Language and Speech Communication is an introductory course in speech composition. Its purpose is to improve your skills of writing and presenting effective public speeches, with special emphasis on informative (expository) and persuasive (argumentative) discourse. It fulfills Level A of the University’s communication/composition requirement as well as other requirements. The principles you learn in this class should benefit you not only in subsequent courses in the University, but also in your career and in your life as a citizen in a democratic society.

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.