JOUR479C

Prerequisite: Must have completed a university statistics course. This class, designed for journalism and non-journalism undergraduates, introduces students to the major economic and business themes that dominate news coverage and explains how reporters gather and analyze data to write these stories. Topics discussed will include: income inequality, economic growth, the stock market, investing, immigration, international trade, corporate strategy, real estate, the Federal Reserve and mergers & acquisitions. This class will be helpful to students who want to understand how the economy and the stock market work, why globalization is shifting and how the biggest corporations--including technology companies--compete for market share.