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Your study of economics will benefit you professionally and personally as well as help you as a voting citizen. Just look around you at the contemporary economic scene, at the US economy, changes in monetary policy, economic turmoil in Southeast Asia, the impact of dynamic new technologies, human rights issues in increasing evidence around the world, growing income inequality, the overhaul of U.S. farm and welfare policies, exchange rate instability, volatility in stock markets, capitalism in Russia, sovereign loan restructuring and bailouts, bank and brokerage bailouts, and at the potential for international financial crisis.

The Department of Economics offers regular classroom sections of its courses in both the day and evening. In addition, the Department offers distance education sections* of its courses online.

*Distance education sections make use of CD-ROM technology in place of traditional classroom meetings, and internet communication in place of classroom discussion; students complete web-based questions as part of their assigned work.

Economics Courses

ECON 100 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS (3)
Three lecture hours per week. Recommended (Fall 2008): Eligibility for ENGL 836 and MATH 110. Recommended (as of Spring 2009); Eligibility for ENGL 100 and MATH 120, or equivalent.
Introduction to the U.S. economy in a global context. Measuring output, unemployment and inflation. Theory of the determination of output and prices. Analysis of money, banking, and interest rates. Government fiscal and monetary stabilization policies. Current economic topics. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (D3). (CAN ECON 2).

ECON 102 PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS (3)
Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: ECON 100. Recommended (Fall 2008): Eligibility for ENGL 836 and MATH 110. Recommended (as of Spring 2009): Eligibility for ENGL 100 and MATH 120, or equivalent. Recommended: (as of Spring 2009): Eligibility for ENGL 100, or equivalent.
Introduction to the functioning of markets. Theory of the determination of output and prices for markets under competitive and noncompetitive conditions. Analysis of firms' costs and revenues. Government tax and regulatory policies. Current economic topics. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (D3). (CAN ECON 4).

ECON 310 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ASIA (3)
(Credit/No Credit or letter grade.) Three lecture hours per week. Recommended (Fall 2008): Eligibility for ENGL 836 and READ 836, or ENGL 846, or equivalent.
A comparative study of the political economy of Asian countries .European and U.S. colonialism, post-colonial political and economic developments, and market reforms in socialist countries. Relations among Asian nations and their relationship to the U.S. economy and foreign policy. Transfer credit: UC; CSU (D3).