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ECONOMICS (ECO) the Objective of This Course Is to Provide Students with the Basic Tools Necessary to Better Understand Contemporary Microeconomic Issues This is a copy of the 2021-2022 catalog. ECO 1304 Contemporary Microeconomic Issues (3 units) ECONOMICS (ECO) The objective of this course is to provide students with the basic tools necessary to better understand contemporary microeconomic issues. ECO 1102 Introduction to Macroeconomics (3 units) By the end of this course, students will be able to understand and think Macro versus micro. National accounting. Components of aggregate critically about microeconomic issues. Topics that may be covered demand. National income determination and multiplier theory. Business include: supply and demand, the determination of prices, taxation, the cycles and economic instability. Fiscal policy. Money and monetary public sector, health, education, the environment, the labour market, policy. Banking system. Unemployment and inflation. Controversies over income inequality, and poverty. Courses ECO 1304, ECO 1104 cannot be stabilization policy. Canadian macroeconomic policy. combined for units. Course Component: Lecture Course Component: Lecture ECO 1103 Economic Issues of Indigenous Peoples (3 units) This course is intended primarily for students who do not intend to Economic, social and political status of Indigenous Peoples in Canada continue their studies in economics. However, students who obtain a and around the world. This course may not be used to fulfill requirements grade of A- or higher may receive an exemption for ECO 1104. This course for optional courses in Economics (ECO) in the programs offered by cannot be combined for units with ECO 1104. the Department of Economics. This course may be used as an elective ECO 1502 Introduction à la macroéconomie (3 crédits) course. Macroéconomie par rapport à microéconomie. Comptes nationaux. Course Component: Lecture Composantes de la demande globale. Détermination du revenu national ECO 1104 Introduction to Microeconomics (3 units) et théorie du multiplicateur. Cycles économiques et instabilité. Politique Nature and scope of economics. Scarcity and choice. Market mechanism. budgétaire. Monnaie et politique monétaire. Système bancaire. Chômage Demand and supply curves. Shifts of demand and supply. Elasticity et inflation. Controverses sur la politique de stabilisation. Politique and determinants. Consumer behaviour. Nature of the firm and its macroéconomique canadienne. basic decisions. Production functions. Total, average, and marginal Volet : Cours magistral cost curves. Price decision. Perfect competition. Monopoly. Price ECO 1503 Enjeux économiques des peuples autochtones (3 crédits) discrimination. Government regulation. Factor pricing. Case studies and Le statut économique, social et politique des peuples autochtones au applications. Comparative advantage. Canada et dans le monde. Ce cours ne peut pas être utilisé pour répondre Course Component: Lecture à l'exigence des cours optionnels en science économique (ECO) des ECO 1192 Engineering Economics (3 units) programmes offert par le Département de science économique. Ce cours The scope of engineering economics; mesoeconomics supply, peut être utilisé comme un cours au choix. demand, production; break-even analysis; economizing and comparing Volet : Cours magistral mathematics of money: time value mechanics; equivalent annual - worth ECO 1504 Introduction à la microéconomie (3 crédits) comparison method; present worth comparisons; management of money: Nature et étendue de la science économique. Rareté et choix. Mécanisme date and sensitivity analysis, industrial practices; analysis of public du marché. Courbes de demande et d'offre. Déplacements de la projects, economic analysis recognizing risk. demande et de l'offre. Élasticité et ses déterminants. Comportement du Course Component: Lecture consommateur. Nature de l'entreprise et de ses décisions. Fonctions de This course is reserved for Engineering students and is not open to production. Courbes de coût total, moyen et marginal. Détermination students registered in Economics. du prix. Concurrence parfaite. Monopole. Discrimination par les prix. ECO 1302 Contemporary Macroeconomic Issues (3 units) Règlementation gouvernementale. Prix des facteurs. Études de cas et The objective of this course is to provide students with the basic tools applications. Avantage relatif. necessary to better understand contemporary macroeconomic issues. Volet : Cours magistral By the end of this course, students will be able to understand and think ECO 1592 Science économique pour les ingénieurs (3 crédits) critically about macroeconomic issues. Topics that may be covered La portée de l'économie du génie; mésoéconomie : offre, demande, include: financial crises and financial markets, inflation, unemployment, production; analyse des