# Economics (ECON) courses

Las Positas College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://laspositas.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/1097/1125/1146

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026.

### ECON 10 — General Economics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/summer-2026/econ.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/fall-2026/econ.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional
- Cal-GETC: 4
- LPC-GE: 4

Survey of the economic system of the United States, covering such macroeconomic and microeconomic topics as supply and demand, firms' output and pricing decisions, international trade, comparative economic systems, economic growth, business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, labor, and money and banking. 3 hours lecture.

### ECON C2001 — Principles of Microeconomics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of elementary algebra.
- **C-ID:** ECON 201
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section listed as ECON 1 (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/summer-2026/econ.md); Fall 2026, 7 sections listed as ECON 1 (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/fall-2026/econ.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional
- Cal-GETC: 4
- LPC-GE: 4

An introductory course using microeconomic models to understand individual decisions by consumers and firms, market outcomes including market failure, elasticity, market structures, labor markets, inequality, and the impact of government policies. Includes price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.

### ECON C2002 — Principles of Macroeconomics

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process or completion of a course taught at or above the level of elementary algebra.
- **C-ID:** ECON 202
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section listed as ECON 2 (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/summer-2026/econ.md); Fall 2026, 5 sections listed as ECON 2 (/c/las-positas-college/schedule/fall-2026/econ.md)
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Grading Option: Optional
- Cal-GETC: 4
- LPC-GE: 4

An introductory course using models of the domestic and international economy to understand national income, unemployment, inflation, economic growth, inequality, the financial system, and monetary, fiscal, and other economic policies. Includes analysis of the theory of income determination, business cycles, the consumption function, the multiplier, monetary policy, money and banking, the public debt, economic growth and development, comparative economic systems and international trade.