ECONOMIC APPROACH TO CURRENT ISSUES

ECON 100

Course Description

Emphasizes current economic issues and illustrates how the economist's perspective helps understand them. Academic readings and popular books such as Freakonomics will be used to indicate the breadth and scope of questions that can be analyzed from an economic perspective.

Prerequisties

MATH 96 or placement into MATH 112 or satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A requirement. Not open to students with credit for ECON 101 , ECON 102 , or ECON 111

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

3 to 4

Offered

Occasionally

Grade Point Average

3.49

5.81% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

3.12% from Historical

A Rate

43.42%

20.35% from Historical

Class Size

1.21% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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Matt Friedman

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4.7

Rating

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