This pathway is designed to meet Associate of Arts degree requirements with a concentration in Economics. This pre-major pathway prepares students to transfer at the junior level to a four-year college to earn a bachelor's degree in economics, accounting, or another business-related field. In this pathway, students will study how people’s choices to satisfy their wants affect the consumption, production and trade of scarce resources. Students will study topics such as inflation, taxes, pricing, employment, poverty and capitalism. They will also gain a theoretical framework to explain choices and behavior that can also be successfully applied to other areas of study, including politics, law, history, and education. Whether students want a career in business, government or social sciences, the versatile economics degree will provide the framework for a variety of challenging career options.