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ECON 375: Organizational Internship Selected students will be able to spend a period of time (50 hours per credit hour) working as an Intern with a local organization. During this period, the student will maintain a journal; will meet regularly with a faculty member and with a supervisor to provide continuing evaluation of the quality and progress of the student’s work. At the conclusion of the experience the student will submit a paper to the supervisor and faculty member and make an oral presentation. Prerequisites: Junior standing and department chair permission 3 credits ECON 396: Discussions in International Political Economy A series of weekly discussions of readings, lectures, and debates relating to topics in international and comparative political economy. Particular topics will vary by semester but will fall under the broad umbrella of economics, political science, philosophy, and public policy. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 or BCOR 112 or instructor approval 1 credit ECON 397: Discussions in U.S. Political Economy A series of weekly discussions of readings, lectures, and debates relating to topics in domestic political economy and U.S. economic history. Particular topics will vary by semester but will fall under the broad umbrella of economics, political science, philosophy, and public policy. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 or BCOR 112 or instructor approval 1 credit ECON 398: Discussions in Public Choice and Austrian Economics A series of weekly discussions of readings, lectures, and debates relating to topics in Public Choice and Austrian economics. Particular topics will vary by semester but will fall under the broad umbrella of non-technical economics, political science, philosophy, and public policy. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 or BCOR 112 or instructor approval 1 credit ECON 399: Special Topics in Economics A specially designed course exploring fields in economics not intensively covered in other upper-level electives. This is not a regularly scheduled course. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 or 112 or as outlined when scheduled 3 credits ECON 401: Monetary Finance The influence of the quantity of money on prices, growth and employment and its relation to the central banking system’s control of the money supply. Prerequisite: BCOR 112 3 credits ECON 421: Forecasting Methods A study of forecasting methods and their application. Topics covered include data collection, time-series decomposition, moving average, exponential smoothing, correlation and regression. Prerequisites: BCOR 220, CIS 150 or the equivalent 3 credits ECON 427: Economic Methods A study of the application of statistical methods to estimation and analysis of economic models. Prerequisites: BCOR 220, CIS 150 or the equivalent 3 credits ECON 431: Public Finance An application of microeconomic theory to the study of how government policies influence the economy. The course emphasizes the study of how government tax and expenditure policies affect the allocation of resources, the distribution of income, and the welfare of the citizens. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 and BCOR 112 3 credits ECON 441: International Economics A study of the basis for trade between nations, balance of payment problems and the influence of national policies in dealing with trade, monetary problems and the multinational business firms in the global economy. Prerequisite: BCOR 111 and BCOR 112 3 credits ECON 442: Economic Development A study of the economics of growth as applied to less developed nations. There is an emphasis on the prerequisites for growth, the factors which retard growth, and public policies