General Weekly Schedule
Monday (75 minutes total)
Before class: students will have already read/listened to/watched material for the week
- Check In (10 min.)
How are we doing? Any burning questions? - Breakout Rooms (20 min.)
Students will work with each other to review material subject to prompts provided by Al. Al will come through and visit with each group. - Clarify (10 min.)
In one group, we will address any confusion from breakout groups. - Activity (30 min.)
As one group or in break out groups, students will work on an activity/news event relevant to that week’s material. - Check Out (5 min.)
What will we do before our next class?
Wednesday (75 minutes total)
Before class: students will have already finished or attempted the whole Weekly Review
- Check In (10 min.)
How are we doing? Any burning questions? - Weekly Review (20 min.)
We will go through the Weekly Review, pausing on any difficult questions. - Question Building Exercise (25 min.)
In large and small groups, we will write and answer our own questions relevant to this weeks material. - Introduction of Next Week (15 min.)
Al will provide an introductory lecture for the upcoming week’s material. - Check Out (5 min.)
What will we do before our next class?
Course Schedule
| Week | Date | Subject |
| WEEK 1 | W 08/26 | Intro and Course Navigation |
| WEEK 2 | M 08/31 W 09/02 |
Argumentation & Modeling |
| WEEK 3 | No Class Monday W 09/09 |
Economic Well-being |
| WEEK 4 | M 09/14 W 09/16 |
Money & Inflation |
| WEEK 5 | M 09/21 W 09/23 |
Money Market |
| WEEK 6 | T 09/29 W 09/30 |
Tuesday Class follows Monday Sched Review |
| WEEK 7 | M 10/05 W 10/07 |
Consumption & Savings Decisions |
| WEEK 8 | No Class Monday W 10/14 |
Exports & Imports |
| WEEK 9 | M 10/19 W 10/21 |
Exchange Rate & the Money Market |
| WEEK 10 | M 10/26 W 10/28 |
Multipliers & Cycles |
| WEEK 11 | M 11/02 W 11/04 |
Fiscal Policy |
| WEEK 12 | M 11/09 W 11/11 |
Monetary Policy |
| WEEK 13 | M 11/16 W 11/18 |
Government Budget |
| WEEK 14 | M 11/23 | Wednesday follows Friday schedule AD & AS Model |
| WEEK 15 | M 11/30 W 12/2 |
AD & AS Model |
| WEEK 16 | M 12/07 W 12/09 |
Review |
| FINAL | M 12/14 | Final DUE (turn into Blackboard) |
Week 1
Please introduce yourself before the first day of class on Wednesday, 08/26
No readings or assignments due
Week 2
Before class on Monday, 08/31
Watch (11 min): Economics is for Everybody! – Ha-Joon Chang
Lecture Slides
Before Wednesday, 09/02
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 1
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 3
No Class Monday, 09/07
For Wednesday, 09/09
Read: Chapter 13 sections 3 and 4 in CORE – The Economy
Read: Frazee (2019) “What is GDP…”
Lecture Slides
Have started and bring: Weekly Review 2
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 4
Before class on Monday, 09/14
Watch (2:22): Qureshi and El Barassee (2012) “What is Money?”
Read: Chapter 10 sections 1 and 7 & Chapter 13 section 8 in CORE – The Economy
For Wednesday, 09/16
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 3
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 5
Before class on Monday, 09/21
Watch (6:51): Schamus (2014) “That Film About Money”
Watch (8:14): Khan Academy (2018) “Money Market”
For Wednesday, 09/23
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 4
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 6
Come to class on Tuesday, 09/29 with any incomplete assignments
No new readings
Come to class on Wednesday, 09/30 with questions on the past 5 weeks of material
Click here for notes on Question Building Assignment completed in class
Week 7
Before Class on Monday, 10/05
Watch (6:14): Khan Academy(2012) “Consumption Function”
Read: Chappelow (2020) “Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC)”
Lecture slides
For Wednesday, 10/07
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 5
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 8
No class on Monday, 10/12
For Wednesday, 10/14
Read: First three sections of Macroeconcomics: Module 15 at Lumen Learning
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 6
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 9
Before class on Monday, 10/19
Read: Macroeconomics: Module 16 “Strengthening and Weakening Currency” at Lumen Learning
For Wednesday, 10/21
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 7
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 10
Before class on Monday, 10/26
Read: Chapter 14 sections 1, 2, & 5 in CORE – The Economy
Notes from lecture in class
For Wednesday, 10/28
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 8
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 11
Before class on Monday, 11/02
Read: Chapter 14 sections 6, 7, & 8 in CORE – The Economy
In Class:
Mazucatto 2013
Learn Liberty 2013
MRU 2017
For Wedneday, 11/04
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 9
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 12
Before class on Monday, 11/09
Read & Watch 2 of the following
Watch (8:10): Part Two of that Film About Money
Read: Chapter 15 section 8 in CORE – The Economy
Watch (3:48): Federal Functions: Conducting Monetary Policy
In Class Notes
For Wednesday, 11/11
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 10
Week 13
Before class on Monday, 11/16
Read: Macroeconomics: Module 11 “Fiscal Policy: Federal Budgets & National Debt” and “Fiscal Policy: The Question of A Balanced Budget”
In Class and Additional Material
For Wednesday, 11/18
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 11
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 14
Bring your Question Building 2 to class on Monday, 11/23
No new reading
No Class Wednesday
Week 15
Before class on Monday, 11/30
Read: Economics Online: Aggregate Supply
For Wednesday, 12/2
Work on and bring: Weekly Review 12
Upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.
Week 16
Monday, 12/7 – Review (Go through Question Building Banks)
Wednesday, 12/9 – Review (Bring old Weekly Reviews)
Final Due 12/14.
Take home final due by 2pm. Final will be given to students on Monday, 12/7.
Downloadable Schedule
Please note that this file only has readings through week 10. The rest are “TBD” (To Be Determined). Additionally, readings are written in shorthand (parenthetical citation with the exception of the two text books we will be working from). You frequently do not need to read the entire text — please return to the online schedule to see the specific pages for reading.
