23 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 101(S) Current Economic Issues3
Intended to provide a foundation in economics for non-business students. This course provides analysis of contemporary economic issues relevant to the U.S. economy and the world. Issues such as economic policy, the federal government, budget, recession, inflation, health care, air and water pollution, and regulation of business are studied. Not a substitute for ECO 153 - ECO 154 or other upper-level economics courses. Not open to students with prior credit for ECO 153 or ECO 154 . Health Administration and Human Resources majors may substitute ECO 153 and ECO 154 for ECO 101.
This course centers on the salient characteristics of the modern free-enterprise economy. Topics include the operations of the price system as it regulates production, distribution, and consumption, and as it is in turn modified and influenced by private groups and government.
This course centers on the salient characteristics of the modern free-enterprise economy. Topics include the operations of the price system as it regulates production, distribution, and consumption, and as it is in turn modified and influenced by private groups and government.
This course analyzes the determinants of aggregate economic activity. The main areas studied are the monetary and banking system, the com- position and fluctuations of national income, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy.
This course analyzes the determinants of aggregate economic activity. The main areas studied are the monetary and banking system, the com- position and fluctuations of national income, inflation, and monetary and fiscal policy at an honors-level.
ECO 153 or permission of the instructor.) This course provides students with a framework for viewing environmental issues as economic issues. Alternative methods for addressing environmental problems are examined, including “command and control” regulatory policies and “market-based” policies. The evolution of public policies toward the environment is discussed.
ECO 153 ) This course centers on the analysis of production and cost theories. The topics studied are pure competition, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition and factor pricing. Economics majors take the course in their sophomore year; Finance majors in their junior year.
ECO 154 ) This course centers on the study of national income accounting, price level fluctuations, issues of unemployment, inflation, full employment, and the impact of monetary and fiscal policy on income level and distribution. Economics majors take the course in their sophomore year; Finance majors in their junior year.
ECO 361 , ECO 362 , STAT 253 (or STAT 251 and STAT 252 ); or by permission of the instructor) This course covers the modeling, estimation, and testing of relationships derived from economic theorizing. Topics include single-equation estimation methods and inference procedures in the context of the classical least-squares model and its extensions, and their applications using economic data. Conducted as a workshop/seminar, the course also covers the various aspects of researching and writing empirical papers as practiced in economics.
ECO 153 - ECO 154 ) Analysis of labor supply and demand; measurement and theory of unemployment; occupational choice; wage differentials; labor-market issues and policies; labor legislation.
ECO 361 , ECO 362 , STAT 253 , MATH 107 , MATH 108 or permission of the instructor) This course studies the methodology of modern economic analysis. Emphasis is placed on developing the rigorous theoretical foundations of micro and macroeconomics using tools of calculus and linear algebra. Topics such as comparative static analysis, general -equilibrium analysis, consumer and firm behavior, intertemporal decision making, decision-making under uncertainty, theory of growth and rational-expectation hypothesis are covered.
ECO 153 — ECO 154 ) Examines the broad areas of the spatial organization of economic systems and the location of economic activity. The discussion encompasses spatial decision-making for manufacturing, service sector, and agricultural enterprises. The role of transportation in determining optimal locations and optimal flow of goods, information, and people will be emphasized. The spatial organization of the growth & development of cities and regions will also be discussed, as will the related topic of the development of nations within the global economy.
ECO 361 and STAT 253 ) This course compares the novel insights offered by the discipline of Behavioral Economics with some salient results of classical economic theory. It considers whether the new behavioral models improved our ability to predict and understand choice under certainty and uncertainty, probabilistic judgment, and intertemporal choice. Topics include various behavioral paradoxes, heuristics and biases, loss aversion, and prospect theory.
ECO 410Economic Concepts and Applications3
This course provides an introduction to fundamental economic concepts as well as a review of techniques and materials (print, audiovisual, etc.) that can be used to teach economics at the K-12 grade levels. Emphasis is placed on strategies designed to integrate economics into such courses as language arts, mathematics and social studies. This course may not be substituted for ECO 101 , ECO 153 or ECO 154 .
ECO 154 , FIN 251 ) This course emphasizes the interrelations between financial markets, financial institutions and aggregate economic activity. Topics include: an overview of financial institutions, introduction to money and capital markets, fundamentals of interest rates, the money supply process, the conduct of monetary policy, and other topics that occupy the subject matter of money and financial markets.
ECO 461Managerial Economics
Please contact the department chair for course schedules and detailed descriptions. This course is offered infrequently.
ECO 153 - ECO 154 ) This course introduces students to contemporary development economics. Topics include: the concept and measurement of economic development, the problems and prospects of the less developed countries, and the alternative theories and processes of economic development.
ECO 361 or permission of the instructor) This course focuses on the public-policy implications of law and economics. It is based on the notion that legal rules establish implicit prices for different types of behavior and that consequences of these rules can be analyzed using microeconomics. In particular, microeconomic theory is used to analyze economic aspects of property, contracts, torts, and crime.
ECO 362 , ECO 460 , ECO 363 or permission of the instructor) This course centers on the study of recent advances in macroeconomic analysis. Topics include empirical macroeconomic analysis, open-economy macroeconomics, the role of expectations, economic policy and economic growth.
ECO 490Economics Seminar3
Advanced study of a special area in economics. Topics and prerequisites vary.
