Economics - ECON 202
Principles of Microeconomics
4 Credit Hours4 Lecture Hours
Course Description
This course provides students with an introduction to the theory of consumer behavior, production theory, market structure in product and resource/factor markets and microeconomic policy.
Prerequisites
(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)
- MATH 47 or a minimum score of 19 ACT-Math, 25 SAT-Math, 75 CPT-Arithmetic, 28 CPT-Elementary Algebra, 260 NGA-Arithmetic or 230 NGA-Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics.
Course Competencies
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Summarize economics and its relationship to the other social sciences.
- Explain the basic microeconomic concept.
- Illustrate graphs in economics analysis.
- Analyze graphs in economics analysis.
- Evaluate the role of rational self-interest in microeconomic analysis.
- Analyze household behavior in product and factor markets.
- Analyze producer behavior in product and factor markets.
- Characterize the four basic market models.
- Prescribe microeconomic policy to both product and resource/factor markets.
- Appraise the situation of global poverty.
- Examine the distribution of income in the U.S.
- Investigate antitrust policy in the U.S. economy.
- Solve a variety of economic problems using mathematical methods.
Course Schedule
| | 202 | 142999 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Krause K | 31/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 141211 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Heini D | 24/24/0 | Open | $0.00 | T R 01:30 PM-03:56 PM LA110
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| | 202 | 141250 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Krause K | 24/24/0 | Open | $0.00 | T R 06:00 PM-08:26 PM LA110
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| | 202 | 142978 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Badry P | 31/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 141206 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Heini D | 28/28/0 | Open | $0.00 | T R 09:00 AM-10:53 AM LA110
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| | 202 | 141210 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Howie C | 30/30/0 | Open | $0.00 | M W 01:00 PM-02:53 PM LA100
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| | 202 | 142965 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Howie C | 31/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 142997 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Howie C | 31/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 122708 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Heini D | 2/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 122927 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Heini D | 25/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 131201 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Heini D | 27/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | M W F 01:00 PM-03:45 PM BTC170
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| | 202 | 132302 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Badry P | 21/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 132708 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Badry P | 25/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 112708 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Hunt J | 0/31/0 | Closed | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 112906 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Hunt J | 1/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 112952 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Hunt J | 0/31/0 | Closed | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 111209 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Badry P | 2/28/0 | Open | $0.00 | T R 10:00 AM-11:53 AM LA110
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| | 202 | 111212 | Prin Microeconomics | MC | 4 | Heini D | 0/28/0 | Closed | $0.00 | M W 04:00 PM-05:53 PM LA130
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| | 202 | 112470 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Hunt J | 5/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |
| | 202 | 112927 | Prin Microeconomics | ONL | 4 | Hunt J | 1/31/0 | Open | $0.00 | |