Course Descriptions

DANC 331 - Sex, Race, and Body Politics in Dance

1. explain the role of Native, African, Asian, Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans as well as Americans of all sizes/shapes and abilities/disabilities in shaping the American cultural voice and the voice of diversity has impacted contemporary dance and performance;
2. identify how artistic expression for all people is limited by portrayals in mainstream media;
3. demonstrate greater control over their individual artistry when collaborating in creation and performance of dance/theater pieces;
4. create work based on authentic cultural images of Native, African, Asian Latino/a and LGBTQ Americans;
5. create work that engages the potential of performers of all sizes/shapes and abilities/disabilities.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

DANC 332 - World Dance and Cultures

1. Upon completion of this course student will be able to;
2. relate concepts from cultural dances to their own lives today and the ongoing human search for meaning in everyday life;
3. understand influences of traditional world dance forms on diverse cultural groups here in the U.S;
4. understand the ways different cultural groups in the U.S. influence one another and evolve together, as related to dance;
5. understand diverse world dance forms and artists in the context of spirituality, myth, folklore, history and music;
6. analyse dance based on culturally-specific criteria, while understanding that art is subjective and should inspire dialogue, not reductive answers;
7. work collaboratively and respectfully with peers in creative process activities;
8. apply theories about dance-making through the participation in cultural dances and the creation of original performance material.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

DANC 333 - Cross-Cultural Identity, Creativity, & Social Justice Abroad

1. discuss and practice respectful cultural etiquette for a foreign culture, comparing and contrasting this etiquette to what they are familiar with;
2. compare and contrast aspects of identity, creativity, and social justice in a foreign culture to how they manifest in the United States;
3. identify how artistic expression is influenced by cultural identity, tradition, and relationships to the complexities of body politics and social justice movements;
4. create and discuss art, performance, and media emerging out of their own identities intersecting with issues of identity and body politics in other countries;
5. participate in and discuss creative expression across cultures that engages the potential of people of all identities, and especially those who have been historically underrepresented;
6. identify the differences between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation, and discuss how to engage in inter-cultural exchanges that foster social justice and understanding.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. use a disciplinary perspective to analyze issues of social justice and equity;
2. describe the challenges to achieving social justice; and
3. identify ways in which individuals and/or groups can contribute to social justice within local communities, nations, or the world.

DANC 341 - Dance for Children

1. articulate, in oral and written work, the importance of creativity and dance in K-
2. ducation; 2. appreciate dance as a powerful form of communication and art in culture;
3. employ the five dance elements, Mary Joyce’s PEG method, childhood development concepts, and Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences theory in curriculum development and implementation;
4. develop and teach age-appropriate creative dance lesson plans that meet California State Visual and Performing Arts Framework Standards when faced with teaching dance or using dance as a tool for teaching other content;
5. think critically and respond articulately when observing and and analyzing creative dance works;
6. work collaboratively and respectfully with peers in creative exercises to further develop understanding of self and others;
7. Exhibit intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity when participating in creative endeavors.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

DANC 342 - The Dance Experience

1. articulate, in oral and written work, the importance of creativity and dance in education;
2. appreciate dance as a powerful form of communication and art in culture;
3. employ popular pedagogy and educational theory in curriculum development and implementation;
4. develop and teach age-appropriate creative dance lesson plans that meet California State Visual and Performing Arts Framework Standards when faced with teaching dance or using dance as a tool for teaching other content;
5. think critically and respond articulately when observing and and analyzing creative dance works;
6. work collaboratively and respectfully with peers in creative exercises to further develop understanding of self and others;
7. Exhibit intellect, imagination, sensibility and sensitivity when participating in creative endeavors.

DANC 345 - How to Watch Dance

1. distinguish the role of movement in the process of creating production themes of value to society;
2. interpret the contributions of each creative collaborator to a performance as helps to communicate issues, cultural perspective, and meaning;
3. challenge known approaches to learning, creative process, goals and personal growth when working in diverse groups;
4. understand the work involved in production, especially the roles of performers, designers, and technicians in creation of a performance.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

DANC 360 - Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble Performance

1. create multiple approaches to improvisation, choreography, composition and writing of original dance/music/theatre material;
2. discuss issues of gender, ability/disability, sexual orientation, body size, neurological diversity, ethnicity, economic class, and body politics in relation to social justice and artistic expression;
3. work together effectively in an extremely diverse creative environment;
4. perform original works in studio settings created collaboratively or by a director.

DANC 362 - Inclusive Interdisciplinary Ensemble

1. create multiple approaches to improvisation, choreography, composition and writing of original dance/music/theatre material;
2. discuss issues of gender, ability/disability, sexual orientation, body size, neurological diversity, ethnicity, economic class, and body politics in relation to social justice and artistic expression;
3. work together effectively in an extremely diverse creative environment;
4. perform original works in studio settings created collaboratively or by a director.

DANC 370 - Dance Ensemble Performance

1. use multiple approaches to improvisation, choreography, composition and writing of original dance/ music/ theatre material;
2. create meaningful, innovative ways to respond in rehearsal and performance to questions of societal and community importance;
3. work collaboratively in an extremely diverse creative environment;
4. perform original works directed by amateurs and professionals in formal studio settings.

