Provides students with rigorous analytical methosds that contribute to the depth and complexity to political science, international relations, area studies, history, and law. Students learn about markets, consumer behavior, the government's role, economic development, wealth creation, fundamentals of ecpnpmics and fiscal policies. The senior seminar focuses on national experiences such as Japan in the context of Asian and the global economies.
Faculty Advisor for the Economics Major
Economics studies how individuals, companies and governments interact at the domestic and international levels to make decisions maximizing satisfaction, profits, output and growth subject to scarcity of resources like time, land, labor, technology and natural resources. Economic models study production, growth, and trade among other and develop methods and policies to solve for economic problems like cost minimization, inflation, unemployment, recessions, tax incidence and international debt. Models developed and studied by economists have many applications in decision making in business, finance, politics, political economy and international relations at the local and international levels. The study of economics is quite technical and requires a good command of mathematics and statistics especially at the advanced level but the depth of knowledge acquired prepares economist to be effective managers, project managers, complex problem solvers and decision makers at the highest levels in corporations, banks, public institutions and the government.
SAMPLE CURRICULUM
An overview of required courses.
Required Courses
- Macroeconomic Principles
- Microeconomic Principles
- Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis
- Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
- Statistics and Probabilities
Required Major Electives
Three electives in Economics at the 3000 level or above
One Elective in Economics 3000 Level / Pre-approved CLA Elective 2000 Level or Above
One Additional Economics Course
- International Trade
- International Monetary Economics
Writing-Intensive Elective (One of the following)
- Energy, Ecology, and Economy
- Health Economics
FEATURED COURSES
A list of recently offered electives.
Economics for Life
Women in the Economy
Money and Banking
Energy, Ecology, and Economy
Behavioral Economics
The Economics of Sports
Women in the Economy
Money and Banking
Energy, Ecology, and Economy
Behavioral Economics
The Economics of Sports