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Harry Hillman Chartrand, PhD

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Cultural Economist & Publisher

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h.h.chartrand@compilerpress.ca

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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Canada, S7H 3A1
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Curriculum Vitae

 

Launched  1998

 

 

MACROECONOMICS 125

COURSE OUTLINE

Section: 002 Fall 2011

Instructor:  Harry Hillman Chartrand, PhD     

Location:   C272        

Class:   Mon. & Fri. 10:00-11:20

Style: Students are expected to read the text and lecture notes before each Class.  The Instructor will survey both remaining always open to questions and exchange with other members of the Class.

Phone: to be determined

Email:   h-chartrand@shaw.ca

Website: http://www.compilerpress.ca/ElementalEconomics/

Office Hours:  E422 Monday & Friday 12:00-14:00 [starting Sept. 16]

All Communication to include Student Name & Number, Course & Section

Theme:

Study of the Economy as a Whole including broad aggregates such as economic growth, employment, foreign trade, money supply  and technological change.

Required Text: 

Parkin & Bade (P&B), Macroeconomics: Canada in the Global Environment (Study Guide optional)

Lecture notes generally keyed to P&B chapter graphics.

Evaluation:

3 Midterm Exams *           @ 10% =      30% 

10 Pop Quiz **                     @  1% =        10%

Class Presentation ***     @ 25% =      25%

1 Final Exam  *                    @ 35% =      35%  

                                                                           100% 

Topics

Themes

1.0 Introduction

Ch. 1, 2, 3 & 20

1.1 Wealth of Nations

1.2 Concepts

1.3 System of National Accounts

1.4 Links

2.0 Aggregate Expenditure

Ch. 23 & 27 

2.1 Consumption & Savings

2.2 Investment & Government

2.3 Imports & Exports

2.4 Equilibrium

2.5 The Multiplier

2.6 Links

3. Aggregate Demand & Supply

Ch. 26

3.1 Aggregate Demand

3.2 Aggregate Supply

3.3 Equilibrium

3.4 Links

1st Mid-Term Test - October 17

Ch..1, 2, 3, 20, 23, 26 & 27 - 30 questions, 45 minutes in class

4.0 Public Policy

Ch. 24 & 29

4.1 Fiscal Policy

4.2 Monetary Policy

4.3 Links

2nd Midterm - Nov. 4

Ch.24 & 29- 30 questions, 45 minutes in class

5.0 Global Economy

Ch. 25 & 31

5.1 Trade Policy
5.2 Balance of Payments

5.3 Links

3rd  Mid-Term Test - Nov. 18

Ch. 25 & 31 - 30 questions, 45 minutes in class

Final 

Ch. 1, 2, 3, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26,  27, 29 & 31 - 100 questions, 180 minutes in to be announced

* Multiple choice 'op scan' sheets are used.  Each Student must use a lead pencil 'to fill in the dots' and code their Student Number correctly.  Each Student is responsible for the legibility of their opscan sheet.  Fresh sheets will be issued any time during an exam.  No additional time is allowed to copy a sheet or make corrections after the testing period.   Failure to correctly code Student Number will result in delay of results and possible demerit.

The weight of a missed midterm (10%) may or may not be transferred to the final exam (35 to 45%) depending on the reason - sickness, family emergency, jury duty, etc.  Documentation will be required for any absence. 

 Approximately 75% of testable material will be from the text and/or posted on this website as lecture notes.  25% will be identified in Class.

** Pop Quiz: analytic geometry & symbolic equations: name the lines; in words, name and verbalize (read it out) the symbolic equation.  Time - any time during any Class but not necessarily each and every Class.  15 minutes.

*** Class Presentation will be a five to 7 minute Argument (making a point).  Presentations may take the form of oral delivery of a written work (2 1/2  to 3 letter pages - double spaced - 12 pt), or a video, graphic or multi-media Presentation. It is subject to 'peer review' by the entire Class - Instructor and Students - with time called by the Instructor.  The subject is to be a Topic or Theme drawn from the Course Outline below.  The Argument may be 'theoretical' or  'real world', for example, What causes the Aggregate Demand curve to  shift?  Or, What causes the exchange value of the Canadian dollar to change?  A Class Grading Rubric with be co-constructed by Students and the Instructor.  The same 'Form'  will be completed by each Student for each Presentation excepting one's own.   

Rhetoric - in any media - matters!  The Art of Argument.  What's your point?

Team play, with appropriate time adjustment, is possible subject to strict rules of honourable conduct.  After initial approval the Team will be subject to ongoing counseling by the Instructor who may summarily disband the Team setting new assignments for each student. 

Cross-Section Team Presentations will be considered but presented only once. 

Individual Students & Teams must submit a written Plan: Objective, Strategy, Tactics & Logistics **** for approval by the Instructor on or before the first class after the 1st Midterm exam.   The Instructor will counsel Students & Teams on progress towards their Presentation during office hours and by email.

Presentations will begin immediately after the 2nd Midterm.

The student making the best presentation will earn extra 10% on the assignment..

**** Standard military planning model; terms to be defined in Class.

NOTICE

1. All testing except Pop Quiz & Class Presentation is multiple choice. 

2. No electronic devices are allowed during midterms and the final exam.   Paper dictionaries are permitted for both.   

3. Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty will not be tolerated.