DANC 371 - Dance Stage and Screen Ensemble

1. Learn and refine contemporary dance technique skills;
2. Explore multiple approaches to improvisation and choreography of original movement;
3. Develop motor, spatial and expressive skills as a performer;
4. Examine the individual artistic trajectory in the context of dance and performance from different cultures and time periods;
5. Learn how to give and receive/use constructive critical feedback;
6. Perform original works directed by students and faculty.

DANC 372 - Dance Creative Process Ensemble

1. continue developing motor, spatial and expressive skills to enhance performance;
2. explore multiple approaches to staging, producing and presenting original choreography for cross-disciplinary, site-specific and screen dances;
3. give and receive constructive critical feedback;
4. present a professional portfolio and a Five Year Career Plan;
5. perform original works directed by others.

DANC 401 - Movement Analysis

1. recognize their own patterns of movement and those of others;
2. explore the role that movement practices from China, India, Indonesia, West Africa and the Middle East have impacted dance, martial arts, theater and somatic theory;
3. learn to observe, analyze and demonstrate functional and expressive ideas through movement;
4. explore how attitudes toward gender, culture, disability, religion, body size and age shape our assumptions about what movement means;
5. apply movement analysis to performing arts, teaching, coaching, sports and other movement practices.

1. demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply the principles, methodologies, value systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities;
2. analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human; and
3. demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts and humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

1. describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
2. identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
3. analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
4. recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.

DANC 490 - Independent Study

DANC 493 - Dance Capstone

1. solve problems of production by creating roles, dancing, designing, managing, building, directing, or choreographing performances that address issues of life in striking and remarkable ways;
2. conduct background research, evaluate scripts, and analyze diverse cultural styles for use in a performance;
3. reflect on performance techniques and concepts of other performers and apply high standards of reflection to their own production work;
4. perform an essential role in production, during rehearsal, or on stage.

DANC 497 - Issues in Dance

MGMT 375 - Launching and Scaling New Ventures

1. Understand the nature of the entrepreneurial process and appreciate requirements for the creation of a new venture, the kinds of obstacles encountered, and approaches for overcoming those obstacles.
2. Demonstrate a mastery of opportunity recognition and assessment and appreciate and master the issues surrounding implementation of an entrepreneurial idea.
3. Understand what constitutes viable business models, market fit, and business planning for a new venture.
4. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and address the obstacles and challenges to scaling and growing new ventures and demonstrate the ability to identify organizational capacities essential to a scaling effort.

MGMT 376 - Business Model Innovation

1. Understand and be able to explain the purpose, role and importance of business models, including their key elements and the interactions and interdependencies among the elements.
2. Become familiar with cutting-edge business models used by new and established companies and be able to evaluate their strengths and limitations.
3. Demonstrate the ability to analyze business models utilizing appropriate frameworks, tools and techniques and make recommendations for business model improvement.
4. Demonstrate the ability to evaluate, design, and recommend innovative business models for entrepreneurial new ventures or businesses experiencing significant changes in their external environment.
5. Understand the role of business models in companies’ pursuit of innovation and competitiveness in modern markets.

MGMT 377 - Social and Environmental Entrepreneurship

1. Understand and be able to explain social and environmental entrepreneurship and how the principles of entrepreneurship can be applied to solving social and environmental problems.
2. Learn how to use entrepreneurship tools, methods, approaches, and business models that organizations can employ for making a company socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable.
3. Demonstrate the ability to identify and refine business model components of a proposed solution to an environmental or social problem.
4. Demonstrate the ability to develop a business plan and investment pitch for creating and scaling a social or environmental venture

MGMT 378 - Entrepreneurship Practicum

1. Understand how to identify problems and opportunities for entrepreneurial ventures
2. Analyze industries, competitors, markets, and customers in order to identify entrepreneurial opportunities
3. Apply analysis and customer needs assessment to design products/services
4. Develop a business plan and create an effective investment pitch

MGMT 673 - Entrepreneurship Strategy

1. Create and exploit innovative technologies, products, services, business ideas, and market opportunities.
2. Learn the customer discovery process of gaining empathy, understanding customer needs and wants, getting feedback from customers, prototyping solutions, and testing a value proposition.
3. Understand how to present an entrepreneurial pitch, articulate customer needs and value propositions, and raise investment capital.
4. Learn to go from the idea phase to action and implementation, including development, manufacturing, marketing, and validation through sales.

MGMT 674 - Corporate Entrepreneurship

1. Identify, examine, and clarify the differences between independent entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship.
2. Learn how corporate entrepreneurship provides a framework for change and innovation in companies in order to cope effectively with new competitive realities in the global marketplace.
3. Understand the challenges that limit corporate entrepreneurship and how to successfully navigate them.
4. Learn how to use the various tools, methods, approaches, and architectures that organizations are employing for making an established company entrepreneurial.

ECON 100 - Economics of Public Issues

1. Apply economic reasoning to the analysis of selected contemporary economic problems;
2. Recognize and identify situations leading to market failures;
3. Discuss the efficiency and equity implications of government interference in markets.

ECON 101 - US Economic History and Institutions

1. Describe important economic and political events in US history and the connections among them.;
2. Explain how the unique backgrounds and social experiences of groups within the US population shape different views toward economic policy;
3. Identify key economic legislation, from the US Constitution to recent laws, and the historical context that motivated them;
4. Analyze the various processes by which economic policy is made in practice and whom these processes tend to empower;
5. Discuss the confluences and trade-offs between individual economic liberties and social objectives.

1. specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
2. explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
3. discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
4. explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

1. Explain the significance or interpretation of major historical events in a period of at least a hundred years of American history;
2. Describe the contributions of major ethnic and social groups in a period of at least a hundred years of American history;
3. Explain the role of at least three of the following in the development of American culture: politics, economics, social movements, and/or geography.

1. Describe the development of the Constitution from the political philosophies of its framers to its later interpretation and amendment;
2. Explain how the Constitution influenced the development of American political institutions and government;
3. Explain citizen rights and responsibilities under the Constitution.

ECON 102 - California Economic History and Institutions

1. Explain how the California constitution empowers citizens to influence legislation, in the context of economic policy initiatives from state history;
2. Distinguish between federal, state, and local government powers and funding;
3. Analyze the relationship between public policy and economic and social outcomes in California;
4. Discuss the role played by transformative economic events, such as the Gold Rush and the advent of IT technology, in California’s development;
5. Compare the economic conditions and trends in different geographic regions of California;
6. Understand the entrepreneurial ecosystem in today’s California economy.

ECON 103 - Economics of Creative Industries

1. Apply basic concepts in microeconomics to explain the economic organization of the creative industries;
2. Understand the production, consumption, and pricing of cultural goods;
3. Describe and evaluate various government programs to support the performing arts;
4. Describe the economic rationale and consequences for creativity of intellectual property rights;
5. Identify economic challenges facing specific industries including music, film, performing arts, book publishing, and broadcasting.

ECON 105 - Corporate Misconduct: Crimes, Crashes, Crises

1. Link formal and informal incentives to individual actions and their effects on the behavior of an organization;
2. Discuss the choices made by, and alternatives available to, individuals in dysfunctional corporate environments;
3. Identify the fundamental problems relating to the separation of ownership and control in corporations;
4. Explain the context of, and reasons behind, some of the famous corporate failures;
5. Outline the history of major stock market and financial crises in the United States;
6. Understand the motivations behind, and main provisions of key regulatory legislation that pertains to corporate governance and financial reporting in the United States.

ECON 106 - Urban Policy, Social Justice, and the Environment

1. Summarize the history of residential segregation in the United States;
2. Identify key policies that sustain racial and class segregation and policies that counteract it;
3. Identify policies and economic conditions that led to widespread suburbanization both in the United States and globally;
4. Describe current geographic patterns of employment, income, residential sorting, and housing prices within and between metropolitan areas;
5. Assess the effects of various urban and land-use policies on housing prices;
6. Assess the effects of various urban and land-use policies on environmental sustainability.

1. specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
2. explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
3. discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
4. explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

ECON 200 - Principles of Microeconomics

1. Understand how households (demand) and businesses (supply) interact in various market structures to determine price and quantity of a good produce;
2. Identify how different changes in the determinants of supply and demand affect price and quantity in a model of perfect competition;
3. Apply the model of perfect competition to predict the price, output, and welfare implications of several public policy interventions, including taxation, minimum wages, and rent control;
4. Interpret the meaning of marginal revenue and marginal cost and their relevance for firm profitability;
5. Understand the major characteristics of different market structures and the implications for the behavior of producers.

1. specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
2. explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
3. discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
4. explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

ECON 205 - Principles of Macroeconomics

1. Define key macroeconomic indicators, including GDP, the rate of inflation, the rate of unemployment, the government budget deficit, the trade deficit, and the exchange rate;
2. Correctly identify real and nominal quantities;
3. Discuss the historic long-run and short-run behavior of US macroeconomic indicators;
4. Compare the US to other economies on macroeconomic indicators;
5. Explain how and why the Fed manages US interest rates;
6. Contrast classical and Keynesian arguments about the effect of government spending on the economy.

1. specify how social, political, economic, and environmental systems and/or behavior are interwoven;
2. explain how humans individually and collectively relate to relevant sociocultural, political, economic, and/or environmental systems-how they produce, resist, and transform them;
3. discuss and debate issues from the course’s disciplinary perspective in a variety of cultural, historical, contemporary, and/or potential future contexts; and
4. explore principles, methodologies, value systems, and ethics employed in social scientific inquiry.

ECON 210 - Quantitative Methods for Economists

1. Graph various functional forms with an emphasis on demand and cost functions;
2. Calculate the maximum and minimum of algebraic functions with applications to utility, cost, and profit functions;
3. Understand basic concepts in probability including random variables and probability distributions;
4. Calculate and use various sample statistics to estimate population parameters;
5. Estimate and interpret the results of linear regressions with one regressor using a modern software package.

ECON 211 - Programming for Data Analysts

1. Learn basic programming languages that are useful for econometric analysis;
2. Understand how an algorithm works;
3. Understand how to manage data;
4. Learn how to graph and display the results of programming.

ECON 300 - Microeconomic Theory I

1. Use supply and demand to determine changes in market equilibrium (price and output), changes in welfare, and analyze the impact of government policies;
2. Model consumer choice and solve for utility-maximizing consumption bundles;
3. Derive demand curves from utility functions and identify income and substitution effects;
4. Calculate cost functions from firm production functions;
5. Determine the profit maximizing price and output for a firm operating in a competitive environment.

