Global Business Cycles and Economic Policy

Catalog description

How do economic recessions and expansions start What causes recessions to deepen and expansions to accelerate What are appropriate and effective government policies to fix economic problems This course examines answers to these questions in the context of a global economy. Learners consider benefits and costs of creating a more globally integrated economy, discover how business cycles in different countries are related to another, and examine how U.S. economic fluctuations and policy responses depend on changes in the global economy, resulting in a toolkit to make predictions about changes in economic outcomes such as consumer spending, production, unemployment, and inflation. EDEL-500 Quality Questioning and Alignment of Instruction and Assessment to Assure Rigor and Student Engagement in Learning (2 - 3 Credits) This course will develop participants' knowledge, skill, and practice in supporting classroom instruction and student learning through the following: developing understanding of taxonomies for educational objectives/cognitive complexity, demonstrating effective techniques for questioning that lead to higher levels of thinking and student engagement, analyzing units to identify level of cognitive complexity (rigor) and determine level of alignment of intended learning, instruction, and assessment, and practicing coaching techniques to address staff's assurance of rigor and student engagement in the intended learning.