Economics Courses
ECON 1 - Principles of Microeconomics
3 units
Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities. 54 hours lecture. AA/AS GE: IV. Transfer: CSU, UC; CSUGE: D2; IGETC: 4B; C-ID# ECON 201.
Prerequisite: Elementary Algebra or a higher level of mathematics.
Recommended Course Preparation: Intermediate Algebra or a higher level of mathematics.
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Letter or Pass/No Pass
ECON 2 - Principles of Macroeconomics
3 units
Economic analysis of the theory of income determination, including national income analysis, business cycles, the consumption function, the multiplier, fiscal policy, monetary policy, money and banking, the public debt, economic growth and development, comparative economic systems and international trade. 54 hours lecture. AA/AS GE: IV. Transfer: CSU, UC; CSUGE: D2; IGETC: 4B; C-ID# ECON 202.
Prerequisite: Elementary Algebra or a higher level of mathematics.
Recommended Course Preparation: Intermediate Algebra or a higher level of mathematics.
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Letter or Pass/No Pass
ECON 5 - Economic History of the United States
3 units
Origins and historical development of major economics forces, institutions and philosophies that have shaped the U.S. market economy. 54 hours lecture. AA/AS GE: IV. Transfer: CSU, UC; CSUGE: D2; IGETC: 4B.
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Letter or Pass/No Pass
ECON 10 - General Economics
3 units
Survey of the economic system of the United States, covering such macroeconomic and microeconomic topics as supply and demand, firms' output and pricing decisions, international trade, comparative economic systems, economic growth, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, labor, and money and banking. 3 hours lecture. 54 hours lecture. AA/AS GE: IV. Transfer: CSU, UC*; CSUGE: D2; IGETC: 4B. * No UC credit if taken after ECON 1 or 2.
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Letter or Pass/No Pass