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ECON 359

Economic Development

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeB+
Standard

Overview

Description

Introduction to the world’s development problems such as population, food, scarcity of nonrenewable resources, growing inequality between nations and within nations, possible socioeconomic consequences of those problems.

Requirements

Prerequisites

ECON 102ECON 103
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

ECON 102; ECON 103.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall and Summer

Terms

fall, summer

Core

CO11

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • analyze different theories regarding economic development.
  • apply theories of economic development to different countries.
  • analyze the experience of economic development in different countries and the impact on different groups within those countries, especially non-western countries.
  • discuss the relation of economic development to growing inequality between nations and within nations, possible socioeconomic consequences of those problems.
  • describe the world’s development problems such as population, food, scarcity of nonrenewable resources.