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.

Course offerings for 2018-2019:

If a professor (or STAFF) is listed in the term, the course is currently scheduled to be offered in that term. The number of lectures per class is shown by the number of instructors (or staff) listed, for example, in Winter 2019, there will be 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.

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.

The below course description has been updated but does not appear in the Catalog yet.

ECON 117:  Topics will include: long-run economic growth and cross-country income differences; Malthusian dynamics and the transition to modern growth; measured income vs welfare; development accounting; the Solow Growth Model; human capital; misallocation and total-factor productivity; firm management practices; technology adoption; agricultural productivity gaps; rural-urban migration; structural transformation; innovation and endogenous growth. Prerequisite:  Econ 100A.

Last updated:  August 16, 2018