Academic Year/Semester: 111-1
Course Number: 130063
Instructor: Yu-Min Wang
Course Title: Economics (1)
Grade: 1 Credits: 3.0
Class location: Room 268, Management Building
Class hours: 4bcd
This course can cultivate students’ core competencies as follows:
- Management decision-making ability (Bachelor’s degree program)
Course objectives:
This course has the following objectives:
(1) Introduce the basic principles and methods of economics.
(2) Allow students to understand the overall concept of economics.
(3) Cultivate students’ ability to use economic analysis tools and methods to understand various economic and social phenomena.
(4) Enable students to have the ability to analyze economic problems.
Instructor office hours: Tuesdays from 8:00-10:00 AM at room 5069 of the Management Building.
Teaching approach: Lecturing, interactive game-based learning, problem-based exercises, and discussions.
“If the university implements full suspension of classes and adopts online distance teaching, this course will use the university’s BBB distance teaching system for online teaching and attendance-taking. The course communication channel will use the email registered on the Moodle system.
Grading criteria:
Three examinations – 72%
Quizzes/assignments – 5%
Attendance rate – 5%
In-class interaction – 5%
Self-directed learning assignments – 13%
Week 1: Course introduction, lecture, class discussion
Weeks 2-4: Economic issues and concepts, supply and demand equilibrium and elasticity, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Week 5: Market functions and government intervention, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Week 6: Externalities and public goods, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Week 7: First examination (Chapter 1-3)
Weeks 8-9: Consumer and producer decisions, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Weeks 10-11: Competition and monopoly, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Week 12: Second examination (Chapter 4-6)
Week 13: International trade, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Weeks 14-15: Factor markets, lecture, class discussion, and assignments
Week 16: Third examination (Chapter 7-8)
Weeks 17-18: Self-directed learning
