ECON 211 – 3M & 5M

PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS

Fall, 2009

 

Instructor Name: R. Morris Coats

Office Location:  102B White Hall

Phone Number: 985-448-4237

Email: morris.coats@nicholls.edu

Webpage: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats

Blogpage: http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions/

Office Hours:  10:45 - 11:45 a.m. on  MWF and 2-4  p.m. on MTWF*, or by appointment (*Friday afternoon Office Hours held at Powell 210 or at my office)

Class Schedule:  ECON 211: 3M, 5M, EW

The point of studying economics is so as not to be fooled by economists.  Joan Robinson

…or by politicians.                             Anon. (ok, that’s really me and my 2 cents worth)

 

Catalog Description: 

ECON 211. Principles of Microeconomics. 3-3-0. Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and eligibility for MATH 101. Degree credit will only be given for one of the following: ECON 211, 252 or 255. The theory of market exchanges and competition. Fundamental economic problems, methods of economic organization, and the price system. Topics include theory of demand and supply; international trade; markets in various competitive environments; income distribution and resource allocation; market failure, democratic processes and government failure. (Formerly ECON 252). (45.0601)

 

Prerequisites: ENGL 101 and eligibility for MATH 101. Degree credit will only be given for one of the following: ECON 211, 252 or 255.

 

Required Text and Other Materials:

 

Foundations of MicroeconomicsRequired:

 

  1. Bade, Robin and Michael Parkin, Foundations of Microeconomics, 4th edition, Pearson/Addison-Wesley (2009).  For textbook purchase options,

      see table at the top of the next page.

  1. MyEconLab software supplement—this is an absolute requirement!
  2. Course Notes at URL: http://www.nicholls.edu/mcoats/note0.htm (not the same as PowerPoint slides on Blackboard) for Economics 211

 

 

Package #1

This option alone is not sufficient

Package #2

Package #3

Package #4

 

Where

http://www.myeconlab.com/

http://www.myeconlab.com/

campus bookstore

www.mypearsonstore.com

Textbook – print copy

no

no

Unbound (3-hole punched)

bound

Textbook – Electronic access

no

Yes1

yes1

yes1

Resell book at end of semester

n/a

n/a

No

yes2

MyEconLab access

1 semester

1 semester

1 semester

1 semester

Campus Bookstore Price

n/a

n/a

$104.20

n/a

Website Price

 

$40.00

$70.00

$97.273 (www.mypearsonstore.com)

$146.074

 

ISBN10

n/a

n/a

0-321-55782-4

0-321-52238-9

ISBN13

n/a

n/a

978-0-321-55782-7

978-0-321-52238-2

1 you may print out pages of the e-text, but must do so one page at a time in a very small font

2 you may resell the book on your own, but the campus bookstore will not purchase it

3 there is a further discount available to $87.54, but this involves a membership to mypearsonstore.com

4 there is a further discount available to $131.46, but this involves a membership to mypearsonstore.com

 

Important Note:  If you purchase or rent a print copy of the textbook elsewhere, it will probably not come with MyEconLab access.  Therefore, you will still need to purchase MyEconLab access separately through package #1 for $40.00.  Please consider this in your purchase decision.  

 

Suggested Reading: Bastiat’s Bastions (http://www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions)

 

Student Outcome Objectives:

Economics 211, as a Core Curriculum course, fulfills three hours of general education requirements in the area of the social sciences and is thus designed to enable students to meet the following broad outcome for all the social sciences:

 

Goal: Upon completion of the undergraduate curriculum, students will have developed a deeper understanding of the relation of self to world through investigation of the influence of social, cultural, economic, and political institutions in shaping human thought, value, and behavior.

 

For further explanation of the learning objectives associated with this goal, go to:

http://www.nicholls.edu/gened/goals_objectives.html

 

This course meets this goal by following the course specific student learning objectives listed below:

 

Student Learning Outcome Objectives:

Successful students should be able to:

 

1.                  Identify and distinguish the major conditions that affect supply and demand.

2.                  Utilize supply and demand analysis to correctly predict the direction of changes in price and quantity as a result in changes in market conditions.

3.                  Apply the model of profit maximization (marginal analysis) to predict the pricing and output behavior of firms within various market structures.

