ECON 201 — Principles of Microeconomics
3 Credits Fall, Spring
Supply and demand, consumer and firm behavior, market structures, and public policy.
- Prerequisites:
- None.
- Typically Offered:
- Fall, Spring
Subject Code: ECON • Section 9.6
Economics
Undergraduate courses offered by the faculty in Economics, supporting major curricula, academic minors, and the Alkimi Core.
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Subject Overview & Curricular Context
Courses in Economics are designed around rigorous empirical, theoretical, and applied principles. Coursework builds systematically from 100-level introductory surveys through 400-level advanced capstones and research seminars.
Prerequisites must be completed with a grade of C- or higher (unless specified otherwise by the academic department). Students who have not satisfied course prerequisites may only enroll with explicit written permission of the instructor and department chair.
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Official descriptions, credit distributions, and prerequisites authorized by the Faculty Senate.
Subject Summary
- Subject Prefix
- ECON
- Total Courses
- 7
- Academic Levels
- 100–400 Level
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Active Course Offerings (7)
ECON 202 — Principles of Macroeconomics
3 Credits Fall, Spring
National income accounting, inflation, unemployment, fiscal and monetary policies, banking systems, long-run economic growth, and international exchange rates.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 201.
- Typically Offered:
- Fall, Spring
ECON 301 — Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
3 Credits Fall
Mathematical analysis of consumer choice, utility maximization, production functions, cost minimization, perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, and game theory.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 201 and MATH 140.
- Typically Offered:
- Fall
ECON 302 — Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
3 Credits Spring
Formal models of economic growth (Solow model), aggregate demand and supply (IS-LM, AD-AS), monetary transmission, inflationary expectations, and macroeconomic stabilization.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 202 and MATH 140.
- Typically Offered:
- Spring
ECON 310 — Econometrics and Data Analysis
3 Credits Fall
Linear regression modeling, ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation, hypothesis testing, heteroskedasticity, autocorrelation, instrumental variables, and panel data using Stata/R.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 201 and STAT 205.
- Typically Offered:
- Fall
ECON 325 — Money, Banking, and Financial Markets
3 Credits Spring
Structure and functions of financial intermediaries, central banking operations, interest rate determination, monetary policy implementation, and financial crises.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 202.
- Typically Offered:
- Spring
ECON 490 — Senior Seminar in Economic Policy
3 Credits Spring
Independent capstone research analyzing pressing microeconomic or macroeconomic policy issues, culminating in an empirical senior thesis and defense.
- Prerequisites:
- ECON 301, ECON 302, ECON 310, and senior standing.
- Typically Offered:
- Spring