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Course Requirements for Majors

The economics major requires forty semester hours of credit (10 courses) in economics and four semester hours of credit (1 course) in mathematics. The online Major's Checklist is intended to help you plan your coursework.

Students are encouraged, although not required, to choose their four economic electives (Requirement D) to fit one of six areas of concentration. The online Concentration Checklist is intended to help you plan your electives. Upon request, the Economics Department will issue a letter to any student completing a concentration.

1. Law and Economics. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a. Law and Economics (442)

b. Two of the following: Business and Government (341), Industrial Organization (405), Public Finance (434), Economics of Regulation (440), or Public Choice (443)

c. Four-hour economics course at or above the 200-level

2. International Economics. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a. Introduction to Global Trade & Finance (231)

b. International Trade (431)

c. International Finance (432)

d. Four-hour economics course at or above the 300-level

3. Business Policy Analysis. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a. One of the following: Econometrics (420) or Economic Forecasting (422)

b. One of the following: Stocks, Bonds, and Financial Markets (215), Business and Government (341), or Development of the Modern U.S. Economy (356)

c. One of the following: Managerial Economics (400), Industrial Organization (405), Economics of Labor Markets (430), or Housing and Mortgage Markets (446)

d. Four-hour economics course at or above the 200-level

4. Public Policy. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a. One of the following: Contemporary Economic Issues (309), Collective Bargaining and Public Policy (330), or Business and Government (341)

b. Two of the following: Industrial Organization (405), Public Finance (434), Economics of Regulation (440), Public Choice (443), Urban Economics (445), or Housing and Mortgage Markets (446)

c. Four-hour economics course at or above the 200-level

5. Financial Economics. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a. Stocks, Bonds, and Financial Markets (215)

b. Two of the following: Money and Banking (411), Economic Forecasting (422), International Finance (432), or Housing and Mortgage Markets (446)

c.Four-hour economics course at or above the 300-level

6. Macroeconomic Policy. The sixteen semester hours from Requirement D to include:

a.Topics in Macroeconomics (410)

b.Two of the following: Money and Banking (411), Economics of Labor Markets (430), International Finance (432), or Regional Economics (464)

c. Four-hour economics course at or above the 200-level
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Additional Requirements for Majors & Minors

• Courses must be taken for a letter grade, and students must maintain an overall 2.0 (C) grade point average in courses used to complete a major.



• Students in Economics 494, Washington Economic Policy Semester, must register S/U instead of L/G.



• 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 School of Business Administration. Economics 101 must be completed before enrolling in Economics 112.



• 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.



• A maximum of 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. Prior written approval of the director of undergraduate studies 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 analysis and differential equations.



• We 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.
  
  

• Either Economics 221, 420, or 422 are taken to fulfill the empirical requirement (Requirement C). Economics 420 or 422 may also be taken as an elective (Requirement D), but the courses do not "count twice". Taking Economics 420 or 422 as an elective for Requirement D means Requirement C must be fulfilled by another empirical course.
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