{
  "college": "evergreen-valley-college",
  "edition": "2025-2026",
  "code": "ECON",
  "name": "Economics",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/econ/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "ECON 010A",
      "subject": "ECON",
      "number": "010A",
      "title": "Principles of Macroeconomic Theory",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "Lecture Hours: 3",
      "cid": [
        "ECON 202"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "description": "This course explains the forces affecting national economies such as variations in money and credit, income, output, productivity, employment, prices and inflation. ECON 010A examines monetary and fiscal theories, explains the role the government plays in the U.S. and other national economies as a result of monetary and fiscal policies and through the exercise of its regulatory powers. The course also provides an overview of how changes in inflation rates, interest rates, and the international value of the dollar reflect variations in the economy. This course provides an overview of the effects the government has upon businesses and households as a result of its taxation and spending policies.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatable: No",
        "Grading: L",
        "Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 Prerequisite: Eligible for transfer-level mathematics",
        "Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None",
        "Degree Applicable: AA/AS"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "ECON 010B",
      "subject": "ECON",
      "number": "010B",
      "title": "Introduction to Microeconomic Theory",
      "units": "3",
      "hours": "Lecture Hours: 3",
      "cid": [
        "ECON 201"
      ],
      "transfer": [
        "CSU",
        "UC"
      ],
      "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.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatable: No",
        "Grading: L",
        "Cal-GETC: 4 District GE: 4 Prerequisite: Eligible for transfer-level mathematics",
        "Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None",
        "Degree Applicable: AA/AS"
      ],
      "offered": []
    }
  ]
}