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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Students will have opportunities to discuss their interactions with young children, staff, and parents in their assigned practicum settings. Students will analyze the components of the learning environment, and their interrelationships in programs for young children and families. They will plan to integrate theory and practice to facilitate learning and promote quality programming, guidance, health, and safety of pre-Kindergarten children.
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1.00 Credits
Students will spend 7 hours a week with an assigned community childcare administrator. Objectives related to administration of a childcare center, including budgeting, enrolling children, parent involvement, hiring and monitoring staff, and program development will direct student participation in this practicum experience.
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3.00 Credits
This practicum helps students integrate theories of child development with actual teaching practice as they work with young children individually and in groups. Students will hone their teaching skills in assigned Pre-Kindergarten classrooms five days a week for a total of 21 hours weekly.
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5.00 Credits
This course is an issues-based introduction to basic economic concepts. Students will relate principles such as scarcity, opportunity cost, and markets to current events, including changes in the minimum wage, environmental controversies, and the actions of the Federal Reserve. A distance-learning (DL) version of Introduction to Economics is available. Students taking the Web-based version of the course must be familiar with computers, have an e-mail address, and access to the Internet. Course content is identical to that presented in a traditional classroom setting. Examinations for distance-learning courses are administered at the Testing Center.
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5.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the economic decision-making of individuals and firms. Topics include scarcity, opportunity cost, supply and demand, consumer choice, elasticity, market structure, profit maximization, resource markets and international trade. A distance-learning (DL) version of Principles of Microeconomics is available. Students taking the Web-based version of the course must be familiar with computers, have an e-mail address, and access to the Internet. Course content is identical to that presented in a traditional classroom setting. Examinations for distance-learning courses are administered at the Testing Center.
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5.00 Credits
This course introduces students to economic decision-making at the aggregate level. Topics include national income analysis, the business cycle, inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary policies and objectives. A distance-learning (DL) version of Principles of Macroeconomics is available. Students taking the Web-based version of the course must be familiar with computers, have an e-mail address, and access to the Internet. Course content is identical to that presented in a traditional classroom setting. Examinations for distance-learning courses are administered at the Testing Center.
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5.00 Credits
Economics of War is an intermediate composition course that extends and refines skills in writing (objective analysis, persuasive arguments, journalism pieces), oral and visual presentation, critical thinking by having students analyze, discuss, and write about various topics pertaining to the economics of war. An original research paper (based on an approved testable hypothesis) and presentation is also required. Assigned texts address the economics of war with respect to economic growth, debt, costs of a standing armed forces, costs of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism as well as how to write a hypothesis statement.
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5.00 Credits
Sophomore level microeconomics course investigating the theory of consumer behavior including indifference curve analysis and the construction demand curves; income and substitution effects; income consumption curves; Engel curves; theory of the firm and derivation of all cost curves in short run and long run; factor price determination; dealing with uncertainty; general equilibrium and Edgeworth Box diagrams; and various pricing systems.
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1.00 Credits
ECON 293 is an individual, student-structured course that examines a selected topic in economics through intensive reading or research. The independent study elective permits a student to pursue his/her interests within the context of a faculty-guided program.
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1.00 Credits
This course allows students to examine, in detail, selected topics of interest in economics.
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