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Principles of Macroeconomics
Course Outcome Summary
Course Information
Organization
Developers
Development Date
Course Number
Potential Hours of
Instruction
Total Credits
SCC
Mark Friedman
2/9/2011
EC 110
48
3
Description
Macroeconomics is the study of issues that affect whole economies, including economic growth,
employment levels, management of the money supply, international trade, and economic instability. The
course will examine tools governments can use to stabilize and grow economies, as well as controversies
surrounding their use. Prerequisites: READ0080, READ0090 with a grade of C or Higher or a minimum
score of 78 on the Accuplacer Reading Comprehension test. This class satisfies MnTC Goal Area 5
(History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences) and MnTC Goal Area 9 (Ethical and Civic
Responsibility).
Types of Instruction
Instruction Type
Lecture
Contact Hours
Credits
48
3
Prerequisites
READ0080, READ0090 with a grade of C or Higher or a minimum score of 78 on the Accuplacer Reading
Comprehension test.
Exit Learning Outcomes
Core Abilities
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Civic knowledge and engagement- local and global: Students will understand the richness and
challenge of local and world cultures and the effects of globalization, and will develop the skills and
attitudes to function as “global citizens.
Teamwork and problem-solving: Students will demonstrate the ability to work together cohesively
with diverse groups of persons, including working as a group to resolve any issues that arise.
Analysis and inquiry: Students will demonstrate an ability to analyze information from multiple
sources and to raise pertinent questions regarding that information.
Competencies
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Apply the economic method.
Learning Objectives
a. Define Economics.
b. Apply the scientific method in economics.
c. Demonstrate scarcity, opportunity costs, and economic growth with the production
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possibility curve model.
Analyze major economic institutions.
Learning Objectives
a. Describe fundamental questions facing all economies.
b. Describe trends in income distribution, poverty, and economic growth in the U.S.
c. Differentiate between different economic systems.
d. Explain the potential efficiency of market systems.
e. Explain market failures.
Use measures of economic performance.
Learning Objectives
a. Define GDP.
b. Calculate GDP by the expenditures approach.
c. Describe the incomes approach.
d. Describe real GDP.
e. Calculate net domestic product.
f. Analyze shortcomings of GDP as a measure of economic well-being.
g. Describe alternative measures of economic well-being.
Explain the process of economic growth.
Learning Objectives
a. Demonstrate economic growth with a production possibility curve diagram.
b. Describe institutional features that assist growth.
c. Describe institutional features that hinder growth.
d. Relate productivity to economic growth.
e. Describe human capital.
f. Describe human development policies.
g. Articulate criticisms of economic growth.
Describe business cycles.
Learning Objectives
a. Identify phases of the business cycle.
b. Describe the Great Depression and the Great Recession.
c. Identify John Maynard Keynes.
d. Identify kinds of unemployment.
e. Apply the natural rate of unemployment concept.
f. Describe potential GDP.
g. Appraise potential harms from inflation.
h. Distinguish between demand-pull and cost-push inflation.
i. Describe the consumer price index.
j. Describe hyperinflation.
Model macroeconomic change.
Learning Objectives
a. Describe the aggregate expenditures model.
b. Model changes in consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports.
c. Describe MPS and MPC.
d. Identify determinants of consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports.
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e. Calculate the simple GDP multiplier.
f. Model changes in the price level and output with the aggregate demand/aggregate supply
model.
g. Derive the aggregate demand curve.
h. Derive the aggregate supply curve.
i. Identify determinants of aggregate supply.
j. Distinguish between the long and short term aggregate supply curves.
k. Explain the shape of the short run aggregate supply curve.
l. Model long run growth with the long run aggregate supply curve.
Distinguish between long run and short run analysis in macroeconomics.
Learning Objectives
a. Explain sticky wages and prices.
b. Identify arguments for and against government intervention in the business cycle.
c. Model long run correction for deviations from full employment GDP with an extended
AD/AS diagram.
Describe Fiscal Policy.
Learning Objectives
a. Explain fiscal policy tools.
b. Model impacts of fiscal policy with an AD/AS diagram.
c. Describe expansionary and contractionary policies.
d. Explain when deficits or surpluses are appropriate from a Keynesian perspective.
e. Identify limitations of fiscal policy.
f. Explain potential dangers of a large public debt.
g. Evaluate recent fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession.
Describe Monetary Policy.
Learning Objectives
a. Explain functions of money.
b. Explain demand for money.
c. Describe the Federal Reserve.
d. Describe a fractional reserve banking system.
e. Describe how money is created in the banking system.
f. Calculate expansion of the money supply with the money multiplier.
g. Describe tools of monetary policy.
h. Identify expansionary and contractionary monetary policies.
i. Identify advantages and limitations of monetary policy.
j. Evaluate Federal Reserve response to the 2008 financial crisis.
Describe economic globalization and its impact on national economies.
Learning Objectives
a. Describe the history of globalization.
b. Identify benefits and criticisms of increased trade.
c. Explain functions of major global financial institutions.
d. Explain criticisms of policies of global financial institutions.
e. Identify regional trade organizations.
f. Explain comparative advantage.
g. Describe how currency exchange rates are set.
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h. Describe how changes in exchange rates impact national economies.
i. Examine impacts of a trade deficit.
j. Analyze strains on globalization from the global financial crisis and the European debt
crisis.
Contrast competing schools of thought in macroeconomics.
Learning Objectives
a. Contrast policy recommendations in Keynesian, classical, and radical schools of economic
thought.
b. Describe macroeconomic adjustment in the short run and long run.
c. Explain rational expectations.
d. Explain a monetary rule.
e. Explain real business cycles.
f. Evaluate disagreements among economists over handling the recent financial crisis and
recession.
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