ECON 306: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory Section 0101 Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 pm 4:45 pm (SKN 0200)

) Course Website http://econ-server.umd.edu/~coughlin/ECON306/ (The website has contact information and other useful information for the course.)

Fall 2011 Professor Coughlin

Books Required: Hal R. Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics, 8th Edition (also available as an e-book at http://www.wwnorton.com/gateway/entry.asp?site=hal8_ebook) Recommended: Larry Goldstein, David Lay & David Schneider, Calculus and its Applications Prerequisites ECON 200 (Principles of Microeconomics) ECON 201 (Principles of Macroeconomics) MATH 220 (Elementary Calculus I) or MATH 140 (Calculus I) Overview The purpose of ECON 306 is to provide you with an intermediate-level treatment of microeconomic theory. The material in this course will, accordingly, build on ideas that are covered in the Principles courses. The specific parts of the textbook that will be covered will be announced as we go through the semester. Homework All homework assignments must be completed and submitted at the Aplia website (http://www.aplia.com/). NO LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED! Access to Aplia is a requirement for this course. You will be able to get credit for 10 total homework assignments, worth 10 points each towards your final grade. (For additional grading information, please see the section "Grading" below.) Tentative Schedule of Exams 1st Midterm Exam: Tuesday, October 4th (3:30 pm 4:45 pm) Make-up for the 1st Midterm Exam: Tuesday, October 11th (3:30 pm 4:45 pm) 2nd Midterm Exam: Tuesday, November 8th (3:30 pm 4:45 pm) Make-up for the 2nd Midterm Exam: Tuesday, November 15th (3:30 pm 4:45 pm) Final Exam: Wednesday, December 21st (10:30am-12:30pm) Make-up for the Final Exam: TBA The exams will be based on all material covered in lectures, homework and reading assignments (including reading assignments not covered in lectures). Each exam question will be either a multiple-choice or a true-false question. Each student is required to take all three exams.

Disability Support Services If a student with a documented physical or learning disability requires special accommodation for an exam, appropriate accommodations can be made. The deadline for making such arrangements for a particular exam is one week before the exam. One week before the exam, the student must provide (1) a written request and (2) documentation from the Disability Support Services Section of the University. Use of Electronic Devices Calculators are only recommended, and not required, for this course. If you want to use one on the exams, the only type of calculator you will be permitted to use is a simple one (such as the Sharp EL-233 GB model). Financial Calculators, graphing calculators, programmable calculators, PDAs, cell phones, computers and any other devices on which text may be stored are not permitted. Rules for Makeup Exams A student will be eligible to take a makeup exam only if the student is (1) absent from the original exam because of one of the legitimate causes listed in the undergraduate catalog and (2) within one week of the missed exam furnishes documentary support for the assertion that the absence resulted from one of these causes. If a student misses an exam and the subsequent Make-up Exam (and can document that both absences resulted from legitimate reasons), the weight that would have been given to that exam will be added to the weight used for that students Final Exam. Grading The course grades will be determined at the end of the semester. Your grade will be based solely on the number of points that you get. The available points are as follows. 1st Mid Term Exam: 100 Points 2nd Mid Term Exam: 100 Points Final Exam: 100 Points Homework: 100 Points TOTAL: 400 Points Let x be the percentage of the available points that you get. Your course grade will be assigned as follows. A: 90% x B: 80% x < 90% C: 70% x < 80% D: 60% x < 70% F: x < 60% In this grading procedure, a student's course grade depends solely on the number of available points he or she gets. So there will no opportunities to earn "extra credit". The University of Maryland, College Park has a nationally recognized Code of Academic Integrity, administered by the Student Honor Council. This Code sets standards for academic integrity at Maryland for all undergraduate and graduate students. As a student you are responsible for upholding these standards for this course. It is very important for you to be aware of the consequences of cheating, fabrication, facilitation, and plagiarism. For more information on the Code of Academic Integrity or the Student Honor Council, please visit http://www.shc.umd.edu.