Undergraduate Courses in Economics

The Department of Economics offers over 100 undergraduate courses throughout the academic year including core courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, operations research, and elective courses in various fields.  Information on our courses can be found in the corresponding pages on the left.  Should you have additional questions not covered by the information contained or resources listed on this Web site, please send a message through the Virtual Advising Center.

Equivalencies to courses outside of UC San Diego:
If you need to petition courses from another institution for UC San Diego course equivalency, download undergraduate student petitions from the TritonLink forms page and then follow instructions and submit on our petition platform. One petition per course.

TENTATIVE Course offerings: 2021-22

If a professor (or STAFF) is listed in the term, the course is currently scheduled to be offered in that term. The number of names shown by each course, will indicate the number of classes we will be offering of that course in that quarter.  For example, in Winter 2022, there are two classes of ECON 3, taught by Ramey, V., so she is listed two times.

Please note that all course offerings are subject to change

WI22 Economics 181: Special Topics

Instructors' names for those listed as STAFF are forthcoming and will be posted as soon as possible.

Note: there is a comprehensive list of elective courses sorted by interest here. Academic Senate approved Economic courses, with title, course descriptions and prerequisites are here.

Last updated:  September 17, 2021