Be careful. The cover of
Economics Today: The Macro View is almost
identical to the cover of
Economics Today: The Micro View.
NOTE: This syllabus may undergo minor changes up to the first day of the semester. The syllabus as it stands on the first day of the semester will be the final arbiter of all questions about the course, its assignments, its due dates, and its grading methodology. Small changes to the syllabus as it now stands might be made before the first of the semester. If you download this syllabus a substantial time before the beginning of the semester, I encourage you to check back to see if there have been any changes, such as deadline changes or grading changes, the first few days of class.
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Instructor: |
JAMES SONDGEROTH |
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Office: |
Pinnacle Campus/7748 Highway 290 West |
Rm. 1028 |
PIN Phone: 512-223-8135 (leave message with department secretary) |
Messages: Please feel free to leave messages on Mr. Sondgeroth's voice mail at 223-8135. He will return the calls as soon as he is in the office again.
E-mail: accmacropcm2@gmail.com
Orientation for this course is done by taking a quiz over the course's syllabus. The document you are reading right now.
This Orientation Quiz must be taken and submitted before you can take any of the exams. The quiz consists of 20 questions. Students must get at least 15 of the 20 correct in order to gain access to the fist exam in the course.
The topics the 20 questions cover can be found here: http://www.austincc.edu/sondg/OnLineOrientation/orientintro.html.
The Orientation Quiz itself can be found on your course's ACC Blackboard site at http://acconline.austincc.edu.
Blackboard: Blackboard is an on-line classroom management tool. It includes a gradebook, an announcements page, and a facility for administering on-line tests and quizzes.
Course Announcements will be posted to Blackboard; midterm exams will be administered through Blackboard; and your course grades can be accessed through Blackboard. In addition to the email address given above, communication will be done through the Discussion Board that is part of the course's Blackboard site.
Blackboard's URL is http://acconline.austincc.edu. This is the URL for ACC's Blackboard site. Do not go to blackboard.com, the company's own site.
DON’T HAVE A USERNAME AND PASSWORD YET?
If you have not created your new ACC Username or Password through ACCeID Manager, then please go to this link: https://acceid.austincc.edu/idm/user/login.jsp.
Do not fill in your Username and Password on this page, since you do not have either yet. DO CLICK on “First-Time Login.”
Your ACCeID will be the first letter of your legal, given, first name and your seven digit ACC ID number. For example, fictional student John Keynes might have this Username j0067701.
Once you submit this Username, just follow the instructions.
The first day students can access Blackboard is typically the day after regular registration ends.
Helpful Hint: Once you are logged into ACC's Blackboard site, the easiest way to navigate this course's Blackboard content is accessed by first clicking on the "Courses" tab in the upper left hand corner of the first Blackboard page that comes up. Then click on the name of the course: Course ID: 217S-18979-ECON 2301-005: Principles of Macroeconomics. You are then taken to the course's main Blackboard page. It is much easier to find the "Assignments" button, the "Course Calendar" button, and the "Exams" button, where the links to the on-line exams can be found, by doing this than if you try to navigate from the very first page that comes up when you log onto Blackboard
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, and Departmental Quiz
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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1. Economics
Today: The Macro View plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access
Kit, 18/E, by Roger LeRoy Miller (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2015).
There are several alternatives/formats available. See additional discussion
about how to buy and to use this book below by clicking HERE.
Be careful. The cover of
Economics Today: The Macro View is almost
identical to the cover of
Economics Today: The Micro View. |
The examinations in this course are based on learning objectives composed by the instructor that you can find by clicking HERE. Read these objectives carefully before you read the corresponding chapter in the textbook. The learning objectives are correlated exactly with the questions on the exams and are more detailed than the ones that can be found under "Learning objectives" on the first page of every chapter in the textbook.
In general, after studying each chapter, you should be able to:
The learning objectives are there to help you focus your mind on the important concepts and theories discussed in the unit. The exams will test your knowledge of and ability to apply these learning objectives. Knowing this will help you efficiently allocate your mental energies.
