Introduction to the study of market economies., Microeconomics, including supply and demand,, production theory, market structure., Macroeconomics, including economic growth,, inflation and unemployment, money and banking,, monetary and fiscal policy. Government regulation, and policy. Discrimination and poverty, imperfect, competition, environmental problems, international, competitiveness.
Critical and comprehensive review of education and, schooling in American society. Considers education, in its larger socioeconomic, political,, ideological, and cultural contexts and examines, race, class, gender, and culture in the formal, educational system. Analyzes issues of goals,, funding, governance, curricula, policy, staffing,, and reforms both in historical and contemporary, forms. Participants study education both as a, microcosm of society, reflecting the larger, struggles in the country, and as a, quasi-autonomous entity.
