Economics - B.S.
Purpose
The Department of Economics has designed the Economics major to prepare students for careers in business, financial services, government or teaching, and for students planning to pursue a graduate degree in Economics or a related discipline. Career opportunities for students majoring in Economics include financial analyst, investment broker, banker, economics researcher, market forecaster, government analyst, and with further study, university teacher. (Economics majors desiring to teach economics in the secondary schools need to take a double major in Economics and Social Studies Education.)
The Economics major often serves as a companion double major with Business, Finance, Marketing, Political Science, Pre-Law, History, International Relations, Social Studies Education or Mathematics.
General Education Competencies
Please refer to the general education requirements and competencies section under the Division of Social Sciences.
Requirements
A major in Economics includes 30 credit hours of economics and a cognate area of 10 credit hours, which may be additional courses in economics or a grouping directed in any one of the following areas: accounting, business administration, communications, computer information systems, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, finance, history, management, marketing, mathematics, political science, psychology, social work, or other majors as accepted and approved by the department.
Students whose first major is Economics must take ECO-322 Research Design and Methods and the senior capstone courses ECO-498 Economics Seminar/Research and ECO-499 Economics Seminar/Presentation.
Requirements (40 credits)
Required Courses (18 credits)
| ACC-201 | Accounting Principles I | 3 |
| MAT-305 | Statistics for Social Sciences | 3 |
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| BUS-320 | Business Statistics | 3 |
| ECO-212 | Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECO-213 | Macroeconomics | 3 |
| ECO-306 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3 |
| ECO-307 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | 3 |
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| Economics Electives | 12 |
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| Cognate | 10 |
Electives (12 credits)
Cognate (10 credits)