Economics Today: The Macro View plus MyEconLab plus eBook 1-semester Student Access Kit, 18/E:
This is a traditional introduction to macroeconomics college textbook. If you buy this text new, an access kit granting students access to the on-line homework site, MyEconLab, and the associated eBook has been added.
Some version of the textbook, new, used, or eBook, is required. So is access to the course's MyEconLab site.
You can buy the eBook and MyEconLab together as a package without the hardcopy of the textbook if you so desire. Instructions on how to do so can be found below.
You can buy used copies of this text also. In fact, I see no reason why you couldn't use the 17th edition if you can find it. (Hint: Search engines. I have posted the table of contents for the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th editions on the course's ACC Blackboard site.) However, you need to be careful here, because in all probability you will not receive an access kit that has not been used, even if you buy a used 18th edition. So, if you do buy used, you will most likely still need to buy access to MyEconLab. Instructions on how to do this can also be found below.
WHERE TO PURCHASE:
Students benefit when they start an exam confident and prepared. MyEconLab is the only online assessment system that gives students the tools they need to learn from their mistakes right at the moment they are struggling.
Personalized Study Plan
A Study Plan is generated from each student's results on answering Study Plan questions, by taking the Sample Tests, and by completing the instructor's assignments. Students can clearly see which topics they have mastered-and, more importantly, which they need to work on. The Study Plan links to additional practice problems and tutorial exercises to help on those topics. (When you click on the "Study Plan" link in the left control column, it only opens up to a tutorial on how to use MyEconLab. Look for the link "View all chapters" to find access to all the Study Plan questions.)
Unlimited Practice
Many Study Plan and instructor-assigned exercises contain algorithmically generated values, ensuring students get as much practice as they need. Every problem links students to learning resources that further reinforce concepts they need to master. The Study Plan questions can be taken over and over again; the instructor assigned Homework Assignment can be retaken as many times as a student wants right up to the deadline for taking it. The Chapter Quizzes can be taken three times before the deadline. The highest score is used for grading the Chapter Quizzes.
Learning Resources
In the lower-left corner of each practice problem is a link to the eText page discussing the very concept being applied. Students also have access to guided solutions ("Help Me Solve This"), animated graphs, audio narratives, and flashcards on many of the problems. MyEconLab has a suite of graphing tools for practice and current news articles that tie chapter topics to everyday issues.
Test and Other Assignments
MyEconLab comes with two pre-loaded Sample Tests for each chapter so students can self-assess their understanding of the material. Instructors can assign these Sample Tests or create assignments using a mix of publisher-supplied content and their own custom exercises.
As a student you should:
Reading the textbook thoroughly is the key to doing well in this Distance Learning course. Distance Learning courses have no lectures to help you understand the material being covered. You must rely almost completely on the textbook to help you understand the material. This is why reading, and re-reading the text is so essential.
I recommend that you take these steps in reading each chapter.
Step One: Skim the chapter. Spend three to five seconds looking over each page of the chapter.
Step Two: Quickly read over the chapter again reading only the title of the chapter, the learning objectives, all the headings and sub-headings in the chapter, all the words in bold print, and all the words in the left column of each page in the chapter.
Step Three: Read the introduction of the chapter, the first paragraph of each section or subsection in the chapter and the first sentence of all of the other paragraphs in the section or subsection. Finally read the summary of the chapter.
Step Four: Without referring back to the chapter make a list of all the important concepts, terms, ideas, theories, and laws that you can remember.
Step Five: Read the introduction, the learning objectives, and the summary of the chapter in the "What You Should Know" section at the end of the chapter.
Step Six: Revise and improve your list and then use it to make the outline/map of the chapter.
Step Seven: Read the chapter in the text completely and thoroughly.
Step Eight: Revise and improve your outline/map once again. This time add the key terms to the appropriate places in your outline/map if they had been included before this time.
Step Nine: Complete a Study Plan for the chapter in MyEconLab.
Step Ten: Revise your outline/map one more time.
