Syllabus of Economics

Introductory Microeconomics
This is a syllabus for an introductory course at the level of first year university or a principles of microeconomics course. This syllabus is based on the common elements of the introductory microeconomics courses taught at many universities. The idea is that this syllabus will serve as the basis for creating a test bank of questions and answers that can be used to test a student's knowledge of introductory microeconomics. First, these questions and answers will be made available online in a text format. Second, these questions and answers will be converted into an interactive form using the Wikiversity quiz extension.

This syllabus is structured as a number of modules consisting of a list of topics students will learn within that module. These lists will then serve as a guide for constructing sets of questions and answers that can be used by a student to test their knowledge of introductory microeconomics. These lists will describe the topics covered by the related sets of questions and answers and links will be provided from the syllabus to these sets of questions and answers. Initially, questions and answers will be formulated to serve the role of summative assessment - students will be able to test themselves and demonstrate their level of knowledge to others. Later, questions will be constructed using the Wikiversity quiz extension that also act as formative assessment and serve as interactive learning materials in and of themselves. Links are also provided from the syllabus to other pages where the relevant learning materials and questions and answers can be listed more neatly.

How you could help
If you would like to help with this learning project, you might like to enter links to relevant Wikipedia entries or other useful learning materials into the table below. Alternatively, you could help by adding questions and answers (or by helping verify existing questions and answers) to the test bank of questions and answers for each module in the syllabus.

If you'd like to help by contributing questions and answers but you're not sure how to put together original questions and answers, please visit this page for some guidance: /Authoring Questions and Answers/

If you need help writing mathematical formulae please read Help:Formula.

How to use these pages
Look down the lists of topics in the topic modules and follow the links to relevant Wikipedia entries and other learning materials.

Until questions and answers are translated into an interactive form using the Wikiversity quiz extension, the best way to use the Q & A pages for study might be to copy the questions into Word and delete the answers so you can try to answer questions as a pratice exam before looking up the answers. If you want a copy of any of the pages on Wikiversity as they appear on the screen you can convert them into a pdf using the link "Download as PDF" found using the "print/export" link at the left-hand side of every page.

If you are a student currently studying for an introductory microeconomics course, please consider contributing questions and answers to these pages as part of your revision. Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach! Try working with a study-partner to write a few questions each to test each others' knowledge and contribute these questions to the test bank for others to use. (You never know, if you write good questions, your tutorer or lecturer might end up using them on your exam!)