Economics

This course is designed to provide the student with an effective learning experience in personal finance. Emphasis is placed on helping students make sound financial decisions in the areas of budgeting, insurance, taxes, credit investments, real estate, and retirement planning.

This course analyzes the determinants of aggregate economic activity and the effects of government policies intended to achieve full employment, price stability, and economic growth. The course examines consumer and business spending, government expenditures and tax policies, and the impact of the international sector on the US economy. Topics include inflation, unemployment, interest rates, fiscal policy and the public debt, monetary policy, international trade, and finance.

This course equips the student with an understanding of fundamental economic principles and tools. It presents economic analysis with respect to demand and supply, consumer utility theory, elasticity, costs of production, perfect competition and imperfect competition, and resource markets.

Entrepreneurship - Launching Your Business is designed for degree candidates and non-matriculating students who have always wanted to launch a business but are not sure where to begin. This highly experiential course will take students through the components that are required in a business plan to receive funding from sources such as angel investment, commercial funding and social media platforms. The final deliverable will be a business plan that the student has created, and is ready to launch, and which will be reviewed by a panel of experts.