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.
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TENTATIVE Course offerings: 2022-23
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
Economics 181 in Winter Quarter will cover the theory, evidence, and practice of building state capacity in low and middle-income countries that is taught through a detailed case study of India. While the examples and context will be drawn from India, the conceptual issues covered in the course will be relevant to several developing countries.
Prerequisites: ECON 1 and 3
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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: May 13, 2022
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Lower Division |
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ECON 1: Principles of Microeconomics
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Candido Candido |
Famulari |
Martinez |
A. Ma Levkoff Staff
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Candido |
ECON 2: Market Imperfections & Policy |
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Staff |
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ECON 3: Principles of Macroeconomics
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A. Ma |
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Paul
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Staff
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V. Ramey V. Ramey
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ECON 4: Financial Accounting
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Levkoff Levkoff |
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Anderson |
Levkoff |
Levkoff |
ECON 5: Data Analytics/Social Sciences
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Arnold |
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Staff |
Arnold Arnold |
Upper Division |
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ECON 100A: Microeconomics A |
Tocoian |
Famulari
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Newhouse Newhouse
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Newhouse Newhouse
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ECON 100B: Microeconomics B |
Tocoian |
Nieto - Barthaburu
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Newhouse
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Galperti Galperti
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Tocoian Tocoian
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CON 100C: Microeconomics C |
Boomhower |
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Newhouse |
Du Du |
Du Grigoryan Grigoryan |
ECON 101: International Trade (Freshman Semin |
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Muendler |
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ECON 102: Globalization |
Muendler Muendler |
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ECON 103: Int'l Monetary Relat. |
Muendler |
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ECON 105: Industrial Organiz & Firm Strategy |
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Vespa |
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ECON 109: Game Theory |
Shishkin Shishkin |
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Watson Watson |
Shishkin Shishkin |
ECON 110A: Macroeconomics A |
Rondina |
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Chua |
Alon Alon |
Levkoff Jaimovich |
ECON 110B: Macroeconomics B |
Herreno Herreno Candido |
Levkoff |
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Trottner Trottner |
Hamilton Hamilton |
ECON 110BH: Honors Macroeconomics B |
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Hamilton |
ECON 111: Monetary Economics |
Cohen |
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Cohen |
ECON 112: Macro Data Analysis |
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ECON 116: Economic Development |
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Lowes |
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ECON 120A: Econometrics A |
O O |
Bae Xi |
Xie |
Elliott Elliott Tocoian |
Candido Tocoian |
ECON 120B: Econometrics B |
X. Ma X. Ma |
X. Ma
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Sun DeVries |
Candido |
Dahl Dahl |
ECON 120BH: Honors Econometrics B |
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Dahl |
ECON 120C: Econometrics C |
Sun Sun |
Wuthrich |
Sun |
Candido |
Candido |
ECON 120CH: Honors Econometrics C |
Sun |
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ECON 121: Applied Econometrics |
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Redpath |
Vogl |
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ECON 125: Demographic Analysis & Forecasting |
Tayman |
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ECON 129: Cities, Inequalities, Innovation |
Eckert Eckert |
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ECON 130: Public Policy |
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Tang |
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ECON 131: Economics of the Environment |
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Nieto - Barthaburu |
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Jacobsen Jacobsen |
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ECON 132: Energy Economics |
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ECON 136: Human Resources |
Betts Betts |
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ECON 137: Corruption |
Niehaus |
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Niehaus |
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ECON 138: Economics of Discrimination |
Rittenhouse |
Bharadwaj |
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Bharadwaj Bharadwaj |
ECON 140: Econ of Health Producers |
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ECON 142: Behavioral Economics |
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ECON 143: Experimental Econ |
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ECON 144: Econ of Conservation |
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Squires |
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ECON 145: Econ of Ocean Resources |
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Squires |
ECON 146: Economic Stabilization |
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ECON 151: Public Econ: Expenditures I |
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ECON 152: Public Econ: Expenditures II
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Fadlon Fadlon |
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Fadlon Fadlon |
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ECON 159: Economic Historyof the U.S. |
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ECON 164: The Indian Economy |
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Muralidharan |
ECON 165: Economics of the Middle East |
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ECON 171: Decisions Under Uncertainty |
Newhouse |
Levkoff |
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ECON 172A: Operations Research A |
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Newhouse |
ECON 172B: Operations Research B |
Newhouse Newhouse |
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ECON 173A: Financial Investments |
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Toda |
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Staff |
ECON 173B: Corporate Finance |
Levkoff |
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ECON 174: Financial Risk Mgmt |
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ECON 176: Marketing |
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ECON 178: Econ & Business Forecasting |
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Zhu |
Zhu |
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Zhu |
ECON 181: Topics in Economics |
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Heller |
ECON 191A: Sr. Essay Seminar A |
Vespa |
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ECON 191B: Sr. Essay Seminar B |
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Galperti |
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