Economics is the study of choice under conditions of scarcity. The study of Economics should help you to better understand your world – whether it’s major world news that affects everyone or minor choices that you make every day that only affect you. In this course we will focus on the choices of individuals and firms, the allocation of resources in society, and the dynamics of markets.
The course will provide you with an introduction into the economic way of thinking, the cost benefit approach to decisions, and will develop your ability to think analytically about forces at work in the choices of individuals, firms, and society. You will learn both a specific set of analytical tools and important economic theories.
Economics is the study of choices we make among our many wants and desires, given our limited resources. Resources are the input that society uses to produce output, called goods. These resources and goods are considered scarce because of society’s tendency to demand more resources and goods than are available. Macroeconomics is the study of the market system on a large scale. Macroeconomics considers the aggregate performance of all markets in the market system and is concerned with the choices made by the household sector, the business sector, and the government sector.
This general education biology course covers basic biological concepts going from introduction to elementary cell structure, metabolism, and reproduction to exploring aspects of general and biological chemistry, cell cycles, DNA structure and replication, protein synthesis, nature of heredity and the genetic basis of specification.
The course will provide you with a general view of the natural world which will help to have the ability to look at the larger picture in live in any career.
This course provides a general survey of psychology, its theories and main concepts, including the relationship between brain, nervous system and behavior.
Other topics introduced in the course include intelligence and memory, personality, and research methods.