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ECON 4444: Independent Study (Undergraduate Research Supervision)

High Point University

Fall 2025

This course provides a survey of research in economics. By the end of this course, students will have experience working with STATA and Excel to clean/prepare data for analysis, analyze data, and ultimately produce research in an economics topic of their choice.

ECON 2050: Principles of Microeconomics

High Point University

Fall 2025

This course covers theories of consumer and producer behavior, including demand and supply, elasticity, and consumer utility theory. Introduction to pure competition, monopoly, and other market structures in which businesses operate. Discussion of issues such as mergers and antitrust policy, regulation, cost-benefit theory, externalities and public goods, resource markets, poverty and income inequality, and other applied micro-economic issues.

ECON 2030: Principles of Macroeconomics

High Point University

Fall 2025, Summer 2025 (Online), Spring 2025, Fall 2024 

This course addresses the subjects of demand and supply, free enterprise and capitalism, GDP and the business cycle, unemployment, inflation, fiscal and monetary policy, banking, international trade and finance, and other related topics. The course helps students understand current economic problems and policy debates.

Summer 2025 Evaluations (Sec 01) (Link): Overall Instructor Rating: 4.6/5

Spring 2025 Evaluations (Sec. 01) (Link): Average Response Rating 4.46/5

Spring 2025 Evaluations (Sec. 05) (Link): Average Response Rating 4.45/5

Fall 2024 Evaluations (Sec. 01) (Link): Average Response Rating 4.44/5

Fall 2024 Evaluations (Sec. 03) (Link): Average Response Rating 4.37/5

Fall 2024 Evaluations (Sec. 09) (Link): Average Response Rating 4.13/5

ECON 5090: Managerial Economics (MBA)

High Point University

Spring 2025

A study of how economics helps managers make better decisions. An emphasis is placed on forecasting an organization’s sales through tools such as regression analysis. Other topics include how organizations can optimize their production decisions, manage their costs, and respond profitably to regulation and deregulation. Throughout the course, the effects of globalization and global economic policies are discussed.

Spring 2025 Evaluations (Link): Average Response Rating 4.68/5

ECON 4400: Games & Decisions

Florida State University

Summer 2023*, Summer 2022*

Games and Decisions is a course on game theory and its applications to problems in economics, business, political science, biology, and in every-day life. Game theory is a discipline that studies games -- mathematical constructs that describe strategic interactions between agents (such as individuals or firms) called players. Game theory represents a departure from the basic economic analysis in that it focuses on strategic behavior, i.e., on how players make decisions taking into account the behavior of others. Examples include situations involving conflict, cooperation, contracts, auctions, and voting. In this course, we will focus on the so-called noncooperative game theory, the central predictive concept of which is Nash Equilibrium and its refinements in static and dynamic games. Having taken the course, successful students will be able to represent various strategic situations in the form of games, solve the games, and interpret the results. 

Summer 2023 Evaluations (Link): Overall instructor rating 5/5

*Awarded the 2023 Thomas McCaleb Award for Upper Division Teaching Excellence

Summer 2022 Evaluations (Link): Overall instructor rating 4.75/5

*Awarded the 2022 Thomas McCaleb Award for Upper Division Teaching Excellence

ECON 3101: Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

Florida State University

Summer 2021

Intermediate Microeconomic Theory is designed to build your economic understanding and reasoning beyond what you were presented in Principles of Microeconomics. Formal economic models will be presented along with economic intuition underlying the mathematics. We will emphasize problem solving and application of microeconomic theory and methods to the challenges and problems faced by individuals, businesses, governments, and other economic agents. The tools and intuition developed in this course will improve the way you think about the world and different economic problems. 

Summer 2021 Evaluations (Link): Overall instructor rating 4.4/5

Florida State University (Fall 2019-Spring 2020)

• Principles of Microeconomics

• Principles of Macroeconomics

• Growth of the American Economy

• Personal Finance

Northwestern University (Fall 2018-Spring 2019)

• MBA Corporate Finance

• MBA Managerial Finance

• Undergraduate Corporate Finance

Health, Illness, & Medicine (September 2024)

• "The Way Economists Think About Issues in Health"