Step Eleven: Review your outline/map every four or five days until the exam and then use it to prepare for the exam.
If you read your textbook in this structured and disciplined way, you will learn much more than if you approach your reading task in an unorganized manner, and you will do much better on the exams than you would otherwise do.
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UNIT I |
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Economics |
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Chapter 2: Scarcity and the World of Trade-Offs |
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Chapter 3: Demand and Supply |
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Chapter 4: Extensions of Demand and Supply Analysis |
Test over UNIT
I due by February 14 for extra credit points.
Learning Objectives for Exam 1
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UNIT II |
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Chapter 5: Public Spending and Public Choice & Chapter 6: Funding the Public Sector |
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Chapter 7: The Macroeconomy: Unemployment, Inflation, and Deflation |
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Chapter 8: Measuring the Economy’s Performance |
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Chapter 9: Global Economic Growth and Development |
Test
over UNIT II due by March
7 for extra credit points.
Learning Objectives for Exam 2
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UNIT III |
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Chapter 11: Classical and Keynesian Macro Analyses |
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Chapter 12: Consumption, Real GDP, and the Multiplier |
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Chapter 13: Fiscal Policy |
Test
over UNIT III due by April
11 for extra credit points.
Learning Objectives for Exam 3
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UNIT IV |
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Chapter 14: Deficit Spending and the Public Debt |
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Chapter 15: Money, Banking, and Central Banking |
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Chapter 16: Domestic and International Dimensions of Monetary Policy |
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Chapter 17: Stabilization in an Integrated World Economy |
Test
over UNIT IV due by May
2 for extra credit points.
Learning Objectives for Exam 4
FINAL EXAM
due by May 11 for extra credit points.
It will remain available in the Testing Centers through Sunday, May 14.
If students take the Final Exam on Saturday, May 13, or Sunday, May 14, they
will need to check which
ACC Testing Centers are open and what their hours of operation are:
TESTING CENTERS' HOURS &
LOCATIONS.
| All midterm exams will be available on Blackboard for
re-testing purposes through May 10.
There is no re-test for the final exam though there is a Practice Final available on Blackboard. |
Important Note: If you take these tests on time you will receive extra credit points that will improve your grade. See "Extra Credit Points" under "Grading" for details. The total value of these extra credit points is equal to 2.75% of the course grade. You can earn additional extra credit points by doing more than the required MyEconLab Homework & Quizzes. Details about all the extra credit points available can be found under "Extra Credit Points" below.
All exams, including the final exam, are objective, multiple-choice question exams.
Exams are based on the learning objectives students are expected to master. For more information on learning objectives, please see the section on "Learning Objectives" in this syllabus. Furthermore the exam questions will be drawn exclusively from the textbook, Economics Today: The Macro View.
The exams over each Unit assigned will include ten questions over each chapter assigned for each Unit -- forty questions in all. The questions will appear on the exams in the order in which the chapters were assigned for the Unit. For example, on the first exam the first ten questions will cover Chapter 1, the next ten will cover Chapter 2, the third ten will cover Chapter 3, and the last ten will cover Chapter 4. Indeed the questions will be numbered in exactly the same way as the learning objectives the questions are associated with are numbered.
The midterm/unit exams will be administered over the Internet through the course's Blackboard site. You will find them in a folder under the tab for "Exams" in Blackboard. (In other words, these exams are "take home" exams.)
There will be ten learning objectives listed for each chapter. Each learning objective will have 10 or more questions connected to it by the testing program used in this course. That program will randomly choose one question from each group of ten for the exam. For example, if an exam is 40 questions long like the exams for this course, then there will be 10 ways to select the first question, ten ways to select the second question, and so on to the fortieth question. The number of different exams this program can generate for one midterm/unit exam is 1040. One billion is 1 followed by 9 zeros. 1040 is 1 followed by 40 zeros.
The online midterm/unit exams will also be timed. You will have 60 minutes to answer 40 questions.
Once again, the midterm exams will be given on the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) course platform used by ACC, so students will need to sign on to Blackboard in order to take the exams.
