Master Syllabus: ECO 44591

TROYUNIVERSITY
MASTERSYLLABUS
SORRELLCOLLEGE OF BUSINESS

ECO 4459
Economics Seminar

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Prerequisites

ECO 2252.

Description

Current problems in economics.

This course has an assessment.

Objectives

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Discuss a selected topic in depth in the area of economics.
  2. Demonstrate conversance in the selected topic through appropriate application.
  3. Discuss how the selected topic may inform strategies to support business objectives.

Purpose

To select and focus on economics topics of a timely nature or special interest. The special economics topics covered in this course are determined as deemed appropriate and are not necessarily the same from term to term.Students taking this elective should already have satisfied all of their 3000-level core and specified-elective requirements.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc…

Approved Texts

As appropriate. The following texts address some of the issues to which particular offerings of the course have thus far been devoted:

Auernheimer, L. (Ed.) (2003). International financial markets: The challenge of globalization. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Bradford, D. F. (Ed.) (1998). The economics of property-casualty insurance. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Coase, R. H. (1988). The firm, the market, and the law. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Friedman, M. (1982). Capitalism and freedom (2nd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Ito, T., & Krueger, A. O. (Eds.) (2001). Regional and global capital flows: Macroeconomic causes and consequences. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Lo, A. W. (Ed.) (1996). The industrial organization and regulation of the securities industry.Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Miller, M. H., & Upton, C. W. (1986). Macroeconomics: A neoclassical introduction. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Smith, A. (1998). An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Washington, DC: Regnery.

Sowell, T. (2003). Applied economics: Thinking beyond stage one. New York, NY: Basic Books.

Supplements

As deemed appropriate.

Troy University Faculty Handbook(2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

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