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  • COM 385: Reality Media and the Ethics of Spectatorship

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    The popularity of mass-mediated reality-based texts has blurred the already problematic distinctions between factual and fictional televisual artifacts. This course examines the ethical and critical issues presented by popular factual television, as well as the styles, strategies, and structures that such texts employ to persuade audiences. The course explores the history of the genre-including the evolution of the documentary form-and seeks to understand the nature of its commercial and aesthetic appeal. In the process, students are exposed to a variety of visual communication theories, critical techniques, and methodologies. Students will learn how to apply critical tools to mass mediated texts in order to become better consumers and more literate and engaged citizens. Prerequisite: COM-235 or COM-258 or permission of instructor. WRITD, Spring semester.
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  • COM 389: Communication Ethics:Contemporary Issues in Freedom of Expression

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course explores a variety of ethical issues surrounding communication, emphasizing the communicator, the receiver, the message, the medium, the situation, and the effects of communication. Prerequisite: junior standing. WRITD, Spring semester.
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  • COM 397: Honors Thesis

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    In this course, students who meet the requirements for the major with Honors complete the research and writing of a thesis in close cooperation with a departmental faculty member. Each student also prepares and delivers an oral presentation of the research project. Offered annually.
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  • COM 399: Senior Seminar in Communication

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    An integrative academic experience for the advanced Communication Studies major in order to demonstrate the student's knowledge and expertise in a substantial project of the student's choice. Fall or Spring semesters
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  • E/M 101: Principles of Macroeconomics

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    A study of the performance of the American economy including an understanding of basic economic theories, economic institutions, and the history of the discipline of economics. Topics include introductory supply and demand analysis, national income determination, the money and banking system, monetary and fiscal policy, and the application of economic principles to the problems of achieving full employment, price stability, economic growth, and a favorable balance of payments. Some study of economic development and the impacts of globalization. SOSCI, Fall and Spring semesters.
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  • E/M 102: Principles of Microeconomics

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    A continuation of E/M-101. Whereas macroeconomics looked at the economy as a whole, microeconomics examines the actions of the smaller components that make up the macro economy: individuals, households, businesses, unions, and governmental units. Most attention is given to the decisions facing a typical firm, and how those decisions will impact variables like price, output, and profit. Specific topics include demand theory, elasticity, production and cost, market structure, factor markets, international trade, and the role of government. Prerequisite: E/M-101 or permission of the instructor. Fall and Spring semesters.
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  • E/M 125: Statistics for Economics and Management

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    The course emphasizes the application of statistical methods to economic, management, and accounting problems. In the course, students will develop their skills using current computer software and internet applications. The topics include presentation of data, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability and probability distributions, sampling methods and distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, simple linear regression, time series analysis, and decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Credit cannot be earned for this course if another course in statistics has been completed. Prerequisite: higher algebra. Fall and Spring semesters.
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  • E/M 130: Financial Accounting

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course introduces the measurement system used by entities to inform interested parties about their economic activity. The course provides a general overview of the quantitative and qualitative components of accounting information and also focuses on developing the basic reasoning skills needed to interpret an entity's financial reports. This course, which is part of the departmental core, emphasizes a user perspective. Fall and Spring semesters.
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  • E/M 202: Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course explores the economics of environmental protection and natural resource management. The first portion of the course introduces theoretical and measurement issues related to environmental policy. Topics in this phase include the problem of externalities, theories of regulation, methods of regulation, and cost-benefit analysis. The remainder of the course uses the tools of economics to analyze specific environmental and conservation issues. These issues include conservation of exhaustible resources, management of renewable resources, and sustainable development. Prerequisite: E/M-102. WRITD, Spring semester, even years.
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  • E/M 230: Managerial Accounting

    1.00 Credits
    Gustavus Adolphus College

    This course provides a basic foundation for those individuals who use accounting information to perform the management functions of planning, decision-making, and controlling. Students learn to use qualitative information, budgeting, and forecasting techniques for planning to meet short-term and long-term objectives. Decision-making tools emphasize the choice, interpretation, and use of relevant data for pricing, product mix, and process decisions. A third component is an understanding of the internal control system used by an entity. Prerequisites: E/M-101, E/M-102, and E/M-130. Fall and Spring semesters.
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