17.2: Pacing

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The Introduction to Macroeconomics textbook contains sixteen modules—roughly one module per week for a sixteen-week semester. Many choose not to teach every module, so sometimes fewer modules are covered during a semester. Although all the modules are similar in size and depth (aside from the first, introductory module which is more brief), some of the modules work well together and could easily be combined. Some modules may also be drawn out to cover more than one week. Some modules that work well together include:

Module 1: Economic Thinking and Module 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity
Module 3: Supply and Demand and Module 4: Applications of Supply and Demand OR
Module 4: Applications of Supply and Demand and Module 5: Elasticity
Module 12: Money and Banking and Module 13: Monetary Policy
Module 15: Globalization and Trade and Module 16: Exchange Rates and International Finance

These modules are sometimes excluded, depending on faculty preferences or if the concepts are taught in microeconomics instead:

Module 5: Elasticity
Module 10: The Income-Expenditure Model
Module 15: Globalization and Trade
Module 16: Exchange Rates and International Finance

Course Modules:^[1]

Module 1: Economic Thinking*
Module 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity*
Module 3: Supply and Demand*
Module 4: Applications of Supply and Demand*
Module 5: Elasticity*
Module 6: Macroeconomic Measures: GDP and Economic Growth
Module 7: Macroeconomic Measures: Unemployment and Inflation
Module 8: The Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply Model
Module 9: Keynesian and Neoclassical Economics
Module 10: The Income-Expenditure Model
Module 11: Fiscal Policy
Module 12: Money and Banking
Module 13: Monetary Policy
Module 14: Policy Application
Module 15: Globalization and Trade*
Module 16: Exchange Rates and International Finance*

*Starred modules are included in both the Lumen Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses ↵

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Pacing. Provided by: Lumen Learning. License: CC BY: Attribution

Stopwatch. Authored by: Adrien Coquet, FR. Provided by: Noun Project. Located at: https://thenounproject.com/term/stopwatch/1094680/. License: CC BY: Attribution