Microeconomics deals with the behavior of individual households and firms and how government influences that behavior. The principal objective of the course is to enable students to analyze major microeconomic issues clearly and critically. Specific topics include incentives, opportunity cost, supply and demand, price determination, firm theory, production, profit maximization, consumer theory, and market structures.

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.