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Academic Inquiries: Jinan University E-mail: oiss@jnu.edu.cn Tel: 86-020 JINAN UNIVERSITY Macroeconomics Lecturer: Yaya Sissoko Time: Monday through Friday (June 18, 2018-July 20, 2018) Office hours: 2 hours (according to the teaching schedule) Total Contact Hours: 60 (50 minutes each) Credits: 4 Location: Huiquan Building Office: Huiquan Building 518 E-mail: ysissoko@iup.edu Course Description This course introduces macroeconomics to the student by providing a description of the different theories behind macroeconomic phenomena. Emphasis is placed upon the topics of scarcity, the market system, the private and public sectors, national income accounting, the foreign exchange market, unemployment, inflation, aggregate demand and expenditure, macroeconomic policy, economic growth and globalization. Course Hours The course has 25 sessions in total. Each class session is 120 minutes in length. The course meets from Monday to Friday. 1 / 5 Macroeconomics Required Text Principles of Macroeconomics, Gregory Mankiw, Cengage Learning Publishing, 7th edition. (2015). Grading Policy Your grade will be based on quizzes, presentation, exams, and attendance. Quizzes: Four quizzes 20% Exams: Two exams 60% Presentation: One presentation 10% Attendance: 0.5% per day attended 10% TOTAL 100% Quizzes: For this five-week course, there will be four Quizzes. The schedule of t