ECON 301 - Microeconomic Theory II

1. Determine profit maximizing price and output for a monopoly firm;
2. Evaluate various policies for regulating monopolies;
3. Be able to determine profit maximizing price and output for a firm in a quasi-competitive market (oligopoly or monopolistic competition);
4. Be able to apply the concepts of supply and demand to markets with external costs and benefits;
5. Understand the nature and consequences of general equilibrium (Pareto optimality).

ECON 305 - Macroeconomic Theory

1. Relate aggregate patterns to individual optimization in consumption choices, investment behavior, international trade, and labor demand and supply;
2. Predict the effect of changes in macroeconomic variables on aggregate demand and aggregate supply;
3. Apply the Solow model to determine how changes in resources, behavior, and technology affect a country’s growth path;
4. Calculate total factor productivity, and decompose GDP into trend and cyclical components;
5. Distinguish financial crises, such as the Great Depression and the Great Recession, from regular downturns in the business cycle;
6. Explain the connection between budget and trade deficits, and discuss the implications and sustainability of the national debt.

ECON 306 - Money, Banking, & Financial Intermediaries

1. Understand the importance of the financial sector in promoting savings and directing their use;
2. Distinguish between money and other forms of wealth, and their sources;
3. Explain the determinants of the level and term structure of interest rates;
4. Explain the likely path of interest rates, following a change in monetary policy;
5. Understand the various money and capital market instruments.

ECON 310 - Introduction to Econometrics

1. Compute multivariate regression coefficients and standard errors for economic data sets on a computer;
2. Interpret what multivariate regression estimates imply about the relationship between variables;
3. Identify the assumptions upon which regression model variations are based;
4. Interpret how confidence intervals and standard errors describe estimation precision; 4. Identity estimation issues such as biased selection, non-linearity, heteroskedasticity and mulitcollinearity and explain their implications for regression analysis.

ECON 320 - History of Economic Thought

1. Understand the evolution of modern microeconomic theories from the ancient Greeks, Medieval, and the Classical writers;
2. Understand the evolution of modern macroeconomic theories from the ancient Greeks, the Mercantilists, the Physiocrats, and the Classical writers;
3. Understand the sources of controversy in modern economics: mainstream and heterodox approaches;
4. Understand the sources of competing economic policy perspectives;
5. Appreciate well-developed economic theories and distinguish them from inconsistent ones.

ECON 333 - Economics of Workplace Management

ECON 200.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring Alternate Years


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Explain how imperfect information on workers’ productivity and investment in skills influence firms’ recruitment and turnover;
2. Apply optimal decision making and organizational structure to job design;
3. Apply the principal-agent framework to construct compensation and incentive schemes.

ECON 334 - Economics of Information and Organizations

1. Identify instances of moral hazard and adverse selection and propose ways to address these problems;
2. Solve for optimal contracts under symmetric and asymmetric information in some specific settings and interpret them as incentive schemes;
3. Find pooling and separating equilibria in simple games with uncertainty and relate them to the economic value and cost of information;
4. Describe incentive problems inherent in the separation of ownership and control in public corporations, and the role of internal governance mechanisms and markets for corporate debt and equity in mitigating them;
5. Recognize examples of signaling and screening in labor and financial markets.

ECON 335 - Introduction to Urban Economics

1. Use microeconomic theory to explain the location and structure of cities;
2. Assess the impact of city ordinances (such as zoning or growth controls) on urban economic development;
3. Explain how land prices and the quantity and price of housing are determined in an urban area;
4. Explain the economic underpinnings of selected urban issues (such as poverty, transportation, education, employment).

ECON 337 - Sports Economics

1. Evaluate current topics in sports using economic principles and ideas;
2. Apply microeconomic concepts to the study of team decision-making;
3. Assess the costs and benefits to publicly financed stadiums and the hosting of large sporting events like the Olympics or World Cup;
4. Understand how the labor market for professional athletes works. Analyze current economic issues surrounding college athletics.

ECON 350 - International Economics

1. Apply theoretical models and theories of trade to investigate the various reasons why countries engage in international trade, including the direction and volume of trade between nations;
2. Analyze and discern causes and effects of trade restrictions and policies, like tariffs, quotas, subsidies, export taxes, and others;
3. Illustrate the effects of labor migration, capital and other factors’ mobility across nations;
4. Understand international transactions’ accounting methods, such as the balance of payments, and explain why some countries run deficits and others run surpluses;
5. Analyze the exchange rate determination through various exchange rate regimes, such as gold standards and floating exchange rate mechanisms.

ECON 360 - Environmental Economics

1. Apply basic principles of economics to environmental issues;
2. Explain how something can be both “environmentally destructive” and “economically optimal”; and how something can be environmentally beneficial and economically suboptimal;
3. Know basic economic models pertaining to the use of depletable resources; depletable vs. renewable resources;
4. Understand the economics of water conservation; the impact of alternative property rights structures;
5. Understand basic approaches to “optimal” pollution and optimal pollution control.

ECON 370 - Health Economics and Public Policy

1. Describe the unique economics of the health care system in the United States;
2. Describe the differences between public and private insurance systems;
3. Describe the role of health policy in shaping incentives for consumers and providers;
4. Evaluate hypothetical and existing health policies using economic analysis;
5. Devise feasible policies to solve health care system problems using economic analysis;
6. Evaluate the strength and weakness of analyses in health care economics.

