Read this chapter carefully for a smooth conduct of the course and better learning.
You’ll be sticking to this set of lecture notes that was prepared to ’guide’ you through ECON 221 & ECON 222. However, these notes may not result in the best possible outcomes in the absence of regular class attendance.
Numerical or conceptual exercises are given in these lecture notes for you to practice. To the extent possible, exercises appear after the topics they belong to. Exercises provided in here establish an almost complete yet a minimal body of practice opportunities.
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Lecture hours are intended to deliver the theoretical knowledge as well as problem solving skills. So, you’ll be learning the subject matter in the lectures.
In the Recitation hours, you’ll be practicing your knowledge of the probability theory and statistics, often on a computer. My choice in these courses is to use Microsoft Excel, a general-purpose spreadsheet solution software, and R, an open source and worldwide consortium for statistical computing. While the former makes you to design/solve things from scratch, the latter allows you to enjoy a dedicated statistical software doing things for you.
Attendance to lecture hours will be audited at eight random times throughout the semester, in a manner to contribute as a bonus to midterm and final exam grades.
A good way to keep track of the things is to utilize your instructor’s office hours. The catch here is that office hours are for those regularly studying and & lecture-attending students. That is, a student with a full set of lecture notes & a small question in mind is very much welcome; however, a student that haven’t attended the lectures & huge knowledge gaps in mind is not (as lecturing is to be done in lecture hours).
All runtime communications will be carried out in class gatherings
(lectures), so regular attendance would be a plus to be timely informed.
Course content and occasional announcements will be given through
https://sites.google.com/view/erayyucel/teaching
Official communications about ECON 221 & ECON 222, especially the exam information, will be carried out via AIRS e-mails sent to your Bilkent-registered e-mail addresses.
Any student that want to ask a question, academic or administrative, is welcome to attend the lecture hours or office hours. Emailing is the last resort.
Don’t worry about the logistics of anything. Sufficiently before any activity, you’ll be either notified in class by me and/or by me/your TA via e-mail. Checking your Bilkent-registered e-mail’s Inbox would be more than enough. Just make sure that our notifications not to accidentally end up in your e-mail’s Spam folder.
You’ll learn about the nature of the recitation sessions in the first one of them. This is essentially like on-the-job training.
Homeworks require computer work as well as reporting findings in writing. Each homework will arrive with a full description as well as guidance.
Regarding the conduct with TAs, students are to make sure they’ve maintained the same standards as they do with the Instructor. Disrespect to my TAs is neither expected, nor accepted & may be subject to official disciplinary investigation. The same standards with course TAs do also apply to exam proctoring Graduate Assistants.
