Economics
Overview of Course
	Subject Area: Social Studies Course Number: 2102310 Credit: 0.5 Prerequisites: NONE
Major Concepts/Content. The purpose of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and decision-making tools necessary for understanding how society organizes its limited resources to satisfy its wants and desires. Students will gain an understanding of choices they must make as producers, consumers, investors, and taxpayers.
The content should include, but not be limited to, the following:
•	Economic reasoning
•	Principles of decision-making in the marketplace
•	Productive resources
•	Scarcity and choices
•	Opportunity costs and trade-offs
•	Economic incentives
•	Inter-dependence
•	Contemporary and historical economic issues
•	Personal economic skills
•	Role of money
•	Government and financial institutions
•	Labor