# Economics (ECON) courses

Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog · 2 courses

Source: https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/econ/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026.

### ECON 010A — Principles of Macroeconomic Theory

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** ECON 202
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- 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

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.

### ECON 010B — Introduction to Microeconomic Theory

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** ECON 201
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- 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

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.