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ECO 120 - Survey of Economic Issues

2013-2014 Catalog Year

This course provides an overview of key economic concepts and an introduction to economic reasoning. The course material will include concepts and models from both microeconomic and macroeconomic theory: scarcity, choice and opportunity cost, supply and demand, the behavior of the consumer and final, inflation, unemployment, the business cycle, money, economic growth, and government policy decisions. This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of economics for nonbusiness/noneconomic majors, or a foundation for further study for undecided majors considering economics.

credit: 3