| Economics Course Descriptions
| ECO 120 Survey of Economics |
3 credits |
| Presents a broad overview of economic theory,
history, development, and application. Introduces terms, definitions,
policies, and philosophies of market economies. Provides some
comparison with other economic systems. Includes some degree
of exposure to microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts. Lecture
3 hours per week. |
| ECO 201 Principles of Macroeconomics |
3 credits |
| Introduces macroeconomics including the study
of Keynesian, classical, and monetarist principles and theories,
the study of national economic growth, inflation, recession,
unemployment, financial markets, money and banking, the role
of government spending and taxation, along with international
trade and investments. Lecture 3 hours per week. |
| ECO 202 Principles of Microeconomics |
3 credits |
| Introduces the basic concepts of microeconomics.
Explores the free market concepts with coverage of economic
models and graphs, scarcity and choices, supply and demand,
elasticities, marginal benefits and costs, profits, and production
and distribution. Lecture 3 hours per week. |
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