Degree Requirements for B.A. in Economics--Political Economy Track


1. Econ 200 Principles of Microeconomics
2. Econ 202 Principles of Macroeconomics
3. Math 110 College Algebra or Math 120 Pre-Calculus Mathematics
4. Econ 250 Statistics for Economists
5. Econ 300 Intermediate Macroeconomics
6. Econ 302 Intermediate Microeconomics
7. Econ 445 Political Economy
8. Econ 500 History of Economic Thought

9. At least twelve units chosen from Political Economy courses:

Econ 333 Political Economy of Women: Money, Sex, Race, and Power
Econ 352 Political Economy of Poverty and Discrimination
Econ 420 Comparative Economic Systems
Econ 421 Economic History of the United States
Econ 450 Economic Development
Econ 520 Social Economics

10. Sixteen units of additional upper-division economics courses. With approval of a department advisor, eight units in related fields may be counted toward the upper-division course requirement in economics. Other economics courses include:

Econ 322 Managerial Economics
Econ 335 Economic Analysis with Microcomputers
Econ 340 Advanced Economic Analysis with Microcomputers
Econ 360 Economics of the Environment
Econ 372 Business Cycles
Econ 410 Money and Banking
Econ 430 International Economics
Econ 435 Multinational Corporations
Econ 460 Labor Economics
Econ 475 Public Finance
Econ 480 Introduction to Mathematical Economics
Econ 490 Introduction to Econometrics
Econ 575 Internship in Economics
Econ 595 Independent Study