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9.00 Credits
This is a capstone course for all candidates seeking certification in early childhood education. Candidates spend sixteen weeks in a full-time internship in an approved preK-4 school environment. Candidates will work on a daily basis with an approved cooperating teacher. In addition, each candidate will be supervised by an RMU supervisor. Candidates are required to complete SPED4210 Professional Topics: ELL to Special Needs concurrently with this course. Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and Completion of all requirements for admission to the professional year and permission of the Department Head
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3.00 Credits
Candidates completing the early childhood student teaching internship will discuss professional issues and topics such as: resume writing, interviewing and job searching. In addition, this seminar will provide a forum through which teacher candidates may share the inquiry projects required for the student teaching internship and discuss topics of interest related to their internship (classroom management issues, parent-teacher conferences, teaching issues, etc.) Candidates are required to complete EDUC4200 Supervised Teaching concurrently with this course. Prerequisites: COSK2220 or COSK2225 and admission to the professional year for elementary education and permission of the Department Head
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Economics is an introductory survey of the major elements of economics. Students will learn to apply economic analysis to understand macroeconomic and microeconomic issues. Among the topics covered are the operation of markets, fiscal and monetary policies, and international economics. This one semester course fulfills the Economics component of the Robert Morris University Core. (Students in some programs are required to take alternative courses to fulfill the requirement. For example, this course is not open to B.S.B.A. students.)3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction of fundamental economic facts and concepts and basic economic institutions. Students study organization of the American economy, government finance and taxation, national income accounting, business cycles, the banking system and deposit creation, and monetary and fiscal policy. Software proficiency in spreadsheet is required. Prerequisite: MATH1010 or MATH1050
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3.00 Credits
This course stresses the analysis of microeconomic concepts. The course emphasizes the determination of price by supply and demand, demand and utility, cost and supply, equilibrium of the firm, market structures, pricing of productive factors, and international trade and finance. Prerequisite: MATH1010 or MATH1050
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to deal with concepts of national income accounting and theories of aggregate economic behavior. Relationships among income, employment, and the price level are studied. Attention is also given to counter-cyclical and other public policy measures. Prerequisites: (ECON1020 and ECON1030) or ECON1010
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3.00 Credits
This course has been designed as an inquiry into the decision-making processes of consumers and firms. Such material, while being based upon theoretical reasoning, is of particular relevance for students majoring in marketing and business administration. The course explores the behavior of various market structures, such as perfect and imperfect competition. Prerequisite: (ECON1020 and ECON1030) or ECON1010
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with the concept of a free market economy and how a model of economic freedom and limited government is related to political liberty and economic efficiency. Major topics include a study of economics of socialism and capitalism, the "invisible hand" in capitalism, the "fatal conceit" in socialism, the utopian models of laissez-faire capitalism and egalitarian Marxism, and the economic goals of growth, freedom, equity, full employment, price stability, and efficiency. Prerequisites: (ECON1020 and ECON1030) or ECON1010
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3.00 Credits
This course is an undergraduate level introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed and as they evolve in the era of sustainability and green business practices. Basic economic concepts and models are adapted to the context of environmental issues. Lectures, discussions, and activities focus on topics such as emission trading programs, green taxes, markets for green goods, valuing health outcomes, the economics of pest resistance, and the idea of charging for solid waste. Prerequisites: [ECON1020 and ECON1030] or ECON1010
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the causal factors and institutional adaptations to the growth of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services in the United States from colonial days to World War II. Special emphasis is put on such factors as technological change, expanded labor and resource usage, education, and investment incentives. Prerequisites: (ECON1020 and ECON1030) or ECON1010
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