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COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:
| ACCT 2361 |
BUS 2600 |
BUS 2700 |
BUS 3700 |
BUS 3710 |
BUS 4899 |
ECN 2101 |
ECN 2102 |
ECN 2207 |
ECN 3101 |
ECN 3102 |
ECN 3231 |
ECN 3318 |
ECN 3321 |
ECN 3435 |
ECN 3640 |
ECN 3810 |
ECN 4310 |
ECN 4641 |
ECN 4642 |
ECN 4899 |
ECN 4900 |
ECN 4940 |
ECN 4941 |
GEO 1110 |
GEO 3500 |
MAT 2700 |
POL 1110 |
POL 1120 |
POL 3320 |
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| ACCT 2361: () Offerings |
| Makes clear the ways in which accounting is an information development and communication function that supports economic decision making, and prepares students for subsequent learning. Not recommended for first-quarter freshmen. |
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| BUS 2600: () Offerings |
| Prepares students for communicating effectively in organizations. Topics include writing concisely and clearly; writing effective reports and business correspondence, including email and memos; delivering oral presentations; and mastering presentation software. |
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| BUS 2700: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: Bus 1700 and passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam or completion of Arithmetic Review. Explores descriptive statistics, probability, random variable distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression, and nonparametric statistics. |
| Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)
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| BUS 3700: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 2700. Uses computers for solving quantitative management decision problems. Includes optimization with derivatives; marginal analysis; linear programming; and forecasting methods. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. |
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| BUS 3710: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: BUS 2700 and MAT 1221 or other previous study of calculus in high school or college. Use computers for solving quantitative management decision problems. Includes multivariable optimization, Lagrange multipliers, linear programming, and forecasting methods. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. |
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| BUS 4899: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: UFDN 3100 or equivalent; ECN 2102 or 2102. This senior-level capstone course explores various ethical theories and their application to the practice of business. Gives particular emphasis to Christian ethics and focuses on individual ethical decision making. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics Majors only. Senior students only. |
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| ECN 2101: () Offerings |
| In this introductory economics course, students will learn the foundations of economic decision-making as applied to firms and individuals. Topics include supply and demand, markets and the price system, game theory, and comparative market structures. Students will also integrate the principles of economics that are important for making decisions in business, government, and in their personal lives. |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| ECN 2102: () Offerings |
| Presents topics including elementary demand and supply, determination of national income, employment and prices, money and banking system, fiscal and monetary policy and economic welfare, economic growth and development and international finance. |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| ECN 2207: () Offerings |
| A geographic approach to studying economic activities and issues of poverty and wealth at local, national and global levels. Includes understanding class theories in Geography of location analysis and economic base. Examines global trends in trade, creation of wealth, economic development, and economic justice issues. Helps students appreciate the role of Christian non-government organizations in building civil society and assisting community development. |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| ECN 3101: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 2101, 2102. An analysis of aggregate income, employment and price level; classical and Keynesian perspectives, and recent contributions. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3102: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 2101, 2102; BUS 2700. Examines microeconomics at the intermediate level with particular application to operations of the firm. Emphasizes the application of theory to actual situations encountered in the management of firms and explores the use of economic theory for projections and forecasting. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3231: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ECN 1100 or 2101. Examines economic and social factors influencing urban growth and land use patterns, especially forces influencing the demand for urban land and affecting intra-urban rent, real estate values and the housing market. Examines such factors as taxation, zoning and other land-use policies as they relate to the development of urban land. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3318: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ECN 1100 or 2101. Presents the rationale for governmental provision of goods and services, non-market decision making, public expenditure analysis, taxation, fiscal policy and the role of the government in economic systems. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3321: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 2101 and 2102; ACCT 2361. Surveys monetary theory and the role of major financial institutions such as commercial banks, the Federal Reserve System and savings institutions in the monetary system. The impact of bank operations on the quantity and flow of money in the economic system is emphasized. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3435: () Offerings |
