Intended Learning Outcomes for Students
Communications
Be able to:
1. Speak, read, write, and listen effectively
2. Answer questions extemporaneously and
understandably in both oral and written contexts
3. Prepare and deliver information to professionals
as well as the general public
4. Use internet communications effectively
Computers
Be able to:
1. Use basic word processing, spreadsheet,
database, and presentation software
2. Use a computer to effectively organize and
analyze information.
Decision Making/Problem Solving
Be able to:
1. Work effectively in defining and solving
economic problems, both in individual and team
situations
2. Understand the humane, ethical, legal, and
environmental dimensions of complex problems
3. Obtain, summarize, analyze, and interpret
research data
4. Define a problem, distinguish verifiable facts
from value claims, determine the accuracy of
information or statements, identify assumptions,
detect bias, and distinguish information that is
relevant from that which is not
5. Establish priorities and complete tasks in a
timely fashion.
Human Relations
Be able to:
1. Accept and respect the opinions and beliefs of
others
2. Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills
3. Understand and have confidence in oneself
4. Understand global/international aspects of human
relations.
Disciplinary Actions
Be able to:
1. "Think like economists," i.e., possess skills
that prepare them for a wide range of careers in
business and government, as well as further graduate
or professional education in areas such as the
various fields of economics, law, and business.
2. Use logic and chains of deductive reasoning in
conjunction with economic models such as supply and
demand, marginal analysis, benefit-cost phenomena,
3.
Identify tradeoffs in the context of
constraints, especially those that are economic in
nature,
4. Distinguish positive (what is) from normative
(what is believed should be) analysis,
5. Trace the behavioral implications of economic
change while abstracting from other aspects of
reality, and explore consequences of aggregation
(e.g., the fallacy of composition),
6. Describe the re-distributive implications of
changes in economic institutions and policies and
collect data to evaluate and refine one’s
understanding of the economy,
7. Test alternative hypotheses about how
individuals and firms make economic choices and how
the economic system works
8. Interpret financial statements, calculate profit
(or loss) and return on investment, and construct
budgets and plans,
9. Understand the process of implementing economic
policies and their economic impacts
10. Interpret economic impacts of laws and
regulations,
11. Understand different types of market
organization and corresponding appropriate
competitive strategies,
12. Understand the global interdependence of
economics and economic concepts associated with
trade.
Career Placement
Be able to:
1. Obtain meaningful, desired employment, both
temporary and permanent
2. Successfully pursue advanced study
3. Succeed in one’s chosen profession