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2012-2013
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DEGREE: BACHELOR OF ARTS
MAJOR: ECONOMICS


CURRICULUM CREDITS
UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 110 Critical Reading and Writing 3
(minimum grade C-)

First Year Experience (FYE) 0-4

University Breadth Requirement 12

Discovery Learning Experience (DLE) 3

Multicultural Courses 3
Three credits in an approved course or courses stressing multi-cultural, ethnic, and/or gender-related course content

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Second Writing Requirement: (minimum grade C-) 3
A writing course involving significant writing experience including two papers with a combined minimum of 3,000 words to be submitted for extended faculty critique of both composition and content. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours. See approved second writing courses.

Language Requirement 3-4
Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 112) in a given foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination 3-4.

One of the following: (minimum grade C-) 3-4
MATH 114 College Mathematics and Statistics (for students who do not intend to continue the study of mathematics)
MATH 115 Pre-Calculus (for students who intend to continue the study of mathematics)
MATH 221 Calculus I
MATH 241 Analytic Geometry and Calculus A

BREADTH REQUIREMENTS (See Description)
Creative Arts and Humanities 9
  Nine credits representing at least two areas.

History and Cultural Change 9
  Nine credits representing at least two areas.

Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
  Cannot be satisfied by an Economics course.

Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology 7
  At least one course must have an associated laboratory.

ECON 151 Introduction to Microeconomics: Prices and Markets (minimum grade C-) 3
ECON 152 Introduction to Macroeconomics: National Economy (minimum grade C-) 3
ECON 303 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (minimum grade C-) 3
ECON 300 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (minimum grade C-)
or
ECON 301 Quantitative Microeconomic Theory (minimum grade C-) 3

Additional Economics Courses 18


Six additional Economics courses at or above the 300-level, at least two of which are at or above the 400-level. At least one of the 400 level Economics electives must be chosen from courses other than ECON 415, ECON 422, or ECON 423: (minimum grade C-) 
                                                                             
Credit will not be allowed for both courses of any of the following sets of corresponding courses: ECON 251, ECON 300 and, ECON 301ECON 332 and ECON 433, ECON 344 and ECON 444, ECON 360 and ECON 463, ECON 381 and ECON 483, and ECON 390 and ECON 490.

MATH 201/MATH 202 Introduction to Statistics I and II: (minimum grade C-) 6

Related Work Requirement 9

Nine credits chosen from any 300-level or higher courses in Accounting, Anthropology, Business Administration, Computer Science, Finance, Geography, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics. Also acceptable are ACCT 207, ACCT 208, any 200-level Mathematics except MATH 201, MATH 202, MATH 205, MATH 250, MATH 251, MATH 252, MATH 253, and any MISY courses.

ELECTIVES

After required courses are completed, sufficient credits must be taken to meet the minimum credits required for the degree. No more than three credits can be from HESC/BHAN 120.

CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF 120



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