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  • 6.00 Credits

    Engages student teachers in all aspects of the teaching day through supervised practice in classrooms with certified teachers. Through this culminating experience, student teachers will: Create a safe and respectful learning environment; plan, implement, differentiate, and evaluate instruction; facilitate activities and assessments; make effective use of classroom resources; evaluate their own teaching in order to improve skills as a teacher; and identify and change teaching based on feedback from the co-op, university supervisor, and self-assessment. Corequisite:    ECED 480
  • 3.00 Credits

    Provides collegial and professional support to student teachers and assists them in becoming reflective practitioners. The student teaching seminar provides opportunities to synthesize the student teaching experience and to advance students towards the world of professional teaching. Through collaboration with university supervisors, cooperating teachers, parents, and other members of the larger school community, candidates will develop the skills, dispositions, and competencies needed to enter the teaching profession as reflective practitioners who value diversity, engage in professional development, and utilize best practices. Corequisite:    ECED 480
  • 1.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Provides students with advanced skills and knowledge related to the application, investigation, research, and analytical processing of field-based practices for education and/or interpreting. Students will pursue the integration of one or more ofthese processes independently with faculty guidance associated with competencies within the program of study. Students will complete and submit a final product.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Develops concepts and tools related to Macroeconomics such as the nature of economic problems, national income accounting and its determination, business cycle and economic growth, monetary and fiscal policies. The course introduces students to the behavior of the economy as a whole, and its interaction with international markets through trade, investment, and capital flow; and it reviews schools of thought in Macroeconomics with differing views on how the markets and market-participates operate.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Develops conceptions and methods related to Microeconomics principles to study individuals and firms' decision-making process, and behavior under different market conditions. Students analyze the rationale behind individuals and firms' decision-making process and how they behave under different market conditions, apply the concepts to study the outcomes under different market structures, and evaluate the societal significance and efficiencies under different market structures, and study the impact of government taxation and regulation on markets' efficiencies.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the basic principles of economics and their application to health care policy issues. The goal of the course is to provide registered nurses, and students in fields related to health sciences such as speech pathology, audiology, gerontology, psychology, and public health the foundational knowledge of economics to help them better understand the policies that shape health reform and the implications for patients, nurses, practitioners, and health care.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Presents an introduction to the mathematical tools frequently employed in Business and Economics. Topics include use of algebraic expressions to translate Business and Economic concepts into mathematical formulas; application and graph of special functions to study Business and Economic models; and the use of the time value of money in these models. Concepts covered in the course are always related back to the important Business and Economics models or principles.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Helps students be more successful in understanding how mathematics can be used to design, evaluate, and solve quantitative problems related to Business and Economics. This is an introductory mathematics course required to be taken simultaneously with Business and Economics Mathematics. Not open to students with placement test or SAT score high enough to place out of Intermediate Algebra (ENRICH 90). Corequisite:    ECON 156
  • 3.00 Credits

    Stresses the theory and policies related to national income analysis. Topics include theory of income determination, aggregate supply and demand, macroeconomic equilibrium, business cycles, employment and price levels, inflation and unemployment, wages, economic growth, investment, national debt, foreign trade and balance of payments, interest rate and demand for money, monetary and fiscal policy.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Reviews the theory of consumer behavior and firms. Topics include output and price determination under different market systems such as perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition; production and cost analysis; allocation of resource and distribution of income; comparison of behaviors of competitive, monopolistic and oligopolistic product and resource markets; constrained and non-constrained optimization techniques and their applications to business decisions and business practices; and welfare economics.
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