ECON 380 - Managerial Economics and Business Strategy

1. Apply economic principles to management decisions;
2. Distinguish relevant from irrelevant costs for economic decision-making;
3. Understand the basic forces governing the operation of competitive markets;
4. Explain what input use and production decisions maximize profits;
5. Articulate the conditions that give rise to pricing power;
6. Determine how a firm with pricing power can maximize profits;
7. Determine if and how a firm can engage in price discrimination.

1. demonstrate advanced and/or focused science or quantitative content knowledge in a specific scientific field, using appropriate vocabulary and referencing appropriate concepts (such as models, uncertainties, hypotheses, theories, and technologies);
2. apply advanced quantitative skills (such as statistics, algebraic solutions, interpretation of graphical data) to scientific problems and evaluate scientific claims;
3. demonstrate understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and the experimental and empirical methodologies used in science to investigate a scientific question or issue; and
4. apply science content knowledge to contemporary scientific issues (e.g., global warming) and technologies (e.g., cloning), where appropriate.

1. identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
2. analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
3. describe key threats to environmental sustainability; and
4. explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.

ECON 383 - Game-Theoretic Reasoning: The Science of Interactive Behavior

1. Identify strategic situations in different contexts that are suitable for game-theoretic analysis;
2. Formulate the basic ingredients of a game-theoretic model, including players, strategies, payoffs, and information;
3. Compute equilibria in pure and mixed strategies;
4. Analyze interactive decision-making and behavior, using game theory, in applications from various disciplines.

1. demonstrate advanced and/or focused science or quantitative content knowledge in a specific scientific field, using appropriate vocabulary and referencing appropriate concepts (such as models, uncertainties, hypotheses, theories, and technologies);
2. apply advanced quantitative skills (such as statistics, algebraic solutions, interpretation of graphical data) to scientific problems and evaluate scientific claims;
3. demonstrate understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and the experimental and empirical methodologies used in science to investigate a scientific question or issue; and
4. apply science content knowledge to contemporary scientific issues (e.g., global warming) and technologies (e.g., cloning), where appropriate.

ECON 385 - Global Economic Analysis

1. Understand the effect of international trade on living standards;
2. Explain classic and modern trade theories and their implications for the global location of industries;
3. Analyze the factors that determine currency exchange rates and the impact of changes in exchange rates on exports and imports;
4. Discuss the political economy of tariffs and trade policies;
5. Access international macroeconomic data.

ECON 397 - Issues in Economic Analysis

1. Learn how to think critically about public policy issues;
2. Understand how microeconomic concepts can be applied to the analysis of a variety of public policy issues;
3. Understand how empirical research methods can be applied to a variety of public policy issues;
4. Understand the forces that shape the way in which public policy decisions are actually made.

ECON 398 - Internship

ECON 400 - Game Theory

1. Explain the fundamentals of game theory starting with basic terms such as strategies, payoffs, and information;
2. Compute equilibria for normal form games and mixed strategy extensions of normal form games;
3. Compute equilibria for sequential games;
4. Explain how various equilibrium concepts and refinements differ and when to apply each;
5. Identify and analyze strategic interactions in business and policy situations.

ECON 430 - Introduction to Industrial Organization

1. Critically assess the efficacy of current industrial policy using microeconomic theory;
2. Explain the costs and benefits of regulation and antitrust policy;
3. Effectively communicate the structure, conduct, performance paradigm and its shortcomings and extensions;
4. Apply critical thinking to analyze strategic behavior in industry.

ECON 431 - Economics of Innovation & Intellectual Property

1. Understand and estimate the relationship between innovation and economic growth;
2. Understand the costs and benefits of the U.S. patent system as a mechanism to stimulate invention;
3. Understand current models of the diffusion process for technological innovations, including the role of network effects;
4. Understand the role of licensing, commercialization, and disruptive technologies in the process of technological change;
5. Analyze the implications of the U.S. copyright system for creativity.

ECON 433 - Introduction to Labor Economics

1. Apply labor supply theory to analyze public policy questions;
2. Apply labor demand theory to analyze public policy questions;
3. Integrate labor supply and demand theory to understand how equilibrium wages are determined;
4. Use search theory to understand the role of equilibrium unemployment and labor market policies that affect it;
5. Use and interpret economic data to explore labor market questions.

ECON 450 - Introduction to Financial Economics

1. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to;
2. Explain the basics of microeconomic models of inter-temporal decision making;
3. Apply insights from information economics to study financial crises and failures of financial markets;
4. Analyze the impact of borrowing constraints and collateral constraints both on consumption-saving decisions and in the aggregate economy;
5. Explain the significance of public finance programs and regulations, and their consequences on interest rates, credit supply, and welfare.

ECON 456 - Introduction to Monetary Theory

1. Understand the various concepts of money and money substitutes;
2. Understand the sources of money and money substitutes;
3. Explain and anticipate the consequences of changes in the quantity of money on such nominal variables as interest rates, the price level, inflation, and the exchange rate;
4. Explain and anticipate the consequences of changes in the quantity of money on such economic variables as the gross domestic product and unemployment;
5. Understand the sources of competing theories of monetary policy.

