# Economics (ECON) courses

Shasta College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 2 courses

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

### ECON-C2001 — Principles of Microeconomics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture total (when offered in the distance education format, hours will total 162)
- **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.
- **Advisory:** English Placement Level 5 or higher (ECON C2001 is not a prerequisite for ECON C2002)
- **Formerly:** ECON 1A
- **C-ID:** ECON 201
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 8 sections (/c/shasta-college/schedule/fall-2026/econ.md)
- Grading: Pass/No Pass Option

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. This course may be offered in a distance education format.

### ECON-C2002 — Principles of Macroeconomics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 lecture total (when offered in the distance education format, hours will total 162)
- **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.
- **Advisory:** English Placement Level 5 or higher (ECON C2001 is not a prerequisite for ECON C2002)
- **Formerly:** ECON 1B
- **C-ID:** ECON 202
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/shasta-college/schedule/fall-2026/econ.md)
- Grading: Pass/No Pass Option

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. This course may be offered in a distance education format.