This course will acquaint students with the intermediate level principles of microeconomics, with an emphasis on the application of these principles to practical economic problems. The text will provide the basic required theory with lectures introducing any supplemental theory and applications not found in the text. This is the advanced section of U4603 and will thereby cover more material at a more analytically advanced level than in the other sections of U4603. Students are required to read the assigned text and be prepared to discuss the material in class.
Weekly assignments are integral to understanding the course material.
These assignments will be fully covered in the weekly recitation sessions held by the TA for the course. The TA will also hold two office hours per week. While the MIA math lab is not directly a part of U4603, the material covered in the lab will be integrated into U4603 as a way to facilitate your learning of basic calculus and optimization techniques. We will be using calculus in U4603, but will coordinate the use of various calculus techniques with the coverage of the material in the math lab. The Economist , April 8, 1995.