SYLLABUS ADDENDUM
MICROECONOMICS GE 273
Winter 2009
Instructor
Bry Willis
(e) bwillis@itt-tech.edu
(o) 630-230-2590
Class Rules
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Class Hours.
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Turn Cell Phones Off
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No Food or Drinks
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Talking
If you need to talk with your classmate for 30 seconds or less, do it quietly.
If you need to talk for more than 30 seconds, please leave the classroom.
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Break
One 20-minute break, usually starts about 7:30.
6:00 – 9:20. We will start on time.
Office hours: By appointment only
Grading
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Grade Breakout
- Quizzes, Homework Problems, Papers
- Attendance and Class Participation
- Midterm Exam
- Final Exam
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Class Participation
- Active Participation
- No Participation
- Arrive Late – Before 6:15
- Arrive Late – After 6:15
- Leave Early – After Break
- Absence – with Advance Notification
- Absence – No Notification
- Disrupting Class
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Homework Assignments
Maximum Percentage
Professionals pride themselves on the timely submission of accurate work. In general, no late work will be
accepted. If you feel there is a compelling reason why the instructor should accept the work late, meet with the
instructor after class the day the work was due to discuss the situation.
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Spelling and Grammar Counts
Not Typewritten or Computer Generated
Duplicate of Another Student’s Work
Summaries Not in Your Own Words
Percentage
40%
25%
15%
20%
Percentage
100%
80%
-10%
-50%
-50%
25%
0%
-20 to -100%
-10%
-10%
0%
0%
FOR ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED ! ! !
Assignments
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Read Carefully. Do the correct problem on the correct page.
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Format. Except for EconToday assignments, which are submitted through an online form. Written assignments are to
be sent to me by email attachemnts as PDF, Microsoft Word or Excel, as deemed appropriate for the assignment.
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Receipt. Homework assignments are due on the assigned date. If you cannot attend a class, you are still responsible
for the homework due for that class. Do not wait until the last minute to do your assignments. In-class assignments
are due by the date of the subsequent class. If you cannot attend class, you are still responsible for the assignments.
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Style. Use a business writing style – not a casual or an academic writing style. Be succinct. Make your points clearly
and simply in an organized fashion using as few sentences as possible. Be thorough, but don’t fill up a page just for
the sake of filling up a page.
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Analysis vs. Uninformed Opinions. Many of the writing assignments require you to think about a real-world topic
associated with the principles covered in that chapter. When a question asks, “What do you think about…”, I am
looking for your analysis of the topic based on the information and principles you’ve learned, not an uninformed
opinion that ignores what we’ve covered.
Midterm and Final
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Show Up! If you absolutely can’t make it, you need approval from a Department Chair prior and an agreed upon
make-up date prior to to the test.