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Professor's Office Hours Drop in: Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.; Thursdays, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Other times by appointment.
GSI Contact Information
Prerequisites:
Staying in the Course and Adding the Course: The course is full. Many people on the waiting list will not get in. To stay in the course, you must initially attend the section to which you are assigned by CalCentral as of January 17. If you do not attend your assigned discussion sections by Monday, January 23 and do not contact your GSI or Head GSI Esther Shears to explain your absence, you will be dropped from the class. The department relies completely on CalCentral for enrollment purposes. If you are already on the waiting list but want to change your section choice, you cannot do so without dropping the course, re-adding, and thus going to the end of the waitlist. For help, see Econ 100B Head GSI Esther Shears ([email protected]), GSI Coordinator Katarina Jensen (548 Evans, [email protected]), or an Econ Undergrad Advisor (539 Evans, [email protected]).
Textbook and Other Reading Material (Available as pdf’s on bCourses) REQUIRED:
Letter of Introduction
For your second section meeting, please write a one-page letter of introduction of yourself to your GSI. Submit a hard copy at section. Include your preferred name*, its pronunciation, your pronouns, and anything about yourself that you would like to share. Please embed a photo of yourself; doing so will help your GSI learn your name. The paper will not be graded nor returned. (*Be sure to set your preferred name in CalCentral too: http://registrar.berkeley.edu/preferred-name.html.)
Contacting you. You are responsible for reading your email. Some emails from Prof. Olney contain links to additional readings. These readings are required assigned readings for the course.
Be sure your email address registered with the University’s CalNet directory is correct, your spam filters are not set too tight, and that your inbox is not full. Emails sent are archived at the bCourses “pages” tab: http://bcourses.berkeley.edu.
Emails sent to us must have “Econ _" plus a descriptor in the subject line. For example: Enrollment, announcement for digest, and so on.
Announcements Policy All announcements are sent by Prof. or Head GSI via email and then posted on bCourses “pages” tab. No announcements are made in lecture. Some announcements may contain links to additional readings from current news sources. These readings are to be considered required assigned readings for the course.
If you would like to make a written announcement to all Econ 100B students, send it to Prof. Olney for inclusion in her weekly email. Be sure you include a student name and contact info in the announcement. Prof. Olney reserves the right to delete announcements that are not relevant to Econ 100B.
Discussion Sections: There are 17 discussion sections. Section day/time/location and e-mail addresses for GSIs are on the course website. Discussion section is important. Lectures move quickly. Section with your GSI is a key part of learning the material. Your GSI will go over material from the text and lectures, and lead group exercises. News articles will be discussed. Your active participation in section will enhance your understanding of the course material, which will be helpful on problem sets and exams. 10 percent of your course grade (50 points) will be based on your participation in section. See your section syllabus for more information on how to earn those points.
Grades
Problem Sets: You may work with other students on the problem sets, but your answers must be in your own words. If your problem set is the same as someone else’s problem set. Problem set solutions will be posted on the course website. Because you have 11-12 days to complete each problem set, there are no extensions. Plan accordingly.
Midterm Exams: Student-athletes and musicians are expected to be familiar with the policy on academic conflicts: http://academic- senate.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/committees/cep/guidelines_acadschedconflicts_final_2014.pdf. Notification of scheduled or potential conflicts must be delivered to the Head GSI Esther Shears ([email protected]) by Friday of the second week of classes, January 27.
The final examination. The final examination will be comprehensive and will cover all material presented in lecture, section, and the assigned readings.
The final comprehensive essay will be due at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday May 2 (RRR week), via bCourses. Essay submissions will be run through the TurnItIn checker, which compares your submission against all other submissions, papers previously submitted at any college or university, and against published material. Be sure you submit your own work. Be sure you cite your sources. See the course website for more information about Turn It In. Regardless of your grade otherwise, if you do not write the final essay you will receive an “F” in the course.
If you have or anticipate a conflict with the final exam, you should DROP THIS COURSE NOW. Conflicts include simultaneously scheduled exams, non-refundable tickets, weddings, and any other commitment that prevents you from taking the exam on May 8. If you have a conflict with the final exam, you can’t take Econ _ this term. There is no make-up final. If you miss the final on Monday, May 8 with an acceptable excuse covering an unforeseeable and unavoidable event and you were otherwise passing the course, you will take the final with the other Econ _ students at the end of Summer or Fall 2017. The course will be taught by a different instructor with a different textbook. If you can’t take the final as scheduled, don’t take this course!
Grading of Exams: Sample exams are on the course website.
There is no fixed curve for this course dictating what share of students will receive what letter grade. It is theoretically possible for everyone to earn an A. It is equally possible for everyone to earn a C. Past performance of students in Economics 100B indicates however that approximately 25-30 percent of the class will receive an A of some sort, about 35- 45 percent will receive a B of some sort, and the remainder will receive C's or below.
The course can be taken Pass/Not Pass if you are otherwise free to do so. You can not take this course P/NP if you are fulfilling a requirement for the economics major. Students taking the course under the P/NP option must earn at least a C- in order to pass the course. P/NP students must pass the final and write an acceptable essay in order to pass the course.
If you require disability-related accommodations for exams or lecture, if you have emergency medical information that you wish to share, or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please speak... You will ultimately need to obtain a Letter of Accommodation (LOA) from Disabled Students' Program (http://dsp.berkeley.edu, 260 César Chávez Center) which they will send electronically to the Head GSI. DSP’s Proctoring Service requires notice of participants at least two weeks in advance of an exam. Request for exam accommodation must be received and acknowledged at least two weeks before an exam, which is DSP’s own internal deadline for scheduling the proctoring of exams.
Honor Code We at UC Berkeley have adopted this Honor Code: “As a member of the UC Berkeley community, I act with honesty, integrity, and respect for others.” Your Econ instructors join you in pledging to adhere to this code.
Economics Department grad students offer free tutoring. https://www.econ.berkeley.edu/undergrad/home/tutoring. Twitter @CalEconTutoring. A list of tutors-for-hire (about $50/hour) is also available at the Econ Dept Tutoring Center website. Also the Student Learning Center (SLC) offers Study Group and Drop-in Tutoring for Economics 100B. These services are free for registered Cal students. Additional information is available at http://slc.berkeley.edu/economics-1
Course Capture: Accessible via bCourses.
Course Outline and Reading Assignments The reading assignments are from the textbook. Occasional news articles will also be distributed electronically; these articles are to be considered “assigned reading.” The material covered in this course is difficult. Students who regularly skip lecture or fail to do the readings are almost guaranteed to receive low marks in the class.
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