Mrs. Kristyn Brown
1205 Round Rock Campus
ACC voice mail 223.1790 x22645
Exam Schedule will be
posted on Blackboard.
Exam
1 chapters 1 – 3, 15 100
points
Exam
2 chapters 4 – 6, 10 100
Exam 3 chapters 7 – 9,
14 100
Exam 4 chapters 11 –
13, review 100
Comprehensive Departmental
Final 100
PearsonMyLab.com homework and
quizzes 100
Total 600 points
Grading
540
– 600 points (90%) = A
480
– 539 points (80%) = B
420
– 479 points (70%) = C
330
– 419 points (60%) = D
0
– 359 points (<60%) = F
I do not
give make-up exams. If you miss an exam, your grade on the last exam will count
in place of the exam you missed. Exams will be a combination of multiple
choice, short answer and essay. There will be simple math problems. Calculators
are not allowed. Partial credit will be given, based on setting up a problem
correctly, even if an arithmetic error was made in completing it. Which means:
Show your work!
Attendance
Bonus
Class attendance
is expected and roll will be taken. Students who have perfect attendance (no
absences and never late) will have five points added to their final average.
For every absence, 1 point will be deducted from this bonus. Which means that
for students with more than five absences, the attendance bonus will be
negative, resulting in points being deducted from their final average.
Students
are also expected to be on time for class. ÔOn timeÕ is defined as before I
take roll. Students who arrive late to class have the responsibility of
correcting their attendance record BEFORE leaving the classroom. Being late for
class twice will count as one absence. Students who leave before class is over
will be counted as absent for the whole class period, unless prior permission
is given.
Students
who get up and leave the classroom in the middle of lecture without prior
permission should take their belongings with them, as they will NOT be coming
back to class. Ever. Leaving early or going to the restroom is disruptive
and disrespectful, and should only be done for legitimate reasons. I reserve
the right to drop from the class those students who leave during lecture. Plan
to stop by the restroom before class. Permission will not be given to go during
class.
Blackboard
Exam
grades will be posted on Blackboard, http://acconline.austincc.edu. To access Blackboard, you will need to set up your ACC eID
username and password at https://acceid.austincc.edu/idm/user/login.jsp. Any messages sent to the whole class
will be sent through Blackboard, which uses ACC student email addresses only.
So check your ACC email!
Textbook
Macroeconomics,
10 edition, with PearsonMyLab, Michael Parkin (Pearson, 2011)
Where to
Purchase
1. ACC Bookstores. at Rio Grande and the
(non-high school) campus where our class meets. It may also be available
at other ACC bookstores. I recommend calling the bookstore before making the
drive. You can order the text on-line through the ACC Bookstore by
visiting http://austincc.bkstore.com.
2. If you wouldn't mind using just the
eBook (no hard copy), you can buy access to the eBook when you sign up on-line
for PearsonMyLab. The eBook plus PearsonMyLab costs $100. The eBook will
contain exactly the same material as the hardcopy of the textbook available in
the bookstore. You may also order a loose-leaf version of the text after buying
online access.
Please,
do NOT order your text to be shipped to you (except the loose-leaf). By
the time you wait a week or 10 days for it, you will be too far behind to catch
up. Whichever option you choose, you will need to register at http://www.pearsonmylab.com/. Complete instructions are on the last
page of the syllabus.
PearsonMyLab.com Assignments
The
assignments are to be completed online. If you do not have internet access at
home, you may use the computers in the library here at the high school or on
any ACC campus.
Each
chapter we study has a homework assignment and a quiz. The homeworks have study
aids to help you. You will have 3 tries for each question. If you have trouble
with a certain question, there is an Ask My Instructor button which will email
me a link to the problem and your questions about it so I can help you. The
quizzes are timed at 120 minutes. You will have only one try for each quiz. If
you are not prepared for the quizzes, you are not prepared for the exam.
