Womack Report

August 21, 2007

Economics Notes, August 21

Filed under: Economics,Notes,School — Phillip Womack @ 2:56 pm

Econ class. Don’t have the textbook for this one yet. Classroom has a big window, is fairly warm in here. Professor is about five minutes late today.

Course is Econ 3131: Money and Banking. Professor is Dr. N.B. Tran. She’s adjunct faculty, but apparently a full-time professor at San Jacinto CC. Professor recommends the study guide associated with the textbook, but doesn’t use the software components. Probably not going to bother with it.

Grading is based on quizzes, final exam, and a combined class participation and project grade. Every two weeks, there will be a quiz. Should work out to every two chapters or so. Lowest quiz grade will be dropped. Seven total quizzes, so six quizzes count. Each quiz is worth 10% of the final grade. The final exam is worth 25% of the final grade. The project + participation is worth 15%.

There will be two due dates for the project. The first due date is the early date, and any project turned in by the early due date will add 10% to the final grade. The second date is the firm date; turning it in at the main due date will not result in any penalty, but won’t get the bonus.

There are no make-up quizzes or tests available.

The project involves reading and summarizing fifteen articles related to this course. Most articles need to come from daily newspapers. Articles need to be long enough to be meaningful, and need to be related to the U.S. economy. Date and source of the article must be on the article itself or its summary. Summaries of the article should be in two parts. First part is a traditional summary of the content of the article. Second part is personal analysis or impression of article. Only one article can come from a single day’s edition of a particular paper. Summaries do not need to be long; one page for both parts is sufficient. Only one article can come from a business magazine. Only one article can come from an internet source. Everything else must be from a daily newspaper. The whole project should be bundled up in a folder. Article should be facing its summary in the folder. Table of contents should be included.

Fair amount of rambling discussion now.

Homework: No quiz next week.
Read Chapters 1 & 2.

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