This course focuses primarily on reading and writing. Students focus on identifying main and supporting ideas, and on using main and supporting ideas in their own writing. We read newspaper and magazine articles, write summary paragraphs, longer (academic style) summaries, and argumentative essays. Students learn about writing for a particular audience. Weekly recitation sessions focus on grammar.

This course is part of the first-year sequence in microeconomic theory. This course will focus on production theory. Topics include production technology, profit maximization and cost minimizationand cost functions. Both mathematical and graphic techniques will be used

The first two courses in the core econometrics sequence cover topics in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics. The main purpose of these courses is to provide you with a foundation of statistics and probability. The tools learned in these courses are essential building blocks for the other econometrics courses in the sequence. Focus in these courses will be on basic principles, including among other things: probability, random variables, conditional probability, probability densities and distributions, characteristic functions, test statistic formulation and distribution theory, statistical inference, and basic regression. Emphasis will be placed on applied problem solving using the tools learned in the class. In this regard, lab sections will deal with computer assignments (to be implemented in STATA).

1st miniterm. Calculus of functions of one variable: Linaer functions,polynomials, exponential and logarithmic functions, differentials ad integrals, using differentials for graphing and optimization.

The first module of Microeconomics is devoted to the study of consumer choice theory. Students will study theory that economists use to explain how individuals make choice in a wide variety of contexts. Our goal is to develop the notion of market demand so that this concept can be used in later sections of Microeconomics.

This course moves quickly, taking students with good English language skills through a series of reading and writing exercises, with a focus on identifying main and supporting ideas and presenting ideas logically in ones own writing. Students write paragraphs, summaries (paragraph-long and longer), and argumentative essays, and think about writing for a particular audience. Weekly recitation sessions focus on grammar trouble points and sentence structure.

This course provides students with work on reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Reading/listening: we use “real” texts in English, beginning with radio broadcasts that students can both read and listen to online, and move to reading newspaper articles. Writing: we work on summary and paragraph, with a focus on identifying the main idea and supporting idea of a text, and organizing ideas into a paragraph, with main idea and supporting ideas. Students also learn how to write about another author’s work. We discuss all of the reading materials in class, and students are encouraged to practice pronunciation and grammar. Weekly recitation sessions focus on grammar.