6 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.
ECO 101Principles of Macroeconomics (SS)3
When people talk about the “economy”, what do they mean? Most of the time they are concerned with the big picture topics that are covered in this course: the gross national product, the stock market health, inflation and consumer prices, interest rates, and unemployment. These are all macroeconomic indicators of how well we are doing. Economics is a social science that looks at how society uses natural resources to create goods and services, and how those products are distributed through an economic system such as capitalism. This course also looks at monetary and fiscal institutions charged with maintaining the system that creates jobs, sustains communities, and provides the innovations that we all enjoy. This course counts towards the
Do you ever wonder how companies set prices for the goods and services that you enjoy and use? That question is one of the many areas that are addressed under the term microeconomics. This course reviews how companies choose to enter markets and compete under capitalism for customers, and what good and services they are willing to provide, as well as how customers make rational (and occasionally emotional) purchasing decisions—in other words, supply and demand. It also reviews different types of market structures such as monopolies, monopolistic competition, oligopolies, and pure markets. It also reviews the environmental impact of externalities such as pollution costs passed to local communities, and incentives and risks of innovation.
This course uses an international perspective to examine how history and location interact with global economic forces to influence economic, social, and political development. Among the topics covered are the effects of the end of colonialism and the end of the Cold War, the causes of poverty in underdeveloped countries, theories of economic development, population growth, pollution and resource depletion, and patterns and policies of international trade and investment.
A micro and macro labor-market analysis, including such topics as: wage determination, wage differentials, labor mobility, relationships among wages, prices and employment, labor productivity, and labor’s share of national income. Prerequisite: ECO 102, or permission of the instructor.
An analysis of the markets for financial assets and the institutions that provide them. The course covers topics such as the nature and functions of money, depository and non-depository intermediaries, the determinants of asset prices and interest rates and the role of financial markets and instruments in risk management.
An exploration of the theory, policies and markets of international trade and finance. The following topics are covered: international specialization and exchange, exchange rate determination, balance of payments disturbances and adjustments, the effects of tariffs and quotas, international agencies and agreements, and foreign exchange markets. Prerequisite: ECO 101, and ECO 102
