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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Liberal Arts AA - Economics Option
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Code: AA.LA.ECON
The Economics option is designed to present students with introductory and intermediate level courses to build a solid foundation in economic thinking and reasoning as well as understanding of fundamental concepts of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory before students transfer to a four-year institution to complete their bachelor degree. It promotes technical communication skills, analytical thinking, and problem solving through theoretical and practical learning methods. Students explore topics such as inflation, recession, unemployment, money & banking, fiscal & monetary policies, exchange rate movements, externalities & public goods as well as behavior of firms in pricing of products/resources and determining quantity of outputs/factors of production in different market environments.
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
- Use critical thinking skills to analyze, evaluate, state, and support their own views on economic issues in written, oral, and graphical forms.
- Apply problem-solving and quantitative-reasoning skills to address economic and/or policy problems.
- Examine reliable sources of economic data to develop data literacy skills and to understand current as well as historical economic events.
- Demonstrate an understanding of major economic events that have shaped and determined the course of the U.S. economic history.
CAREER PATHWAYS
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Recommended Semester Sequence
Communication Elective:
Choose Third Semester
- HIS History Elective 3 Credit(s)
- Humanities Elective 3 Credit(s)
- Social Science Elective 3 Credit(s)
- Natural Science Elective 4 Credit(s)
- Free Elective 3 Credit(s)
General Education Requirements
History Electives
Two general education courses in History (HIS)
Humanities Electives
- Three (3) general education courses selected from the following fields: Arts (Art [ART], Music [MUS], Theatre Arts [THR], Cinema Studies [CIN]); Interdisciplinary (WGS); Literature (LIT); Philosophy and Religion (PHR); World Languages and Cultures (LAN).
- With no more than two courses in any one field.
Social Science Electives
2 general education courses selected from the following fields, with no more than one course in any one field: ECO, GEO, POL, PSY, SOC, ANT
Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology
- One general education course in Mathematics (MAT) 4 Credit(s)
or - One general education Mathematics (MAT) 3 Credit(s) AND
- INF-102 Introduction to Computing
- Two general education courses selected from the following fields: BIO, CHM, PHY 8 Credit(s)
Diversity Elective
Select from the list of gen ed diversity courses Free Electives
Recommended: Total Credit Hours: 60
Specific Program Notes
Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.
Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.
* General Education Elective(s)
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