Students will have the opportunity to re-test each exam twice. Students do not have to re-test at all. If a student is satisfied with his score after the initial attempt, he can stop there. If a second or third try is made, the last attempt will completely overwrite (erase) previous efforts.
So be careful, you can do worse on these re-tests. If you re-test, you will receive the grade you made on your last attempt.
The results of the last re-test will be used in determining your grade. This means there is some risk in re-taking an exam, since you could do worse. This risk is intentional. I put it there hoping that it would give you some incentive to re-study the material if you decide to re-take an exam. Of course, you could do much better on the re-test. If you do I will use that result to calculate your end of the semester grade.
Students will be allowed three attempts on each on-line, mid-term exam--the initial attempt and two re-tests. Blackboard allows these exams to be re-set without the permission of or action by your instructor. If you want to take a re-test, just go to Exams and the folder that contains the exam you want to re-test. Click on the link for that exam, and a message window will pop up asking you if you really want to re-test. If you indicate that you do want to re-test, then the old grade will be removed and you will be allowed to re-test. You score on the re-test will completely replace your old score on the exam. (To be clear, your old grade will be replaced by the new re-test grade. But you can still review the previous attempts by clicking on the most recent grade in "My Grades." A list of your attempts on the exam will be shown on screen. Click on the one you want to review.)
YOU SHOULD TAKE THE EXAMS NO LATER THAN THE LISTED DATE.
For all deadlines click here.
However, all mid-term exams will be available on Blackboard for re-testing
purposes through May 10 .
The Final Exam will be available in ACC Testing Centers that are open on May
11 until an hour before they close. There is no re-testing on the final, though
a Practice Final Exam is available.
Contact the instructor if you are unable to take any of the exams by the listed date.
Contact the instructor if you have fallen behind schedule so that you
can put together a plan to catch up.
The Final Exam must be taken in a Testing Center. Students can not pass the course without taking the final exam.
You MUST show your student ID and a photo ID in order to take an exam at a Testing Center.
The Final Exam can be taken at the Testing Centers on the Northridge, Rio Grande, South Austin, Riverside, Pinnacle, Eastview, Round Rock, Elgin, Hays, or Cypress Creek Campuses. Since the Final Exam will be administered on the course's Blackboard site on a Testing Center computer, the results will be available as soon as a student submits the exam.
The final exam will be comprehensive. Two or three questions will be drawn from each chapter covered during the semester. The questions will be arranged in the order the chapters were assigned. Questions over Chapter 1 will be the first ones encountered and questions over Chapter 17 will be the last ones encountered.
Students will be allowed to bring with them a 8.5x11 inch piece of paper with notes written on both sides. This crib sheet must be hand written -- not typed, and it must not be a photocopy. This crib sheet must also be turned in after the exam. You must use a crib sheet even if it has nothing on it except a note saying you didn't prepare a crib sheet with your signature.
Please make a photocopy of your crib sheet if you want to save it. The original will be taken up after you complete the final exam in the Testing Center and will not be returned to you.
More information about the final can be found on this course's Blackboard site.
There is no retesting on the final exam, though there is a Practice Final
available on Blackboard.
This Practice Final is a copy of the actual final you will be taking in a Testing
Center in the sense that it draws examination questions from the same test pools.
It is not an exact copy because it will most likely draw a different question
from each pool. Nevertheless, it will give you an excellent sense of what the
final exam will be like when you take it in the Testing Center. As such, it
should help you understand how much you will need to prepare for the actual
final exam.
Finally there are several
important pieces of information that students need to keep in mind when preparing
for the final exam.
1) If a student makes an F on the final, (that is, makes less than 55% or 880
points out of 1600 on the final exam), then the student can make no higher than
a C in the course.
In other words, a student cannot make an A or a B in the course if he makes
an F on the final.
2) If a student makes a D on the final, (that is, makes at least 55% but less
than 65% on the final exam), then the student can make no higher than a B in
the course.
In other words, a student cannot make an A in the course if he makes an D on
the final.
