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附3：本科英文教学大纲样本 Econ xxx Intermediate Microeconomics Fall 2005 Instructor xxx Office hours: MF 10:00-11:00am Office: Teaching and Administration Building xxx Email: xxx@ TA xxx Phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx Email: xxx@ Course Meet 09/07/2005 – 12/29/2005; Room: xxx Wed: 8:00– 9:40 am, Th: 10:05- 11:45 am No Class: Oct 5-6 (National Day) Added Class: Oct 8, Sat (moved from Oct 6) Midterm exams date: Oct 28, Dec 14 Course Website /xxx.htm Textbook Required: Hal Varian, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, fifth edition, W.W.Norton Co., 1999. Optional: Hal Varian, Microeconomics Analysis, W.W.Norton Co. Prerequisites This course is an upper stream economics class in microeconomics. I will assume that you fully understand the fundamentals learned in introduction to microeconomics. This course is analytic in nature. Calculus is required for you to follow the lectures and do the homework. Course Objectives This course is designed to provide you a more rigorous understanding of tools to examine and analyze the behavior of consumers and firms and their interactions in the marketplace. The course will start with consumer theory, followed by firm theory. Having gained an understanding of both the demand side and the supply side of economies, we proceed to study how the demand and supply come together and lead to equilibrium in a market. We will learn the interactions of individual economic agent in different types of markets, in some cases incurring inefficient allocation of goods and services. Preparing for Class It’s better for you to read the relevant chapter(s) in ahead of the time. During class, I will focus on problem solving. If you read through the chapters ahead of time, this should be great helpful for you understanding the content of lectures. Grading There will have two midterm exams, one final exam, a number of homework assignments and randomly in-class quizzes. Grades will be determined as follow