Students communicate with suppliers and customers using electronic mail, keep their financial records on a computer spreadsheet, and at the end of the term prepare an annual report for their firm on the computer. Macroeconomics is a prerequisite. Offered all terms. 1 course credit EC560AP Students further their study of both macroeconomics and microeconomics by examining recent developments in economic theory and policies. This extension of topics studied in Macroeconomics and Microeconomics helps prepare students for the Advanced Placement examinations in these areas.
Students use the theory they have studied in two projects.
First, they work in teams on a class project in which they analyze an issue of current interest, such as presidential campaign platforms or health care reform. Second, students pursue an independent project in which they develop a hypothesis about an economics topic and then search for an answer for their hypothesis through research, interviews, a survey, or a model. The completion of Macroeconomics and Microeconomics is a prerequisite. Offered spring term. This course, followed by Effecting Political Change and supplemented by several review classes in the spring, prepares students for the Advanced Placement Examination in Government and Politics.