101(201). Principles of Economics I. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in 400. (4). (SS). (QR/2).
Section 300 only. The course format consists of three large one-hour lectures per week taught by the professor and one small one-and-a-half-hour section meeting per week taught by a graduate student instructor. Final grades will be based on: quizzes given during section meetings (20%); two hour tests (40%); and the final exam (40%). NOTE the DATES and TIMES of the two hour tests and the final exam in the TIME SCHEDULE, and BE SURE that you can attend all three. Cost:2 WL:1 (Porter)
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108. Introductory Microeconomics Workshop. First-year standing and concurrent enrollment in Economics 101. (1). (SS). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.
Students will meet weekly for one hour with a faculty member for discussions of the previous week's Wall Street Journal (WSJ) articles, stressing the use and application of the microeconomic tools being learned in Economics 101. In the first few weeks, the workshop will study how to read the WSJ and will "play" some market "games." Once supply and demand has been studied in Economics 101, much of the WSJ becomes discussable. Workshop attendance is mandatory, and each student will be required to subscribe to the WSJ for the term. During the first few minutes of the seminar, the articles for the subsequent week's seminar will be selected and one or two students appointed to open the discussion of each article on the week's agenda (and turn in to the professor a neat copy of their briefing notes). The remainder of each seminar will be spent talking about the articles that were selected the previous week. Evaluation of students will be entirely on the basis of their briefing notes and attendance. Honors credit for Econ. 101 can be achieved in this course. Cost:1 WL:4 (Porter)
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195. Seminar in Introductory Economics. (3). (SS).
Section 001 - The United States in an Asia-Pacific-Centered Global Economy. In the past four decades the locus of international trade and economic growth has shifted from the North Atlantic to the Pacific Basin. This seminar will address the causes and consequences of this shift and its significance for the future of the American economy. Particular attention will be paid to the role Japan has played as a catalyst for this historic change. (Saxonhouse)
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