ECON 460 - Introduction to Public Economics

1. Apply microeconomic theories to public decision making;
2. Explain public goods, externalities, and government interventions using microeconomic theories;
3. Critically assess various U.S. policies from practical and theoretical economic perspectives;
4. Effectively communicate the rationales for government intervention in the economy and their shortcomings.

ECON 490 - Independent Study

ECON 497 - Special Topics in Economic Analysis

1. Learn how to think critically about public policy issues;
2. Understand how microeconomic concepts can be applied to the analysis of a variety of public policy issues;
3. Understand how empirical research methods can be applied to a variety of public policy issues;
4. Understand the forces that shape the way in which public policy decisions are actually made.

ECON 498 - Internship

ECON 499 - Capstone: Empirical Analysis

1. Apply a programming language or statistical software to econometric problems;
2. Apply econometric techniques to address econometric problems, such as omitted variables, endogeneity, and measurement error;
3. Apply microeconomic theory in an empirical project. Apply macroeconomic theory in an empirical project.

ECON 645 - Financial Economics

1. Analyze and solve dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.
2. Apply dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models to price financial assets.
3. Analyze liquidity risk and banking crises.
4. Develop presentations on academic articles related to financial markets, central banking, and monetary policy.

ECON 600 - Advanced Quantitative Methods for Economists

1. Apply single-variable calculus to economic decision making, including pricing and profit maximization.
2. Apply constrained optimization methods to economic decision making, including utility maximization and cost minimization.
3. Understand important concepts in probability theory, including discrete and continuous random variables and probability distributions, and their applications to economics.
4. Calculate and use various sample statistics to estimate population parameters, and understand their relationship to sample coefficient estimates in econometrics.

ECON 600A - Foundations of Economic Theory Applications

 

Co-requisites: ECON 600.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Analyze microeconomic models using mathematical tools and graphs.
2. Deepen the understanding of economic theories and intuitions.
3. Carry out logical inductions from assumptions to conclusions.
4. Use microeconomic models as frameworks for analyzing real-life economic phenomena.

ECON 601 - Advanced Microeconomics

1. Define interactive economic situations in precise game-theoretic language.
2. Model imperfect and incomplete information.
3. Formulate mathematically the appropriate notion of Nash equilibrium depending on the information structures and types of strategies.
4. Derive pure-strategy and mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in games with different information structures.

ECON 605 - Advanced Macroeconomics

1. Model choices underlying macroeconomic phenomena.
2. Solve micro-based models of macroeconomic phenomena.
3. Explain issues that are particular to dynamic choices.
4. Apply dynamic optimization techniques.

ECON 606 - Managerial Economics

1. Apply economic reasoning to recognize business problems facing an organization.
2. Use economic analytical tools to solve business problems facing an organization.
3. Recognize and exploit opportunities for profit and value creation.
4. Think and act strategically.
5. Design pricing strategies to maximize profit.

ECON 610 - Advanced Econometrics

1. Describe statistical approaches that are available for analyzing economic data.
2. Select econometric techniques appropriate to specific empirical problems.
3. State the assumptions underlying econometric techniques and explain consequences of violating those assumptions.
4. Apply econometric techniques using appropriate software.

ECON 610A - Advanced Econometrics Applications

1. Describe statistical approaches that are available for analyzing economic data.
2. Select econometric techniques appropriate to specific empirical problems.
3. State the assumptions underlying econometric techniques and explain consequences of violating those assumptions.
4. Apply econometric techniques using appropriate software.

ECON 611 - Computational Methods for Economists

ECON 615 - Time Series Econometrics and Forecasting

1. Distinguish cross-sectional and time series data in economics.
2. Be acquainted with the main concepts and theories of time series analysis.
3. Identify time series models that provides good fit for economic and financial data.
4. Apply time series forecasting tools to predict future trends in economics and finance.

ECON 623 - Market Design

1. Understand the design of organized markets, focusing on efficient organization and the incentives created by market rules.
2. Understand e-commerce and online auction markets.
3. Understand government auctions of natural resources, procurement auctions.
4. Understand matching markets (students to classes or schools, medical residents to hospitals, kidneys to recipients).

ECON 625 - Urban Economics

1. Explain the location and structure of cities with economic theories.
2. Assess the impact of city ordinances (such as zoning or growth controls) on urban economic development. 
3. Explain how land prices and the quantity and price of housing are determined in an urban area.
4. Explain the economic underpinnings of selected urban issues (such as poverty, transportation, education, employment).

ECON 627 - Personnel Economics

1. Apply labor supply theory to analyze public policy questions.
2. Apply labor demand theory to analyze public policy questions.
3. Integrate labor supply and demand theory to understand how equilibrium wages are determined.
4. Use search theory to understand the role of equilibrium unemployment and labor market policies that affect it.
5. Use and interpret economic data to explore labor market questions.

ECON 636 - Monetary Theory

1. Understand the importance of the financial sector in promoting savings and directing their use.
2. Distinguish between money and other forms of wealth, and their sources.
3. Explain the determinants of the level and term structure of interest rates.
4. Explain the likely path of interest rates, following a change in monetary policy.
5. Understand the various money and capital market instruments.

