Contemporary Economic Issues is an economics survey class for non-majors, primarily focused on thinking systematically about current events using microeconomic tools.
Economics is about more than just money, or policy, or unemployment: economics is a way of thinking systematically about choices in terms of tradeoffs, and how choices by different people come to fit together. Because it’s all about how people make choices, and how they react to changes, it gives us a way to analyze and predict unintended consequences.
The better you can apply economics as a way of thinking, the better you’ll be able to see consequences before they happen – while everyone else is taken by surprise!