ECON 310-1 Microeconomics I
Course Description
This course is concerned with the analysis of consumer and producer behavior in market economies. It is the foundation for all the 300-level courses offered by the Economics Department. It introduces students to key concepts and analytical techniques in modern microeconomic theory. The first part of the course examines the demand side of the market: consumers’ preferences, individual and market demand. The second part examines the supply side: cost functions, output decisions, and technology adoption. The last part examines welfare and government intervention in perfectly competitive and monopolistic markets. Equilibrium in oligopolistic markets is discussed in the follow-up course Economics 310-2.
ECON 349 Industrial Economics
Course Description
The course studies non-competitive markets, both monopolistic behavior as well as strategic firm behavior in markets with few competitors (oligopoly). Examples of topics include: price discrimination, durable goods, product differentiation, entry, collusion and strategic behavior.
STAT 210 Intro Statistics for the Social Sciences
Course Description
This course covers descriptive statistics, probability, random variables, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and significance tests, and, at the end of the term, an introduction to regression.