Course Description
Instructional strategies, stances, and materials for teaching
economic concepts in the social studies curriculum.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Write a research paper or prepare instructional materials related to teaching economics.
Athena Title
Teaching Economics
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ESOC 5030E or ESOC 7030E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Expand and demonstrate knowledge of concepts, principles, and modes of inquiry that are essential to the study of economics.
- Engage with ideas and information about micro-and macroeconomics needed to teach in social studies classrooms.
- Practice using economics skills and understandings to prepare lessons for teaching economics in social studies classrooms.
- Interpret and create an economics curriculum that reflects state, local, and national content standards.
- Develop knowledge of instructional materials and methods that reflect creative use of economic concepts and principles for teaching economics in elementary, middle, and high school settings.
- Learn to curate instructional resources for teaching economics through professional organizations and the internet.
- Use knowledge of social, linguistic, and cultural diversity to create an equitable and culturally responsive classroom.
- Engage in collaborative inquiry around major issues related to teaching economics.
Topical Outline
- Economic decision making
- Opportunity cost, demand, and supply
- Marginal decision making
- Professional organizations and instructional resources
- Productivity, comparative advantage, and international trade
- Instructional case studies
- Property rights, externalities, and environmental issues
- Money, the Federal Reserve System, and monetary policy
- Macroeconomic topics
- Economic growth
