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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with PPOL Core · returned 5 results
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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.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ECON 110.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ethan Struby 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 204 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 110.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 110.03 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael Hemesath 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 8:15am-10:00am
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ECON 110.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Yingtong Xie 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 110.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 110.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 204 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 110.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Michael Hemesath 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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.
- Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ECON 111.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 111.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 111.03 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 111.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 111.02 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Prathi Seneviratne 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 111.03 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 111.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 111.03 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jonathan Lafky 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 270.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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PHIL 213 Ethics 6 credits
How should we live? This is the fundamental question for the study of ethics. This course looks at classic and contemporary answers to the fundamental question from Socrates to Kant to modern day thinkers. Along the way, we consider slightly (but only slightly) more tractable questions such as: What reason is there to be moral? Is there such a thing as moral knowledge (and if so, how do we get it)? What are the fundamental principles of right and wrong (if there are any at all)? Is morality objective?
- Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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PHIL 213.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Daniel Groll 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 265 Public Policy and Global Capitalism 6 credits
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative and international public policy. It examines major theories and approaches to public policy design and implementation in several major areas: international policy economy (including the study of international trade and monetary policy, financial regulation, and comparative welfare policy), global public health and comparative healthcare policy, institutional development (including democratic governance, accountability systems, and judicial reform), and environmental public policy.
- Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Statistics 120 strongly recommended, or instructor permission
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am