St Cloud Technical and Community College · Courses
ECON
4 courses with the subject ECON, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ECON 1310Personal Finance
Meets MN Transfer Curriculum Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibil- ity. Personal finance is a major part of financial management. Individuals and families obtain, budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time while tak- ing into account a variety of financial risks and future life changes. The content includes: personal finance basics and career planning, financial statements and budgeting, consumer credit, the housing decision, investing ones resources and retirement planning. Personal finance gives students the ability to evaluate a wide range of financial decisions and to build an organized system for the future. Students will understand what it means to make responsible economic decisions and how these choices impact their personal and public life. Student Learning Outcomes: * Create personal financial goals. * Evaluate factors that influence employment opportunities. PLEASE NOTE: All program plans are preliminary and curriculum m 2026-2027 St. Cloud Technical & Community College * Design a system for maintaining personal financial records. * Compare the types of financial institutions. * Examine issues of personal and civic responsibility. * Apply ethical standards to economic decision making. * Examine the concepts of voluntary decision making and responsibility as they relate to personal economic decisions. * Examine the connection between personal economic choices and social issues which influence decision making. * Demonstrate an understanding of consumer credit and alternatives to measur- able debt. * Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of major sources of consumer credit. * Assess the importance of property and liability insurance. * Explain the characteristics of mutual funds. * Summarize the importance of retirement planning. Prerequisite(s):ENGL1308 and one of the following: READ0900, READ1308 or ESOL1120, or appropriate placement score. (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
Meets MNTC Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment. This course offers an introduction to the methodologies of economic analysis and a broad survey of environmental and natural resource issues applying those methodologies. It emphasizes the price system, markets, public choice theory and the scientific method. Students will investigate a range of topics including global warming, en- ergy, air and water pollution, and public policy responses. This course has broad general education applications but is especially appropriate for economics, public policy and political science majors. Student Learning Outcomes: * Understand basic market functions, and the conditions under which markets fail. * Demonstrate familiarity with environmental and natural resource issues. * Synthesize relevant material from diverse sources and points of view regarding environmental challenges today and related public policy. * Analyze primary and secondary sources of information regarding environmen- tal challenges today and related public policy. * Critically evaluate public policy affecting environmental and natural resource issues. * Formulate and defend responses to environmental and natural resource chal- lenges. * Use economic modeling processes to depict and analyze environmental issues. * Apply cost/benefit analysis to environmental issues. * Demonstrate proficiency using the elements of the economic way of thinking, including tradeoffs, opportunity costs, marginal analysis, efficiency and the gains from trade. Prerequisite(s): ENGL1308 and one of the following: READ0900, READ1308 or ESOL1120, or appropriate placement score. (3 C: 3 lect/pres, 0 lab, 0 other)
ECON 2320Introduction to Macroeconomics. 3 Finance Elective Options
ECON2330 Introduction to Microeconomics............................... 3 FNCR1201 Money and Banking.................................................. 3 MnTC Goal Area 6 Humanties and Fine Arts. .............................. 3 FNCR1215 Investements. ............................................................ 3 MnTC Goal Area 7 Human Diversity . ......................................... 3 FNCR1250 Finance Law, Regulations and Ethics. ...................... 3 MnTC Goal Area 9 Ethical and Civic Responsibility. .................. 3 FNCR1260 Principles of Risk Management................................ 3 MnTC All Any Goal Area 1-10.................................................. 3 FNCR2240 Financial Statement Analysis.................................... 3
