Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus · Courses
ECON
24 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.
None Restriction: None Description: Articulates how aggregate income, employment and output are determined and compares aggregate economic statistics across global communities. Applies models that describe the foundations of global economic systems to analyze the social consequences of macroeconomic instability across global communities. Evaluates the role of policy in addressing economic, political and social problems facing global communities. Cross-Listed: No
None Restriction: None Description: Applies microeconomic theory to assessing the behavioral outcomes and interactions of households, firms, and public policy decision-makers. Examines both individual- and firm-level decision-making processes using core microeconomic tools, including opportunity cost, marginal benefit-cost analysis, and the supply and demand model. Evaluates the trade-offs inherent in any policy choice or market outcome, and how these trade-offs should be part of one’s ethical evaluation of any market outcome or proposed policy change. Cross-Listed: No
None Restriction: None Description: Employs basic micro- and macroeconomic terminology and models on the analysis of criminal activity, law enforcement, and its impact on the allocation of scarce resources and community law enforcement policy. Examines how basic economic and crime indicators can be analyzed to inform prevention and reintegration policies. Applies economic thinking to specific federal and local prevention and enforcement practices. Cross-Listed: No
None Restriction: None Dual Listed: N/A Description: Discusses the economic way of thinking as it applies to the sports industry. Examines the organizational structure of major American sports leagues, labor issues in sports, and the legal relationship between sports and government. Analyzes the issue of sports and public finance. Cross-Listed: No
As appropriate to course content Description: Offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
None Restriction: None Dual Listed: ECON 525: Monetary Economics I Description: Analyzes the organization, operation, and economic significance of US monetary institutions, commercial banks and Federal Reserve System. Explores monetary theory and policy and the mechanism of international payments.
ECON 121 , ECON 122 Description: History, structure, and operation of trade unions and employer organizations; major federal labor legislation; collective bargaining theory; wage determination; current labor problems.
ECON 122 or instructor permission Description: Social effectiveness of industries analyzed through measures of market structure, market conduct, and market performance.
ECON 121 , ECON 122 , or instructor permission Description: Taxation and expenditure theory at the federal level; federal budget and debt considerations; public sector impact on economy.
ECON 101 or ECON 121 or ECON 122 Description: Examines African poverty as an economic as well as a social phenomenon. It investigates the many sided nature of poverty and the importance of going beyond generalizations about the poor, including the various causes of poverty in Africa. It stresses the powerful ill effects of a combination of sluggish past economic growth, widening income inequalities, and anti-poverty strategies implemented by many African nations.
ECON 121 and ECON 122 Dual Listed: May be dual listed with ECON 545. Description: Explains the microeconomic segment of international specialization and change. Analyzes the theories of international trade and their application to commercial policies, historical survey and examination of current problems of international trade, and the institutional setting of international trade.
ECON 121 and ECON 122 Dual Listed: May be dual listed with ECON 546. Description: Demonstrates comprehension of international finance theory pertaining to the foreign exchange market, including the determinants of the supply and demand of foreign currency. Applies theory to current events affecting exchange rate fluctuations.
none Restriction: none Description: Introductions economic statistics, including frequency distributions, probability, distributions of random variables, functions of random variables, and tests of economic hypotheses.
ECON 121 and ECON 122 and (MATH 114 or MATH 117 or MATH 117A or MATH 216)
Corequisite
None Restriction: None Description: Demonstrates how to build a complete statistical model. Applies regression analysis in different fields in economics. Promotes new research, through gathering data and utilizing the techniques learned during the course.
none Restriction: none Description: Analyzes the market for healthcare: demand by individual consumers and supply by health workers and hospitals. Considers the problems of information, risk, and externalities in making health decisions and the role of insurance. Explores public health policies, both in a world and domestic context. Introduces economic methods for program/policy research: elasticity estimation, cost-benefit analysis, and supply-demand modeling.
ECON 101 or ECON 122 Description: An examination of economic costs and benefits of environmental control and modification. Techniques of economic analysis are used to understand economic aspects of environmental problems and contribute toward their solution.
ECON 121 , ECON 122 and ( MATH 107 / MATH 108 or MATH 120 or MATH 121 or MATH 125 ) ; or instructor permission
Corequisite
None Restriction: none Description: Evaluates aggregate income levels and problems of unemployment, inflation, and growth. Discusses consumption and investment theories and the role of fiscal and monetary policy. Analyzes long-run growth determinates and causes of business cycle fluctuations.
ECON 121 , ECON 122 , MATH 121 or equivalent Description: Consumer behavior, theory of the firm, theory of exchange, market structures, distribution, general equilibrium theory, welfare economics.
ECON 121 and ECON 122 and ((MATH 107 and MATH 108) or MATH 120 or MATH 121 or MATH 125)
Corequisite
None Restriction: None Dual Listed: ECON 534 Managerial Economics Description: Applies economic theory using algebra, elementary statistics, and calculus to solve managerial optimization problems including problems of forecasting and risk.
ECON 356 or equivalent or instructor permission Dual Listed: May be dual listed with ECON 556. Description: Extends the theory and practice of econometrics knowledge and skill set developed in an introductory econometrics course. Demonstrates greater proficiency in econometric analysis and research skills through additional exposure to the scholarly literature. Considers a variety of topics related to regression analysis, including violations of the Classical assumptions, extensions of the basic regression model, and advanced regression techniques.