ECON 001 - Principles of Microeconomics

    Recent Professors
    Katya De los Rios, Murniz Coson, Sandor Ferencz, Deborah Frohman, Melody Yin
    Recent Semesters
    Summer 2026
    Class Size
    Not published
    Difficulty
    6.3Demandingout of 10
    Credits
    3
    Summer 2026 Sections
    View Summer 2026 sections of ECON 001
    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4B · IGETC Area 4 · CSU GE Area D2 · CSU GE Area D
    Description
    Microeconomics studies how markets allocate resources, goods and services, and incomes throughout the economy. It analyzes the implications of government's involvement in particular markets and in the economy as a whole via policies to improve economic performance or distributional equity. The course is designed to develop a core set of skills useful in analysis of economic issues while maintaining a commitment to a liberal arts education. Topics include fundamentals of economic thinking, economic systems, particularly the market system, how markets operate and how the concept of elasticity relates to them, production costs, various market structures, including pure competition, pure monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and resource markets.
    Usually Held
    Tue Thu 6:50pm–9:15pm