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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics Major, BA (Arts and Sciences)

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College Requirements

Arts and Sciences  

Prerequisites

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Major Requirements

The major consists of 30 upper-division (300- or 400-level) hours in economics.

I. Complete:

 

II. Complete A or B:

 

A. Complete:

 

B. Select 12 hours:
  • 400-level ECON courses

III. Complete A or B:

A. Select 12 hours of 300- or 400-level ECON courses
B. Complete:

Notes:

  1. Majors should satisfy the quantitative reasoning requirement with MATH 125 *, MATH 132 *, or MATH 141 *, and STAT 201 * or STAT 207 *.

  2. Students planning to pursue graduate study in economics should elect MATH 132 * or MATH 141 * and are encouraged to take MATH 142 *, MATH 251 , ECON 381 , and ECON 482  as well.

     

Honors Concentration – Economics (Arts and Sciences)

The major consists of either 30 upper-division hours in economics or 27 hours of upper-division hours in economics and a three-hour sequence in professional development. Admission is limited to students with an overall GPA of 3.2 who have earned a B or better in ECON 311 , ECON 313 , and two other upper-division economics courses. ECON 381  (Econometrics) is strongly recommended to Honors students, and valuable to take prior to the Honors Thesis. In addition to ECON 498  students in the honors concentration are required to have 9 hours of other honors courses which may include honors-by-contract courses.

I. Complete:

 

II. Complete A or B:

 

A. Complete:

 

B. Select 12 hours:
  • 400-level ECON courses

III. Complete A or B


 

A. Select:
  • 9 hours of 300- or 400-level ECON courses
B. Complete:

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