Course Essentials

Course Description

Microeconomics focuses on economic behavior of individual economic units such as consumers, firms, and resource owners. It examines the market system as a means of solving the problems in the production and distribution of goods and services in a society. An analysis of the effectiveness of the price system in providing the society with an equitable distribution of goods, services, and income is featured. It explores some of the more urgent micro-economic problems such as monopoly power of big business and big unions, government regulations and consumer protection, the energy crisis, taxes and welfare.

My Teaching Philosophy

I teach at community college because making a difference in students’ lives brings me joy. I can relate to the struggle students face, having faced similar issues as a foreign student myself. Thus, I understand the challenges students face when enrolled into a college with a diverse background. My goal is to help students overcome the challenges they face, and to provide the individual support necessary to succeed. I want to support students in developing critical thinking skills. Hence, helping them to become independent learners who discover cognitive strategies to get “unstuck” and find their way out of the achievement gap.

Textbook

• Miller, ECONOMICS TODAY, The Micro View, 19^th edition, Pearson
• There will also be a few readings from newspaper articles found in PDF form and available through the course’s Canvas shell and/or links to them on the internet. Be sure to do these as well because they will have useful information not always discussed in the textbook chapters.