Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics provides students with an in-depth overview of the economy as a whole. The course covers market structure, essential models, theories, and policies that affect international and domestic economic systems. Students will learn how the economy operates, how society manages its costs, benefits, and tradeoffs when allocating scarce resources through market demand and supply. Other topics include how output and growth in the economy are measured with GDP, and how the government and Federal Reserve influence growth, unemployment, and inflation through fiscal and monetary policy.
Self Paced
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Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Identify and apply relevant terminology and concepts to economic issues and problems.
- Compare and contrast the market system of economics with other systems.
- Analyze and synthesize the public and private sectors of the U.S. economy.
- Explain and synthesize the components of the National Income and Product Accounts.
- Describe the macroeconomic goals and problems.
- Analyze and synthesize short-run and long-run models of macroeconomic activity.
- Analyze government macroeconomic policy tools, and explain how they are used to stabilize the macroeconomy.
- Compare and contrast various macroeconomic theories.
- Analyze and synthesize international economic activity, and use the results to predict the impact on U.S. macroeconomic activity.
| Topic | Topic Title | Module |
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| 1 |
Learning Strategies |
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| 2 | Introduction to Economics |
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| 3 | Introduction to Macroeconomics |
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| 4 | Economic Theory and Fiscal Policy |
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| 5 | Money, Financial Markets, and Monetary Policy |
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| 6 | Economic Challenges |
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| 7 | The World Economy |
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| Final Exam |
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There are no prerequisites to take Macroeconomics.
StraighterLine provides a percentage score and letter grade for each course. A passing percentage is 70% or higher. If you have chosen a Partner College to award credit for this course, your final grade will be based upon that college's grading scale. Only passing scores will be considered by Partner Colleges for an award of credit.
There is a total of 100% in the course:
| Unit | Assessment | Points Available |
70% of your course grade |
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| Final Graded Exam | 30% of your course grade | |
| Total | 100% |
Final Proctored Exam
The final exam is developed to assess the knowledge you learned taking this course. All students are required to take an online proctored final exam in order complete the course and be eligible for transfer credit.
Macroeconomics provides students with an in-depth overview of the economy as a whole. The course covers market structure, essential models, theories, and policies that affect international and domestic economic systems. Students will learn how the economy operates, how society manages its costs, benefits, and tradeoffs when allocating scarce resources through market demand and supply. Other topics include how output and growth in the economy are measured with GDP, and how the government and Federal Reserve influence growth, unemployment, and inflation through fiscal and monetary policy.