4.                  Identify factors that affect the price elasticity of demand and how these factors affect elasticity.

5.                  Utilize knowledge of a firm or market’s price elasticity of demand to predict the effect of a price change on the revenues of the sellers (or the expenditures of the buyers).

6.                  Identify the difficulties market institutions and political institutions face in solving social problems.

7.                  Apply the concept of comparative advantage to predict the direction of international trade.

 

Course Content Outline:

Topic

Textbook

Lecture Notes

Math Readiness Exam

 

 

Introduction, Scarcity, Rationality, Marginal Analysis, Incentives, Economics as Science, Economics for Policy Making

1

1

Scarcity, Opportunity Costs and Production Possibilities

3.1-3.3

2

Demand, Supply, Markets and Equilibrium

4

3, 4, 5, 6

Elasticities

5

8, 9

Market Efficiency and Fairness

6

10

Price Controls

7

7

Exam 2

 

 

Taxes

8

11

Externalities (Environmental Economics) and Public Goods

10-11

13, 14

Production and Costs

13

 

Perfect Competition (Price Takers)

14

12

Monopoly (Price Searchers)

15

12, 19

Imperfect Competition: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

16-17

12b, 17

Exam 3

 

 

Input Markets

18

20, 21, 22

Asymmetric Information

19.3

18

Comparative Advantage, Trade, Production Possibilities

3.4,  9

2, 2b

Cumulative Final Exam

 

 

 

 

 

Course Requirements:

1.                  Attendance as per university policy

2.                  Reading assignments: text chapters, course notes, other assigned reading

3.                  MyEconLab

4.                  Homework and quizzes (see below for details)

5.                  Three in-term exams and a final exam (see below for details)

6.                  Ability to utilize the internet and use MyEconLab.

 

Description of Class Activities:

 

This class is taught as what is termed a “Hybrid” class, which means that it is taught using a mix of regular class lecture and discussion and Internet and other computer work.  What this means is that we will hold regular class which you are expected (required) to attend on Mondays and Wednesdays.  Fridays will be our computer lab day.     The main Internet work will be with MyEconLab, which you have access to if you got your textbook from the University Bookstore or by purchasing it online from the publisher.  If you rent your book, you will probably have to purchase MyEconLab separately (see options above) and will end up paying the same total price or more and will not have a book for future reference when you are done. 

 

Methods of Evaluation: 

 

Exams:  There will be three in-term exams and a cumulative final exam.  Together, these exams will comprise 70% of your overall class grade.

 

Exam               Weight

            First (math)      10%

            Second             15%

            Third                15%

            Final                30%

 

Quizzes:  The remaining 30% of your grade will be comprised of three sets of quizzes.  First, we will have daily quizzes on Mondays and Wednesdays.  Daily quizzes will count for 10% of your final grade. 

 

Second, before we get started each week, we will have a quiz on the definitions and distinctions of basic terms and concepts for the upcoming week.  This is designed to make sure that you are prepared to come to class and participate instead of hearing about these ideas for the first time in class.  Also, learning definitions of terms is something that can be done on your own and reinforced with computer work so that time in class can be spent on higher level learning. This definitional set of quizzes is due by 11:59 PM Sunday.  The definitional quizzes will account for 10% of your grade. 

 

Third, we will have another set of quizzes which will be application oriented and will be due by Saturday at 11:59 PM after that material is covered.  The quizzes will be available to you at least by the Wednesday night before it is due. There will be no make-up for on-line or daily quizzes, as you have plenty of time.  If you make suitable arrangements, we can arrange for on-line quizzes to be available earlier.  However, I will drop your three lowest quiz scores of each of the three types of quizzes.  The application quizzes will be similar to practice exercises from MyEconLab that are assigned for homework, but will have fewer items.  You do have to make a 75% on the week’s homework to be allowed to take the application quiz. 

 

Computer Class Requirements:  This is a 3-hour class.  Everyone will be required to attend classes on Mondays and Wednesdays.  On Fridays we will have computer days, which is like a lab period.  Time spent at lab work is supposed to be twice as much as during a lecture/discussion period.  For you to be exempt from attending the computer class on Fridays, you will need to have at least a 60% average on the daily quizzes that week (missed quizzes that week will count as zeros).  Even if you make the 60% or better for the daily quizzes that week, you still must take your weekly application quiz and the coming week’s definitional quiz. 

