The General Education Economics minor is 20 credits, requiring ECON 100 to introduce basic concepts and 15 credits of courses generally oriented to non-business majors who wish to better understand economic issues they daily encounter. This minor will help you develop skills and gain knowledge that is applicable no matter your major.
The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.
Pre-requisites: ECON 100 or ECON 200.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course explores key questions about how the world will produce and consume energy and natural resources in the future by exploring historical patterns and contemporary issues. Economics has much to add to this discussion based on the concepts of costs and benefits, optimization, supply and demand, scarcity, efficiency, production, distribution, price mechanisms, social welfare, and sustainability.
Notes: ECON 100, or ECON 200, or ECON 201 can be substituted for the junior standing prerequisite with instructor approval.
Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
Understanding our global failure to sustain economic growth and development while preserving the quality of life on the Planet as the ultimate "market failure." Inventory of the contributions Economics can bring to address the issues, regionally and globally. Study of the most recent initiatives and technologies developed across the world including business management practices, public policies, and international cooperation.
Cross-listed: AAST 324, GWSS 324.
Notes: ECON 100, or ECON 200, or ECON 201 can be substituted for the junior standing prerequisite with instructor approval.
Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
Causes of poverty and evaluation of anti-poverty programs. Examines economic theories of discrimination from different perspectives with a particular focus on issues of gender and race.
Cross-listed: HIST 487.
Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Economic development of the United States from the early colonial period to the present: explorations, westward movement, labor, rise of great industries, world trade, and post-war economic problems.