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A. Course Information
Course Number
ECO 346
Course Name
Section
11
Credit Hours
Department
Department of Economics
Campus
Beirut
Course Description
Prerequisites
None
B. Instructor Information
Instructor Name
Office Location
Telephone Extension
2815
Saifedean.ammous@lau.edu.lb
Office Hours
See syllabus
BS Business:
1.1 The graduate will demonstrate essential knowledge acquired in the field of
economics.
2.1: The graduate will be able to propose a solution to a business problem
using quantitative and/or qualitative reasoning.
BS Economics:
General Skills
This course will contribute
to developing the
following:
Teaching Methodology
Required Technology
Skills
This course will be taught through discussion sessions revolving around the
weekly readings. Students are required to do the readings every week, and
submit reaction papers to the readings for 4 topics throughout the semester. The
papers will be due on the first day in which the topic will be discussed in class.
Regularly check the course Blackboard page.
E. Performance Evaluation
Midterm Exam
30%
Reaction Papers
20%
10%
Final Paper
40%
Total
Quality Points
90
A-
3.67
87 - 89
3.33
83 - 86
3.0
80 - 82
2.67
77 - 79
C+
2.33
73 - 76
70 - 72
1.67
67 - 69
D+
1.33
63 - 66
60 -62
59
B
University Grading
Scale
C
A letter grade will be
determined based on the
University grading scale,
as follows:
100%
Grade
Course Syllabus
F. Policies
Attendance Policy
Students are held responsible for all the material presented in the classroom, even during
their absence. Makeup work and exams, if any, will be according to the rules spelled out
in the course syllabus.
Students can miss no more than two weeks of classes in any semester (one week for
summer term) excused and otherwise, in any course, and still receive credit for that
course.
Make-Up Policy
Students who exceed the allowed number of absences must withdraw from the course;
otherwise, the course grade will be recorded by the instructor as F or NP, depending on
the type of grading in the particular course.
Requests for approval of a make-up should be made within a
Missing an Exam
week of the specified date of the exam. The requests will be
approved for medical situations only if the appropriate medical
excuse presented to the guidance office is deemed valid by the
instructor.
All lost sessions will be made up. The specific date and time
Lost session due to
will be determined by the instructor.
instructors absence
WI (Early Withdrawal) indicates withdrawal from the course, after the Late Registration
Period and until the end of the 5th week of the Fall and Spring semesters, and until
the 10th day of the Summer modules. It has no quality points. It does not count in
the GPA, and no credits will be added to the students record.
WP (Withdrawal Pass) indicates withdrawal from the course, after the 5th week and
until the end of the 10th week of the Fall and Spring semesters, and from the 11th
day of classes until 18th day of the Summer modules. It has no quality points. It
does not count in the GPA, and no credits will be added to the students record.
WF (Withdrawal Fail) indicates withdrawal from the course, after the 5th week and until
the end of the 10th week of the Fall and Spring semesters, and from the 11th day of
classes until 18th day of the Summer modules. It has no quality points. It does not
count in the GPA, and no credits will be added to the students record, but is
counted as repeat.
A Withdrawal Form must be submitted to the Registrars Office.
Refer to LAUs policy on Copyrights and Patents on the web or the academic catalogue
http://www.lau.edu.lb/governance-policies/policies/copyright_patent_policy.pdf
Academic Dishonesty Students are expected to conduct themselves in accordance with the highest standards of
academic honesty. Academic misconduct for which a student is subject to penalty
and Plagiarism
includes all forms of cheating, forgery, or plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as the use of
someone elses ideas, words, or work, as if it were ones own, without clearly
acknowledging the source of that information. Any student found cheating in an exam,
fabricating, falsifying, or using any other form of academic dishonesty in the preparation
of a paper or a project, shall receive a zero on that exam, project or paper and will be
issued a Disciplinary Warning. A student found plagiarizing or cheating for a second
time shall receive an F grade for the course, as well as a second Disciplinary Warning.
Refer to the policy on academic dishonesty on LAUs website
http://www.lau.edu.lb/academics/arp/g/rules_procedures.php
Policy on Incompletes
Course Evaluation
A grade of "I" indicates incomplete work. This grade is exceptionally given by the
instructor when a student, with a valid excuse, did not sit for the final exam, and/or did
not present the final project. Students will not be entitled to an I grade, unless they
have a passing grade of the completed material, throughout the course, and so long as
they have not exceeded the allowed number of absences. Not completing the course or
not sitting for Final exam does NOT entitle you for a grade of "I". A student will have to
complete a request form for an Incomplete Grade and submit it to the School Academic
Council with the necessary input from the instructor of the course.
Completion of the online course evaluations is required.
Students will not be able to access their course grades
until they have completed the course evaluations.
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For Fall and Spring terms, the online course evaluations,
by students, shall begin ten days before the end of
classes and continue till end of reading period; for the
Summer modules, said evaluations shall start three days
before end of classes and continue till end of reading
period.