EC1002 MODULE INFORMATION M ICROECONOMICS 2021-2022 Teaching .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Staff ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 Lectures ............................................................................................................................................... 1 Tutorials .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Week-by-week outline ........................................................................................................................ 2 Office Hours ........................................................................................................................................ 2 Assessment.............................................................................................................................................. 2 Tuesday Quizzes (50%) ........................................................................................................................ 2 Final Exam (50%) ................................................................................................................................. 3 Essential Resources ................................................................................................................................. 3 Textbook.............................................................................................................................................. 3 Online tools ......................................................................................................................................... 3 How to Get Help for This Module............................................................................................................ 4 TEACHING STAFF module coordinator (overall responsibility for the module) & live lectures: Dr Luc Bridet pre-recorded lectures: Dr Margaret Leighton tutors: Dr Junaid Arshad, Dr Sumedh Dalwai, Ciarán Mac Domhnaill, Parul Tyagi LECTURES Pre-recorded lectures: Content will be pre-recorded and made available at scheduled times (three per week). These lectures will be available on Panopto and through the Moodle page. Live lectures: Live lectures will take place on Monday 14:00 every week, with the first live lecture at the start of Week 1. These will complement the textbook and recorded material in a more interactive format. Live lectures will be streamed, with a recording available afterwards. TUTORIALS Tutorial groups meet for 1 hour in weeks 3,4,5,8,9,10. The tutor will guide you through the solution to that week’s problem set. The problem set will be assigned one week in advance and you are expected to have attempted the problems beforehand. You may be called on in these sessions to answer questions. Students attending remotely can follow these sessions via live-stream (on Teams). Students attending remotely are encouraged to meet their tutor during office hours if they have any follow-up questions. Written solutions to these problems will be posted on Moodle at the end of the tutorial week. Your tutorial group is fixed for the semester. If a scheduling conflict requires you to change tutorial groups, you must request this change from the School Administrator, Ms. Liz Pert-Davies. Note that you cannot request a one-off tutorial change and that neither your tutors nor the module coordinator can authorise tutorial changes or absences. WEEK-BY-WEEK OUTLINE Week 1: Unit 1 Week 2: Unit 3 Week 3: Unit 3 & Unit 4 Week 4: Unit 4 Week 5: Unit 5 Week 6: no teaching (Independent Learning Week) Week 7: Unit 5 & Unit 7 Week 8: Unit 7 Week 9: Unit 7 & Unit 8 Week 10: Unit 8 & Unit 12 Week 11: Unit 12 OFFICE HOURS Tuesday 14:00-15:00 and Thursday 14:00 – 15:00 on Teams (link will be posted on the Moodle page and the module Teams page). Office hours are drop-in Teams meetings (no booking in advance required) using the Teams lobby functionality, which allows for virtual queuing and group meetings. I like to record office hours and make the recordings available for students who may have the same questions, however I will not record the meeting if you prefer not to be recorded. ASSESSMENT TUESDAY QUIZZES (50%) Every week you will be asked to complete a multiple choice “Tuesday Quiz” based on material covered during the previous week. There are 10 quizzes (Weeks 1-11, no quiz in Week 6), but the first one is just for practice: it will be graded as usual but the grade does not count towards your final quiz grade. Your average quiz grade makes up 50% of the module grade. Each quiz therefore contributes a little more than 5% of your final grade. 2 The Tuesday Quiz opens at 00:01 BST on Tuesday. You should plan to complete the quiz on Tuesday, but you have until Thursday 23:59 BST to submit your final answers. Note that you can change your submission until the deadline (even after you have submitted it!): it is therefore a good idea to try the quiz on Tuesday, because you can always change your answers later. You must complete each quiz AND SUBMIT IT before the deadline each week. If you do not complete the quiz by the deadline you will receive a grade of 0 for that quiz. You cannot make up a missed quiz, and you cannot submit answers to a quiz after the deadline. To help you answer successfully, it is recommended that you pay close attention in lecture and read the textbook carefully. You are also encouraged to do practice questions in the textbook. You are welcome to talk to your friends too. Completion of the quizzes is required to obtain credit in the module. FINAL EXAM (50%) A 2-hour open book exam will be held during exam period. This exam will be written remotely: guidance on this process will be available from the Exams Office later in the semester. Details on the exam structure will be provided near the end of term, however you can expect an exam paper similar to the ones set in May 2020 and December 2020. Note: the content of EC1002 changed substantially in 2020. Past papers from years earlier than 2019-2020 do not reflect this new content and are not a good example of what you can expect on this year’s exam. ESSENTIAL RESOURCES TEXTBOOK The teaching is organised around the The Economy, by CORE. The full textbook is available for free online, but if you prefer a paper copy you can purchase one. Note that the online textbook includes some features not present in the print copy, such as multiple-choice questions and interactive graphs. Link: https://core-econ.org/the-economy/book/text/0-3-contents.html ONLINE TOOLS You will need access to the following online tools to complete this module: Moodle o The module will be managed through Moodle. You will find all the course materials on Moodle, except for the textbook which is available at https://core-econ.org. o All announcements and messages for the module will also be sent through Moodle. o An anonymous forum on Moodle enables you to ask and answer questions. Recorded lectures and streaming o Pre-recorded lectures are delivered through Panopto. You can find these through a link on Moodle, or directly from the module’s Panopto folder. o Live lectures take place on the General (default) channel of the module’s Team and can be accessed through the module Team’s calendar, or through a link on the Moodle page. Microsoft Teams 3 o Your tutorial group will have a dedicated Team. Your online tutorials will be held in this Team, and in-person tutorials will be streamed here as well. HOW TO GET HELP FOR THIS MODULE There are a number of ways to ask questions and get help on this module. Moodle forum. o All questions of general interest should be asked here: everyone is automatically subscribed to this forum and will receive the module coordinator’s replies to these questions. (You have the option to unsubscribe, but you do so at your own risk!) You may post anonymously if you prefer. Tutors. If you have a question about tutorial material, your first point of contact should be your tutor. You can ask questions during tutorials or during office hours; you can also email your tutor if you prefer. Module coordinator. The lecturer is your main contact for lecture material, quizzes, and the final exam. You are expected to post any general questions for the lecturer on the Questions & Clarifications forum or to ask them during the Monday live lectures. If you want to discuss lecture material, the best way to do this is to attend the Lecturer’s office hours; you are welcome to send questions ahead of your office hour appointment, but this is not a requirement. 4
