New students should consider taking an elective economics course:

if you want to understand economic issues.

(We study twelve issues in the Survey of Economics course.)

Consider taking economics as a required course:

	if your certificate, diploma, or degree depends on it.
	Choose a Principles course if you want transfer credit to 4-year schools.

Choose the Survey course if transfer credit is not needed.

Survey of Economics studies:

The Economic Problem

U.S. & Global Economies

Demand & Supply

GDP and the Standard of Living

Fiscal & Monetary Policy

Production and Cost

Perfect Competition and Monopoly

Principles of Economics I (Macroeconomics) studies:

Scarcity

National Income

Unemployment

Government Policy

Money and Inflation

Global Economics

Principles of Economics II (Microeconomics) studies:

Markets in Action

Profits and Losses

Competition

Monopoly

Regulation & Antitrust

International Trade

"The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy or pure science? An easy subject, at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher - in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist,yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician." - J. M. Keynes

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