| Examines the development of varieties of Marxist theory and practice in the 20th century, compares the Soviet, European, Chinese and Latin American experiences with Marxist thought and practice. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| ECN 3640: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 1100, or ECN 2101 or 2102. Studies the development of the American economy, with particular attention to the rise of the modern business system and its impact on American society; gives corollary consideration of labor, agriculture, technology and the monetary system. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 3810: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: THEO 2620. Investigates faith-based community economic development programs, such as those founded by John Perkins. Students will work on a small business project. Some sessions of this class will be held off campus in central Seattle. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 4310: () Offerings |
| Examines the nature and dynamics of the global economy in relation to the economies and political systems of nations and to theories and models of national, regional and global economic growth. International trade, business and government policy are studied in this context. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 4641: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 2101, 2102, or permission of instructor. A study of the development of economic ideas and philosophies from Moses to mercantilism. Focus is on ethics and economics in the biblical, classical, physiocratic and mercantilist schools of economic thought. Offered alternate years. May be repeated for credit up to 3 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| ECN 4899: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: ECN 2101, 2102. This capstone course studies the interrelationship between politics and economics and their effect on human welfare. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
Restrictions:Accounting, Business Administration, Computer Science, Economics, Family and Consumer Sciences, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Textiles Clothing and Interior Majors only. Senior students only. |
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| ECN 4900: () Offerings |
| The student proposes a topic of current interest in business to a professor in the School of Business and Economics. The student meets with the professor to discuss a bibliography and rough drafts before turning in the final draft of a paper. A 5-credit independent study requires a total of 30 pages of written work. In general, the number of pages of written work must be six times the number of credits, or there must be equivalent work in exams or other requirements. May be repeated for credit up to 5 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| ECN 4940: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: BUS 3910. Provides an opportunity for reflection on a student's internship experience. The internship, paid or unpaid, must have a minimum commitment of 10 hours/week or 100 hours during the quarter, be related to students' Business Administration major and have provided opportunities for students to relate and apply principles of buisiness, faith, service, and leadership to a professional business setting. Internship placements must be approved prior to the experience or permission will not be granted to register for BUS 4940 credit. Students must complete an internship learning contract and have it signed by their internship supervisor and Susan Lane, the faculty sponsor. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| ECN 4941: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: ECN 4940. Provides students the opportunity to specialize their applied learning to economic issues and questions through individualized guidance with an economics faculty sponsor, first-hand experience in their internship sites, academic research, and face-to-face interviews with professionals. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credits. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman, Sophomore students are excluded. |
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| GEO 1110: () Offerings |
| Provides familiarity with character of major world regions. Emphasizes variations in levels of economic development and resource distribution among nations, and appreciation for diversity of world cultures. |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| GEO 3500: () Offerings |
| Examines geographic distribution and economic valuation of the earth's resources both within American public-policy choices and at the international level. Compares notions of wise use, consumption, sustainability and stewardship in relation to Christian tradition. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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| MAT 2700: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: BUS 1700 or CSC 1123 and passing score on Mathematics Proficiency exam. Explores descriptive statistics, probability, random variable distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression and nonparametric statistics. |
| Attributes:Mathematics (MAT)
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| POL 1110: () Offerings |
| Analyzes the theory and practice of politics by discussing different approaches to the nature of political knowledge and the significance that this knowledge has for political leadership and citizenship. Although the focus is primarily on political behavior in the United States, opportunity will be taken to examine political practices within other countries (comparative politics) and among other countries (international relations). |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| POL 1120: () Offerings |
| Surveys the founding principles of the American political system and examines the development and operation of major national institutions such as Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, the Supreme Court, political parties and the media. |
| Attributes:Social Science B
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| POL 3320: () Offerings |
| Studies theories and experiences of "nation-building," both political and economic, primarily in Lesser Developed Countries. Evaluates concepts of authority, economic growth and human well-being, and the policies used to achieve these in different cultures and systems. Offered alternate years. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Freshman students are excluded. |
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