Bachelor of Science in Economics

Pre-requisites: MATH proficiency required; MATH 121 recommended.
Introduces the theory and procedures underlying the use of statistics in the social sciences. During the first half of the class, methods are presented for organizing distributions, summarizing their key properties, conveying the relative standing of individual scores in distributions, and measuring relations between pairs of variables. Commonly used procedures for testing hypotheses in the social sciences are presented in the second half of the class.

Pre-requisites: ECON 100 or ECON 200.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course explores key questions about how the world will produce and consume energy and natural resources in the future by exploring historical patterns and contemporary issues. Economics has much to add to this discussion based on the concepts of costs and benefits, optimization, supply and demand, scarcity, efficiency, production, distribution, price mechanisms, social welfare, and sustainability.

Notes: ECON 100, or ECON 200, or ECON 201 can be substituted for the junior standing prerequisite with instructor approval.
Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Behavioral economics applies psychological insights into human behavior to explain economic decision-making. Actual behavior of individuals may differ from the predictions of standard economic models. Behavioral economic analysis provides insight into how individuals allocate scarce resources in situations that are misrepresented by standard models.

Notes: Additional testing fees required, testing to be completed in class. PC required.
Pre-requisites: junior standing or permission of instructor.
This course provides an opportunity for students to learn Microsoft and Adobe products through workplace simulations: project-based learning. Students develop new documents from workplace scenarios in order to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills. Workplace communication scenarios, such as meetings, give students hands-on learning experiences to communicate using computer applications.