coûts et seuil de rentabilité; analyse économique economic growth, international trade and globalization, the balance of de projets; mathématiques financières : importance du facteur temps; payments, the role of money and exchange rates, and monetary and fiscal comparaisons fondées sur les principes d'équivalence du rendement policy. Courses ECO 1302, ECO 1102 cannot be combined for units. annuel et de la valeur escomptée; gestion financière : données et Course Component: Lecture sensibilité, pratiques industrielles; analyse des projets publics; analyses This course is intended primarily for students who do not intend to économiques en fonction de l'incertitude. continue their studies in economics. However, students who obtain a Volet : Cours magistral grade of A- or higher may receive an exemption for ECO 1102. Ce cours est réservé aux étudiants et étudiantes de génie et n'est pas ouvert aux étudiants et étudiantes inscrits en science économique. http://catalogue.uottawa.ca/en/courses/eco/index.html 1 This is a copy of the 2021-2022 catalog. ECO 1702 Enjeux macroéconomiques contemporains (3 crédits) ECO 2115 Introduction to Money and Banking (3 units) Ce cours a pour objectif d'offrir aux étudiants les outils de base Money and credit; chartered bank structure, practice and competition; nécessaires pour une meilleure compréhension des grands problèmes financial markets; structure and operations of the Bank of Canada. et enjeux macroéconomiques contemporains. À la suite de ce cours, Factors that determine the amount of money in existence, the process les étudiants seront en mesure de comprendre et de poser un regard of deposit creation and destruction, and the instruments through which critique sur les actualités économiques. Parmi les thèmes abordés, on monetary control is implemented. Analysis of the development of the compte : les marchés financiers et les crises financières, l'inflation, le Canadian economy and its monetary policy since World War II. chômage, la croissance économique, les échanges internationaux et Course Component: Lecture la mondialisation, la balance des paiements, le rôle de la monnaie et Prerequisite: ECO 1102. les taux de change et les politiques fiscales et monétaires. Les cours ECO 2117 Introduction to Development Economics (3 units) ECO 1702 et ECO 1502 ne peuvent être combinés pour l'obtention de An overview of our current understanding of the process of economic crédits. development. Students are introduced to key facts about developing Volet : Cours magistral economies. Theoretical arguments and models that are intended Ce cours s'adresse principalement aux étudiant(e)s qui n'ont pas to explain those facts are examined, as well as empirical evidence l'intention de poursuivre leurs études en science économique. Cependant, regarding the success of specific development policies. The objective une exemption pour ECO 1502 pourra être accordée aux étudiant(e)s qui is for students to gain a better understanding of some of the main recevront une note de A- o challenges faced by developing countries today. Topics may include ECO 1704 Enjeux microéconomiques contemporains (3 crédits) poverty, inequality, education, institutions, financial markets, growth, Ce cours a pour objectif d'offrir aux étudiants les outils de base gender issues, trade, conflict, environment and natural resources, and nécessaires pour une meilleure compréhension des grands problèmes development aid. et enjeux microéconomiques contemporains. À la suite de ce cours, les Course Component: Lecture étudiants seront en mesure de comprendre et de poser un regard critique Prerequisites: (ECO 1102 or ECO 1302), (ECO 1104 or ECO 1304). sur les actualités économiques. Parmi les thèmes abordés, on compte : ECO 2118 Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resources l'offre et la demande, la détermination des prix, les impôts, le secteur Economics (3 units) public, la santé, l'éducation, l'environnement, le marché du travail, les Pollution, resource degradation and externalities. The concepts of inégalités et la pauvreté. Les cours ECO 1704 et ECO 1504 ne peuvent property rights and resource scarcity. Measuring the benefits and costs etre combinés pour l'obtention de crédits. of environmental improvements. Policy instruments to control pollution. Volet : Cours magistral Renewable and non-renewable resources. Sustainable development. Ce cours s'adresse principalement aux étudiant(e)s qui n'ont pas Population growth. Energy use and climate change. l'intention de poursuivre leurs études en science économique. Cependant, Course Component: Lecture une exemption pour ECO 1504 pourra être accordée aux étudiant(e)s qui Prerequisite: ECO 1104. recevront une note de A- o ECO 2121 Introduction to International Economics (3 units) ECO 2110 Microeconomic Analysis of the Public Sector (3 units) This course is an introduction
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