The primary method of promoting active learning in this class is participatory experimentation. In the lab, students participate in a market or social interaction and record the results. At the next class meeting, the experimental results are discussed and a theoretical explanation of events in the lab is offered. The New York Times Guide to Economics , South-Western College Publishing, 2001. Addison Wesley Longman, 2001.
Students are responsible for learning of any changes in the syllabus that are announced in class.
Students are expected to attend class regularly, for consistent attendance offers the most effective opportunity open to all students to gain developing command of the concepts and materials of the course. However, attendance in class, in and of itself, is not a criterion for evaluation of the student's degree of success or failure. Furthermore, absences do not alter what is expected of the student qualitatively and quantitatively. Absences will not be used in the computation of grades. In such courses, students may quite rationally choose to skip class when they are busy.