COMM 101 INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL MARKETS

The objective of this course is to introduce students to the financial markets with a particular emphasis on providing sufficient material to allow students to trade on such markets either through a stock market simulation game, or

directly for their own account.

TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE

The table below provides a general overview of the weekly content alongside the associated activities and assignments. Please see the Course Schedule in LEARN for complete details and due dates.

The Final Examination will be scheduled by the Registrar's Office, and the details will be provided in the published Final examination schedule(https://uwaterloo.ca/registrar/final-examinations/exam-schedule)when available.

TEXTS / MATERIALS

STUDENT ASSESSMENT

ASSIGNMENT SCREENING

No assignment screening software will be used in this course.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS AND QUIZZES

Your assignments and quizzes must be uploaded by the date and time listed in the Course Schedule in LEARN.     These days and times are those of the Eastern Time Zone. We cannot accept late submissions except in the case of a verifiable illness.

AVOIDING ACADEMIC OFFENCES

The assignment and quizzes are individual exercises. They must not be completed in pairs or groups.

Other resources maybe used to supplement the material in lessons, but looking up solutions to assignment and quiz questions is prohibited.

MATH FACULTY CALCULATOR REGULATION

For the final exam, only calculators approved by the Faculty of Mathematics will be permitted. Please refer to the

Calculator Regulation(https://uwaterloo.ca/math/current-undergraduates/regulations-and-procedures/calculator- regulation)to see a list of approved calculators.

If you are unable to acquire one of these calculators, you must contact your instructor in the first week or two of the course so an equivalent alternative can be identified and added to the exam proctors' list of permitted aids.

UNIVERSITY POLICY

Academic integrity: In order to maintain a culture of academic integrity, members of the University of Waterloo

community are expected to promote honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. [Check the Office of Academic Integrity (https://uwaterloo.ca/academic-integrity/)for more information.]

Grievance: A student who believes that a decision affecting some aspect of their university life has been unfair or

unreasonable may have grounds for initiating a grievance. Read Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances, Section 4 (https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-70) . When in doubt, please be certain to

contact the department’s administrative assistant who will provide further assistance.

Discipline: A student is expected to know what constitutes academic integrity to avoid committing an academic offence, and to take responsibility for their actions. [Check the Office of Academic Integrity

(https://uwaterloo.ca/academic-integrity/)for more information.] A student who is unsure whether an action

constitutes an offence, or who needs help in learning how to avoid offences (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) or about “rules” for group work/collaboration should seek guidance from the course instructor, academic advisor, or the undergraduate associate dean. For information on categories of offences and types of penalties, students should refer to Policy 71,

Student Discipline(https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-71) . For typical penalties,  check Guidelines for the Assessment of Penalties(https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/guidelines/guidelines-assessment- penalties) .

Appeals: A decision made or penalty imposed under Policy 70, Student Petitions and Grievances

(https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-70)(other than a petition) or Policy 71,

Student Discipline(https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-71)maybe appealed if     there is a ground. A student who believes they have a ground for an appeal should refer to Policy 72, Student Appeals (https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guidelines/policy-72) .

Note for students with disabilities: AccessAbility Services(https://uwaterloo.ca/accessability-services/), located in Needles Hall, Room 1401, collaborates with all academic departments to arrange appropriate accommodations for students with disabilities without compromising the academic integrity of the curriculum. If you require academic accommodations to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services at the beginning of each academic term.

Turnitin.com: Text matching software (Turnitin®) maybe used to screen assignments in this course. Turnitin® is used to verify that all materials and sources in assignments are documented. Students' submissions are stored on a U.S. server, therefore students must be given an alternative (e.g., scaffolded assignment or annotated bibliography), if they are concerned about their privacy and/or security. Students will be given due notice, in the first week of the term and/or at the time assignment details are provided, about arrangements and alternatives for the use of Turnitin in this course.

It is the responsibility of the student to notify the instructor if they, in the first week of term or at the time assignment details are provided, wish to submit alternate assignment.