CLASSES

• This unit provides 3 hours face-to-face teaching per week consisting of 1 x 2 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial

• The timetable for lectures and tutorials can be found on the University web site at: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au

Technology Used and Required

Lecture slides will be available on the unit web page at http://ilearn.mq.edu.au, and (barring technical hitches, which often occur) videos of the lectures will be available on Echo. During  the semester, unforeseen circumstances may require the cancellation of a lecture and/or tutorial. Any changes will be announced as far as possible in advance both in lectures and on the unit website. Students are strongly advised that their learning is significantly enhanced  by their regular attendance. It is assumed that students will attend all lectures and tutorials.  Students who miss lectures put themselves at a significant disadvantage for several reasons, including: (i) Not all the material in the text is covered in the unit, and not all the material in the unit is covered in the text. In some places the text deals with issues in greater depth than is necessary for the unit, and in other places it doesn’t go far enough. The lectures contain key unit material taught at the level required for the assessment tasks, and are your guide to the unit content. The tutorials will demonstrate the way questions in macroeconomics are approached. (ii) The lectures and tutorials will include significant guidance about the style and content of the final exam and recommendations about study technique. (iii) It is difficult (and often impossible) for staff to provide meaningful assistance to students outside class times on topics for which they did not attend the relevant lectures and tutorials.

Tutorials constitute a critical learning experience of this unit and students must attend. Group work is an essential part of this learning. In ECON1021 we emphasise peer-to-peer learning by working as a group through the exercises and learning from others. Your tutor's role is to help you understand the material. Ask your tutor for guidance on how to approach questions and problems. Brief tutorial solutions will be posted on iLearn after completion of all classes of each week.

Textbook

Students will need to consult this textbook:

• The Economy: Economics for a Changing World.

This text is produced by the CORE ECON team, and is available free online at https://www.core-econ.org/project/core-the-economy/. You will need to register on the site as a student. It is possible to obtain hard copies if desired.

Note that the CORE ECON project site contains significant additional resources that you should aim to make use of in aiding your learning.

Supplementary Support Material

The publishers provide a range of support material for the textbook, including an e-Book and Smartbook/Connect.  

While this electronic support material may provide very useful additional assistance to your study of the subject matter, the support material is not required reading. Students must make their own judgement as to whether accessing and using the support material is worthwhile. The examinable content of the textbook is defined by the Lecture Schedule and the Tutorial Program.

We strongly recommend that you have your own access to the textbook and the supplementary material.

Additional Readings

For some topics students will be required to read material in addition to the textbook. All additional readings will be posted on iLearn.