2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ECN 236 - Principles of Economics-Micro

ECN 2202.
Description: An analysis of markets. Topics include consumer choice, demand and supply, analyses of market structures, market failures, and current thought.

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Concepts, terms and applications
  2. Economics diversity
  3. Techniques of research
  4. Consumer choice
  5. Demand and supply
  6. Analyses of market structure
  7. Market failure
  8. Current thought

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Define relevant terms and concepts and apply to problems and issues. (1)
  2. Analyze how diversity contributes to differences in human economic interaction or in the world economic views. (2)
  3. Explain applicable methods that guide research in economics. (3)
  4. Use the analysis of choice to explain and predict consumer behavior. (4)
  5. Use the models of demand and supply to analyze economic issues. (5)
  6. Evaluate the dominant analyses in the microeconomics literature. (6)
  7. Identify market failures and explain why these occur. (7)
  8. Synthesize microeconomics concepts and analyses in the analysis of real-world issues. (8)