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2024-25 Catalog 
    
2024-25 Catalog

Economics


(Economics major requirements are listed below. Follow this link for the Economics Minor  requirements.)

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

  

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Division Requirements:

  

Students are required to fulfill the division requirements for their major.

Total divisional units: 4

Major Requirements:


Total major units: 10

Four Units of Core Economics Courses


Four Additional Units in Economics


Junior Year Requirement:


  • Junior qualifying examination

Students should take the junior qualifying examination the semester before starting their thesis.

Two units of Thesis


Recommended, but Not Required:


  • Although there is no formal mathematics requirement, MATH 111  or equivalent background in differential calculus is a prerequisite for ECON 313  and ECON 314  .
  • Students intending to do graduate work in economics should take ECON 312  and as much mathematics as possible. MATH 111 , MATH 112 , MATH 141 , MATH 201 , MATH 202 , and MATH 322  are especially useful. Such students may wish to consider the major with concentration in quantitative economics.