Assignments
will be due the evening BEFORE the exam covering that chapter. Work can be
submitted late, but with a 1% per day penalty.
PearsonMyLab
also has personalized Study Plans (it will give you assignments based on what
you missed) and sample tests for practice. These are very helpful, but not
required.
Course
Description:
The
purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the generally
accepted principles of macroeconomics. Though ultimately based on the actions
of individual households and business firms, macroeconomics deals with
aggregates--i.e., consumers as a whole, producers as a whole, exporters and
importers as a whole, the effects of government spending and taxation, and the
monetary policy of the central bank. Macroeconomics is concerned with such
things as unemployment, inflation, and the business cycle.
Departmental
Course Description, Rationale, Common Course Objectives/Student Outcomes
1.Course
Description- Principles of Macroeconomics deals with consumers as a whole,
producers as a whole, the effects of government spending and taxation policies
and the effects of the monetary policy carried out by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Macroeconomics is concerned with unemployment, inflation, and the business
cycle.
2.Course
Rationale- This course is meant to give students insight into the dynamics of
our national economy. The knowledge gained in the course will make students
better informed citizens and allow them to follow the debates over national
economic policy reported in the news media. This course is also a foundation
course that will prepare students to be successful in upper division finance,
marketing, business administration, economics, government, and social work
courses
3.Common
Course Objectives/Student Outcomes.
Students
who complete this course will be able to understand:
◦the meaning of unemployment and
inflation data and how that data is collected and computed;
◦the meaning and components of the
National Income Accounts, especially GDP;
◦the meaning of the business cycle and
its phases;
◦and to manipulate the basic Aggregate
Supply, Aggregate Demand model of the macro economy;
◦how fiscal policy operates, its tools,
and its advantages and drawbacks;
◦how a fractional reserve banking system
works;
◦how monetary policy operates, its
tools, and its advantages and drawbacks.
Incompletes: Incompletes are discouraged. They will
be given only when extraordinary events intervene so as to make completion of
the course impossible. If you want an incomplete, these events must be
documented. To receive an incomplete the student must have completed two exams
with a grade of C or better. The student must also come by my office to fill
out an incomplete grade form. If the form is not filled out, an incomplete
grade will not be given.
Withdrawals: Students are responsible for
withdrawing themselves from this course if that is what their personal
situation requires. In addition, students should be aware of a change in the
law regarding Withdrawals. Starting in the Fall of 2007, entering freshman will
be restricted to six non-punitive withdrawals for the whole of their
undergraduate careers while attending state colleges.
Please be
sure to check on the ACC academic calendar for the last day to withdraw from
the course.
Scholastic
dishonesty: Acts prohibited
by the college for which discipline may be administered include scholastic
dishonesty, including but not limited to cheating on an exam or quiz,
plagiarizing, and unauthorized collaboration with another in preparing outside
work. Academic work submitted by students shall be the result of their thought,
research or self-expression. Academic work is defined as, but not limited to
tests, quizzes, whether taken electronically or on paper; projects, either
individual or group; classroom presentations, and homework.
Students
with disabilities:
Each ACC campus offers support services for students with documented physical
or psychological disabilities. Students with disabilities must request
reasonable accommodations through the Office for Students with Disabilities on
the campus where they expect to take the majority of their classes. Students
are encouraged to do this three weeks before the start of the semester.
Academic
Freedom: Each
student is strongly encouraged to participate in class discussions. In any
classroom situation that includes discussion and critical thinking,
particularly about economic and political ideas, there are bound to be many
differing viewpoints. Students may not only disagree with each other at times,
but the students and instructor may also find that they have opposing views on
sensitive and volatile topics. It is my hope that these differences will
enhance class discussion and create an atmosphere where students and instructor
alike will be encouraged to think and learn. Therefore, be assured that your
grades will not be adversely affected by any beliefs or ideas expressed in
class or in assignments. Rather, we will all respect the views of others when
expressed in classroom discussions, and ask you to do likewise.