided from the Econ719 home

page and sign up for this course using course id: chappell90262

Online Edition: Wall Street Journal I suggest 1 month, beginning 7/23

Grading

2 Tests @ 40% Course Compass Quizzes 20%

Grading Scale

Grade Average (%) Letter Grade

90-100 A

83-90 B+

75-83 B

68-75 C+

60-68 C

55-60 D+

50-55 D

Below 50 F

The grading scale may be changed in a way that (weakly) improves all grades.

Testing

The two tests will be given on August 2 and August 23 (Thursday nights), in Columbia and at remote locations, time TBA.

Alternate make-up dates, Columbia only, August 4 and August 25 (Saturday mornings), 9 am.

Course Content and Procedures

This is an all-Internet course! Testing excepted

Course Content and Procedures

To complete the course: Read the assigned chapters in the textbook Watch my voiced-over PowerPoint slide shows in Breeze

Presentation format These are short lectures covering all key course concepts I may also answer some questions via this format

Attend online problem/review/question and answer sessions via Breeze meeting Will be recorded and available for later viewing via the

Web. Complete Course Compass assignments

Course Compass

Completing Problem Sets I will post quizzes with due dates (see the course web page

under handouts) Submit your answers before the due date! You can access/take a quiz over again, but once you enter

the quiz you must answer all questions again and submit or your grade will revert to zero. Do not access the quiz after the due date until I have

posted answers – accessing the quiz again can remove your answers and give you a zero.

After the due date and after I have collected grades, I will post quizzes as review assignments which you can later review for practice.

Course Compass Grading

Once a due date has passed and I have collected grades, no make-ups will be possible.

To get 100% of the Course Compass grade component will NOT require that you get 100% on all assignments You get 100% if your score is greater than or equal to a

threshold value I will set The threshold will either be the maximum possible less one

assignment or the highest grade earned by any student, whichever is less.

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