3) If a student makes a 94% (1504 points) or above on the final exam, the student
will earn an A in the course regardless of his total points.
The first two items are why a Practice Final is being provided to students in
this course. It is hoped that this Practice Final will help students better
prepare for the final and take away some of the anxiety that students normally
feel when approaching a final exam.
This assignment is worth 400 points, or 9.09%, of course grade. 400/4400 =
9.09%.
One of the program's broad learning objectives is to acquaint students to some
of the more important measures of macroeconomic performance. Specifically the
Consumer Price Index and its importance in measuring inflation, the Unemployment
Rate, Employment-Population Ratio, Real GDP, and Real GDP per capita in measuring
the performance of the national economy.
This assignment asks students to find data on these measures on government web
sites and to show graphs of them along with the data. Finally the assignment
asks students to interpret the data and graph they have produced by writing
a short essay describing what you see in the data and graphs and explaining
what is happening in the US economy.
Here are to statistical series you will be looking for to complete this assignment:
1) CPI with Inflation Rate from one year earlier (monthly-data and graph);
2) Unemployment rate (monthly-data and graph);
3) Employment-Population ratio (monthly- data and graph);
4) Nominal GDP and Real GDP(quarterly-- data and graph);
5) Real GDP per capita index value to 100 (just the graph).
Specifically you will need to find data on each going back 50 years from the
present, to show this data in a table, and to show a graph of the data.
This assignment will require you to know:
--how to find the data on various government web sites:
--how to down load the data;
--how to graph the data you have found;
--and how to write a summary of what the graphs and data show.
The sets of data and their related graphs will be worth 80% of the grade, or
320 points.
The short essay will be worth 20% of the grade, or 80 points, on this project.
Please use the textbook, handouts, PowerPoints, and lecture material to help
you understand how to complete this assignment.
A detailed explanation on how to find the data and to use the St. Louis Federal Reserve Data (FRED) resourse for the graphs is included in the Discipline Assessment Cycle Statistical Series link
in the left navigation column of this course's ACC Blackboard site.
The assignment will be due on Wednesday, March 29. Please use the Blackboard
to submit the assignment: Go to Discipline Assessment Cycle Statistical Series
Assignment and attach your documents there.
MyEconLab.com is the online study guide which accompanies the Miller text. 21.82% of your grade, 960 points, will come from MyEconLab Chapter Homework Assignments and Chapter Quizzes. MyEconLab is required, not optional.
MyEconLab has three types of assignments:
Each question will have a panel of Learning Aids to the left of the window. These Learning Aids include
The Results page will give you your scores on each assignment, as well as your
overall average. You must go to the Results page to review your answers to the
Homework Assignments and Quizzes. You can only review the Chapter Quizzes after
the deadline for the Quiz has passed.
All Chapter Quizzes and Homework assignments will have due dates.
You will not be able to do the assignments for credit after their deadlines have passed.
Deadlines for the Homework Assignments and Quizzes on MyEconLab can be found here: http://www.austincc.edu/sondg/homework/macro/2016-2017/16wSpringMEL.htm.
Note: For grading purposes, I will award up to 20 points for each homework assignment and up to 40 points for each quiz.
The 16 Homework assignments are worth a total of 320 points (20*16) or 7.27% of the 4400 point grading scale.
The 16 Chapter Quizzes are worth a total of 640 points (40*16) or 14.54% of the 4400 point grading scale..
Adding the points available on the Chapter Homework Assignments and on the Chapter Quizzes would give a grand total of 960 points. (320 + 640 = 960) which is 21.82% of the 4000 point grading scale.
In conclusion, the points you earn on MyEconLab will exactly equal the points I record for students on the "My Grades" page of the course's ACC Blackboard site.
Grading is based on the total number of possible points available on the exams and the required MyEconLab Homework & Quizzes. There are four required Unit exams and a required final exam. Each midterm exam will consist of 40 questions. Each question on the Unit exams (midterms) is worth 9 points. The final exam will consist of 50 questions. Each question on the final exam is worth 32 points.
