Courses I teach or have taught at TUJ:
ECON 3503 - Intro to Econometrics
3 Credit Hours. Introduction to the theory and practice of econometrics. Topics include a review of basic statistics, simple regression, multiple regression, dummy variables, autocorrelation, heteroscedasticity, and model specification. Applications in economics are stressed. Problem sets, computer estimation of economic relationships, and a data analysis paper are required. This course is strongly recommended for Economics majors or those who already have a strong background in economics.
ECON 1102: Principles of Microeconomics
An introductory course in microeconomics. Topics include the market system, supply and demand, cost, competition, monopoly, oligopoly, factor markets, and public goods.
ECON 3547: Economics of Development and Growth
3 Credit Hours. The course concentrates on issues of growth and development for a variety of world economies. The issues covered include topics such as scarcity of resources, interaction between market and government control, role of technology and human capital, and inequality and poverty. Specific tools include the measurement of economic growth and standards of living, conduct of macroeconomic policy, models of international trade, and instruments of global capital markets.
ECON 3546: Women in the Economy (Lecture style: In-person classroom/Online/Bimodal)
3 Credit Hours. A course in labor economics with specific application to women in paid and unpaid employment. The course explores alternative economic theories of the labor market and economic approaches to discrimination as well as historic changes in the nature of unpaid and paid work. These theories are then applied to the economic situation of women in the U.S., Japan, India and other societies.
ECON: Asian Economies (Forthcoming)
3 Credit Hours. A course focusing on the economies of Japan, China and India.
ECON 3563: International Economics
3 Credit Hours. An examination of the basic theories of international trade, commercial policy, and factor movements. Topics may include the relation between trade and economic growth, trade policy, international trade agreements, and protectionism.
POLS 2321: Politics of the Global Economy (Lecture style: In-person classroom/Online/Bimodal)
3 Credit Hours. This course studies competing explanations for the evolution and operations of the international political economy from the origins of the industrial era in the late 18th century through the "information economy" of the 21st. It focuses on four functional areas: international trade in goods and services, the management of currency exchange and international monetary policy, the pattern and flow of investment capital, and the pattern and structure of global production.
POLS 2201: Comparative Politics: Developing Nations
3 Credit Hours. This course describes and analyzes political patterns in the Developing countries . It provides a descriptive overview, analyzes domestic political trends within the context of the global system, and reviews current trends.
STAT0826: Stats in News (GenEd)
This is a non-technical course for a diverse audience not geared to any particular major. It introduces the art and science of decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. Students learn how to understand, evaluate, and criticize information from surveys and scientific studies encountered in newspapers, magazines, textbooks, and scholarly journals, how to distinguish between informative and misleading uses of statistics in the popular media, and how to make informed decisions in the face of complexity and uncertainty. The focus is on understanding statistics and statistical ideas, not on statistical methodology (although this is also part of the course). Numerous supportive examples taken from a variety of fields in the social, behavioral, and natural sciences accompany each method and concept.