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如果您像许多大学生一样，您可能会抱怨说，对于大学或大学的各个专业，学生没有足够的信息。例如，商科专业的学生有时会说他们不确定商科专业是什么一回事，但是他们接着补充说，商科专业是一个安全的选择。毕竟，他们评论说，如果您拥有商务学位，您肯定会找到一份工作。其他学位并不总是这样。许多大学生根据高中课程选择专业。历史专业的学生有时会说他们决定选择历史专业，因为他们喜欢高中的历史。同样，化学，生物学和数学专业的学生说，他们选择化学，生物学或数学作为大学专业是因为他们喜欢在高中学习化学，生物学或数学。另外，如果一个学
The student majoring in economics will acquire a set of analytical tools and a way of thinking that will help him or her to better understand and predict the behavior of individuals, groups, and societies. Learning economics does for the undergraduate student what corrective lenses do for the person with impaired eyesight: it brings the world into focus. Things that were invisible become visible, the complex and hard-to-understand become simple and easily understood.<br><br>Economics is the study of human behavior as it relates to the condition of scarcity: that is, the condition where resources are limited in relation to human wants. An important part of economics is the study of how individuals, groups, and societies deal with scarcity through markets or exchange-like institutions. Economic theory is sufficiently powerful to explain many varieties of exchange relationships. This is evident in the number of fields in which economic analysis is currently utilized, such as business, history, law, psychology, political science, and sociology.<br><br>Economics has always been a highly respected field of study, but in the past three decades its reputation has soared. There are perhaps three major reasons for this change. First, many people have come to realize that economics plays an important role in their everyday lives. Recession, inflation, the exchange value of the dollar, the savings rate, interest rates, taxes, mergers, government expenditures, and economic growth all matter. These economic factors touch lives, they affect dreams. Second, economists have developed better tools and more refined methods of analysis: they have successfully extended their analytical apparatus and the economic way of thinking beyond the traditional confines of the science. Third, the one language that is becoming increasingly more universal is the language of economics. The American business person may not speak Japanese, and the Japanese business person may not speak English, but both of them know the language of supply and demand, profits, production, costs, international trade, and competition. Both of them know the language of economics.<br><br>Program Student Learning Outcomes<br>Students who graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics will be able to:<br><br>Define, describe, interpret and apply the choice calculus of different economic entities (individuals, firms, groups, government).<br>Describe, explain, and employ the economic way of thinking.<br>Explain and analyze how markets work.<br>Define, describe, and employ the scientific method to answering economic questions.<br>Explain and analyze how the economy works.