Requirements
Overview
A. Mathematics 111
B. Economics 101, 112, 201, 212, and 220
C. One of the following: Economics 221, 420, or 422. Economics 421 or 422 chosen to satisfy the empirical requirement cannot be double counted to satisfy a 400-level elective.
D. Completion of sixteen additional semester hours of economics courses, of which at least eight hours must be at the 400 level and no more than four hours at the 200 level (215 or 231).
Areas of Concentration
Students are encouraged, although not required, to choose their economic electives (Requirement D) to fit one of the nine areas of concentration. Upon request, the Department of Economics will issue a certificate to any student completing an area of concentration. The nine areas are:
Law and Economics. Sixteen semester hours to include:
· Law and Economics (Econ 442)
- TWO of the following: Industrial Organization (Econ 405), Public Finance (Econ 434), Economics of Regulation (Econ 440), or Public Choice (Econ 443)
- ONE of the following: Business and Government (Econ 341),Health Economics (Econ 371), Health Policy & Economics (Econ 372)
International Economics. Sixteen semester hours to include:
· Introduction to Global Trade & Finance (Econ 231)
· International Trade (Econ 431)
· International Finance (Econ 432)
· Four-hour economics course at or above the 300-level
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· Business Policy. Sixteen semester hours to include:
· ONE of the following: Econometrics (Econ 420) or Economic Forecasting (Econ 422)
· ONE of the following: Stocks, Bonds, and Financial Markets (Econ 215), Business and Government (Econ 341), or Development of the Modern U.S. Economy (Econ 356)
· ONE of the following: Managerial Economics (Econ 400), Industrial Organization (Econ 405), Economics of Labor Markets (Econ 430), or Housing and Mortgage Markets (Econ 446)
· Four-hour economics course at or above the 200-level
Public Policy. Sixteen semester hours to include:
- EITHER TWO of the following: Contemporary Economic Issues (Econ 309), Business and Government (Econ 341), Environmental Economics & Policy (Econ 365) or Health Policy & Economics (Econ 372)
OR EIGHT HOURS of Washington Policy Semester (Econ 394)
- TWO of the following: Industrial Organization (Econ 405), Public Finance (Econ 434), Economics of Regulation (Econ 440), Law and Economics (Econ 442) Public Choice (Econ 443) or Housing and Mortgage Markets (Econ 446)
Financial Economics. Sixteen semester hours to include:
· Stocks, Bonds, and Financial Markets (Econ 215)
· TWO of the following: Topics in Macroeconomics (Econ 410), Money and Banking (Econ 411), Economic Forecasting (Econ 422), International Finance (Econ 432), or Housing and Mortgage Markets (Econ 446)
· Four-hour economics course at or above the 300-level
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· Behavioral Economics. (NEW) Sixteen semester hours to include:
· TWO of the following: Economics of Life (Econ 305), Experimental Economics (Econ 310), Economics and Psychology (Econ 315), or Health Economics (Econ 371)
· Neuroeconomics (Econ 481)
· Game Theory and Economic Activity (Econ 487)
· Health Economics. (NEW) Sixteen semester hours to include:
· Health Economics (Econ 371)
· Health Policy and Economics (Econ 372)
· TWO of the following: Econometrics (Econ 420), Economics of Labor Markets (Econ 430), Public Finance (Econ 434), or Neuroeconomics (Econ 481)
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· Economic Development. (NEW) Sixteen semester hours to include:
· Economic Development (Econ 362)
· International Finance (Econ 432)
· ONE of the following: Political Economy of the American South (Econ 355), Development of the modern US Economy (Econ 356), Latin American Economics (Econ 364), or Development Issues for Africa (Econ 366)
· Four-hour economics course at or above the 400-level
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· Economic History. (NEW) Sixteen semester hours to include:
· TWO of the following: Non-European Economic History (Econ 351), European Economic History (Econ 352), Political Economy of the American South (Econ 355), or Development of the Modern US Economy (Econ 356)
· TWO of the following: Industrial Organization (Econ 405), Economics of Labor Markets (Econ 430), International Trade (Econ 431), Public Finance (Econ 434), Economics of Regulation (Econ 440), or Law and Economics (Econ 442)
Note that an Empirical Course (Econ 420 or 422) cannot be double-counted to serve as both an elective and an empirical requirement.
Additional Information
-At most two Economics courses can be exempt with AP credit.
- Courses must be taken for a letter grade, except for Economics 394, and students must maintain an overall 2.0 (C) grade point average in courses used to complete a major.
- Students in Economics 394, Washington Economic Policy Semester, must register S/U instead of L/G. The credits earned for this course will be counted as 200/300 level elective(s).
- Economics 449, Economics Internship, is offered to economics majors and minors only and must be taken on an S/U basis.
- Economics 101 and 112 are prerequisites for higher numbered courses in Economics and for admission to the undergraduate program in the Business School. Economics 101 must be completed before enrolling in Economics 112. Business 201 can substitute for Economics 101.
- Generally, Economics 20l, 2l2, and 220 are taken at Emory. Only under extraordinary circumstances may these courses be taken at other institutions; prior written approval of the director of undergraduate studies is required.
- Courses taken at another institution, before or after enrolling at Emory, will not count toward the major unless written permission is given by the director of undergraduate studies, even if the College has accepted credit for the courses.
- At most four semester hours of Economics 397R, Directed Reading in Economics, may be counted toward the major requirements in Economics.
- Up to eight semester hours of credit earned at non-Emory overseas study programs may be counted toward the major requirements in Economics, mostly as 300 level elective(s). Prior written approval of the Economics Department’s Study Abroad Coordinator is required.
- Economics majors anticipating graduate work in Economics at a minimum should complete Mathematics 112 and Mathematics 211. They also should give serious consideration to taking mathematics courses in real analysis and differential equations.
- We strongly recommend that students who plan to write an honors thesis complete Economics 201, 212, 220, and one empirical course (Requirement C) by the end of their junior year.
- If Economics 420 or 422 is taken to fulfill the empirical requirement (Requirement C) then it cannot double count as an elective (Requirement D). Alternately, if Economics 420 or 422 is taken as an elective (Requirement D) it cannot double count as an empirical course (Requirement C).