In this economics course you have stated that we will not be doing much math. Are there curtain branches of economics that do or don't have math involvement and what would they be called?
I should temper my statement: We will be doing math, and the math is important, but it isn't our focus. We use math so far as we use logic (that is what math is after all), but we will not be following large equations to discover the value of a variable. Our focus is to understand economic activity in its own nature. A large portion of this will be done in the first few chapters. My focus with students to demonstrate what we can know, and what we cannot know.
That said, the most popular school of economics, Keynesian (I do not subscribe to their perspective, but the are the most popular nonetheless), focuses on macroeconomic data. I don't care to spoil too much (where is the excitement in that), but know that at least a few chapters covered in this class are over the models from John Maynard Keynes and others that continued his work. I teach these models not necessarily because they are entirely true (though there may be some truth in them), but because they are what the world at large calls "economics."
That said, the most popular school of economics, Keynesian (I do not subscribe to their perspective, but the are the most popular nonetheless), focuses on macroeconomic data. I don't care to spoil too much (where is the excitement in that), but know that at least a few chapters covered in this class are over the models from John Maynard Keynes and others that continued his work. I teach these models not necessarily because they are entirely true (though there may be some truth in them), but because they are what the world at large calls "economics."