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Program Overview

The Economics program at Los Angeles City University is dedicated to the study of economic systems, market dynamics, and financial analysis. Students explore economic theory, policy analysis, and quantitative methods. Graduates are well-prepared for careers in economics, finance, research, and government. They play a vital role in analyzing economic trends, influencing policy decisions, and contributing to the economic well-being of individuals and society.

Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree or equiv. international education

Credit Hours

60 Hours

Course Duration

1 Year (Self-Paced)

Courses Offered

10

Social Science Foundations And Analytical Skills:

The program typically begins with a solid foundation in core business disciplines, such as accounting, marketing, finance, management, and organizational behavior. This equips students with a well-rounded understanding of how businesses operate.

Fieldwork And Community Engagement:

Beyond the theoretical framework, the College of Social Sciences places a significant emphasis on fieldwork and community engagement. Students have opportunities to participate in research projects, engage with local communities, and apply social science concepts to real-world situations. These experiences not only enhance their analytical and research skills but also provide valuable insights into the social sciences field.

Cultural Diversity And Social Issues Across The Globe:

The College of Social Sciences at Los Angeles City University is committed to Nurturing cultural diversity and addressing social issues from around the world. Our curriculum integrates social sciences from various cultures and encourages students to explore different societal traditions. Additionally, we offer study abroad programs, international research opportunities, and collaborations with social scientists from diverse backgrounds, enabling students to gain a global perspective on social sciences.

Sociology

Sociology is a comprehensive course that offers you a global perspective to help you better understand your own lives, provides strong focus on social diversity that allows you to see the impact of race, class, and gender, and focuses

Economics

This Economics course engages you with familiar real-world examples and applications that bring economics to life. The course explains you with easy-to-understand concepts that how economics is a part of your everyday life, and how it can be a useful tool in making personal decisions and evaluating policy decisions. 

English Literature

English Literature course is an introduction to reading and writing, it’s founded on the principles of writing about literature. This course emphasizes literature, critical thinking, and the writing process. You learn how thinking, reading, and writing relate to one another by studying poetry, fiction, drama, art, music, and film.

Mass Communication

This course retains the emphasis on the challenges of today's media while building on its extensive coverage of media history, effects, technology, and culture. The five part-organization-the media, media channels, media messages, media effects and media issues-provides a framework for you to understand the big picture behind today's media issues.

World History

World History course present the big picture, to facilitate comparison and assessment of change, and to highlight major developments in world's history. This course emphasizes the global interactions of major civilizations so that you can compare and assess changes in the patterns of interaction and the impact of global forces.

Managerial Economics

The emphasis in this course will be on demand analysis and estimation, production and cost analysis under different market conditions, forecasting and decision making under uncertainty. You will learn variety of techniques that will allow them to solve business problems relating to costs, prices, revenues, profits, and competitive strategies.

International Economics Management

Course aims to equip you with basic knowledge and skill to analyze international economic issues. Why countries trade, gains from trade, consequences of trade on income distribution and on economic growth, balance of payments, exchange rate regimes, and other issues are also covered in-depth.

Econometric Analysis

This course reflects modern theory and practice, with interesting applications that motivate and match up with the theory to ensure you grasp the relevance of econometrics. This course integrates real-world questions and data into the development of the theory, with serious treatment of the substantive findings of resulting empirical analysis.

Macroeconomics Management

This course explains the economic indicators (e.g. wage and price inflation, unemployment, exchange rates, interest rates, current account) that should be part of every manager's information set; to provide frame work for analyzing the limitations of economic policy; and to enable managers to use the understanding to improve decision-making.

Labor Economics

This course analyzes Labor market, addressing topics of labor supply and labor demand, theories and practice of wage determination, and how wage structures and wage differentials develop and evolve. Trends, measurement and analyses of labor productivity, labor market discrimination, and role of government and unions in labor markets are considered.

Cost of Attendance

Tuition Fee Breakdown Cost
MASTERS DEGREE $27,000
Medical Insurance $0.00
Personal Expenses $0.00
Study Materials $0.00
Food Cost $0.00
Total Tuition Fee $27,000
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Sociology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The sociological perspective
    Sociological investigation
    Culture
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Society
    Socialization
    Social interaction in everyday life
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Groups and organizations
    Sexuality and society
    Deviance
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Social stratification
    Social class in the united states
    Global stratification
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Gender stratification
    Race and ethnicity
    Aging and the elderly
    The economy and work
    Politics and government
    Families
    Religion
    Education
    Health and medicine
    Population, urbanization, and the environment
    Collective behavior and social movements
    Social change: traditional, modern, and postmodern societies

Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The economic perspective.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Production and trade.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand and supply.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The power of prices.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Measuring national output.

English literature

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Fiction: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Structure: the organization of stories.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Characters: the people in fiction.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Point of view: the position or stance of the works narrator or speaker.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Setting: the background of place, objects, and culture in stories.
    Tone and style: the words that convey attitudes in fiction.
    Symbolism and allegory: keys to extended meaning.
    Idea or theme: the meaning and the message in fiction.
    Six stories for additional enjoyment and study.
    Meeting poetry: an overview.

