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Welcome / Guidelines Memo

Contact Details: Ioannis (Yani) Ioannou
office: Morgan Hall 228 B, Harvard Business School, 617-495-5197
office hours: TBA
email: ioannis.ioannou@gmail.com

Grading Policy - (20% Section Work)
Problem Sets (15%) – 5 best out of 6 (lowest grade is dropped)
Class Participation (5%) – Explained below

A few guidelines …

Welcome to Social Policy 10 (or Ec10), and best wishes for a wonderful academic year. Here are some rules that would facilitate the smooth functioning of our section throughout the year:

Attendance is important. If you need to miss class for any reason, you need to let me know in advance. The material moves relatively fast, thus missing a section will require additional work on your part in order to catch up with the rest of the class.

The class is Interactive. I would require every one of you to be an active player in the learning process. I will be minimizing the lecturing time and I will require your active participation in class. Cold Calls are fair game. It will ensure that everyone gets their chance to talk in class. You may pass and you will not be penalized for not-so-good comments.

Be Prepared for Section. The most clear route to success in this course, in terms of both achieving an excellent grade and mastering economic principles, involves steadily preparing for class in advance and completing problem sets in a timely fashion. If you think that you are going to be unable to do the readings for a specific section, you should let me know beforehand.

Take Advantage of Office Hours. I would be delighted to meet each and every one of you individually during my weekly office hours. I am interested in knowing for each one of you, your progress in mastering the material as well as the weaknesses and the strengths that you face in the course. This is probably the best way for me to know exactly how to direct my class teaching to best fit your needs and intellectual capacities.

Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions. I am always open to suggestions for improving your class and learning experience. If you have any suggestions about things that could improve, the pace of the course, anything you feel I should know to conduct the class in the best possible way, you should send me an email or come and see me during my office hours.