Summer 2024 Offerings

Title: The Global Economy of Food-Sustaining Life with Dr. Josephson (3 units)

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Offering: 5-week session I, June 3 - July 3, asynchronous online

Campus: Main, Honors, Arizona Online, & Yuma Distance

Course description:  This course describes the operational fundamentals of the global food system ranging from smaller-scale subsistence or organic production to the larger-scale commercial food trade.  Consumer food behavior, both local and international, represents a core analytical issue in this class. A consistent thread throughout the course is the evaluation of the role of markets to efficiently and effectively allocate food resources for individuals and societies.

Attribute: Tier 1 Individuals & Building Connections

Open to all majors, no pre-requisites

Title: Understanding the World of Commerce with Dr. Na Zuo (3 units)

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Offering:  5-week session II, July 8 - Aug. 7, asynchronous online

Campus: Main, Arizona Online, Yuma Distance, & Global

Course description: This course provides students with 1) a survey of business organizations as major institutions and the role of individuals as consumers, future entrepreneurs, and employees; 2) knowledge of the formal business and market structures that makes economies work; and 3) informed opinions about socio-cultural issues based on knowledge about economic theory. It offers an overview of entrepreneurial thinking and problem-solving in the context of relations among the world of commerce and life sciences.

Attribute: Tier 2 Individuals & Social Scientist

Open to all majors, no pre-requisites

Title: Economics of Futures Markets, with Professor April Athnos (3 units)

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Offering:  7-week session I, May 13 - June 28, asynchronous online

Campus: Main & Arizona Online

Course description:  Commodity and financial futures market participants, evolution, functions, performance, price determination, and regulation with hedging and speculative applications of futures and futures-options contracts.

Open to all majors, pre-reqs: ECON200 or transfer equivalent of microeconomics (ECON 201A) or AREC/PPEL 210

Title: Economics of Food and Agriculture: Sustainable Solutions for a Changing World, with Professor April Athnos (3 units)

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Offering:  7-week session II, July 1- Aug 16, asynchronous online

Campus: Main, Honors, Yuma Distance, Arizona Online & Global

Course description:  Practical application of economic theory to understand and analyze current issues and events surrounding food, natural resources, the environment, and sustainable solutions to rising problems. Current policy debates and diverse perspectives are used to demonstrate the process of translating economic problems and social science methods into researchable questions, using quantitative methods and tools.

Title: Agribusiness Economics & Management, with Dr. Na Zuo (3 units)

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Offering: 5-week session II, July 8- Aug. 7, asynchronous online

Campus: Main, Yuma Distance, Arizona Online, & Global

Description: Essential economic concepts and analytical tools
for agribusiness managers are developed and
applied to current business challenges and
opportunities. Emphasis placed on decision tools,
budgeting, entrepreneurship, strategy, organization
and relationship management.

Open to all majors; pre-reqs: ECON 200 (or transfer equivalent)

Title: Economic Statistics, with Dr. Tauhid Rahman (3 units)

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Offering:  7-week session II, July 1 - Aug. 16, asynchronous online

Campus: Main, Yuma Distance, & Arizona Online

Description:  Application and interpretation of fundamental statistical concepts to problems in social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences.

Open to all majors, pre-reqs: ECON200 (or transfer equivalent of ECON200 or ECON 201A intro microeconomics) and MATH113 or higher level calculus course.