Course Descriptions: ECONOMICS

ECON 100 PRINCIPLES OF MACRO ECONOMICS (CAN ECON 2)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: A broad overview of the American economy and its effect on social, political, and cultural environments. The concepts of the price system, the banking system, money and economic activity, policies for stabilization and growth, are presented. The classical, neo classical and Keynesian models of an economy are introduced. This course concludes with an introduction into the aggregate supply and aggregate demand model of an economy. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)

ECON 102 PRINCIPLES OF MICRO ECONOMICS (CAN ECON 4)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement online lab hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Overview of the concepts of supply and demand. Pricing and output decisions under competitive, imperfectly competitive, and monopolistic markets are discussed. Profit maximization and cost minimization for the individual firm are analyzed. Allocation of resources, externalities and comparative economic systems are also examined. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)

ECON 230 ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ECON 100 or 102; ENGL 836 or ESL 400 OR eligibility for ENGL 100 on approved college English Placement Test and other measures as necessary AND READ 836 or ESL 400 with Credit or a grade of “C” or better OR eligibility for 400-level Reading courses on approved college Reading Placement Test and other measures as necessary. Description: An advanced discussion and analysis of the development of the American economy from 1860 to the present time. Economics concepts include, opportunity cost, moral hazard, monetary theory and policy, fiscal theory and policy. Topics studied are industrial growth, land and resource use, role of immigration and various ethnic and cultural groups, the transportation revolution, Great Depression and Great Moderation, development of money and banking, trade patterns, organized labor, agriculture, and America in the world economy. (Fulfills Associate Degree Ethnic Studies requirement.). Transfer: CSU: DUS-1 & DSI, UC. (IGETC: 4)

Updated: 6/30/11