Looking for another econ course to add to your summer schedule? Here is a list of our electives and selected topics courses.
Summer 1
ECON 1230: Healthcare and Medical Economics (CRN 41690)
Instructor: Thomas Barnay
Schedule: MTWR 1:30 pm – 3:10 pm
Enables students to recognize the relevance of economics to health and medical care and apply economic reasoning to understand health-related issues better; to understand the mechanism of healthcare delivery in the United States within broad social, political, and economic contexts; to explore the changing nature of health and medical care and its implications for medical practice, medical education and research, and health policy; and to analyze public policy in health and medical care from an economic perspective.
ECON 1240: Economics of Crime (CRN 41691)
Instructor: Madhavi Venkatesan
Schedule: MTWR 11:40 am – 1:20 pm
Covers economic analysis of crime and the criminal justice system. Topics include theoretical and empirical analysis of the economic causes of criminal behavior, the social costs of crime and its prevention, and the design of enforcement policies.
ECON 3440: Public Finance (CRN 41692)
Instructor: Thomas Barnay
Schedule: MTWR 9:50 am - 11:30 am
Presents an overview of the economics of government and the role of public policy. Develops guidelines to determine which economic activities are best performed by government and which are not. Also examines the impact of tax policies on efficiency, economic growth, and equity. Topics include market failures, public choice, the personal income tax, the corporate tax, sales tax, and taxation of capital and wealth, and options for reform of the tax structure. Major spending programs such as social security and education and healthcare are analyzed.
ECON 3442: Money and Banking (CRN 41063)
Instructor: Gerald Porter
Schedule: MTWR 1:30 pm – 3:10 pm
Covers the nature and functions of money, credit, and financial markets in the modern international economy. Analyzes financial markets and institutions, central banking, and the effects of interest and foreign exchange rates on the real economy.
Summer 2
ECON 1711: Economics of Sustainability (CRN 61353)
Instructor: Madhavi Venkatesan
Schedule: MTWR 3:20 pm – 5:00 pm
Studies the significance of behavioral assumptions on economic outcomes and social norms, specifically as these relate to the perceived value of resources and the broader ecosystem. Explores the importance of economic concepts such as externalities and elasticity in relation to a market-driven economy, price, and consumption behavior. Through the use of elementary life cycle analysis, introduces both the definition and responsibilities of the rational agent as these relate to the establishment of sustainable outcomes. Offers students an opportunity to articulate the relationship between economic growth and climate change and reconcile the historical relationship between social values and sustainable outcomes.
ECON 3481: Economics of Sports (CRN 61354)
Instructor: Gerald Porter
Schedule: MTWR 1:30 pm – 3:10 pm
Investigates what economics has to say about sports as an economic activity: what tools of economic analysis apply to sports, whether sports require different economic tools, what the evidence has to say about key questions. Focuses on professional team sports, although some attention is paid to college sports and to individual professional sports.
ECON 3520: History of Economic Thought (CRN 61355)
Instructor: Ilter Bakkal
Schedule: MTWR 11:40 am – 1:20 pm
Traces the evolution of Western economic thought. Covers several important periods and schools of economic thought including mercantilism, physiocracy, classical, Marxist, neoclassical, and Keynesian. Emphasizes the relationship between historical changes in society and economic thought, focusing on changes in the types of questions economists ask and the analytical tools they use.
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