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Presents the influential concepts of both micro and macroeconomics and, in a student-based learning environment, assists you in applying these notions to your career. A professional economist will work with you in discovering the laws of supply and demand, consumer decision-making, producer profit maximization, competition and monopoly regulation in microeconomics. Use of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy to influence unemployment, inflation and economic growth is also covered. Familiarization with spreadsheets is strongly recommended for those intending to register in the Internet delivery section.

Prerequisite(s)

  • No prerequisites are required for this course.

Credits

3.0

Cost

$488.07 - $525.63 See individual course offerings below for actual costs.

Course offerings

Spring/Summer 2023

Below are four offerings of ECON 1150 for the Spring/Summer 2023 term.

CRN 21199

Duration

Tue Apr 18 - Tue Jul 04 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 21199
  • $513.96
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 18 - Jul 04 Tue 18:00 - 21:00 Downtown DTC Rm. 481
Instructor

Serge Tarasenko

Course outline

Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.

Credits

3

Cost

$513.96

Important information
  1. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
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Status

CRN 24857

Duration

Tue Apr 18 - Tue May 23 (6 weeks)

  • 6 weeks
  • CRN 24857
  • $525.63
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 18 - May 23 Tue 18:00 - 21:00 Online
Apr 18 - May 23 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Karen Law

Course outline

Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.

Credits

3

Cost

$525.63

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
  3. Internet delivery format. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information. This class combines weekly classes delivered synchronously online with asynchronous learning. You are required to be available to log-on live to an online platform at all scheduled course days and times, and additional time each week to cover the remaining course hours.
Status

CRN 25985

Duration

Tue Apr 18 - Sat Jul 08 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 25985
  • $488.07
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 18 - Jul 08 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

William Shen

Course outline

Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.

Credits

3

Cost

$488.07

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
  3. Students must submit email address when registering. To be successful in our online courses, plan to spend 7-10 hours per course each week on your studies, starting Week 1. Our courses are paced and highly interactive with participation requirements weekly. Frequent contributions to asynchronous (not real time) online discussions is required to achieve a passing final grade. Is online learning for you? Please take a look at our FAQ pages www.bcit.ca/distance/faq.shtml and www.bcit.ca/distance/foryou.shtml
Status

CRN 66553

Duration

Tue Apr 18 - Sat Jul 08 (12 weeks)

  • 12 weeks
  • CRN 66553
  • $488.07
Class meeting times
Dates Days Times Locations
Apr 18 - Jul 08 N/A N/A Online
Instructor

Charlene Richter

Course outline

Course outline TBD — see Learning Outcomes in the interim.

Credits

3

Cost

$488.07

Important information
  1. Internet delivery format.
  2. Important course information will be sent to you prior to your course start date. Check your myBCIT email account to access this information.
  3. Students must submit email address when registering. To be successful in our online courses, plan to spend 7-10 hours per course each week on your studies, starting Week 1. Our courses are paced and highly interactive with participation requirements weekly. Frequent contributions to asynchronous (not real time) online discussions is required to achieve a passing final grade. Is online learning for you? Please take a look at our FAQ pages www.bcit.ca/distance/faq.shtml and www.bcit.ca/distance/foryou.shtml
Status

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  • Use standard economic models to solve problems.
  • Define opportunity cost and explain its importance in decision making.
  • Use a standard model of consumer behaviour to demonstrate how people decide amongst many choices given a limited income.
  • Use the model of supply and demand to illustrate how consumers and suppliers interact to determine price and quantity exchanged in the marketplace.
  • Demonstrate the effects of price ceilings, price floors, and taxes on prices and quantities in product markets.
  • Use income and price elasticities to analyze consumer demand for a product or service.
  • Distinguish between explicit and implicit costs.
  • Calculate revenues, costs, and profits.
  • Distinguish between a business's accounting profits and economic profits.
  • Show how the concept of opportunity cost influences business decisions.
  • Differentiate between short-run and long-run production decisions.
  • Demonstrate how businesses use cost analysis to make production and sales decisions.
  • Describe the characteristics of perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive markets.
  • Demonstrate why a perfectly competitive firm produces an output where price equals marginal cost.
  • Determine the shut-down point.
  • Explain how market structure influences a firm's strategic pricing and production decisions.
  • Evaluate the economic efficiency of various market structures.
  • Explain how globalization and technology have changed the Canadian industrial landscape.
  • Assess the role of government in the marketplace.
  • Describe Canada's recent macroeconomic history.
  • Understand the relationships amongst economic variables such as unemployment, inflation, and real Gross.
  • Domestic Product, and determine how changes in economic variables impact Canadian production.
  • Recognize the role of the Bank of Canada and the banking industry in the Canadian economy.
  • Explain how fiscal and monetary policies affect economic activity, and determine which policy would be most effective in achieving our economic goals.
  • Describe how globalization impacts the Canadian economy.

Effective as of Winter 2007

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