26 courses with the subject ECO, 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.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, a presentation is made of the fundamental principles and problems of economics, with emphasis on consumer demand, production costs and price determination within various market structures.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, a presentation is made of the fundamental principles and problems of economics, with emphasis on income distribution, money and banking, economic growth and stabilization, current domestic and international economic problems and world economics.
Credits: 3 hrs This course focuses on the application of theory and quantitative methods to analysis of managerial decision making in national and international settings, with emphasis on pricing, production, profits, resource allocation and strategic decision making of firms.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is intended as an applied field topic after students have completed both Principles of Microeconomics ( ECO 2311 ) and Principles of Macroeconomics ( ECO 2312 ). This course will provide students with an understanding of health care economics, including allocation of health care resources, economics of information, price and price controls, the market for health insurance, and the behavior of consumers, hospitals, and physicians. Students will use economic tools to analyze various government policies aimed at enhancing access, improving quality, and controlling costs.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, a presentation is made of the fundamental principles and problems of economics, with emphasis on income distribution, money and banking, economic growth and stabilization, current domestic and international economic problems and world economics.
Credits: 3 hrs This course offers an analysis of the determination of prices and of market behavior including demand, cost of production, and pricing within various market structures, with emphasis on analytical tools.
Credits: 3 hrs This course offers a study of modern theories of the determination of the level, employment, and prices, with particular reference to the role of fiscal and monetary policies in maintaining full employment without inflation.
Credits: 3 hrs Students will learn about the historic, social and economic dimensions of industrialization, agriculture, investment, human resources, and trade in Chine, Taiwan, Singaporem Hong Kong Japan, Vietnam, and Korea. More than half of the course is devoted to the four major CHinease economics (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong) as well as the impact of the Chinese dispora on nearby countries (Vietnam, Korea, and Japan) due to cross-cultural interaction. A major paper is required as part of this course.
Credits: 3 hrs This course introduces econometrics and business forecasting to undergraduate students using an intuitive approach that emphasizes economic modeling. The primary objective of the course is to show students how econometrics and forecasting are distinguished by the unification of theory with facts by creating testable hypotheses, estimating economic relationships, and forecasting the behavior of economic variables and agents.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to review the health care industry, giving attention to the supply and demand for health care services. Critical issues examined include the economic mechanism of the health care industry, methods of payment, cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis, national health insurance plans and government policies. The economics of the present health care system are analyzed in relation to the poor and minorities.
Credits: 3 hrs The purpose of this course is to discuss the differences and similarities between various economic systems in which businesses operate. The course will compare several variants of capitalist and socialist systems and discuss the recent events that have changed the world. These topics will be analyzed in the context of country case studies. The course will address the problems of economic growth, development standard of living, as well as and business cultures in those countries. Most issues covered in class will be related to current economic and political events.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is intended as a one-semester introduction to the economic analysis of the law for students of economics and related social science fields. Students will apply the principles of the rational choice model of behavior to explain the evolution of Western legal institutions and the structure of modern law. Specific topics addressed in the course are: the relationship between legal systems, incentives, and behavior; the evolution of private property rights and market economies; the relationship between the law, efficiency, and equity; and the economic analysis of torts, contracts, and criminal law. After completing this course, students will be able to better understand the nature of the legal system, the effect of changes in laws on their welfare and the welfare of others, and to critically evaluate legal debates.
Credits: 3 hrs The intent of this course is to provide individuals with knowledge of how economics can be used to analyze both illegal market and non- market behavior so that effective policies can be made to deter illegal behavior. In this course, students will learn how to use economic theory to see how policies enacted to reduce crime actually increase it, how policies undertaken to reduce corruption actually contribute to it and how policies enacted to combat terrorism actually assist it. In addition, students will learn how to combat each of these elements by focusing on strategies that are designed to reduce these plagues on society. Among the topics covered in the course are how to use economic theory to analyze insurance fraud, illegal immigration, organized crime, murder, rape, the death penalty, terrorism, corruption, the black market, smuggling, arson, and tax evasion.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is intended to prepare undergraduate students for understanding the macro and microeconomic policies and institutions that lead to economic growth and development. The course will explore the outcomes of foreign aid, and whether economic and political freedoms spur development. Students will be exposed to various practices of existing governments, in order to better understand how to assess risk in business enterprise in various countries. Other factors such as the impact of microfinance, technology flows, and the impact of natural resources may be examined. Countries that have exhibited economic growth are contrasted with those that have not in order for lessons to be drawn about the important drivers of economic development, including property rights, entrepreneurial freedom and governmental transparency and accountability.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is a study of the different types of economic systems. Emphasis will be given to capitalist and market economics, which are to be contrasted with collectivist systems.
