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• ECED 489: Student Teaching Seminar

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Provides collegial and professional support to student teachers and assists them in becoming reflective practitioners. The student teaching seminar provides opportunities to synthesize the student teaching experience and to advance students towards the world of professional teaching. Through collaboration with university supervisors, cooperating teachers, parents, and other members of the larger school community, candidates will develop the skills, dispositions, and competencies needed to enter the teaching profession as reflective practitioners who value diversity, engage in professional development, and utilize best practices. Corequisite:    ECED480
  ShareECED 489 - Student Teaching Seminar

• ECON 121: Prin Macroeconomics

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Develops concepts and tools related to Macroeconomics such as the nature of economic problems, national income accounting and its determination, business cycle and economic growth, monetary and fiscal policies. The course introduces students to the behavior of the economy as a whole, and its interaction with international markets through trade, investment, and capital flow; and it reviews schools of thought in Macroeconomics with differing views on how the markets and market-participates operate.
  ShareECON 121 - Prin Macroeconomics

• ECON 122: Prin Microeconomics

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Develops conceptions and methods related to Microeconomics principles to study individuals and firms' decision-making process, and behavior under different market conditions. Students analyze the rationale behind individuals and firms' decision-making process and how they behave under different market conditions, apply the concepts to study the outcomes under different market structures, and evaluate the societal significance and efficiencies under different market structures, and study the impact of government taxation and regulation on markets' efficiencies.
  ShareECON 122 - Prin Microeconomics

• ECON 150: Intro to Health Economics

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Introduces the basic principles of economics and their application to health care policy issues. The goal of the course is to provide registered nurses, and students in fields related to health sciences such as speech pathology, audiology, gerontology, psychology, and public health the foundational knowledge of economics to help them better understand the policies that shape health reform and the implications for patients, nurses, practitioners, and health care.
  ShareECON 150 - Intro to Health Economics

• ECON 156: Business & Economic Math

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Presents an introduction to the mathematical tools frequently employed in Business and Economics. Topics include use of algebraic expressions to translate Business and Economic concepts into mathematical formulas; application and graph of special functions to study Business and Economic models; and the use of the time value of money in these models. Concepts covered in the course are always related back to the important Business and Economics models or principles.
  ShareECON 156 - Business & Economic Math

• ECON 156A: Bus & Econ Math Rec

  1.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Helps students be more successful in understanding how mathematics can be used to design, evaluate, and solve quantitative problems related to Business and Economics. This is an introductory mathematics course required to be taken simultaneously with Business and Economics Mathematics. Not open to students with placement test or SAT score high enough to place out of Intermediate Algebra (ENRICH 90). Corequisite:    ECON156
  ShareECON 156A - Bus & Econ Math Rec

• ECON 221: Macro-Econ Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Stresses the theory and policies related to national income analysis. Topics include theory of income determination, aggregate supply and demand, macroeconomic equilibrium, business cycles, employment and price levels, inflation and unemployment, wages, economic growth, investment, national debt, foreign trade and balance of payments, interest rate and demand for money, monetary and fiscal policy. Prerequisite:    ECON121 AND ECON122 AND ECON156 AND MATH150 OR EC121 OR EC122 OR EC156 OR ECO102 OR ECO103 OR ECO1101 OR ECO1102 OR MA1170 OR MA123 OR MA125 OR MA2231 OR MAT141 OR MATH160
  ShareECON 221 - Macro-Econ Theory

• ECON 222: Micro-Econ Theory

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Reviews the theory of consumer behavior and firms. Topics include output and price determination under different market systems such as perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition; production and cost analysis; allocation of resource and distribution of income; comparison of behaviors of competitive, monopolistic and oligopolistic product and resource markets; constrained and non-constrained optimization techniques and their applications to business decisions and business practices; and welfare economics. Prerequisite:    ECON122 AND ECON121 AND ECON156 OR EC121 OR EC122 OR EC156 OR EC156A OR ECO103 OR ECO1102 OR ECO310 OR ECO3301 OR MA1170 OR MA123 OR MA125 OR MA2231 OR MAT141 OR MATH150 OR MATH160
  ShareECON 222 - Micro-Econ Theory

• ECON 256: Business & Econ Statistics I

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Studies statistical applications used in Business and Economic studies. Topics include the organization and presentation of Business and Economic data and application of commonly used descriptive, correlation and inferential statistical procedures related to Business and Economic research. The course introduces students to database management software, and use the software to retrieve Business and Economics data from various sources, tabulate or graphically present data, and conduct descriptive and inferential statistical analysis.
  ShareECON 256 - Business & Econ Statistics I

• ECON 313: Labor Econ

  3.00 Credits

  Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

  
  Presents the economics of labor market, including labor supply and demand; determinants of wages, productivity; labor movements, unionism, collective bargaining and public policy. The goal of the course is to introduce students to economic analysis and empirical data to recognize historical and cultural roots of inequality by ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ability, and reflecting on those findings to gain awareness of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or ability as determinants of labor market outcomes. Prerequisite:    ECON121 AND ECON122 OR EC121 OR EC122 OR ECO102 OR ECO103 OR ECO1101 OR ECO1102
  ShareECON 313 - Labor Econ