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Your search for courses · during 25SP · tagged with PPOL Core · returned 3 results

  • ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics 6 credits

    This course gives students a foundation in the general principles of economics as a basis for effective citizenship and, when combined with 111, as a preparation for all advanced study in economics. Topics include analysis of the measurement, level, and distribution of national income; the concepts of inflation and depression; the role and structure of the banking system; fiscal and monetary stabilization techniques; implications of and limits to economic growth; and international economic relations.

    • Spring 2025
    • QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • Not open to students who have completed any of the following exams: AP Macroeconomics exam with a score of 5 or IB Economics exam with a score of 6 or better. Students who plan to take upper-level economics courses must review additional material in lieu of ECON 110. If you would like to waive your AP or IB test score in order to take ECON 110, please contact the Registrar's Office for options.

    • CL: 100 level PPOL Core
    • ECON  110.01 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Lhakpa Sherpa 🏫
    • Size:30
    • T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
    • ECON  110.02 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WHulings 120 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FHulings 120 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • ECON 111 Principles of Microeconomics 6 credits

    This course gives the students a foundation in the general principles of economics as a basis for effective citizenship and, when combined with 110, as a preparation for all advanced study in economics. Topics include consumer choice theory; the formation of prices under competition, monopoly, and other market structures; the determination of wages, profits, and income from capital; the distribution of income; and an analysis of policy directed towards problems of public finance, pollution, natural resources, and public goods.

    • Spring 2025
    • QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
    • Not open to students who have completed any of the following exams: AP Microeconomics exam with a score of 5 or IB Economics exam with a score of 6 or better. Students who plan to take upper-level economics courses must review additional material in lieu of ECON 111. If you would like to waive your AP or IB test score in order to take ECON 111, please contact the Registrar's Office for options.

    • CL: 100 level PPOL Core
    • ECON  111.01 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
    • ECON  111.02 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
    • FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
    • ECON  111.03 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
  • ECON 270 Economics of the Public Sector 6 credits

    This course provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the government’s role in the U.S. economy. Emphasis is placed on policy analysis using the criteria of efficiency and equity. Topics include rationales for government intervention; analysis of alternative public expenditure programs from a partial and/or general equilibrium framework; the incidence of various types of taxes; models of collective choice; cost-benefit analysis; intergovernmental fiscal relations.

    • Spring 2025
    • QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry WR2, Writing Rich 2
    • Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 110 with a grade of C- or better or received a grade of B or better in ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) or received a score of 5 on the Macroeconomics AP exam or received an ECON 110 requisite equivalency AND ECON 111 with a grade of C- or better or received a grade of B or better in ECON AL (Cambridge A Level Economics) or received a score of 5 on the Microeconomics AP exam or received ECON 111 requisite equivalency OR has received a score of 6 or better on the Economics IB exam.

    • ACE Theoretical AMST Democracy Activism CL: 200 level ECON Elective POSI Elective/Non POSC PPOL Core EDUC 3 Public Policy Educational Reform
    • ECON  270.00 Spring 2025

    • Faculty: Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm

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