 

If you miss Friday’s computer class and you have not earned your skip, I will deduct ½ point from your final grade.  This is how I will enforce the requirement of time spent in lab work.  Also, I will NOT drop weekly application quiz that week if you missed the Friday computer class. Student athletes and others who have weekend university events will be able to take the quizzes Thursday.  

 

**BONUS POINT OPPORTUNITIES:

 

Attendance Points:  Your daily attendance will be checked (on days you have quizzes, tests or exams by your turned in assessment item). Attendance will count for as much as 4 points toward your final grade (out of 100 for the final grade).  There will be no excuses accepted for missed classes—everyone gets three skips, but more than that will cost attendance points.  There are 40 classes before the final.  Here is how these points work out with the classes attended.  

 

     percent           most classes     attendance

    of classes             missed             points

92.5

3

4

85

6

3

77.5

9

2

70

12

1

 

So, missing no more than 3 classes in the term will boost your score in the class by 4 points.

 

Homework**:  Homework is required, but will count as extra credit.  Homework assignments will be turned in through MyEconLab.  A successfully completed homework assignment is worth of a bonus point (out of 100 of the final grade).  Successful completion of a homework assignment is getting at least 75% of the items correct.  You must make at least 75% on the homework before being allowed to take the application quiz for the week, the application quiz.  At the end of the semester, I will total your bonus points on all homework assignments and add this total to your final class average. For example, suppose there are 9 homework assignments, and you have successfully completed 8.  Your extra credit total is * 8 = 2 bonus points.  If your class average (without homework extra credit) is 88, your final class average would now be 90.  However, I recommend doing the homework not so much for the points, but for the practice.  Homework prepares you for the quizzes, and the quizzes for the exams.  Homework is due by Saturday at 11:00 PM each week of class.  Late homework will not be accepted.  Do not wait to the last minute.  You must plan ahead.

 

Blog Comments**:  Dr. Turner, Dr. Michel and I write a blog that contains short posts on contemporary issues based on economic analysis.  Our audience is you, the introductory level economics student.  Personally, I think economists, as a profession, do a lousy job showing the rest of the world (and students) that economics is both interesting and applicable to everyday life.  Past topics include crime, education, Katrina, labor markets, politics, sports, taxes, and the all-encompassing general category.  We call the blog Bastiat’s Bastions, after the great French economist of the nineteenth century, Frederic Bastiat, and the location is listed below:

            www.nicholls.edu/bastiatsbastions 

We invite student comments.  If you post a comment, identify yourself, and the comment is well thought out, substantial and well written, you will earn ½ bonus point toward your final grade, up to a total possible 2 points.  A substantial comment is a comment that is more than “that was great” or “that was stupid” and will contain well thought out economic analysis.  In other words, there must be some critical thinking involved. In addition, the comments must be about articles posted during this semester -- comments on articles posted in previous semesters will not receive points. 

I do not want to spend the last week of school looking at a huge number of blog comments, so I have the following due dates on extra-point blog comments: 

August 31st --1st graded comment; September 30th --2nd graded comment; October 31st-- 3rd and Novemeber 30th -- 4th graded comment.

Classroom Experiments**:  In class you will take part in a class auction market experiment or demonstration and possibly another class experiment.  You will be an active participant.  For you to learn from this, you must be in class that day.  You may earn up to 3 bonus points with the auction.  You can get 1 point just for being there and following all instructions.  You earn the other point based on how well you do—the profits you earn, do lousy and you get only the participation point. If you do moderately well, you get 2 points. If you do very well, you get 3 points.  If you miss your class’s auction, I will let you participate in another class’s auction, but you will have to come to that class.  I will be holding these auctions in all of my 211 classes, and they will not all be on the same day. 

Video Projects**: I invite students to be part of a greater project I have for economics instructors.  I am trying to produce a website for economics instructors that will have short “youtube” type videos that can be used to illustrate certain ideas in economics.  I want to collect videos that illustrate a particular concept that we are working on that is not just some sort of lecture.  I really do not want lectures at all.  I can find all the lectures I want on the net.  I also have many interviews already done that I have found on the web. An example that you will soon see of what I am mostly looking for is a video of women on rollerblades playing musical chairs. 

 

There are two ways of making points with videos. 

