Economics Major

Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Semester Hours: 49-50
Advisor: Deb Fitzgerald

Economics helps explain markets and transactions, wealth and poverty, financial events, government programs and policies, and the structure of societies. As one of the classical disciplines, economics examines many of society's most fundamental and controversial issues and seeks to explain human behavior. The major in economics is designed for students with interests in either graduate studies (law, history, economics, business, sociology, political science, international affairs, conflict transformation, development) or immediate employment in the public or private sector.

To graduate with an economics major, students must first earn admission to the business and leadership department by fulfilling the department admission requirements.

The economics major consists of the following courses for a total of 49-50 SH:

ACTG 221 Financial Accounting - 3
BUAD 101 Business at EMU - 3
CIS 211 Spreadsheet and Data Management - 1
ECON 211 Principles of Microeconomics - 3
ECON 212 Principles of Macroeconomics - 3
*ECON 300 Environmental and Ecological Economics - 3
*ECON 311 Contemporary Economic Issues - 3
*ECON 331 History of Economic Thought - 3
*ECON 341 Intermediate Microeconomics - 3
*ECON 342 Intermediate Macroeconomics - 3
*ECON 401 Development Economics - 3
*ECON 411 International Economics - 3
PXD 375 Globalization and Justice - 3
STAT 120 Descriptive Statistics - 2
STAT 220 Inferential Statistics - 2
STAT 230 Regression and ANOVA - 2
BUAD 301 Quantitative Decision Making OR MATH 350 Linear Algebra - 3
*MATH 150 Elements of Calculus - 3 OR MATH 185 Calculus I - 4