Calendar 2005-2006 - The University of Akron

226 COMPUTER SKILLS FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 100 or 200 or 244. Application of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation
packages, SAS, the Internet, library resources, and other computer tools in communicating economic
analysis.
230 ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES 3 credits
Prerequisite: 100 or permission of the instructor. Investigation of selected labor and social policy
issues. Examples include health care, economic demography, anti-poverty programs, immigration,
discrimination, and the impact of unemployment and inflation.
244 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS 3 credits
Recommended for engineering and mathematical science majors. Intensive introduction to
analysis of modern industrial society and formulation of economic policy. Structure of economic
theory and its relation to economic reality. No credit to a student who has completed 200, 201.
310 MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200, or 244; 3470:261, 262. Application of economic analysis to management
problems; the organization of enterprises and the allocation of their resources; decision making
under uncertainty; strategic behavior.
330 LABOR PROBLEMS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 or 201, or 244. Labor economics, principles and public policy. Study of structure
of labor market and impact unions have on labor management relations.
333 LABOR ECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisite: 200 or 244. Theoretical tools used in analysis of problems of labor in any modern economic
system. Emphasis given to examination of determinants of demand for and supply of labor.
360 INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION AND PUBLIC POLICY 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 or 244. Role of industrial structure and firm conduct in performance of industry
and way in which antitrust policy is designed to provide remedies where performance is
unsatisfactory.
380 MONEY AND BANKING 3 credits
Prerequisite: 201. Institutions of money, banking and credit, monetary expansion and contraction,
public policies affecting this process, development of our money and banking system.
385 ECONOMICS OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT 3 credits
Prerequisites: 100 or 200 or 244 or permission. Introduction to economic analysis of use of natural
resources and economics of environment. Problems of water and air pollution, natural environments,
natural resource scarcity, conservation, economic growth.
400 INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 201 and 3450:145 or equivalent. Changes in national income, production, employment,
price levels, long-range economic growth, short-term fluctuations of economic activity.
405 ECONOMICS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 and 201, or 244. Considers nature and scope of government activity, rationale
for government intervention, problems of public choice, taxation and revenue-raising, cost-benefit
analysis, program development and evaluation.
410 INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 or 244, and 3450:145 or equivalent. Advanced analysis of consumer demand,
production costs, market structures, determinants of factor income.
423/523 APPLIED GAME THEORY 3 credits
Prerequisite: 200. Application of the basic concepts of game theory (analysis of strategic behavior)
to relevant economics issues including bargaining, cartels, voting, conflict resolution and non
competitive pricing.
426 APPLIED ECONOMETRICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200, 201, 244; 3470:261, 262. Application of regression analysis to economic and
social sciences data. Discusses typical problems from applied research, including estimation
technique, hypothesis testing and modeling framework.
427/527 ECONOMIC FORECASTING 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200, 201, 244; 3470:261, 262. Methods for building, identifying, fitting and checking
dynamic economic models and use of these models for forecasting. Emphasis on application
of available computer software systems.
430/530 LABOR MARKET AND SOCIAL POLICY 3 credits
Prerequisite: 333. Intensive study of current labor and social policy issues (e.g., discrimination,
poverty, migration, education, demographic and labor market changes, impact of international
trade on employment).
432 THE ECONOMICS AND PRACTICE OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 3 credits
Prerequisite: 200 or 244. Principles and organization of collective bargaining, collective bargaining
agreements, issues presented in labor disputes and settlements, union status and security,
wage scales, technological change, production standards, etc.
434 LABOR MARKET ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION 3 credits
Prerequisites: 410, 426, 430. Applied labor market research using specialized techniques.
Employment, health, education, and other current policy issues and programs analyzed and evaluated.
Original research project required.
440/540 SPECIAL TOPICS: ECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisite: permission. Opportunity to study special topics and current issues in economics.
460/560 ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 and 201, or 244. Basic problems in economic development. Theories of
development, issues of political economy and institutions. Topics include poverty, population,
migration, employment, finance, international trade and environment.
461/561 PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 and 201, or 244. International trade and foreign exchange, policies of free and
controlled trade, international monetary problems.
475/575 DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT 3 credits
Prerequisites: 200 and 201, or 244. Evolution of theory and method, relation of ideas of economists
contemporary to conditions.
