27 courses with the subject EC, 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.
A basic course in macroeconomic problems and policies. Survey of the development and application of methods to promote economic growth, price stability, and employment in the national economy. Offered every year.
A basic course in microeconomics. Survey of business organizations, types of competition and controls, price determination through supply, demand, and other factors in the business sector. Offered every year.
The calculus will be applied in the different contexts like those of demand and supply analysis, finance, solving a firm’s profit maximization problem, and calculating the deadweight loss of taxation.
An applied, project-focused course that teaches students to produce and critically consider data analyses. The course builds the intuition of hypothesis testing, correlation, and causation, and introduces statistical software, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping. Students will learn to efficiently and ethically acquire, store, explore, check, analyze, and present data. Concepts will be presented through applications in economics, finance, policy, sports, and medicine. In this course, students will develop critical thinking skills of asking the right questions, finding appropriate data, analyzing data effectively, and making informed decisions.
Offered upon sufficient demand. Cf. BU 307.
A continuation of EC 307. Offered upon sufficient demand. Cf. BU 308.
A study of the proper application of financial management conceps in business organizations.
Offered upon sufficient demand.
This foundational price-theory course locates the causes of prices in the rational-choice theory of buyer demand and the optimizing actions of business supply. Living standards hinge on resource prices determining incomes and goods-prices determining purchasing power. Analytical forecasting, valuation, and investment skills are developed at more advanced levels. Public policy looks to remedy discoordination from faulty incentives of the price system emerging from monopoly, environment, public goods, risk, and information limits.
CST uses both to explore the culture and essential features of a well-functioning business economy-an economy based on entrepreneurship, corporations, markets, the efficient, responsible use of resources and assets, and the accumulation and sharing of wealth. It compares a business economy with other economies, e.g. socialism and evaluates them according to CST concepts, including the common good, subsidiarity, solidarity, social justice, preferential option for the poor and the just wage principle. It will explore ways in which democratic policy making and sound moral culture may sustain a business economy, especially in service to the fundamental role of family in society.
Examining American history and contemporary events, students focus on diverse issues such as: the role of labor, business and government; the theory of free markets; values and how society changes; sexism and racism; foreign policy; and the role of the Church. Offered upon sufficient demand. Cf. PO 355.
Progressive and radical theories will be contrasted with orthodox schools of thought. Offered upon sufficient demand. Cf. PO 356.
Special topics, may be repeated three times with different topics
Offered upon sufficient demand.
Students will also analyze the effects of these factors upon American ideals, problems, and society, both past and present. Offered upon sufficient demand.
Students will also analyze the effects of these factors upon American ideals, problems, and society, both past and present. Offered upon sufficient demand.
A capstone experience providing integration and synthesis of subject areas pertinent to the major. Emphasis will be on application of theory to practical problems. Offered upon sufficient demand.
Governments seek to improve society with expenditures financed through taxation. This course in classic public finance introduces students to traditional cost-benefit analysis used to design government budgets for maximizing social welfare. Political-economic themes include regulation of public utilities, the environment, and workplace safety; anti-poverty programs, education finance, public-choice voting theory, Social Security and health care entitlements, optimum taxation, tax incidence, government debt finance, inter-governmental grants, transportation infrastructure, and local development incentives.
The course examines how formal (political-legal) and informal (cultural) institutions impact long-term economic development and growth. Institutions appear in context of general theories of economic development on why some nations prosper and other nations lag behind. The role of institutions shaping incentives and innovations are developed in theory and applied and tested in realistic or concrete cases—global, domestic, and even local. Topics are considered economically, politically, geographically, and historically. European and United States’ paths to development are contrasted with the relative failures and stagnation of 20th century Russian and Chinese models, plus the reversals of fortune experienced by Latin American countries. The course takes up further the roles of 20th century organizations such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, United Nations, regional development banks, currency unions, trade unions, and development initiatives including foreign "aid." Pre-req EC201, min D-.
Firms that produce a similar commodity form an industry. Examples include banking, autos, grocers, medicine, hospitality, energy, and education. This course examines the interdependence of firms inside each industry to strategically gain customers, workers, and investment funds. Topics include product differentiation, scale economies, market power, mergers, vertical integration, risk, returns, anti-trust, multinationals, network goods, trade unions, patents, and development incentives.
Internship Experience
Internship Experience
Internship Experience
Senior Thesis
Senior Thesis
Individual study and research under the supervision of a faculty member in some area other than a catalog course. Offered every year.
Source: Belmont Abbey College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
