Economics and Policy Studies

Chair
:
    Jennifer Warlick, Ph.D.
    Dept. Tel.: (574) 631-6335


The Program of Studies. The program is designed to provide individual students with as much flexibility as possible in structuring their own program.

Course Descriptions. The following course descriptions give the number and title of each course. Lecture hours per week, laboratory and/or tutorial hours per week, and semester credit hours are in parentheses. The University reserves the right to withdraw any course without sufficient registration.
CRNs for independent study courses may be obtained from the department office, from the Summer Session office, or from insideND.
 
ECON 10010/20010. Principles of Micro Economics 
3 credits, Basu (5-0-3)
10:30–12:25 MWF 6/17-7/31
CRN 3117; ID # ECON 10010 01
CRN 3116; ID # ECON 20010 01
Last “add” date:  6/22
“Drop” dates: refund, 6/26; last,  7/10
An introduction to economics with particular attention to the pricing mechanism, competitive and monopolistic markets, government regulation of the economy, labor-management relations and programs, income determination and public policy, and foreign trade and the international economy.
 
ECON 33280.  Political Economy of Southern Africa Cancelled
3 credits, Thaver  (3-0-3)
8:50-10:15  MTWRF  6/21-7/26
CRN 3520; ID # ECON 47495
Last “add” date:  6/25
“Drop” dates: refund, 6/28; last,  7/9
Southern Africa has long been considered an economic and political basket case. Poverty, famine, Aids, environmental degradation, and capacity deprivation, have all been considered corollaries to the region¿s colonial legacies, and postcolonial struggles of identities and policies. Yet scholars and activists argue that the region, indeed the continent, is capable of transcending its blighted history, but this requires collective conscientious will and actions of institutions and individuals within the African continent, as well as in the West. This seminar-based course, through theories, literary works, case studies, and direct interviews of Southern Africans, makes intelligible the major perspectives that attempt to explain, predict and effect transformative change in Southern Africa, and in those who study the region.
 
ECON 47960. Senior Honors Essay
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN varies with instructor
ID # ECON 47495
 
ECON 47950. Special Studies
Variable credits, Staff (V-V-V)
CRN varies with instructor
ID # ECON 47498