Course Outline for January 2013

In this course we will attempt to get an intuitive grasp of how an economy works and how an economy can be influenced by government.

Course website If you are enrolled in this course, a link to our course website will pop up after you login to Moodle at https://moodle.queensu.ca/

Another useful website for economics majors is http://www.econ.queensu.ca/academics/undergraduate/ which lists course times and locations among other things.

Contact Information You can e-mail me with your questions or visit me during my office hours, which are Wednesdays after class until 1:30 and Thursdays 10:30-2:30. I will post our T.As' office hours when they become available.

ONCE YOU HAVE REGISTERED FOR THIS COURSE, YOU SHOULD LOG ON TO MOODLE TO VIEW THIS INFORMATION AS WELL AS UPDATED NEWS, LINKS TO HELPFUL RESOURCES, AND YOUR GRADES FOR THIS COURSE.

Evaluation Options Evaluation is different depending on whether or not you would like to earn participation marks. I believe that class participation will make the material come alive for you and will give me a good sense of what you understand, so I strongly encourage you to condescend to earn participation marks.

If you decide to earn participation marks

• you will need to purchase an i-clicker device OR a web-clicker subscription. The i-clicker device is like a TV remote. The web-clicker subscription is so that you can use your cellphone, laptop, whatever as the remote. You can buy a web-clicker subscription for about $10 for 6 months by visiting www.iclicker.com, or you can buy a subscription card at the Campus Bookstore. You can buy an i-clicker at the Campus Bookstore or second-hand from someone - if that person has un-registered it. If you buy an i-clicker, you will not need to buy a subscription of any kind.
• you will need to come to class often and respond to the class questions by using your clicker. Having someone else click your responses for you will be considered a violation of academic integrity (see below). Your responses do not have to be correct.
• If you attend at least 18 lectures and respond to at least three quarters of the prof's questions in each class, you will get full participation marks. (You get about half a percent every time you respond to at least 3/4 of the questions in a lecture).
• Participation will be worth 10%, the assignments, 20%, the midterm, 20%, and the final, 50%.

If you decide to not earn participation marks, you will not need an i-clicker or a subscription to web-clicker. Your assignments will be worth 20%, the midterm, 25%, and the final, 55%.

If you have purchased and registered an i-clicker or webclicker subscription, you have until the last day of class to decide whether you would like your participation to be counted or not. Send me an e-mail. If I do not get an e-mail, I will only count participation for students whose participation score is at least 6 out of the 10 possible marks.

Evaluation Dates

To get full participation marks you will need to have an i-clicker before the 3rd week of class.

• Midterm. (bring calculator) No make-up midterms will be offered. Students not writing the midterm for valid medical reasons (fill out this form: http://www.queensu.ca/artsci/sites/default/files/Off-campus-Physician-note.pdf) (Student Health Clinic visit notices are not acceptable) will have their final exam count for both the midterm and the final.)
• Two Assignments If you do not complete the assignments, your course grade will be IN which becomes an F eventually if the work is not done.
• Final (bring calculator) Calculators must bear blue or gold stickers; Casio 991 calculators also acceptable.

The graded work can be picked up from the Graded Coursework Distribution Centre, Dunning Hall Room 311. This link gives you their hours: http://www.econ.queensu.ca/academics/undergraduate/distribution_centre

You need to show your student ID to pick up your work.

Resources Used We will use

• i-clickers or web-clicker subscriptions for those students interested in participation marks. These are for sale at the Campus Bookstore. You can also find them on e-bay and elsewhere: used i-clickers are fine if the previous owner has un-registered them. You can use the same clicker in other courses requiring clickers. You must register your i-clicker on-line. See our course website for instructions.
• The Econ 223 course workbook (similar but not the same as last year's book), for sale at the Campus Bookstore.
• Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of Poverty. Many used copies available.

We will be going through the course workbook in order. We may also watch films and discuss various news articles. Check Moodle for updates and for links to previous midterms and exams.

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity is constituted by the five core fundamental values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility (see www.academicintegrity.org). These values are central to the building, nurturing, and sustaining of an academic community in which all members of the community will thrive. Adherence to the values expressed through academic integrity forms a foundation for the "freedom of inquiry and exchange of ideas" essential to the intellectual life of the University (see the Senate Report on Principles and Priorities). Students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with the regulations concerning academic integrity and for ensuring that their assignments conform to the principles of academic integrity. Information on academic integrity is available in the Arts and Sciences Calendar (see Academic Regulation 1), on the Arts and Sciences website (see http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/artsci/Regulation_1____Academic_Integrity.html) and from the instructor of this course. Departures from academic integrity include

• plagiarism
• use of unauthorized materials
• facilitation
• forgery, including faking someone else's class participation
• falsification
and are antithetical to the development of an academic community at Queen's. Given the seriousness of these matters, actions which contravene the regulation on academic integrity carry sanctions that can range from a warning or the loss of grades on an assignment to the failure of a course to a requirement to withdraw from the university. More information is available at http://www.queensu.ca/artsci/academics/undergraduate/academic-integrity/instructors/statement-on-academic-integrity

Copyright

The material on this website is copyrighted and is for the sole use of students registered in Econ 223. The material on this website may be downloaded for a registered student's personal use, but shall not be distributed or disseminated to anyone other than students registered in Econ 280. Failure to abide by these conditions is a breach of copyright, and may also constitute a breach of academic integrity under the University Senate's Academic Integrity Policy Statement.