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0.00 Credits
To successfully complete a request for tutoring, students must visit www.luc.edu/tutoringrequest Small group tutoring pairs several students from the same course and same professor with a trained peer tutor who has successfully earned credit for the course. Groups meet once weekly at the Center for Tutoring and Academic Excellence (Sullivan Center) on the Lake Shore Campus.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course is a study of the evolution of economic doctrines and analytical techniques from antiquity through the modern period with emphasis on concurrent developments in the social, intellectual, and scientific concerns. Outcome: Students will gain a critical understanding of how economic theory emerges and evolves in response to changes in economic and social reality.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course analyzes the economic role and functioning of cities and examines urban issues such as real estate markets, transportation, economic development, and crime. Outcome: Students will understand the economic forces that shape urban agglomerations. Students will understand the economic and ethical trade-offs of various urban economic policies. They will be able to think critically about the economic forces that make a city grow and contract over time.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course analyzes and describes futures markets, the operation and functions of exchanges and clearinghouses, activities of market participants, the impact of government regulation, and topics such as hedging, spreading, fundamental technical analysis, and trading strategies. Outcome: Student will be able to demonstrate and understand the operation and use of futures markets, and develop risk management skills to cope with the global financial order.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course analyzes microeconomic and macroeconomic theories of global trade; balance of payments, adjustment problems and the international monetary system. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to critically apply microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts to the understanding of international economic phenomena/problems. This course emphasizes the role of economic leadership to promote peace and justice in a global diverse world.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. Examination of the operation of the international monetary system and an analysis of the determination of currency flows between countries, with topics of balance of payments statements, currency flows between countries, determination of exchange rates, and international liquidity problems. Outcomes: Student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the operation of the international currency market and be able to analyze exchange rates with an emphasis on international liquidity and currency problems, and risk management of currency fluctuations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course describes and analyzes the problems and policy issues facing developing countries and the third world with respect to their economic and social policies and programs. Outcome: The students are trained to evaluate the economic conditions that are conducive to economic growth and critically assess ethical arguments as they relate to growth, trade, and poverty in emerging countries. The role of leadership is emphasized.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201 and 202. This course emphasizes the evolution and the role of past business leaders of the American economy from the colonial times to the present, emphasizing the entrepreneurs and the environments in which they operated. Economic and business change in the period 1865-1914 receives particular attention, as do the enterprises of Chicago-area entrepreneurs. Outcome: Students learn the skills required of entrepreneurs and business leaders and their contribution to society. Students will develop an awareness of the historical dynamics that produced the current economy, and how its institutions evolved and the importance of markets in allocating resources.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, minimum grade of "C-" in ECON 201. This course applies economic theory to environmental and natural resource problems and policies, investigates the role economic incentives play, and discusses externalities, property rights, common property problems, pollution and pollution control, and renewable and non-renewable resource management. Outcome: Students will understand that environmental problems are fundamentally economic problems that come about because there is a market failure (e.g., an externality or public good) and that environmental problems have economic solutions.
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