 

Original videos (such as those you could post to youtube).  An interview is ok, but I do not want anything that is just opinion, it has to be science (positive economics).  However, I would rather you shoot a video of something that people are doing; I do not want something scripted or acted, except for a good and original interview.  For points here, you do have to produce an original video, you can produce a video and pair it with an already produced video or even juxtapose two or more “found” videos (such as those found on youtube or a video search engine) and produce an “original video.”  Be sure to give proper credit where credit is due.

 

Depending on the how well your video illustrates a concept in a novel way, you can get up to 4 power bonus points.  I do have some thoughts on some possible videos here, but this will be first come, first served for the suggestions.  You will have to post it on Youtube to get points, but bring it to me before posting it on Youtube.

 

Here is a useful link for creating your own educational Youtube video: http://englishbabyblog.com/2008/12/24/making-an-educational-youtube-video-part-2/  .

 

Found videos (such as those already on youtube). Secondly, you can find videos that I have not already collected (soon, I will have a site for those I do have).  Again, I want videos that illustrate a concept in economics, not someone lecturing and I do not want an already done interview here, either.  I also do not want news items, unless the news item is something the normal person would not think of as economics.  You can get up to 1 bonus point per located illustrative video.  There is a way to juxtapose two or more “found” videos (such as those found on youtube or a video search engine) and produce an “original video.”  Again, be sure to give proper credit.

 

The total points possible for videos is 2 points.  Videos must be less than 5 minutes long.  The shorter the better.  Sometimes you can speed the playback and still illustrate your point. 

 

Final Grade Computation: 

 

The final course score will be computed by the following formula:

 

Course Score   =   0.10 (Best Weekly Definitional Quizzes—after dropping lowest 3)

 + 0.10 (Best Weekly Application Quizzes—after dropping lowest 3)

                          + 0.10 (Best Daily Quizzes—after dropping lowest 3)

 + 0.10 (Exam 1: math exam)  + 0.15 (Exam 2) + 0.15 (Exam 3) + 0.30 (Final Exam)

                          + all extra points from homework, blog comments, auctions, video projects and attendance

 

If your score on your comprehensive final is higher than your Course Score, your Final Grade score will be your Final Exam score.  The Final Exam can be substituted for missed midterms, but not missed quizzes.

 

The grading scale is the usual 90­/80/­70/­60 scale.  Any instance of cheating will be reported and full action will be pursued (see the handout on cheating and plagiarism).

 

Any questions concerning a test grade should be raised within one week of return of the test.  You are responsible for keeping all graded materials until you receive your final grade to help correct any clerical errors.  I will post your grades periodically on Blackboard.

 

Late Bloomers Policy: If your score on the cumulative final exam exceeds the weighted score on all material (your Course Score—see above), I will replace your course score with your final exam score, which means that if your final exam is higher than your usual course grade, you your final exam score. 

Make-up Procedure:  All students are expected to take all of the exams on schedule.  No make-up exams will be given for the three in-term exams unless suitable arrangements are made with me three days in advance.  If you miss one of the three in-term exams, and no arrangements have been made, its weight will be shifted to the final exam, so that the final exam score replaces missed exams.  All students must take the cumulative final exam.

 

Academic Honesty Policy: The University statement on academic integrity, says in relevant part:

 

“As members of the Nicholls State University community, students are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic and personal conduct. Academic dishonesty violates these standards as well as the trust and commitment among students and faculty to instill and to maintain the principles of integrity, responsibility, and respect for others.”

 

For more information, please see:

 

http://www.nicholls.edu/documents/student_life/code_of_conduct.pdf

 

All work that bears on my evaluation of your performance must be yours alone.  It is your responsibility to ensure that your behavior conforms fully both to spirit and letter of the academic integrity statement.  If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me.  You should know that the faculty of Nicholls is considering a reporting system for any case of cheating, where your name might be turned in and records kept on any instances of cheating.

 

Here are some further rules:

CHEATING AND PLAGIARISM

CHEATING

A.  On Exams:

1.  During an exam

a. wearing a hat or cap

b. looking on another exam or letting someone see your answers.

c. any communication, including electronic, between (among) students.

d. looking at notes, books, cheat sheets, etc., during the exam unless the instructor informs you that the exam is open book or open notes in advance, or allows a formula or "cheat" sheet.

e. taking a copy of the exam out of the room without specific authorization to do so, that is, if the instructor doesn't specifically say one way or another if you may take a copy of the exam. Taking a copy of the exam would constitute cheating.

f. not reporting any cheating you observe.

g. having anything written on clothing, skin, etc., that would give the student an advantage.