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Exam 1 |
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(40) X (9) |
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360 (8.18%) |
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Exam 2 |
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(40) X (9) |
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360 (8.18%) |
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Exam 3 |
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(40) X (9) |
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360 (8.18%) |
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Exam 4 |
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(40) X (9) |
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360 (8.18%) |
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MyEconLab Chapter Homework Assignments |
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(16) X (20) |
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320 (7.27%) |
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MyEconLab Chapter Quizzes |
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(16) X (40) |
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640 (14.54%) |
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Departmental Assesment Assignment |
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1 |
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400 (9.09%) |
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Final Exam |
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(50) X (32) |
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1600 (36.36%) |
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4400 (100%) |
Number of Points needed for Final Letter Grade
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4400-3960 |
(100-90%) |
A |
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3959-3520 |
(89.9-80%) |
B |
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3519-2860 |
(79.9-65%) |
C |
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2859-2420 |
(64.9-55%) |
D |
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2419-0 |
(54.9-0%) |
F |
There are three exceptions to the distribution
of grades given above. They are:
1) If a student makes an F on the final, (that is, makes less than 55% or
880 points out of 1600 on the final exam), then the student can make no higher than a C in the course.
In other
words, a student cannot make an A or a B in the course if he makes an F on the final.
2) If a student makes a D on the final, (that is, makes at least 55% but less
than 65% on the final exam), then the student can make no higher than a B in
the course.
In other
words, a student cannot make an A in the course if he makes an D on the final.
3) If a student makes a 94% (1504 points) or above on the final exam, the student
will earn an A in the course regardless of his total points.
The first two exceptions are why a Practice Final is being provided to students
in this course. It is hoped that this Practice Final will help students better
prepare for the final and take away some of the anxiety that students normally
feel when approaching a final exam.
There are three ways for students to improve their grades by earning extra credit points. The total number of extra credit points possible is equal to 6.36% of the 4400 points upon which letter grades will be determined. (In other words, there are actually 4680 points available in the course. Letter grades will be assigned based on the 4400 point scale discussed above.)
Extra Credit Type 1: Take the tests on time:
You can earn extra credit points by taking your exams on or before the initial testing deadlines.
You will earn 15 points for each Unit exam taken on or before its deadline. You will not lose these extra credit points if you take the re-test for that unit after the deadline.
If you take the Final on or before its deadline, you will earn 50 extra credit points.
The total number of extra credit points you can earn by taking the exams on time is 110. This is equivalent to 2.5% of the total points available (4400) from the tests, the final, and required MyEconLab Home
work & Quizzes.
Extra Credit Type 2: Taking MyEconLab Tests on the unassigned chapters of the textbook.:
Chapters 18, 32, and 33 are not assigned and will
not be covered on any mid-term exam on Blackboard or on the Final Exam.
However small tests over these chapters will be made available on MyEconLab,
not on Blackboard. Each of these tests will be worth up to 50 points.
If students are looking for another way to improve their grade, then they are
encouraged to read these chapters and take these tests.
Students must make 65% or better to earn any points on these tests. This policy
is meant to discourage students from taking these tests without reading the
chapters.
For example, if a student makes an 80% on one of these extra credit chapter tests on MEL, then he will receive 40 extra credit points: 80%*50=40. If a student makes a 64% on one, then he will earn no extra credit points.
There will be a total of 150 extra credit points available from these tests.
150 points is 3.41% of 4400 points.
The deadline
for completing these extra credit tests is May 14.
Extra Credit Type 3: Completing the Mandatory Orientation Quiz:
The Orientation Quiz is found on the course's ACC Blackboard site. Eventhough it is mandatory, you earn extra credit by taking it and submitting it. There are twenty questions on this quiz asking for your contact information (three questions) and about the course's syllabus. Information about topics this quiz will ask about can be found at http://www.austincc.edu/sondg/OnLineOrientation/orientintro.html.
There are 20 extra credit points available for taking this Orientation Quiz. 20 points is 0.45% of 4400 points.
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.
