EAM 3102 Cultural Economics 3.0 Credits
This course provides students an introduction to “economic thinking” and helps them explore how economic thinking is, and can be, applied to art and cultural goods. The course will introduce students to the goods typologies found in cultural economics: private goods, public goods, mixed goods, positional goods, Veblen goods, experience goods, luxury goods, and, normal and inferior goods. Objects of analysis will include the visual and performing arts, music, design, fashion, book publishing, film, architecture and museums. Students will use learn how to conceptualize the economic and social value of art and culture in the United States.
Repeat Status: Not repeatable for credit
Prerequisites: ECON 1201 [Min Grade: D] and ECON 1202 [Min Grade: D]