The Economics Department is offering a new series of 11 courses aimed at the heart of current events, both social and economic.
All of these courses are at the 2000 level, and there are no prerequisites. The first four will be offered in the fall, with more in the spring. These 3-credit courses are open to all Ohio University students.
“These courses provide a great opportunity to study topics that are important to society from the perspective of an economist,” notes Dr. Julia Paxton, Professor and Undergraduate Chair of Economics at Ohio University. “As we face societal and cultural change, economics helps us develop analytical skills that apply across many disciplines.”
“So many times throughout my 30 years at Ohio University I have been asked what economics has to do with the topics I teach and write about such as addiction, racial discrimination, crime and punishment, and many others,” says Dr. Harold Winter, Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics. “My answer is always the same—economics has to do with everything! Our several new 2000 level courses are designed with that in mind. Come see what economics is really all about.”
Offered in Fall 2021
ECON 2130: Current Economic Problems—Dr. Harold Winter will cover crime and punishment, racial discrimination, smoking and addiction, and health insurance, and other important social and economic problems that face society today.
ECON 2200: Introduction to Data Analysis using Python—Dr. Olga Standrityuk introduces the Python programming language as a way to apply economic analysis and prediction techniques to real-world scenarios—as students develop policy recommendations based on real-world data sets.
ECON 2400: International Trade Relations and Applications—Dr. Shamila Jayasuriya will look at world trade patterns and trade policies of both developed and developing nations—including tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers, industrial policies, and regional trade agreements.
ECON 2510: Global and Local Food Economies—Dr. Julia Paxton will take a look at the global and local food economy, including global food production and demand in the developing regions of the world, environmental degradation, food security, and local food distribution networks.
More New Courses Coming
ECON 2150: Frontiers of Economics—Dr. Cortney Rodet considers cutting-edge issues in economics that are relevant to public policy, with a keen emphasis on the role of innovative solutions.
ECON 2020 Gender in the Economy—Dr. Glenn Dutcher takes an interdisciplinary approach to ways in which gender, as a culturally defined concept, affects the economy and how societal prescriptions tied to an individual’s gender identity affect economic choices.
ECON 2300 Society, Technology and Economic Growth—Dr. Rosemary Rossiter tackles government investment in human capital, possible diminishing returns to knowledge, connection between competition and growth, benefits of net neutrality and evidence from use of social media.
ECON 2350: Sustainability Economics: Energy and Environment in the Modern World—Dr. Daniel Karney explores the interrelatedness between energy production and environmental policies in pursuit of sustainable economies.
ECON 2700: Economics of Conflict—Dr. Vahe Lskavyan brings an economics toolkit to study conflicts, including the economic causes and consequences of conflicts, resource allocation decisions, choices in anarchic environments, economic incentives, and bargaining failures.
ECON 2600: Economics of Health Disparities—Dr. Bethany Lemont tackles health disparities from an economic point of view, analyzing public policy issues and how economic policy could be used to correct for disparities in health outcomes.
ECON 2890: Economic Data Analysis with Excel and SAS—Dr. Shamila Jayasuriya teaches students how to use Excel and SAS software packages to analyze real-world economic data from online sources, using basic statistical and regression methods.
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