2.  Not during an exam.

a. asking a fellow student who has previously taken an exam anything about the exam other than is it difficult or long.

b. stealing, receiving, or copying any unauthorized copy of the exam.

c. not reporting any cheating you observe which includes not reporting someone who tells you of another's cheating but does not report.

d. any planning with another to steal an exam even if the plans are not carried out.

B.  On other assignments:

1. Copying any answer to assigned questions or problems constitutes cheating unless the project is a group project, and then only from members of your group.

2. Asking or answering any questions concerning the assignment other than the instructor or the instructor's assistant with the exception of the question:  When is it due?

3. Allowing someone access to your assignment answers or gaining access to another's assignment answers.  It is acceptable to photocopy someone's assignment questions as long as there are no answers.

4. Getting someone else to do any computation or computer work for you or doing it for another, including having someone else do the statistics for you for a paper.

C. Any bribe or threat or hint of an attempt at bribe or threat will be considered cheating,
including something like the following:

1. I will do anything for an A (or B or C etc.) or

2. What can I do to get a better grade? It is acceptable to ask the instructor what you need to work on to improve your performance. Giving unfair aid is as serious as receiving it. Knowing about others cheating without reporting it to the instructor or the instructor's department chairman is also cheating. This does not mean that you cannot seek help from another to understand a concept or even how to work a problem similar to the one you cannot see how to work.  Also, though collaboration on assignments is cheating, I wish to encourage you to study together, discuss paper topics, etc.

D.  Any delay tactic to gain time on an assignment will be considered cheating.  For example, submitting a corrupt attached file will be considered an act of cheating. 

Penalty for infractions of cheating rules is an F in the course and a recommendation for dismissal from the university. I will also report the infraction.  This will likely lead to a report being kept in a file for you, and will impact any further charges of cheating brought against you (there is a pending recommendation before the faculty along this line).

10 Easy Ways to Get Caught Cheating

Top 10 Consequences of Cheating

PLAGIARISM

A.  Copying any assignment or any part of an assignment by someone else without giving that person credit. This is particularly relevant to any out-of-class assignment in this class. Also, do not talk to others that would give them special clues to solve some puzzle in an assignment.

B.  Letting or asking anyone to copy a paper.

C.  Having someone else write papers for you.  It is allowable for someone else to type your paper for you, but typists, even when paid, should be acknowledged.

D.  Any comments from another person on your paper's topic should be properly acknowledged.

E.  Knowledge of someone handing in work not their own.

F.  Copying word for word or even almost word for word constitutes plagiarism without identifying the words as a quotation.

G. Paraphrasing without citation.

H. Copy another's ideas without citation

 

Penalty for infractions of the plagiarism rules is an F in the course and a recommendation for dismissal from the university. I will also report the infraction.  This will likely lead to a report being kept in a file for you, and will impact any further charges of cheating brought against you (there is a pending recommendation before the faculty along this line).

 

Safe Assign:  By taking this course, students agree that all assignments are subject to submission to Safe Assign, a plagiarism detection software provided through Blackboard.  All work submitted to Safe Assign will be added to its database of papers.  Specifically, this service compares your paper with Internet web pages, articles in databases, and all papers previously submitted from this university.  Safe Assign then either confirms the originality of your work or gives the source of plagiarism.  In cases of detected plagiarism, the paper and supporting evidence will be handled in compliance with the Student Code of Conduct (http://www.nicholls.edu/life/policy/code_of_conduct.pdf).

10 Easy Ways to Get Caught Cheating

Top 10 Consequences of Cheating

Attendance Policy:  Attendance is required by University policy and will affect your grade—see daily quizzes and attendance points.  You should also know that I can track the number of minutes you spend on MyEconLab!

Class rules: I am charged with ensuring that students are provided an environment that is conducive to learning. It is your responsibility to ensure that your behavior is not disrupting that environment. Disruptive behavior can not and will not be tolerated. Outstanding class participation (either positive or negative) may affect your final grade. If you are considerate and refrain from distracting and rude behavior, you will have no trouble.

There are two simple rules for this class:

(1) Don’t be rude, and
(2) Don’t distract from the class activity.

