EC 220 Contemporary U.S. Economic Issues: Discrimination
Focuses on discrimination in the U.S. and its impact within our market economy. Primary focus is inequities for women and minorities in the labor market.
Notes
Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course
General Education Requirements
AAOT Cultural Literacy, AAOT Social Sciences, AAS Human Relations, AGS Social Science, AS Difference, Power & Discrim, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Correctly apply terminology used daily by economists in discussing contemporary issues. Correctly employ basic economic principles to explain and interpret economic reality and future anticipated economic events. Take a view of a specific current economic problem and/or major policy issue and defend it both orally and in writing. Examine the role of economics in the decision-making process of our sociopolitical environment. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.