SW 220-EC - The Economy and Society

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course examines important concepts of microeconomics and macroeconomics and analyzes issues such as energy prices, prescription drug costs, pollution, and globalization of markets using these concepts. It explores how economic life is intertwined with a society’s culture, politics, values, and history. Further, it considers the limitations of the economic methodology to place economics in a context with the other social sciences. (U) Annually, term varies