Here are some things that would be considered distracting or rude and are not allowed:

1.      Eating in the classroom before, during or after class. Drinking water, sodas, coffee or tea is permitted.

2.      Packing your things away before class is over and you have been dismissed.*

3.      Use of any tobacco or alcohol product during class.

4.      Reading newspapers, magazines, textbooks, workbooks, or novels during class.*

5.      Using a Walkman, iPod, iPhone, or other personal entertainment device.*

6.      Looking at a laptop, unless requested.*

7.      Talking or texting on a cell phone or similar device.*

8.      Talking, whispering, and note passing during class. Leaving early (unless you have permission or suddenly become ill).

9.      Working on class assignments for other classes or studying for other classes during our class period.*

10.  Ringing cell phones or pagers.*

11.  Sleeping in class (this behavior is particularly distracting and quite rude).

12.  Taking notes in your text in class by highlighting. While flipping through pages to find a passage in the text that supports what is being said in lecture is distracting and rude, the primary reason for this rule is to encourage you to think about what is being said during class so that you will engage in active learning, and you will be in a position to engage in meaningful discussion.  Instead, take notes on Powerpoint slide handouts printed from Blackboard.  If you are preoccupied with searching a textbook, it will be virtually impossible for you to benefit from the lecture/discussion going on at the same time. Hint: Read the book before class and highlight material that you recall from the lecture after class. Have your economics text out only when I direct your attention to the text or when you are asking questions about your reading that you did not understand. Do bring your book to class, however. Just do not use your text to take notes during class.

13.  Any other behavior that would reasonably be considered distracting or rude.

A few guidelines for out-of-class interaction with your professor:

14.  Do not come to my office a few minutes before class.

15.  Do not come to me before class with some paper that I am supposed to sign, including drop slips. I do not sign papers before class.

16.  Do not ask me "Is this going to be on the test?"
On its face, this seems like a reasonable question. This question tells your professor that the only things you think are worth knowing from his class are those items on the exams. Exams do not cover all of the course, but only sample your knowledge. If you set your sights on learning the subject instead of getting good grades, the grades will take care of themselves.

17.  Do not ask "Did I miss anything important yesterday?" or "Am I going to miss anything important tomorrow?"
These questions tell your professor that you expect the answer to be "no." If a professor were not going to cover anything important, he would stay in his office that class period and dismiss class.

 

*Please note that I am well within my rights and obligations (to maintain order in class) to CONFISCATE laptops, cell phones, iPods, textbooks from other classes or anything else you are using in class that draws your and your classmates’ attention away from our classroom tasks.  I also have the right and the responsibility to administratively withdraw students from my class who repeatedly violate these policies.

 

DROP DATE:  The last day to drop a course with a “W” is:  Friday, October 28, 2009

 

Americans With Disabilities Act:

If you have a documented disability that requires assistance, you will need to register with the Office of Disability Services for coordination of your academic accommodations.  The Office of Disability Services is located in Peltier Hall, Room 100-A.  The phone number is (985) 448-4430 (TDD 449-7002).

 

Academic Grievances:

The proper procedure for filing grade appeals or grievances related to academic matters is listed in Section 5 of the Code of Student Conduct and at the following link: 

http://www.nicholls.edu/documents/student_life/code_of_conduct.pdf

 

Continued Learning following an Extreme Emergency:

In order to make continued learning possible following an extreme emergency:

 

 Students are responsible for:

1.                  Reading regular emergency notifications on the NSU website

2.                  Knowing how to use and access Blackboard (or university designated electronic delivery system);

3.                  Being familiar with emergency guidelines

4.                  Evacuating  textbooks and other course materials

5.                  Knowing their Blackboard (or designated system) student login and password

6.                  Contacting faculty regarding their intentions for completing the course.

 

Faculty are responsible for:

1.                  Their development in the use of the Blackboard (or designated) software;

2.                  Having a plan for continuing their courses using only Blackboard and email;

3.                  Continuing their course in whatever way suits the completion of the course best, and being creative in the continuation of these courses;

4.                  Making adjustments or compensations to a student’s progress in special programs with labs, clinical sequences or the like only in the immediate semester following the emergency.

 

Disclaimer: This syllabus is a plan of action, not a contract.  I reserve the right to change it, within reason, as circumstances warrant.  Caveat Emptor.