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      "title": "ECONOMICS SPECIAL TOPIC",
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        "Credit - Degree Applicable",
        "Letter Grade or P/NP"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
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        "UC"
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        "Credit - Degree Applicable",
        "Letter Grade or P/NP"
      ],
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          "open": 0,
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          "subject": "ECON"
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        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
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          "subject": "ECON"
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      "code": "ECON 247",
      "subject": "ECON",
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      "title": "INDEPENDENT STUDIES: ECONOMICS",
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      "hours": "1.5 to 6 hours per week: (0.00 - 0.00 lecture hours/1.50 - 6.00 lab hours)",
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      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [
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      "notes": [
        "Credit - Degree Applicable",
        "Letter Grade or P/NP"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
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      "subject": "ECON",
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      "hours": "3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)",
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      "advisory": "Intermediate Algebra or eligibility for transfer level math using the current college process",
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        "ECON 201"
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        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies.",
      "notes": [
        "Credit - Degree Applicable",
        "Letter Grade or P/NP"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
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      "code": "ECON C2002",
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      "prerequisite": "Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of elementary algebra.",
      "cid": [
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      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies.",
      "notes": [
        "Credit - Degree Applicable",
        "Letter Grade or P/NP"
      ],
      "offered": []
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