ECNS 201 Principles of Microeconomics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Introduces the analytical tools of economists as they pertain to microeconomic theory and applications. This course emphasizes price theory, production theory, theory of economic organizations, and factor markets.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 202 Principles of Macroeconomics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Introduces the analytical tools of economists as they pertain to macroeconomic theory and applications. This course emphasizes the behavior of markets in the context of a national economy. Introduces theories of national income and employment, economic growth and stabilization theory, money and banking, and international economics.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 294 Seminar/Workshop. 1-3 Credits

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 300 Intermediate Microeconomics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Covers price determination and resource allocation under competitive and noncompetitive market structures. Includes theories of demand, production, and income distribution.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 302 Intermediate Macroeconomics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Considers the determinants of aggregate levels of employment, output, and income of an economy.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 313 Money and Banking. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Covers the mechanics of financial markets, the impact of fiscal and monetary policies, banking and financial institutions and instruments used by business and government, the relationships between interest rates, security prices, risk, exchange rates and world financial markets.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 314 International Economics. 3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Considers classical and modern theories of international trade with applications to selected international economic problems.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 403 Introduction to Econometrics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Covers forecasting techniques used in business; assembly, interpretation and use of economic data; analysis of business conditions; construction of firm and industry sales forecasts.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 450 Econ of Global Development. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Examines the reasons for the amazing increase in human flourishing and material prosperity over the last 200 years. It is, of necessity, comparative in nature and considers the experience under central planning as well as under more laissez-faire property rules, and those systems that lie somewhere in between. Also examined are attempts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to orchestrate economic growth from without. The central emphasis is upon the rule structures and form of organization necessary for human flourishing.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 456 Law and Economics. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201.

3cr. Focuses on the economic analysis of the law. Topics include introduction to legal institutions and legal analysis; application of economic concepts to the law of property, contracts, and torts; criminal and constitutional law; economic efficiency of common law; and public choice perspective on the evolution of the law.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 457 Economics of Organizations. 3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): ECNS 201 and ECNS 202.

3cr. Applies microeconomic, contract and agency theories to understanding the structure and scope of organizations. Examines incentive structures, issues in accountability, responsibility and productivity measurements, and ownership structures of business.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 490 Undergraduate Research. 3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

3cr. (3 other/wk) Combines statistical and econometric techniques with economic and financial theories to conduct rigorous research projects in the areas of economics and finance. The project is similar to a thesis and is the sole factor used to determine the course grade.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 492 Independent Study. 1-3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

V1-3cr. (1-3 other/wk) Provides outstanding junior and senior students an opportunity to explore material not covered by regular Economics courses. Students must complete a Request for Independent Study form and have it approved by CBAPC.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL

ECNS 494 Seminar/Workshop. 1-3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

V1-3cr. (1-3 other/wk) Provides advanced students an opportunity to intensively investigate topics pertinent to the field of Economics.

Department: NAS/PS/SOCL