9 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.
EC 210Principles of Macroeconomics1098
This course surveys the concepts of supply and demand, national income accounting, fiscal and monetary policy, theory of income determination, and the problems of inflation, unemployment and economic development. Topics covered include the meaning and measurement of gross domestic product, the causes of business cycles, the role of government expenditures and taxation in maintaining economic stability, the role of money in domestic and international economies, international trade, the determination of exchange rates and the balance of payments. The course concludes by evaluating the performance of governments in financing their public debt and the resultant effect on financial markets and the trade deficit.
Facility in working with quantitative material is required for this course. Such facility may be demonstrated by appropriate mathematics courses that were completed recently, by a sufficiently high recent SAT or ACT score, or by a placement examination.
EC 211Principles of Microeconomics1098
This course is an examination of the theory of price. It surveys the concepts of supply and demand, utility, elasticity, cost and production. It compares price determination in different markets, perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly and oligopoly. This microeconomics course focuses on the decision making of the individual economic agent.
Facility in working with quantitative material is required for this course. Such facility may be demonstrated by appropriate mathematics courses that were completed recently, by a sufficiently high recent SAT or ACT score, or by a placement examination.
EC 212Money and Banking1098
This course studies the role of money, interest rates and financial intermediation in the operation of the U.S. economy. The intent of the course is to give students an overview of the U.S. financial system and its global ramifications. This course includes the organization, administration, and regulation and deregulation of commercial banks and financial markets. It includes a detailed examination of the role of central banking authorities in influencing the macro-economy.
This course is a detailed study of price determination and resource allocation under conditions of perfect and imperfect markets. In addition to supply and demand analysis, key economic concepts such as diminishing marginal utility, elasticity, production and cost, optimization theory, producer and consumer surplus, deadweight loss and firm behavior under alternative market structures are explored.
This course illustrates how economic principles can be used to analyze health care issues and explain the behavior of patients, medical care providers, third-party payers, and employers in healthcare markets. The course explores the causes and policy remedies of three important healthcare issues: Medical care spending, medical care access, and medical care outcomes.
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the principles and practice of applying economic methods of analysis to issues relating to natural resources and the environment. Concepts of sustainability and the discounting of future costs and benefits are studied in depth, and these techniques are then applied to the use of nonrenewable and also renewable resources.
Analytical treatment of theories and empirical findings in the explanation of trade flows, foreign exchange markets, balance of payment, international liquidity, and world economic institutions.
