Economics Associate in Arts
Economics is the study of how a society chooses to use its limited resources to produce, exchange, and consume goods and services. The study is divided into two broad areas - macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macroeconomics deals with broad, economy-wide issues such as economic growth, inflation, unemployment, and depression. Microeconomics focuses on choices and behavior of individual participants in the economy - producers, workers, employers and consumers - and on issues involving competition, monopoly, and inequality in income and wealth. Microeconomics can also provide insights in such areas as family relationships, crime, and discrimination of many sorts.
Courses
- BUS 120 — Financial Accounting
- CSIS 110 — Principles of Information Systems
- ECON 110 — Economic Issues and Policies
- ECON 215 — Statistics for Business, Economics, and Social Sciences
- MATH 178 — Calculus for Business, Social and Behavioral Sciences
- MATH 281 — Multivariable Calculus
- POSC 130 — Introduction to International Relations