How do individuals, firms, and governments make decisions? What determines price? Are monopolies always bad? This course is designed to develop the basic concepts and techniques of Microeconomic theory and is applications. Considerable emphasis is placed on the basic principles of economics, methods of economic analysis, price determination, consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and the market structures. ECON 102 is an introduction to microeconomic analysis and policy. Students will analyze issues clearly and critically.
Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL15) 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.