UEH UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS, LAW &

GOVERNMENT (CELG)

SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (SoE)

INTRODUCTION TO
MICROECONOMICS

COURSE GUIDELINE

Oct 2022

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 CONTENT

1. COURSE STAFF.................................................................................................................3
1.2. Communication with Staff................................................................................................3

2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE..........................................................................3

2.2. Teaching times and Locations..........................................................................................3
2.3. Units of Credit..................................................................................................................3
2.4. Perquisite and Parallel courses.........................................................................................3
2.5. Relationship of this course to other course offerings.......................................................3
2.6. Approach to learning and teaching...................................................................................4

3. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES.........................................................................4

3.2. Course objectives..............................................................................................................4
3.3. Student learning and outcomes.........................................................................................4
3.4. Teaching Strategies...........................................................................................................4

4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT..........................................................5

4.1. Workload...........................................................................................................................5
4.2. Attendance........................................................................................................................5
4.3. General Conduct and Behavior.........................................................................................5
4.4. Keeping informed.............................................................................................................5

5. LEARNING ASSESSMENT...............................................................................................5
5.1. Assessment details............................................................................................................5
5.2. Assignment Submission Procedure..................................................................................6
5.3. Late submission................................................................................................................7
5.4. Assignment Format...........................................................................................................7

6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM .................................................................7

7. STUDENT RESOURCES....................................................................................................8
7.1. Course Resources.............................................................................................................8

8. COURSE SCHEDULE.........................................................................................................9

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1. COURSE STAFF
Teaching Staff: Nguyen Thanh Trieu, MA, MPhil. in Economics
Phone number: 0903996150
Email: ttrieunguyen06@yahoo.com.vn
Consultant times: To be advised/ also by appointment

1.2. Communication with Staff

Student are advised to contact staff during consultant times, or by arranging an appointment,

2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE

2.2. Teaching times and Locations

2.3. Units of Credit

UOC value for the course: 3

2.4. Perquisite and Parallel courses

Not applicable

2.5. Relationship of this course to other course offerings

This is core required course for all majors in the Bachelor of Arts (BA). It focuses on the basic
principles of market economy.

2.6. Approach to learning and teaching

The teaching and learning adopted in this course is learner-center, and consequently, requires
active student participation and contribution. Through a range of interactive activities and
teaching strategies, it seeks to engage students in the learning. It also seeks to facilitate
independent learning through individual tasks and research, and fosters collaborative learning
through a range of group activities. It considers prior learning through a range of group
activities.

3. COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

3.2. Course objectives

This course seeks to provide an in-depth understanding of basic economic concepts and scare
resources, market in which supply, demand and prices are examined in connection with
consumers as well as producer behavior. The students can also evaluate various types of
market structures as well as the Government intervention into the market. The subject also
provides the students with necessary abilities to evaluate economic variables of efficiency. All
of the help students plan for a company’s short-run and long-run development more effectively
with consideration of effects of the government’s policies.

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3.3. Student learning and outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of economics, the allocation of scare
resources
- Analyze and evaluate the factors that affect supply, demand, and price of a good in a
market and the elasticity
- Demonstrate an understanding of the government intervention into the market of a
particular product such as price ceiling and floor, tax and subsidy. etc
- Recognize and demonstrate and understanding of various kinds and market structures
and the strategies of firms in these market structures.

3.4. Teaching Strategies

The teaching and learning approach in this course is highly inter-active, requiring student
participation and contribution. To this end, and prior to each class, students must:
- Download the lecture and tutorial outline from the course LMS
- Prepare your weekly readings (from the textbook and other distributed course
materials)
- Prepare your responses to set discussion questions and cases
- Be prepared to participate in the class discussions, group work

The general format of classes in this course will be as follows (with some variations)
- Lecture (3.0 hours): theories and conceptual framework, discussions and group
presentations
- Tutorial (1.0 hours): case studies, group discussion, exercises and assignments

4. STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONDUCT

4.1. Workload
It is expected that you will spend at least 8 hours per week studying this course. This time
should be made up of reading, working on exercises and problem, group assignment and
attending class lectures and tutorials. In periods where you need to complete assignment or
prepare for examinations, the workload may be greater.

4.2. Attendance
Your regular and punctual attendance at lectures and related seminar (if any) is expected in this
course. University regulations indicate that if students attend less than 80% of scheduled
classes they may be refused final assessment. Regular attendance is essential for successful
performance and learning in this course, particular in view of the interactive teaching and
learning approach adopted. Please inform your lecture if you are unable to attend the class, and
arrange for a classmate to collect any handouts.

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4.3. General Conduct and Behavior
You are expected to conduct yourself with considerable and respect for the needs of your
fellow students and teaching staff. Conduct that unduly disrupts or interferes with a class, such
as ringing, or talking on mobile phones, or chatting on internet, is nor acceptable and students
may be asked to leave the class.

4.4. Keeping informed

You should take note of all announcements made in lectures, tutorials or on the course website.
From time to time, the University will send important announcements to you through website,
course website without providing you with a paper copy. You will be deemed to have received
this information.