481/581 MONETARY AND BANKING POLICY 3 credits
Prerequisites: 380, 400. Control over currency and credit, policies of control by central banks and
governments, United States Treasury and Federal Reserve System.
487/587 URBAN ECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY 3 credits
Prerequisite: 200 and 201 or 244 or permission of instructor. Analysis of urban issues from an
economic perspective. Emphasis on urban growth, land-use patterns, housing, income distribution,
poverty and urban fiscal policy.
490 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ECONOMICS 1-3 credits
(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Independent
study in economics under supervision and evaluation of selected faculty member.
491/591 WORKSHOP IN ECONOMICS 1-3 credits
(May be repeated) Group studies of special topics in economics. May not be used to meet undergraduate
or graduate major requirements in economics. May be used for elective credit only.
495 INTERNSHIP IN ECONOMICS 1-3 credits
Prerequisites: 200, 201 and at least three additional courses in economics at the 300- or 400level.
Supervised placement in appropriate position in public or private sector organizations.
Reports and written assignments required.
496 SENIOR PROJECT IN ECONOMICS 2 credits
Prerequisites: 400, 410, 426. Corequisites: 405 or 423 or 430 or 460 or 461 or 475 or 481 or 487.
Taken concurrently with or following a 400-level field Economics course. Involves independent
out-of-class work on a project designed in consultation with the designated 400-level course
instructor.
497 HONORS PROJECT 1-3 credits
(May be repeated for a total of six credits) Prerequisite: senior standing in Honors College.
Individual senior honors thesis on a creative project relevant to economics, approved and supervised
by faculty member of the department.
ENGLISH
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111 ENGLISH COMPOSITION I 4 credits
Extensive and varied experience in developing writing skills, with practice in expressive, reflective,
and analytic forms of writing.
112 ENGLISH COMPOSITION II 3 credits
Prerequisite: 111. Designed to develop skills in analyzing and writing persuasive arguments.
250 CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 3 credits
Prerequisites: 111 and 112 or their equivalents, and 3400:210, or permission of the instructor.
Close reading and analysis of fiction, poetry, and drama from the evolving canon of American,
British, and World literature. This course fulfills the General Education Humanities Requirement.
It cannot be used to meet requirements in English.
251 TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE 3 credits
Prerequisites: 111 and 112; and 3400:210 or permission of instructor. Close reading and analysis
of various themes represented in world literatures, both ancient and modern. This course fulfills
the General Education Humanities Requirement. It cannot be used to meet requirements in
English.
252 SHAKESPEARE AND HIS WORLD 3 credits
Prerequisites: 111 and 112 or their equivalents, and 3400:210. An introduction to the works of
Shakespeare and their intellectual and social contexts. Each section “places” Shakespeare
through compact readings of works by the playwright’s contemporaries. This course fulfills the
General Education Humanities Requirement. It cannot be used to meet requirements in English.
275 SPECIALIZED WRITING 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
(May be repeated for different topics, with permission) Principles and practice of style, structure
and purpose in writing, with special applications to writing demands of a specific career area.
277 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
Practice in writing poems. Study of techniques in poetry, using contemporary poems as models.
Class discussion of student work. Individual conferences with instructor to direct student’s reading
and writing.
278 INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
Practice in writing short stories. Study of various techniques in fiction, using contemporary stories
as models. Class discussion of student work. Individual conferences with instructor to direct
student’s reading and writing.
279 INTRODUCTION TO SCRIPT WRITING 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
Practice in writing scripts. Study of various techniques in script writing, using contemporary
models for study. Class discussion of student work. Individual conferences with instructor to
direct student’s reading and writing.
280 POETRY APPRECIATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
Close reading of a wide selection of British and American poems with emphasis on dramatic situation,
description, tone, analogical language, theme and meaning.
281 FICTION APPRECIATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, and 3400:210. Close reading of
modern masters of short story and novel. Fulfills the General Education Humanities
Requirement. It cannot be used to meet requirements in English.
283 FILM APPRECIATION 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor.
Introduction to dramatic choices made by filmmakers in scripting, directing, editing and photographing
narrative films; and qualities of reliable film reviews.
300 CRITICAL READING AND WRITING 3 credits
Prerequisite: Completion of 111 and 112 or their equivalents, or permission of the instructor. An
introduction to English studies, focusing on critical methods for reading and writing about literature,
with attention to research skills and uses of computer technology.