2024-2025 Catalog: September 2024 Edition
Economics
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Dean: Traci Fahimi, EdD
Academic Chair: Adam Ghuloum
Faculty: Adam Ghuloum; Erick Peterson
Courses
Economics is the study of how people make choices when faced with scarcity. It is therefore the study of the process of decision-making by individuals, businesses, governments, or any other group that must make such choices, and the study of the institutional context in which these decisions are made.
Students will learn the following: 1) the economic problem of scarcity and its consequences for marginal decision making by individuals, firms, and society; 2) Basic economic modeling, mathematical and graphical analysis will evaluate resource allocation and changes within markets and the economy; and 3) Government policies for solutions to market failure will assess advantages and disadvantages of government policy on markets and the economy.
Potential Careers
Examples of careers in economics include the following:
- Account Manager
- Actuary
- Area Sales Manager
- Bank Officer
- Budget Analyst
- Business Forecaster
- Business Manager
- Buyer
- City Manager
- Claims Adjustor
- Commercial Casualty Underwriter
- Compensation Manager
- Credit Analyst
- Demographer
- Educator
- Employee Benefits Supervisor
- Financial Planner
- Insurance Analyst
- Investment Analyst/Banker
- Labor Relations Specialist
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- Loan Officer
- Logistics Analyst
- Management Trainee
- Managing Consultant
- Managing Director
- Market Analyst
- Policy Analyst
- Pricing Analyst
- Product Control Manager
- Production Supervisor
- Purchasing Agent
- Quality Control Specialist
- Real Estate Agent/Appraiser
- Research Analyst/Research Assistant
- Securities Broker
- Statistician
- Trade Analyst
- Trust Officer
- Urban/Regional Planner
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