Reading List
Course Description:
This course is an online/live class. Students have the option of (1) attending the live lecture TTH in SQ 104 at 9:30 AM, (2) downloading and viewing the lectures online using Microsoft PowerPoint or (3) any combination of (1) and (2).
Although students have the option of viewing lectures completely online, attendance at exams on the specified dates, times, and locations is mandatory. The midterm exam will be during the 8th week of the semester--Oct 125h and 14th.
The course will be live/online and will consist of the following components:
1) Lectures delivered on T or TH at 9:30AM in Sequoia 104.
2) Online lectures downloaded from this page and viewed using Microsoft PowerPoint.
3) Weekly problem sets done online at Aplia.com and due Tuesday morning.
4) A bulletin board run by Prof. Gary Anderson where students post question and Prof. Anderson responds. Questions and answers are posted and can be read by all students. The bulletin board URL is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Econ160/
5) A midterm and final exam. The final exam for the Tuesday class (ticket 17326), will be on Thursday December 9th from 8AM to 10:AM in SQ104 and Thursday December 9th from 10:15Am to 12:12AM for the Thursday class.
6) A term paper-details at the Econ. 160 Term Paper Assignment Website.
Technical Requirements:
1) Access to a computer with a broadband internet connection is required. The online lecture files are large and require a broadband connection to download in a reasonable time. It is the students responsibility to determine that their home/office computer is sufficient to meet the technical demands of the course. To see if your computer/internet connection can handle the online lectures try downloading and viewing a test lecture.
2) The course requires computer literate students with up to date software and reasonably new computers. A recent version of Microsoft Office is required. Students are responsible for all technical issues involved in accessing the course materials through the internet and viewing them on their computers.
Required Reading, Subscriptions, and Programs:
1) Principles of Economics, Third Edition, N. Gregory Mankiw (available at the bookstore) or purchase the ebook version.
2) Current Version of Microsoft PowerPoint.
3) Subscription to Aplia.com website (cost $21)
Course Outline:
Introduction Lecture Notes (slides without sound)
Tuesday 8-24-2004 Lecture (with audio)
Thursday 8-26-2004 Econ 160 (with audio)
Instructions for downloading lectures and notes:1) Right click on the link.
2) Choose Save Target as.
3) A dialogue box should come up which lets you choose where you want to save the file on your computer, choose save and the file should begin downloading.
4) Open the file using PowerPoint.
Part One Introduction:
1. Ten Principles of Economics
2. Thinking Like an Economist
3. Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
Part One Lecture Notes (without recording)
Econ 160 Tuesday 8-31-2004 lecture (with audio, starts on slide1)
Online Lectures:
Part Two Supply and Demand I: How Markets Work
4. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
5. Elasticity and Its Application
6. Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
Part Three Supply and Demand II: Markets and Welfare
7. Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
8. Application: The Costs of Taxation
9. Application: International Trade
Online Lectures:
Part Four The Economics of the Public Sector
10. Externalities
11. Public Goods and Common Resources
12. The Design of the Tax System
MIDTERM EXAMINATION-Not Scheduled
Part Five Firm Behavior and the Organization of Industry
13. The Costs of Production
14. Firms in Competitive Markets
15. Monopoly
16. Oligopoly
17. Monopolistic Competition
Online Lectures:
None available
Part Six The Economics of Labor Markets
18. The Markets for the Factors of Production
19. Earnings and Discrimination
20. Income Inequality and Poverty
Part Seven Advanced Topic
21. The Theory of Consumer Choice
Grading Policy.
Online Grade Roster (unavailable)
Grades will be determined by:
20%- Cumulative Scores on the Aplia.com assignments
20%-Midterm Exam
20% Term paper
40%-Final Exam
The exams will be multiple choice and will be based on the Mankiw testbank.
The final will be cumulative.
Plus/minus grading will not be used.
All examinations are closed book, closed note. Students may bring a calculator into the exam room but the calculator's memory must be purged of all class related material before entering the exam room.
Drop/Add Policy.
The University drop/add policy will be strictly followed (http://www.cgf.org/cat209/101455.pdf)
This means that after the 2nd week of classes, drops will be allowed only for " compelling reasons clearly beyond the student's control."
Missed Exam Policy.
Students are required to show up and take all exams at the scheduled times. A student who doesn't take an exam without prior approval will receive a score of 0.
The final exam for the Thursday class (ticket 17326), will be on Friday May 28th from 10:15 to 12:15 in SQ104 not the time listed in the CSUN final exam schedule. It is the students responsibility to insure that they are available to take the exam on that date.