5. LEARNING ASSESSMENT
5.1. Assessment details
To pass this course, student must:
- attempt ALL FOUR assessment tasks
- submit/ complete all assessment tasks on time
- attain an overall pass mark of 50% in the course.
- Assessment Tasks:

Tasks Marks Date/ Notes

1. Participation and Presentation 10%
2. Assignment & Group presentation (cases) 20% Submit on end of week 8
3. Mid-term Test 20% On week 7
4. Final Test 50%

2. Assignment & Group presentation:

The group will include 5-6 members and will present the cases (that is specified in the Course
schedule). Due to the large number of groups and the limited of time, the groups that have the
same topic should prepare the presentation (Power Point file) and one group will be random
selected for presentation. The presentation will be taken in 5 – 10 minutes, questions and
discussions are in 10 minutes.

The requirements for this assignment are:

- Present the case (and ensuring that you are well understanding that case)
- Apply into Vietnamese economic context (you can find the appropriate example in
Vietnamese environment)
The group is strongly recommended to consult with lecturer and tutor before make the
presentation.

3. Mid-term Test
The midterm test will be 60 minutes in length and will be in the form of 50 multiple choices
questions. This is an open book test.

5. Final Test

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The final test will be 60 in length during Final Exam Period. The paper will consist of 50
multiple choices questions, This is a closed book test.

5.2. Assignment Submission Procedure

It is essential that you submit all your assignment tasks on time via the appropriate procedures.
You should submit your written assignment to LMS before or on the due date.
Procedure
i) Attach a copy of the Assignment Cover Sheet to be found at the end of this document
ii) Make the copy of the assignment for safe keeping
iv) Submit your assignment via LMS in PDF format.

5.3. Late submission

Request for late submission of assignments or absence in the session that your group will
present must be made in writing to the course lecturer. Extensions will be granted on medical
grounds only, or on compassionate grounds under special circumstances. Medical certificates
or other supporting documents may be required. Late submissions may incur a penalty of 5%
of the assignment mark per day.

6. ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM *

The University regards plagiarism as a form of academic misconduct, and has very strict rules
regarding plagiarism.

Plagiarism is the presentation of the thoughts or work of another as one’s own. Examples
include:
- direct duplication of the thoughts or work of another, including by copying work, or
knowingly permitting it to be copied. This includes copying material. Ideas or concepts
from a book, article, report or other written document (whether published or
unpublished), composition, artwork, design, drawing, circuitry, computer program or
software, web site, Internet, other electronic resource, or another person’s assignment
without appropriate acknowledgement;
- paraphrasing another person’s work with very minor changes keeping the meaning,
form and/ or progression of ideas of the original;
- piecing together sections of the work of others into a new whole;
- presenting an assessment item as independent work when it has been produced in
whole or part in collusion with other people, for example, another student or a tutor;

The inclusion of the thoughts or work of another with attribution appropriate to the academic
discipline does not amount to plagiarism.

Students are also reminded that careful time management is an important part of study and one
of the identified causes of plagiarism is poor time management. Students should allow
sufficient time for research, drafting and the proper referencing of sources in preparing all
assessment items.

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Used with kind permission from the University of New South Wales

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7. STUDENT RESOURCES

7.1. Course Resources

The following text and references are essential for the course.

Textbook:
N. Gregory Mankiw (2004 or new edition), Principles of Economics, 3rd edition, Thomson
South-Western

References:
David Begg, Economics, Stanley Fischer
Paul A. Samuelson & William D. Nordhaus, Economics, 14th Edition, Mc.Graw-Hill, Inc.

Lecture Notes:

Useful Websites:

1. Open Courseware, Fulbright Economics Teaching Program:

http://ocw.fetp.edu.vn/index.cfm

2. Mankiw Xtra! Website: http://mankiwxtra.swlearning.com

3. Vietnam Economic Times: http://vneconomy.vn/home.htm

4. Dominique Salvatore, Managerial Economics Website

http://www.swlearning.com/economics/salvatore/salvatore5e/salvatore5e.html

5. ECO 100 Online

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reak/eco100/

The students are encouraged to add more reference resources into this list

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8. COURSE SCHEDULE
Wk Topic Date Readings: Mankiw Case studies
(Textbook: Mankiw)
1 Chapters 1 & 2: Ten Chapters 1 and 2 Page 8
principles of Economics
2 Chapter 4: Supply – Page 71
Demand & Market Prices
3 Chapter 5: Elasticity and
its applications
4 Chapter 6: Supply – Page 117
Demand and Government
Policies
5 Chapter 7: Consumers, Page 149
Producers and the
Efficiency of the market
6 Chapter 3 & 9: Chapters 3 & 9 Page 186
International Trade
7 Chapter 21: Theory of Page 457
consumer choice
8 Chapter 13: The costs of
production
9 Chapter 14: Firms in Page 287
competitive market
10 Chapter 15: Monopoly Page 309
11 Chapter 16: Monopolistic Page 340
Competition
12 Chapter 17: Oligopoly Page 365

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 UEH UNIVERSITY
CELG

SCHOOL OF Economics

INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS

GROUP REPORT
Group members:

Student Number Surname Given Name

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Student Name Responsibility in Assignment Participation % *

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* Please ensure that you discuss this % as a group and that the mark is fairly allocated. If
your group has any problem, please discuss with the course lecturer

Signatures:
a. ____________________________________

b. ____________________________________

c. ____________________________________

Date Submitted: _________________________