Associate of Arts for Transfer in Economics in Huntington Beach United States | Golden West College

The Associate in Arts in Economics for Transfer degree emphasizes building a framework of principles and models in both microeconomics and macroeconomics to understand how individuals, businesses, and societies make decisions. Microeconomics coursework explores consumer and producer behavior, market structures, and efficiency concepts. Macroeconomics studies broader economic measurements like national income, inflation, unemployment, and how government policies shape economic outcomes. The program strengthens quantitative abilities for economic applications, with calculus and statistics forming the basis for advanced economic study. Graduates will be ready to transfer and pursue a bachelor's degree in Economics.
After completing this program, students will be able to:

Apply scarcity principles to evaluate choices, opportunity costs, and marginal decisions for both individuals and societies.
Perform quantitative assessments of economic behavior across individuals, businesses, government entities, and entire economies.
Utilize economic theories to examine markets and assess how government policies affect decision-making at individual, national, and global levels.
Employ supply-demand models to study market dynamics, interpret fluctuations, and predict price changes.