Course Description

Course Descriptions / Course Catalog

1) Macroeconomics

- ECON 201 PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS (4 CREDITS- 60 HOURS)

This basic course in the economics of nations and the world addresses aggregate demand and supply analysis; the determination of national income and the price level; the determinants of economic growth; saving and investment, foreign exchange, and international capital flows. Economic policy making by the government is mainly concerned with low inflation and high employment: consequently, the course will include a critical examination, in the light of different schools of economic thought, of the role of government in price and income stability.

Prerequisite: MATH 150 Functions.

2) Mathematics

- MATH 099 College Algebra (6 CREDITS – 90 HOURS)

– A survey of equations involving linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Systems of equations and applications.

Prerequisite: Math Placement Exam.

- MATH 150 Functions (4 CREDITS- 60 HOURS)

A survey of the fundamental mathematical functions and their applications including the linear, absolute value, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions. MATH 110 or placement required.

Prerequisite: MATH 110 or Math Placement Exam.

3) ENGLISH

- ENGL 097. INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE WRITING (6 CREDITS- 90 HOURS )

This course expands on strategies to compose effective multi-paragraph essays with proper documentation. This course does not count as credit towards the completion of degree requirements. Prerequisite: Satisfactory results on English Placement Test or passing ENGL 096.

- ENGL 100 COLLEGE WRITING (6 CREDITS- 90 HOURS)

Writing course designed to provide further training in clear thinking, in analytical writing, and in the various methods of structuring an essay. It includes the study of research methods and the writing of documented papers. Prerequisite: Satisfactory results on English Placement Test or passing ENGL 099

- LITR 103 LITERARY TRADITION I (4 CREDITS- 60 HOURS)

This course will introduce students to the foundational epics of the West, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil’s Aeneid. These works involve worlds of strife wherein the hero must find his correct relation to family, nation, and the divine through agon and quest. Aeschylus’ Oresteia or Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex will

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