Macroeconomics is concerned with economy-wide factors such as inflation, unemployment, and overall economic growth. The principal objective of the course is to enable students to analyze major macroeconomic issues clearly and critically. Specific topics include national income and GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates, economic growth in the context of a global economy, and monetary and fiscal policy.  Special attention is paid to how government and Federal Reserve policy influences the economy.

Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 15) an intensive, rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. Thus, in this course, we will focus specifically on analyzing verbal and visual texts (our reading) as well as on producing such texts (our writing), always in terms of rhetorical principles. ENGL 15 fulfills 3 credits of the writing and speaking requirement for general education.