UAS Courses & Subjects
This list can be used to select your UAS electives. This page provides information about individual courses. To learn more about specific University Arts & Sciences programs -- admission requirements, program requirements and course requirements -- please visit General University Studies.
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Course Descriptions
ECON 104: Economic Analysis for Small Business is designed to engage students with contemporary global and Canadian issues, and with some of the region’s competitive markets. Students will survey contemporary news publications and other data sources, analyzing their contents to identify economic concepts and management implications. Focus will be on identifying the economic impacts on business resulting from the cloud of seemingly chaotic global events.
Prerequisites: Program admission requirements.ECON 106: Principles of Macroeconomics covers topics including: national income accounts, national income determination model, monetary system, monetary and fiscal policy, problems with the Macro System, inflation, unemployment, etc.; international trade - balance of payments, exchange rates, capital flows.
Prerequisites: ENGL 12 or equivalent with a grade of "C" or better.ECON 107: Principles of Microeconomics is usually taken following ECON 106: Principles of Macroeconomics. Topics covered include: supply and demand - price supports, the agricultural problem, value theory, theory of the firm - competition, pollution, industrial organization - monopoly, public utilities, advertising, income distribution - labour unions, productivity.
Prerequisites: ENGL 12 or equivalent with a grade of "C" or better.