Incompletes will not be given to students who are behind schedule when the semester nears its end. Nor will incompletes be given to students who need just a few more points to make the next higher letter grade. Plenty of opportunity exists during the semester to accomplish your goals.
If you find yourself way behind or many points short toward the end of the semester, you may withdraw without a grade penalty up to three weeks before the end of the semester. Please read the following note about withdrawals.
Students are responsible for withdrawing themselves from this course if that is what their personal situation requires. This means that if you have taken only two of the tests and the semester ends without your having withdrawn yourself, then you will receive an F in the course. The instructor makes no promise either implicit or explicit to withdraw students from the course. The instructor does reserve the right to withdraw students who have fallen behind on taking the exams and completing the MyEconLab assignments.
In addition, students should be aware of a change in the law regarding Withdrawals passed by the Texas Legislature in the spring of 2007. 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.
Important information about the consequences of withdrawing from a course are discussed at this ACC site:
http://www.austincc.edu/apply-and-register/registration-steps/drop-or-withdraw-from-a-class.
The last day to withdraw from this course without penalty is Monday,
April 24.
|
EXAM |
Unit Covered |
Chapters Covered |
Exam Deadline for Extra Credit Points |
Location of Exam |
|
1 |
I |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
February 14 |
Blackboard |
|
2 |
II |
5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
March 7 |
Blackboard |
|
3 |
III |
10, 11, 12, 13 |
April 11 |
Blackboard |
|
4 |
IV |
14, 15, 16, 17 |
May 2 |
Blackboard |
|
Final |
ALL |
1-17 |
May 11 |
Testing Center |
| All midterm exams will be available on Blackboard for
re-testing purposes through May 10. There is no re-test for the final exam--though students are encouraged to take the Practice Final before going to the Testing Center to take the actual Final. FINAL
EXAM due by May 11 for extra credit points. |
Deadlines for the Homework Assignments and Quizzes on MyEconLab can be found here: http://www.austincc.edu/sondg/homework/macro/2016-2017/16wSpringMEL.htm.
Note: For grading purposes, I will award up to 20 points for each homework assignment and up to 40 points for each quiz.
The 16 other Homework assignments are worth a total of 320 points (20*16) or 7.27% of the course grade.
The 16 Chapter Quizzes are worth a total of 640 points (40*16) or 14.54% of the course grade.
Adding the points available on the Getting Started with MyEconLab assignment to the total points available on the Chapter Homework Assignments and on the Chapter Quizzes would give a grand total of 960 points. (320 + 640 = 960) or 21.82% of the course grade..
In conclusion, the points you earn on MyEconLab will exactly equal the points I record for students on the "My Grades" page of the course's ACC Blackboard site.
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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 disabilities. Students
with disabilities who need classroom, academic or other accommodations must
request them through the office of Student Accessibility Services (SAS). Students
are encouraged to request accommodations when they register for courses or at
least three weeks before the start of the semester, otherwise the provision
of accommodations may be delayed. Students who have received approval for accommodations
from SAS for this course must provide the instructor with the ‘Notice of Approved
Accommodations’ from SAS before accommodations will be provided. Arrangements
for academic accommodations can only be made after the instructor receives the
‘Notice of Approved Accommodations’ from the student. Students with approved
accommodations are encouraged to submit the ‘Notice of Approved Accommodations’
to the instructor at the beginning of the semester because a reasonable amount
of time may be needed to prepare and arrange for the accommodations. Additional
information about Student Accessibility Services is available at http://www.austincc.edu/sas.
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Please note, you are expected to conduct yourself professionally with respect and courtesy to all. Anyone who thoughtlessly or intentionally jeopardizes the health or safety of another individual will be dismissed from the day’s activity, may be withdrawn from the class, and/or barred from attending future activities
You are expected to conduct yourself professionally with respect and courtesy to all. Anyone who thoughtlessly or intentionally jeopardizes the health or safety of another individual will be immediately dismissed from the day’s activity, may be withdrawn from the class, and/or barred from attending future activities.
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