Designed to provide the student who has had no previous exposure to economics with an introduction to current economic issues. A basic course in microeconomics studying the allocation of resources, the distribution of income, and the mechanism of exchange in a free enterprise system under perfect and imperfect competition.
Emphasis is on the market structure of the economy in the United States.
An introductory course dealing with the measures of national income, an analysis of national income fluctuations, monetary, and fiscal policies, and international exchange. Team taught course that uses a series of current issues to introduce students to the study and understanding of finance and economics. Topics such as international trade, the behavior of financial markets and U.S. policy are explored from differing perspectives within the disciplines of finance and economics. Information from current periodicals is extensively employed. This is a course designed to introduce the students to the many facets of the world's largest industry, tourism.