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1.00 Credits
Provides a forum in which teachers and students meet in small groups to discuss readings each week. May be repeated for a total of three credit hours to be used as free elective credit only. A grade of P for passing or a grade of F for failure will be assigned upon completion. Each discussion group centers on a single topic. Students are required to read one-and-a-half to two hours per week and then meet for one hour per week with the group (including a faculty member) to discuss the reading assignment. Students are limited to one discussion group enrollment per semester. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Second course in applied statistics for students in economics and other social sciences, business administration, mathematics, or natural sciences. Topics include simple and multiple regression analysis, extensions of the classical regression model, and problems associated with forecasting. Assigned work exposes students to problems from a wide range of applications. This course includes introduction to the LIMDEP statistical package and experiments involving a variety of real world data sets. Prerequisite: Quantitative Methods 227 or another course in principles of statistics. Offered alternate fall semesters.
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3.00 Credits
American history offers important lessons about the forces that have shaped our economic prosperity and the importance they hold for our future. Studies the manner in which currents of politics, demography, social institutions, and government policy have combined to shape this country's economic fortunes. In recent years, economists have applied traditional tools of social science research to analyze America's economic past. Includes coverage of the "new" economic history andcurrent developments in this field. Prerequisite: Economics 101 or 102. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Microeconomics provides the foundation for logical and disciplined reasoning in virtually every aspect of economics. A rigorous introduction to the behavior of buyers and producers and their interaction in the market, course covers theories of rational choice, principles of production, and the economic costs of production. Attention devoted to the nature of competitive and monopoly markets and to markets for factors of production. In each area, emphasizes the principles of economic efficiency and the concept of economic welfare. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102, Mathematics 134 or higher. Offered alternate fall semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole. Course analyzes the factors determining the growth in income, changes in prices, and the rate of unemployment. As appropriate, the course makes use of models suited to the long run and the short run and models of both open and closed economies. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102. Offered alternate spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the monetary system and the operational and functional characteristics of the Federal Reserve along with other depository and non-depository institutions. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102. Same as Finance 372. Offered alternate spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Covers topics not included in other courses, to give greater depth in certain areas and to explore current economic topics. Topic varies each offering. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Uses the normative standards of efficiency, equity, and freedom to evaluate various public policies. Policies discussed include policies on agriculture, housing, the environment, market power, income distribution, taxation, and economic growth. Prerequisites: Economics 101, 102. Offered alternate fall semesters.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Independent research in economics conducted under faculty supervision. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Economics 300. An introductory treatment of econometric techniques and their application to business and social science research. Topics include general linear regression models, nonlinear regression, simultaneous equation models, and models with limited dependent variables. Based on a series of experiments using real world data bases and the LIMDEP statistical package. Prerequisite: Economics 300. Offered periodically.
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