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Unit: PUE8800 - Principles of Puaeconomics

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Unit Co-ordinator: Jason Ling

Unknowing Contributors: Philip Marquez ('it's too afc'), Danny Yu

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Objectives

On completion of this unit students should be:

• familiar with the 'economic way of thinking' about a broad range of individual and relationship choices and decisions;
• able to apply economic principles to explain and analyse IRI (Institutions of Romantic Intent), their decisions and performance;
• able to make informed and critical assessment of the public debate on many policy issues;
• able to proceed to the study of other units of study which have an introduction to puaeconomics as a prerequisite

Unit Structure

Lectures:

Lectures are as long as the lecturer wishes them to be (generally not very long) and start whenever he arrives after the hour. The material presented in each lecture is most easily remembered if recorded in note form.

Lectures are not compulsory, however all information given out in lectures is your responsibility. Students who choose to attend lectures are expected to sit quietly and not disrupt the lecture in any way. That means refraining from applying studies whilst in lectures, no matter how tempting it may be. Disruptive behaviour is not only rude and unfair to other students and staff but is punishable under Statute 4.1 - Discipline of the Monotsh University Calender Statutes.

Tutorials:

Tutorials, which are of one hour duration, will be held each week beginning the first week of lectures (i.e. week commencing February 14). All tutorial questions for the semester are included in your information handout.

Tutorials are designed to help you prepare for the 'examination' and may also include any issues that have been covered in lectures, which you do not understand. Tutorials are the place to ask questions about lecture material and the place to discuss your answers to questions.

To encourage participation in and adequate preparation for tutorials, there will be FOUR tutorial tests during the semester, as indicated in the Unit timetable. The first 15 minutes of the tutorials in which there is a tutorial test be set aside for you to be tested, under exam conditions, by a member of your preferred gender chosen for you by your tutor. :)

If you are sick, or have commitments, which prevent you from attending a tutorial test, you must make arrangements with your tutor to attend another "special" tutorial test session in that week. You must provide your tutor with a copy of a medical certificate if you are sick, or a letter from your employer if work commitments are the cause of your absence. This is to ensure you have not 'chickened out' of talking to that cute girl/guy.

It is your best interest to make a genuine attempt at the person of interest to give your tutor ample material to mark. By doing so you get much needed experience at answering questions under exam conditions, and you should also begin to understand the lecture material, or at least discover what material you do not understand.

Assessment

• Tutorial Tests: 15%
• One-hour mid-semester test: 20%
• Tutorial participation: 5%
• Final examination: 60%
• Assessment hurdle: n/a

Textbook and Recommended Reading Material

Textbook: -TBA-

Recommended Material:

• The Looop's blog (http://thelooop.blogspot.com/)

You are encouraged to read as widely as you can. There are many introductory textbooks which you can use.

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The unit will begin in the next post. We look forward to your participation.

If there are any questions, feel free to contact the unit co-ordinator via email or MSN Messenger at battousaiv2(at)gmail(dot)com.

Regards,

Jason Ling

Unit Co-ordinator

Labels: puaeconomics, PUE8800