Undergraduate Course Syllabi

  • ECON 100-001 Introductory Economics
    Instructor: James Peoples (peoples@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. A one semester survey of current national and international economic problems. Useful as preparation for Econ 103 and 104. Not required of economics majors.

  • ECON 100-202 Introductory Economics
    Instructor: Ole Ulpts (oleulpts@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. A one semester survey of current national and international economic problems. Useful as preparation for Econ 103 and 104. Not required of economics majors.

  • ECON 103-001 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Scott Adams (sjadams@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 10am-11:15am
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 103-005 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Quinn Crawford (crawf244@uwm.edu)
    Meets: F 8:30am-11:10am
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none

  • ECON 103-207 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Avik Chakrabarti (chakra@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 103-006 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Wesley Hines (wchines@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 4pm-5:15pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 103-004 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Satyanshu Kumar (kumar36@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 8:30am-9:45am
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 103-003 Principles of Microeconomics
    Instructor: Benjamin Adams (bcadams@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Economic reasoning; price determination, specialization, and efficiency. Applications include international trade, antitrust, environmental protection, highway congestion. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 103-002
  • ECON 104-004 Principles of Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Marlo Vasquez Gonzalez (vasque46@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 8:30am-9:45am
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Composition of national income, interrelationship of sectors; determination of national income and productivity; relationship between national income, inflation, money, interest rates; U.S. global economies interaction. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 104-205 Principles of Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Antu Murshid (amurshid@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Composition of national income, interrelationship of sectors; determination of national income and productivity; relationship between national income, inflation, money, interest rates; U.S. global economies interaction.

  • ECON 104-002 Principles of Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Matthew Theobald (theobal6@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Composition of national income, interrelationship of sectors; determination of national income and productivity; relationship between national income, inflation, money, interest rates; U.S. global economies interaction. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 104-001 Principles of Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Rebecca Neumann (rneumann@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 11:30am-12:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Composition of national income, interrelationship of sectors; determination of national income and productivity; relationship between national income, inflation, money, interest rates; U.S. global economies interaction. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 104-003 Principles of Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Stefan Lorenz (lorenzs@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 1pm-2:15pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Composition of national income, interrelationship of sectors; determination of national income and productivity; relationship between national income, inflation, money, interest rates; U.S. global economies interaction. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 110-001 Economics of Personal Finance
    Instructor: Andreea Vasi (acvasi@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 2:30pm-3:20pm
    1 cr. Undergraduate. Economics of personal financial management; development of successful financial skills; activity-based course with assignments emphasizing students' individual situations. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 110-202 Economics of Personal Finance
    Instructor: Andreea Vasi (acvasi@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    1 cr. Undergraduate. Economics of personal financial management; development of successful financial skills; activity-based course with assignments emphasizing students' individual situations. Prerequisites: none.

  • ECON 193-001 First-Year Seminar: Growth and Development of China, Japan and Korea
    Instructor: Sunwoong Kim (kim@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 4pm-5:15pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. The specific topics are announced in the Schedule of Classes each time the class is offered. Prerequisites: none

  • ECON 210-201 Economic Statistics
    Instructor: Lane Sailer (lhsailer@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Basic probability and statistics; numerical and graphical methods of describing data, elementary probability, random variables and probability distributions, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression. Prerequisites: Math 105(P), or Math 108(P), or Math Placement Level 30 or higher.

  • ECON 248-001 Economics of Discrimination
    Instructor: Scott Adams (sjadams@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 1pm-2:15pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Use of economic theory to examine the history, current status, and policies regarding various minority groups in the United States. Applications include education, housing, jobs. Prerequisites: none

  • ECON 301-202 Intermediate Microeconomics
    Instructor: Sunwoong Kim (kim@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Contemporary theory of consumption, production, pricing, resource allocation, and distribution. Prerequisites: Econ 103(P)

  • ECON 301-001 Intermediate Microeconomics
    Instructor: Matthew McGinty (mmcginty@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 11:30am-12:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Contemporary theory of consumption, production, pricing, resource allocation, and distribution. Prerequisites: Econ 103(P).

  • ECON 302-001 Intermediate Macroeconomics
    Instructor: Rebecca Neumann (rneumann@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 2:30pm-3:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Analysis of savings, production, investment and other aggregates in the national and international economy as related to the determination of national income, inflation, and unemployment. Prerequisites: Econ 104(P).

  • ECON 310-001 Research Methods for Economics
    Instructor: Jangsu Yoon (yoon22@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 1pm-2:15pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate. Statistical research methods, especially cross-sectional and panel-data regression and hypothesis testing, applied to the evaluation of empirical data and a directed research project using programming languages (STATA, R, Python, Matlab, etc.)

  • ECON 325-001 Money and Banking
    Instructor: Labesh Kumar (lkumar@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 2:30pm-3:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Stocks, bonds, derivatives, foreign exchange. Analysis of commercial banks, investment banks, brokerages, etc. Domestic and international monetary theory and policy. Risk insurances, regulations, deregulation.. Prerequisites: Econ 104(P).

  • ECON 328-001 Environmental Economics
    Instructor: Itziar Lazkano (lazkano@uwm.edu)
    Meets: TR 10am-11:15am
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Evaluating public policy of environmental and natural resources. Regulation of pollution, endangered species, natural resources, and other case studies. Prerequisites: Econ 103(P)

  • ECON 351-201 Introduction to International Economic Relations
    Instructor: Chih Min Hung (chihmin@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. International economics and finance, determinants and structure of international trade, commercial policy, foreign exchange markets, and balance of payments. Prerequisites: Econ 100(P); or both 103(P) & 104(P)

  • ECON 353-201 Economic Development
    Instructor: Hamid Mohtadi (mohtadi@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate. Examination of determinants of growth, modernization, poverty, and inequality in developing countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Analysis of development strategies. Prerequisites: Econ 103(P) & 104(P).

  • ECON 415-201 Economics of Employment and Labor Relations
    Instructor: John Heywood (heywood@uwm.edu)
    Meets: No Meeting Pattern
    3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate. Analysis of wage setting, labor markets, human capital and collective bargaining. Study of labor standards, regulation and the role of unions and government. Prerequisites: jr st; Econ 103(P)

  • ECON 432-001 Industrial Organization
    Instructor: James Peoples (peoples@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 10am-11:15am
    3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate. Economic analysis of asymmetric information, barriers to competitive entry, licensing, pricing practices/transactions costs; application to markets for insurance, computers, health care, used cars, food. Prerequisites: jr st; Econ 301(P).

  • ECON 448-001 Economics of Human Resources
    Instructor: Susan Davies (suedono@uwm.edu)
    Meets: W 5:30pm-8:10pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate. The economics of education, training, discrimination, and workplace incentives. Study of hiring, promotion, and job search. Prerequisites: jr st; Econ 103(P) or cons instr.

  • ECON 454-001 International Trade
    Instructor: Avik Chakrabarti (chakra@uwm.edu)
    Meets: MW 11:30am-12:45pm
    3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate. Why countries trade; who wins, who loses; facts about world trade; political economy of trade. Balance of payments, Asian crisis, European Union, American wage dispersion. Prerequisites: jr st; Econ 301(P).