Course Syllabus

Fall 2020

ECON 2302 B0NT Principles of Microeconomics

 

Course Information

ECON 2302 B01NT Principles of Microeconomics. This is an online course. This means that all instruction and communication for the course will be conducted via the Internet.

This course uses free Open Educational Resources so there is no textbook cost.

 

Instructor Contact Information

Doleswar Bhandari, Ph.D.

Email: You can email me in the Canvas. You can also email me at: bhandarid@grayson.edu.

Office Hours: by appointment

Course dates: 8/24 -10/15

 

Course Pre-requisites, Co-requisites, and/or Other Restrictions

College sophomore standing or consent of the Division Dean.

 

Course Description – from college catalog

ECON 2302. Principles of Microeconomics. Analysis of the behavior of individual economic agents, including consumer behavior and demand, producer behavior and supply, price and output decisions by firms under various market structures, factor markets, market failures, and international trade.

 

Student Learning Outcomes

• Explain the role of scarcity, specialization, opportunity cost and cost/benefit analysis in economic decision-making.
• Identify the determinants of supply and demand; demonstrate the impact of shifts in both market supply and demand curves on equilibrium price and output.
• Calculate supply and demand elasticities, identify the determinants of price elasticity of demand and supply, and demonstrate the relationship between elasticity and total revenue.
• Summarize the law of diminishing marginal utility; describe the process of utility maximization.
• Describe the production function and the Law of Diminishing Marginal Productivity; calculate and graph short-run and long-run costs of production.

 

Required Textbooks (ISBN # included) and Materials

Your textbook for this class is available for free online, in web view and PDF format! You can also purchase a print version, if you prefer, via OpenStax on Amazon.com. You can use whichever formats you want. Web view is recommended -- the responsive design works seamlessly on any device. If you buy on Amazon, make sure you use the link on your book page on openstax.org so you get the official OpenStax print version. (Simple printouts sold by third parties on Amazon are not verifiable and not as high-quality.) Principles of Microeconomics 2e from OpenStax, Print ISBN 1947172344, Digital ISBN 1947172352, www.openstax.org/details/books/principles-microeconomics-2e

 

Required Assignments & Academic Calendar

August 26                    Chapter 1 Welcome to Economics   Quiz Chapter 1

August 28                    Chapter 2 Choice in a World of Scarcity   Quiz Chapter 2

September 2                Chapter 3 Demand and Supply   Quiz Chapter 3

September 6                Chapter 5 Elasticity   Quiz Chapter 5

September 9                Chapter 6 Consumer Choices   Quiz Chapter 6

September 12              Chapter 7 Production, Costs, and Industry Structure   Quiz Chapter 7

September 15              Midterm Exam 

September 18              Chapter 8 Perfect Competition   Quiz Chapter 8

September 22               Chapter 9 Monopoly   Quiz Chapter 9

September 25              Chapter 10 Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly   Quiz Chapter 10

September 29              Chapter 11 Monopoly and Anti-trust Policy   Quiz Chapter 11

October 2                     Chapter 12 Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities   Quiz Chapter 12

October 6                     Chapter 13 Positive Externalities and Public Goods   Quiz Chapter 13

October 9                     Chapter 19 International Trade   Quiz Chapter 19

October 12                   Review for cumulative exam

October 13                   Final Exam (Online using Lockdown Browse)

 

Methods of Evaluation

Students will be evaluated based on chapter quizzes, midterm exam and a final exam.

Grades are calculated as follows:

 

Categories	Percentage
Chapter Quizzes	60
Midterm Exam	20
Final Exam	20

 

 Grading

The final score is used to calculate the grade as follows.

A   90% to 100%

B   80% to 90%

C   70% to 80%

D   60% to 70%

F   <60%

 

Late Work Policy

I realize life happens. Unless students provide valid reasons, they can submit late work with 25% discount in the grade.

 

Methods of Instruction

Canvas and Textbook

 

Course & Instructor Policies

As you can see above, each chapter has specific dates for you to complete.  There is a quiz for you to take with every chapter.  This is NOT a self-paced course. The chapter study material and quizzes will open on the dates stated above and will close on the dates stated above.  If you miss a quiz, you will not be allowed to go back and take it.  You will receive a zero for that chapter. Again, after a quiz closes, it will NOT be opened again.  If there is a problem. You must discuss it with me by email before the closing date and time.

This schedule can be subject to modification by the professor. Such changes will be posted on Canvas.

The last day to drop the class is October 2, 2020.

 

Class Attendance and Participation

Academic success is closely associated with regular online attendance and course participation. All successful students, whether on campus or online, are expected to be highly self-motivated. All students are required to participate in courses regularly and are obliged to participate in class activities and complete and submit assignments following their professors’ instructions. 

Attendance will be taken based on your participation in the online class. If you sign into Canvas and take the assigned quiz, you will be counted present.  If you miss an assigned quiz, you will be counted absent. 

Students’ eligibility to receive financial aid or live in a College dormitory can be affected by withdrawal from courses. When withdrawal occurs, any tuition refund would be made in accordance with state regulations.

 

Academic Integrity

The faculty expects from its students a high level of responsibility and academic honesty.  Because the value of an academic degree depends upon the absolute integrity of the work done by the student for that degree, it is imperative that a student demonstrate a high standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work.

Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.  Plagiarism, especially from the web, from portions of papers for other classes, and from any other source is unacceptable and will be dealt with under the college’s policy on plagiarism (see GC Student Handbook for details). Grayson College subscribes to turnitin.com, which allows faculty to search the web and identify plagiarized material.

Plagiarism is a form of scholastic dishonesty involving the theft of or fraudulent representation of someone else’s ideas or words as the student’s original work. Plagiarism can be intentional/deliberate or unintentional/accidental. Unintentional/Accidental plagiarism may include minor instances where an attempt to acknowledge the source exists but is incorrect or insufficient. Deliberate/Intentional plagiarism violates a student’s academic integrity and exists in the following forms:

• Turning in someone else’s work as the student’s own (such as buying a paper and submitting it, exchanging papers or collaborating on a paper with someone else without permission, or paying someone else to write or translate a paper)
• Recycling in whole or in part previously submitted or published work or concurrently submitting the same written work where the expectation for current original work exists, including agreeing to write or sell one’s own work to someone else
• Quoting or copy/pasting phrases of three words or more from someone else without citation,
• Paraphrasing ideas without citation or paraphrasing incompletely, with or without correct citation, where the material too closely matches the wording or structure of the original
• Submitting an assignment with a majority of quoted or paraphrased material from other sources
• Copying images or media and inserting them into a presentation or video without citation,
• Using copyrighted soundtracks or video and inserting them into a presentation or video without citation
• Giving incorrect or nonexistent source information or inventing source information
• Performing a copyrighted piece of music in a public setting without permission
• Composing music based heavily on someone else’s musical composition.

 

Student Responsibility

You have already made the decision to go to college; now the follow-up decisions on whether to commit to doing the work could very well determine whether you end up working at a good paying job in a field you enjoy or working at minimum wage for the rest of your life. Education involves a partnership that requires both students and instructors to do their parts. By entering into this partnership, you have a responsibility to show up for class, do the assignments and reading, be engaged and pay attention in class, follow directions, and put your best effort into it. You will get out of your experience here exactly what you put into it – nothing more and nothing less.

My students are adult individuals who can make decision about anything in their lives including choosing their major, renting an apartment or buying a house, buying a car, getting married, electing the president of the united states and such. I expect student’s active role in shaping this course. The best way to solve any issue is through communication. Unless I hear from you, I will assume that you are doing well in my class. Please let me know your comments and suggestions.

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