Section #: 9532
Instructor: Megan Cummins
Voicemail: (714) 241-6130 x2
E-mail:
mcummins@coastline.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30PM -
5:30PM
Distance Learning Department
11460 Warner Avenue
Fountain Valley, CA 92708
Required
Textbook
Schiller, Bradley R.
The Macroeconomy Today, 10th Edition
McGraw-Hill/Irwin: New York, 2005.
The textbook is available for
purchase at Coastline’s Bookstore at 11460 Warner Avenue, 1st
Floor in Fountain Valley.
For bookstore information, call (714) 241-6101
Please feel free to use the 9th
edition of the text if you want to save some $$.
**Students may find valuable
resources online at the textbook website at:
http://www.mhhe.com/economics/discoverecon/schiller10. It is
highly recommended that you take advantage of the tools available
on the textbook website. Previous students have told me that they
find the online quizzes especially helpful for preparing for the
mid-term and final exams.
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Course
Description
Course analyzes recession, unemployment and inflation; focuses
on business cycles, output and income measurements, the
equilibrium level of national income, money creation, the banking
system and public debt. Also examines monetary and fiscal policy.
Graded or credit option.
(CAN ECON 2). (3.0 units).
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Withdrawal Policy
Please call me if you have problems – academic or personal – that
might make you consider withdrawing from this course. If you must
withdraw, it is your responsibility to officially withdraw from
the course before the drop deadline. You can withdraw via
telephone by calling (714) 438-8250.
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Grading Policy
Class grade will consist of a class project, midterm, final exam
and quizzes. Course grade will be determined using a straight
percentage scale as follows:
A= 90-100%
B= 80-89%
C=70-79%
D=60-69%
F= 0-59%
Credit/No Credit students must
earn a minimum of 70% (560 points) for CREDIT.
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COMPONENTS OF CLASS
GRADE |
| Class Project |
200 points |
| Midterm |
200
points |
| Quizzes |
200 points |
| Final
Exam |
200
points |
| Total points possible |
= 800 |
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GRADING SCALE |
| A = |
720-800
POINTS |
(90-100%) |
| B = |
640-719 POINTS |
(80-89%) |
| C = |
560-639
POINTS |
(70-79%) |
| D = |
480-559 POINTS |
(60-69%) |
| F = |
0-479 POINTS |
(0-59%) |
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Quizzes
There will be four quizzes in this course. Each quiz will cover
three to four chapters. Quizzes will be due prior to the deadline
posted on the Assignment Schedule. Quizzes will be closed two days
after the posted deadline. Once a quiz has been closed, it
will not be re-opened for anyone for any reason. It is the
students' responsibility to complete the quizzes before the
deadline. Quizzes will generally consist of 50 multiple-choice
questions.
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Homework
There will be no formal weekly homework assignments for this
class. Instead, it is recommended that students complete the
questions at the end of the chapter(s) in the text as well as
problems in the Student Problem Set that accompanies the text. I
will also include a series of recommended extra credit
exercises/worksheets that will help you digest the concepts you
have learned in the textbook and prepare you for exams.
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Exams
All exams are mandatory and failure to complete all exams will
result in an “F” in the course. The midterm will consist of 60
multiple-choice and 2 essay questions. The final exam will have 60
multiple-choice and 2 essay questions. You must bring your
Coastline ID and a driver’s license or passport to the Midterm and
Final Examination site. Please see the Midterm & Final Exam Study
Guides for more details.
**Please see the Assignment
Schedule for midterm and final examination dates.
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Extra
Credit
There will be at least one exercise/worksheet for each module.
Extra Credit Possible from
Worksheets = 40pts.
To get extra credit points worksheets must be faxed or mailed to
the Distance Learning Office the week after the week/module is
scheduled for completion.
You may also
upload your completed worksheet to me by clicking here.
FAX:
Care of: Megan Cummins - Econ 180
Fax: (714) 241-6287
Mail to or drop off at:
Coastline Community College
Distance Learning Department
11460 Warner Ave
Fountain Valley, CA 92708-2597
Be sure to have your name and student ID clearly printed on each
worksheet.
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Grades
Please do not contact the instructor or the Testing Office for
your final scores/grades. Grades may be obtained approximately
three weeks after the conclusion of the semester by calling (714)
438-8249. If you would like to have your grade mailed to you by
the instructor, you may submit a self-addressed, stamped grade
request postcard at the final exam (or mail it to me). The
instructor will NOT e-mail grades to students at the end of the
course.
Due to the nature of the
course, the professor will not assign any "incompletes". If you
cannot complete all of the work, please drop the class before the
drop deadline.
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Project
Throughout the course of the semester, you will be required to
find and analyze ten (10) newspaper articles which address the
issues we are covering (e.g., supply and demand, economic shocks,
externalities (social cost), fiscal policy levers, aggregate
supply and demand, unemployment, inflation, etc.). The project is
due to the instructor at the final exam review session. Please see
project instructions for more details about the class project.
NO LATE PROJECTS WILL BE ACCEPTED!!
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Honor
Code
Plagiarism, cheating and other forms of academic dishonesty will
NOT be tolerated. Cheating in any of its many forms will result in
an “F” in the course.
**Please note: syllabus
subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.
