ECON 102 Principles of Microeconomics (3 credits)Study of the causes and effects of individuals' choices among alternative uses of scarce resources. Topics include supply and demand analysis, price determination, theories of various market structures, competition and coordination, labor, the role of profit and interest, and government involvement in the economy.
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ECON 103 Principles of Macroeconomics (3 credits)Basic price and quantity relationships, study of monetary systems and policy, inflation, production and growth, recession, unemployment, fiscal policy, supply and demand perspectives, international exchange, and governmental-market relationships. Formerly ECON 101.
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ECON 104 Current Economic Issues (3 credits)Analysis of current economic issues and their relevance to individuals in their roles as consumers, workers, businessmen, and voters. Economic theories and concepts are utilized in explaining important social interaction relating to such topics as medical care, anti-trust policy, price controls, drug prohibition, environmentalism, tax policy, public debt, and income distribution. (Formerly ECON 104, Economics Issues)
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ECON 295 Special Topics in Economics (1-3 credits)Various short courses and workshops covering a variety of topics. This course will be variable credit of one-to-three credits depending on the course content and number of hours required. The course may be repeated for up to six credits.
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ECON 307 Environmental Economics (3 credits)An application of the principles of marginal analysis and economic reasoning to the environment. Differing perspectives on issues relating to ownership, property rights, preservation incentives under different scenarios, the Coase theorem, trade-offs among human values, distributional effects of varying uses of scarce resources, and differing public policy issues. Formerly ECON 307, Economics of the Environment)
Prerequisite: Must have completed an associate's degree.
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ECON 311 Professional Ethics (3 credits)A study of the nature of ethical thinking and its application to judgments about actions of people that make up society. Topics to be considered include ethical relativism, moral virtues and vices, foundations of morality, alternative theoretical perspectives on moral judgment, egoism, altruism, and legal and regulatory perspectives related to ethics in business. Also available as PHIL 311.
Prerequisite: Must have completed an associate's degree.
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ECON 317 Economics of Taxation (3 credits)An examination of common economic and moral justifications for, and effects of, binary intervention in the economy; specific forms of taxation; the incidence of taxation; progressive, flat, regressive, and head-tax schemes; canons of justice in taxation; costs of tax collection; distribution of tax burden; non-monetary (implicit) forms of taxation; and taxation as a tool of social engineering.
Prerequisite: Must have completed an associate's degree.
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ECON 365 Labor Economics (3 credits)An application of economic theory relating to labor issues. Topics include determination of wage and employment levels, worker cartels, fringe benefits, subsistence wages, minimum wage laws, living wage laws, unemployment compensation, fairness in wage distribution, the division of labor, and tenure systems.
Prerequisite: Must have completed an associate's degree.
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