ECON 640 - Public Economics

1. Apply microeconomic theories to public decision making.
2. Explain public goods, externalities, and government interventions using microeconomic theories.
3. Effectively communicate the rationales for government intervention in the economy and their shortcomings.
4. Understand political economy and economic regulation.
5. Analyze centralized/decentralized economic institutions.

ECON 647 - International Economic Development

1. Use their understanding of international trade and finance models to better identify the impact on the global operations of firms from changes in macroeconomic, international trade and investment policies.
2. Understand how interest rates, inflation rates, asset prices and exchange rates are determined and affect each other so as to use this knowledge in practical decision making.
3. Understand the workings and roles of various international economic institutions, (such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization), and how they may impact the global operation and decision making of firms.
4. Use their knowledge about financial instruments, macroeconomic policy and the mechanics of finance to develop optimal hedging, speculation, risk management, and portfolio allocation strategies.

ECON 660 - Industrial Organization

1. Critically assess the efficacy of current industrial policy using microeconomic theory.
2. Explain the costs and benefits of regulation and antitrust policy.
3. Effectively communicate the structure, conduct, performance paradigm and its shortcomings and extensions.
4. Apply critical thinking to analyze strategic behavior in industry.

ECON 661 - Strategic Pricing

1. Solve for equilibrium in game-theoretic models of pricing and price discrimination.
2. Identify how models of product differentiation, advertising, and pricing explain the observed action of firms.
3. Compute estimates of demand functions using instrumental variables to correct simultaneity bias.
4. Compute estimates of demand functions in a discrete choice framework.

ECON 665 - Corporate Governance & Entrepreneurship

1. Apply incentive theory to understanding governance systems and executive behavior.
2. Understand the effect of funding sources and organization structure on firm performance.
3. Understand collective decision making and bargaining.
4. Analyze issues specific to new ventures.

ECON 667 - Project Analysis

1. Understand the theory and practice of project evaluation.
2. Explain the conceptual basis of cost-benefit analysis.
3. Understand the tradeoffs between economic efficiency and equity.
4. Use cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis to assess a public or private project.
5. Use risk, uncertainty, and sensitivity analysis to enhance a typical project evaluation.

ECON 670 - Economic Research Practices

1. Formulate well-defined research questions.
2. Identify and evaluate the relevant primary economic literature on a research topic.
3. Analyze the structure of arguments in primary economic literature.
4. Discuss the validity and limitations of research findings.

ECON 688 - Applied Data Analysis

1. Identify key practical applications of econometric analysis and tools appropriate to those applications.
2. Describe problems imposed by endogeneity and simultaneity bias and find remedies.
3. Use programming to merge and manage data and estimate econometric models.
4. Interpret the estimates of econometrics models.

ECON 690 - Independent Study

1. Varies depending on the topic and nature of the independent study.

ECON 693 - Project

1. Identify key practical applications of econometric analysis and tools appropriate to those applications.
2. Describe problems imposed by endogeneity and simultaneity bias and find remedies.
3. Use programming to merge and manage data and estimate econometric models.
4. Interpret the estimates of econometrics models.

ECON 697 - Advanced Topics in Economics

1. Learn how to think critically about public policy issues.
2. Understand how microeconomic concepts can be applied to the analysis of a variety of public policy issues.
3. Understand how empirical research methods can be applied to a variety of public policy issues.
4. Understand the forces that shape the way in which public policy decisions are actually made.

ECON 698 - Internship

1. Varies depending on the nature of the internship.

EDUI 610 - The Web as an Interactive Educational Tool

1. Critique the effectiveness of a web site design based on its content organization, site architecture, and interface design (PLO 1 & 2; ILO 1).
2. Identify and use various web-based emerging and collaborative tools, such as discussion forums, social media, and video conferencing, to meet the needs of the diverse student body (PLO 1; ILO 2 & 3).
3. Apply emerging technology to design and develop interactive educational materials that address ideas and values clearly (PLO 3; ILO 2).
4. Examine and apply educational design theories and principals in designing and developing Web-based interactive educational materials with up-to-date technology and culturally responsive resources (PLO 1, 2 & 3; ILO 1 & 3).
5. Apply technology tools to develop an electronic version of presentation and deliver the presentation effectively to a diverse audience (PLO 1 & 5; ILO 2 & 3).

EDUI 620 - Theory and Design of E-Learning

1. Demonstrate a good understanding of recent developments in instructional technology research.
2. Describe the learning theories underpinning educational technology design.
3. Review the research critically in instructional technology.
4. Develop research interests and identify a topic for investigation.
5. Apply theories and research of instructional technology in developing own research projects.

EDUI 630 - Math, Science and Technology

1. Demonstrate a good understanding of recent developments in instructional technology and STEM.
2. Describe the theoretical underpinnings of educational technology and STEM pedagogy.
3. Review the research critically in STEM fields.
4. Develop research interests and identify a topic for investigation for STEM.
5. Apply theories and research of instructional technology to develop STEM instructional materials for the web, mobile applications, and classrooms.