Credits: 3 hrs A FOB internship will be defined as an academically-sponsored career-related work experience for which projects, research papers, presentations, reflective journals, and/or evaluations will be required by faculty for reporting/grading purposes. FOB internships may be paid or unpaid opportunities and must be for academic credit. Students may take a maximum of six (6) credit hours of FOB internships during matriculation, i.e., two different experiences. Each internship requires a minimum of 120 contact hours per semester. Internships are counted as elective credit and cannot be substituted for required courses.
Credits: 3 hrs Economics faculty and senior students meet to plan and execute an approved independent economics research project, wherein each student demonstrates his or her ability to solve an economics problem based on their concentration using appropriate research methods. The student will complete both an oral and written presentation of the economics project. Students must either have completed or be in the process of completing the courses for the concentration when they register for this course.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is designed to study and analyze national economic and political objectives as they relate to international economics and international cooperation.
Credits: 3 hrs This course covers some of the basic labor issues of our time, the relationship between labor and management, labor organizations, collective bargaining, labor legislation, and national and regional manpower problems.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines the current trends in financial institutions, the Federal Reserve System and its influence on the domestic credit structure, money and the macro-system, monetary policy instruments, targets and goals, and international transactions.
Credits: 3 hrs This senior level course is intended for students accepted to the Economics Honors Program. Accepted students will complete a minimum of 50 hours of mentored research with a faculty member. During these 50 hours, students will become more familiar with the faculty member’s research. Upon completion of this course, students will have developed a hypothesis; orally presented this hypothesis to the Economics faculty; and either obtained IRB approval or receive an IRB exemption for a thesis completed the following semester. This course is designed to help students navigate through the research process. Specific emphasis will be placed on how an economist asks questions and develops a hypothesis using appropriate economic literature and data, as well as developing appropriate statistical models to test this hypothesis.
Credits: 3 hrs This senior-level course is intended for students enrolled in the Economics Honors Program as they write their honors thesis. Accepted students will complete a minimum of 50 hours of mentored research with a faculty member. During these 50 hours, students will work with a faculty member to conduct a research investigation. Upon completion of this course, they will have written an honors thesis and orally defended this thesis to the Economics faculty by the last day of class. This course is designed to help students navigate the research process. The course will emphasize survey and dataset techniques, usage of datasets, statistical evaluation, as well as writing within the major.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is a study of the international mechanism of trade including modern trade theory, bases of specialization, theory of tariffs, exchange rates and income changes, comparative costs, factor endowments, gains from trade, theory of customs unions, commercial policy of the United States, and trading arrangements.
Credits: 3 hrs A FOB internship will be defined as an academically-sponsored career-related work experience for which projects, research papers, presentations, reflective journals, and/or evaluations will be required by faculty for reporting/grading purposes. FOB internships may be paid or unpaid opportunities and must be for academic credit. Students may take a maximum of six (6) credit hours of FOB internships during matriculation, i.e., two different experiences. Each internship requires a minimum of 120 contact hours per semester. Internships are counted as elective credit and cannot be substituted for required courses.
Credits: 3 hrs This course focuses on the application of theory and quantitative methods to analysis of managerial decision making in national and international settings, with emphasis on forecasting, pricing, production, and resource allocation.
Credits: 3 hrs Students in this course will be introduced to the resource allocation process and its impact on economic growth. Ethical questions as to what is an “equitable distribution” versus what is an “efficient economic system” are examined in detail. Students will be exposed to both critics and defenders of capitalism. Various ethical perspectives will be used to evaluate whether capitalism is moral. Case studies of contemporary ethical dilemmas will be used to demonstrate the usage of these perspectives.
Source: Winston-Salem State University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
