Solbridge Mission & Course Objectives The mission of Solbridge is mainly to ensure that it produces the highest quality students by ensuring all courses focus on the mission of creating the next generation of Asian though leader. Thus the goal of this course is to introduce students about a broad understanding of the basic economic concepts concerning the operation of the aggregate economy at the national level. The emphasis is on examining the overall functioning of the economy, including such phenomena as economic growth, unemployment, inflation, recession, fiscal and monetary policies, and international financial markets. Accordingly, the main objectives of this course are: (i) to give students a thorough understanding of the behavior of aggregate economy as compared to the behavior of individuals, firms, or a particular market, (ii) to introduce students how to apply basic macroeconomic tools so as to analyze macroeconomic issues in an international context to try to understand the economic reforms many countries are understanding. Thus, this course will introduce students to macroeconomic theory with more emphases' on how to measure a nation's income, measuring the cost of living, production and growth, the basic tools of finance, unemployment, inflation, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, and the debates over economic policies. Tables 1 and 2 below outline the core and additional knowledge and skills (course contents) that would be acquired by students by the end of this course. Knowledge refers to an Understanding of Subject Matter, and Skills refer to application of the knowledge.