Mass communication

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Mass media literacy
    Books
    Newspapers
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Magazines
    Sound recording
    Movies
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Radio
    Television
    Internet
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    News
    Public relations
    Advertising
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Entertainment
    Research
    Mass communication
    Mass media effects
    Mass media and society
    Global mass media
    Mass media and governance
    Law
    Ethics
    Visual messages
    Media and political systems

World History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    From human prehistory to the rise of agriculture
    Early civilization
    Nomadic societies
    Classical civilization: china
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Classical civilization: india
    Classical civilization in the mediterranean: persia, greece and rome
    The classical period: directions, diversities, and declines by 500 c.e.
    The rise of islam: civilization in the middle east
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    India and southeast asia under the impact of islam
    Africa and islam
    East european civilization: byzantium and russia
    Western civilization: the middle ages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The spread of east asian civilization
    Centers of civilization in the americas
    The mongol interlude and the end of the postclassical period
    The west and the world: discovery, colonization, and trade
    Western civilization changes shape in the early modern centuries
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The rise of eastern europe
    The ottoman and mughal empires
    East asia: vital trends in politics and trade
    The first industrial revolution: western society, 17801914
    World economy and western imperialism: africa and south asia
    The settler societies: the west on frontiers
    The development of latin american civilization
    The middle east and china in the imperialist century
    Russia and japan: industrialization outside the west
    World war i and the end of an era
    The west in the contemporary period
    Eastern european civilization
    East asia in the 20th- 22nd centuries
    India and southeast asia

Managerial Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction
    The firm and its goals
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Supply and demand
    Demand elasticity
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Demand estimation and forecasting
    The theory and estimation of production
    The theory and estimation of cost
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Pricing and output decisions: perfect competition and monopoly
    Pricing and output decisions: monopolistic competition and oligopoly
    Special pricing practices
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Game theory and asymmetric information
    Capital budgeting, risk, and uncertainty
    Multinational corporation and globalization
    Government and industry: challenges and opportunities for todays manager
    Managerial economics in action: the case of the semiconductor industry

International Economics Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction.
    World trade: an overview.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Labor productivity and comparative advantage: the ricardian model.
    Resources, comparative advantage, and income distribution.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The standard trade model.
    Economies of scale, imperfect competition, and international trade.
    International factor movements.
    The instruments of trade policy.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The political economy of trade policy.
    Trade policy in developing countries.
    Controversies in trade policy.
    National income accounting and the balance of payments.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Exchange rates and the foreign exchange market: an asset approach.
    Money, interest rates, and exchange rates.
    Price levels and the exchange rate in the long run.
    Output and the exchange rate in the short run.
    Fixed exchange rates and foreign exchange intervention.
    The international monetary system, 1870-1973.
    Macroeconomic policy and coordination under floating exchange rates.
    Optimum currency areas and the european experience.
    The global capital market: performance and policy problems.
    Developing countries: growth, crisis, and reform.

Econometric Analysis

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic questions and data
    Review of probability
    Review of statistics
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Linear regression with one regressor
    Regression with a single regressor: hypothesis tests and confidence intervals
    Linear regression with multiple regressors
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals in multiple regression
    Nonlinear regression functions
    Assessing studies based on multiple regression
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Regression with panel data
    Regression with a binary dependent variable
    Instrumental variables regression
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Experiments and quasi-experiments
    Introduction to time series regression and forecasting
    Estimation of dynamic causal effects
    Additional topics in time series regression
    The theory of linear regression with one regressor
    The theory of multiple regression

Macroeconomics Management

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A tour of the world
    A tour of the book
    The goods market.
    Financial markets
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Goods and financial markets: the is-lm model
    The labor market
    Putting all markets together. the as-ad model
    The natural rate of unemployment and the phillips curve
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Inflation, activity, and nominal money growth
    The facts of growth
    Saving, capital accumulation, and output
    Technological progress and growth
    Technological progress, wages, and unemployment
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Expectations: the basic tools
    Financial markets and expectations
    Expectations, consumption, and investment
    Expectations, output, and policy
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Openness in goods and financial markets
    The goods market in an open economy
    Output, the interest rate, and the exchange rate
    Exchange rate regimes
    Depressions and slumps
    High inflation
    Should policy makers be restrained?
    Monetary policy: a summing up
    Fiscal policy: a summing up
    Epilogue: the story of macroeconomics

Labor Economics

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The labor market
    Hours of work
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Labor force participation
    The demand for labor in the short run
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    The demand for labor in the long run
    The determination of wages
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economics of human resource management
    Education, training, and earnings differentials: the theory of human capital
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Occupational wage differentials
    Discrimination in the labor market
    Union membership and collective bargaining
    The economic impact of labor unions
    Unemployment
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