Disability:Attendance / Classroom ParticipationHomework AssignmentsGrading ScaleAcademic Code of Conduct:Section 1. Essentials of MicroeconomicsSection 2. Business Economics, Introduction to MacroeconomicsSection 3. Essentials of MacroeconomicsEconomics 201Introductory EconomicsSpring 2014Lecture Time: TR 12:40 Lecture Location: Alumni Memorial Building, AuditoriumInstructor: Dr. Kenneth BakerOffice: SMC 512 (Stokely Management Center)Office Hours: Wednesdays 10 - 4Phone: 974 – 0468 Web Site: https://bblearn.utk.edu E-mails: Me: [email protected]; [email protected] ; [email protected] Exam Review: [email protected] Support: www.cengage.com/support Course Description:Economics 201 is an introductory survey course covering basic principles ofmicroeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics explores the way in whichindividual economic agents (workers, consumers, households, firms and evengovernments) make decisions. Macroeconomics encompasses the aggregate economyand is concerned with issues such as total output, interest rates, inflation andunemployment.This course will attempt to combine economic theory with practical, everydayapplications. It is hoped that after this course, you will think not only about news storiesfrom a new perspective and with greater insight, but your everyday decisions as well.The course objectives are threefold: 1) to introduce students to economic assumptions,theories and reasoning, 2) to illustrate the practical importance of economic thinking ineveryday life, and 3) to build a foundation for further coursework in economics.1Teaching Assistants: Name Office Office Hours EmailZarif Rasul SMC 533 zrasulMary (Beth) Glenn SMC 528 mglenn6Ye Hong SMC 528 yhong3Lab Sections:Section Day Time Location23 Friday 11:15 – 12:05 HBB 303 (Haslam Business)24 Monday 9:05 – 9:55 HBB 136 25 Wednesday 9:05 – 9:55 PHY 304 (Nielsen Physics)27 Monday 10:10 – 11:00 Music 02229 Monday 11:15 – 12:05 HBB 32430 Wednesday 11:15 – 12:05 HBB 3242Online Course Management System: BlackboardMost everything necessary for this class will be housed in Blackboard. In it, youwill find the syllabus and contact information for the TA’s and myself. Under Course Content, you will find several folders and items necessary for thisclass. You will see the folder Econ 201 Lab Worksheets. This contains problem setsthat I have designed specifically to help give you practice thinking about economicproblems and working with economic models. Please print these out and bring themwith you to your lab/recitation periods. In addition, you will see the folder Econ 201Class Lecture Notes. This contains the notes (in PowerPoint and pdf) that I will coverin lecture. It is strongly, strongly recommended that you print out a copy of theclass notes and bring them with you to class. I have spent the better part of mysummer and winter breaks preparing them for use in this class, and I will move at sucha pace as to assume that you have them in front of you during lectures. Finally, you willsee the folder Exam Extra Study Material. In this folder I will post extra practiceproblems you can use to help prepare for upcoming exams.Finally under Course Content, you will see all the material provided by thetextbook publisher Cengage. Cengage has partnered with Blackboard to provide all thematerial you need for the course accessed through Blackboard. So, you will accessCengage’s product, ‘MindTap’, through Blackboard. To enter into MindTap, first log intoBlackboard, enter our class, click on the Course Materials folder, and click the MindTaplink.Once in MindTap, you will have access to a variety of items for our course, somenecessary and others just helpful. In here you will have access to the online version ofthe textbook, Survey of Economics, 8th edition by Irvin Tucker. Please note that thetextbook itself is not required reading. Rather, you should consider it an excellent sourceof secondary material should you need it (it is definitely helpful for homeworks). Withineach chapter you can find several items. There are pre-made flashcards that you mayfind helpful. In addition, there are a couple of short videos by Dr. Tucker explainingsome important chapter concepts. And, there are practice (non-graded) quizzes.Finally, each chapter has a corresponding graded homework. The due dates ofthese homework assignments will be made available to you.Finally, you can view all your grades to date, using the “View Progress” app.Students are responsible for keeping up with their own grades! If there are anyproblems or questions regarding a particular grade, they should be taken upwithin 2 weeks with either your teaching assistant or myself. That is, in July I amnot going to go back and look for your test from February because you just now noticedthat you failed it. You and you alone are responsible for keeping up with your grades.3Disability:Disability Services (DS) seeks to eliminate the barriers that students withdisabilities encounter and to work with them to achieve and maintain individualautonomy. The program’s primary objective is to provide these students with access tothe academic, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities of the university. Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact ofa disability should contact me privately to discuss specific needs. Please contact theOffice of Disability Services (ODS), ([email protected]) located in 2227 Dunford Hall, at 974-6087 to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documenteddisabilities.Grading and Evaluation Policies:Attendance / Classroom ParticipationThe class is split into two lecture periods and one lab (recitation) session eachweek. Attendance for both of these is semi-mandatory. In lecture, I will begin takingattendance (quizzes) randomly beginning after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Youwill need to purchase a ‘clicker’ if you don’t already have one in order to answer. (Youneed the actual clicker and not the smartphone variety). Note: some quizzes will beattendance in nature (everyone gets credit), while others may be graded (credit forcorrect answer only). You will need to accumulate 25 ‘clicker’