EDUI 640 - Research in Educational Technology

1. Tell the definition, purpose and procedure of an educational research study and to distinguish types of educational research. (PLO 1).
2. Critique and assess writing, research design components, techniques, and findings in a research article. (PLO 4; ILO 1).
3. Generate an idea for a project or research study by identifying major research issues and findings in educational technology. (PLO2; ILO 1).
4. ndicate appropriate theoretical frameworks for supporting a project or research study. (PLO 1; ILO 1).
5. Apply effective research and technology tools to create a bibliography and collect data for further investigation (PLO 4; ILO 1).
6. Conduct and exercise research techniques, such as interviews, and to collect data. (PLO 4; ILO 2).
7. Write a literature review by analyzing and synthesizing findings. (PLO 5; ILO 1 &2).
8. Write a project proposal by applying educational research principals (PLO 5; ILO 1 & 2).
9. Present project ideas and scholarly findings effectively to diverse audiences (PLO 5; ILO 2, 3, &).
10. Accept the importance of writing a proposal for a developed project or research study in educational technology. (PLO 5).
11. Actively and collaboratively participate in class discussion in both face-to-face and online meetings. (ILO 2 & 4).

EDUI 650 - Mobile Application Development

1. Demonstrate a good understanding of process of developing apps for mobile devices.
2. Review critically the research in the use of apps in education.
3. Learn and write code in appropriate iOS operating systems.
4. Develop own research interests and identify a topic for developing apps.
5. Apply theories and research of instructional technology in developing own app projects.

EDUI 660 - Digital Graphics

1. To be able to use Photoshop to create digital graphics for Web sites or for educational purposes.
2. To learn tools in Photoshop. Skills: To repair an image in Photoshop.
3. To adjust color and tone of an image in Photoshop.
4. To use layers and filters in Photoshop.
5. To appreciate and respect the educational value of Photoshop.
6. To value the importance of digital graphic editing tool in education.

EDUI 670 - Principles of Instructional Design

1. Knowledge: Discuss key elements of the instructional systems development process, including the following: The rationale for using a systematic approach.  Comparing and contrasting instructional development models and emphases.  Rationale and procedures for formative evaluation and revision.  Approaches to successful implementation of the instruction or intervention ( PLO1; ILO 1& 2).
2. Demonstrate competence in doing instructional systems development:  Analyze performance problems to determine the need for instruction.  Analyze necessary inputs (characteristics of learners, learning environments and Analyze learning tasks to make good instructional design decisions.  Specify appropriate objectives and measures for learning tasks and learners.  Select appropriate instructional strategies and formats.  Design and develop course outlines and small lessons.  Use effective message design in creating instructional materials.  Produce quality instruction using a variety of media.  Conduct formative and summative instruction evaluations.  Plan for effective implementation and organizational change.  Use group-process skills to work productively in an ISD team. Use computers effectively in the ISD process.  Show sensitivity to ethical issues and concerns (PLO 2 & 3; ILO 1, 2 & 4).
3. Skills: Apply current instructional principles, research, and appropriate assessment practices to instructional design, creating learning activities, and using computers and technology resources in the curriculum (PLO 2 & 3; ILO 1).
4. Deliver and assess student learning activities that integrate effective computer/technology for a variety of student grouping strategies and for diverse student populations (PLO 1, 2, & 3; ILO 1, 2 & 3)
5. Design, create, and publish stand-alone and online instructional materials that present information and include links to critical resources (PLO 3; ILO 1 & 2)
6. Establish a set of evaluation strategies and methods that assess the effectiveness of instructional units (PLO 3; ILO 1)
7. Dispositions: Accept the importance of following instructional design principals to design and develop quality instructional materials (PLO 1). Support the integration of appropriate technology tools  in the instructional design process (PLO 3; ILO 5)

EDUI 680 - Current Technologies

1. Demonstrate understanding of the most current technologies for instruction.
2. Review critically the research in using current technologies in education.
3. Develop research interests and identify a current topic on applying technologies in education.

EDUI 690 - Independent Study

1. Demonstrate the following outcomes and competencies. The outcomes include program learning outcomes (PLO) and institutional learning outcomes (ILO), which are aligned with university missions.
2. Write an educational technology project report. (PLO 4 & 5; ILO 1, 2, & 4).
3. Conduct an independent educational technology project. (PLO 1, 2, & 3; ILO 1).
4. Conduct a search of literature using on-line reference sources. (PLO 4 & 5; ILO 1, 2, & 4).
5. Conduct an online presentation of the project. (PLO 5; ILO 1, 2, & 4).

EDUI 691 - University Thesis

EDUI 692 - Comprehensive Examination Preparation

EDUI 693 - Master’s Project

1. Apply educational research steps including identifying a topic, reviewing and examining relevant literature, collecting, analyzing, and synthesizing research findings to write a proposal for technology projects that they would like to develop individually or collaboratively (PLO 4 & 5; ILO 1, 2, & 4).
2. Demonstrate their mastery of educational technology by designing and developing a significant and original technology-based project for educational purposes. (PLO 1, 2, & 3; ILO 1).
3. Present and communicate their technology-based projects to the faculty members and diverse student body in the program. (PLO 5; ILO 2& 5).

EDUI 695 - Educational Technology Internship

1. Develop career goals.
2. Develop a plan of action which leads to obtaining an internship that will meet those career goals.
3. Improve job application and interviewing skills.
4. Develop work habits conducive to continued employment and promotion.
5. Develop safe habits for the workplace.
6. Apply the skills and knowledge gained from coursework to the work experience.
7. Experience the challenge and the routine of the everyday world of work.

EDUI 697 - Issues in Education Interdisciplinary Studies