Description
The major in Economics prepares students for careers in business, government and law as well as providing a solid foundation for further graduate studies. The Economics major requires 33 credit hours. Eighteen credits of the major's courses comprise of required courses (ECN 295, 296, 305, 315, and 316). The remaining fifteen credits are electives in Economics. Among the elective courses are: money and capital markets, international trade and finance, economic history, economic development, resource economics, comparative economic systems, labor economics, government finance and others. Economics majors are also required to take a course in applied statistics.
Graduates have been placed in banking, teaching, manufacturing firms and government agencies, to name a few. Many have gone on in graduate studies earning law degrees and advanced degrees in economics.
Degree Requirements
| Economics Major 33 Credits |
| | | cr. |
| STA 225 | Statistics | | 3 |
| ECN 295 | Microeconomic Principles | | 3 |
| ECN 296 | Macroeconomic Principles | | 3 |
| ECN 305 | Money and the Financial System | | 3 |
| ECN 315 | Intermediate Microeconomics | | 3 |
| ECN 316 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | | 3 |
| | Electives | | 15 |
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