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Required Courses
Important Note:
Policy on Courses from RU-Newark and RU-Camden
Students will no longer be able to use RU-Newark and RU-Camden courses in Intermediate Microeconomics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Econometrics towards the SAS Economics major. Please note that this policy is not retroactive: students who have taken these courses in the Spring of 2011 or earlier semesters will be allowed to use them to fulfill SAS Economics major requirements.
Elective Courses
All economics majors must take 7 elective (300 & 400) economics courses. (Students who took 200 instead of 102 and 103 must take 8 electives).
Economics electives are divided into two categories: lower level and upper level.
Lower level electives have only 102 & 103 as prerequisites while upper level electives have additional prerequisites. A minimum of 4 upper level electives is required to complete the major. Details on requirements regarding elective courses are found below. Only one course with a D (any elective) can count toward the major.
A maximum of three (3) lower level courses can count toward the major. (You can take more than three of these courses for university credit even though only three will count toward meeting the major requirement of seven economics electives.) The following list of elective courses includes only courses that we have regularly offered in the recent past, or that we hope to offer regularly in the future. The department cannot guarantee that each course will be offered every semester or even every year, though a large proportion of these courses are offered every semester or every year.
Lower Level Economics Electives
(only prerequisite is 102 & 103 or 200 unless otherwise indicated)
120 Inequality (no prerequisite)
300 International Economics
301 Money, Banking and the Financial System
303 Labor Institutions and Markets
305 American Economic History
307 Economics of Globalization (additional prerequisite is 300, 335 or 336)
311 Methods of Cost-Benefit (note: 311 taken prior to Fall 2016 counts as an upper level elective)
312 Economics of Sports
327 History of Economic Thought
331 Economics of Crime
334 Energy Economics
348 Social Welfare Programs
362 Comparative Economic Systems
389 Public Policy towards Business
390 Choice and Strategy in Politics (no prerequisite)
395 Law and Economics
398 Independent Study
399 Independent Study
Upper Level Economics Electives
Students must take a minimum of four (4) upper level economics electives.
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (320) and Econometrics (322):
402 Labor Economics
403 Special Topics in Labor Markets
413 Financial Economics
417 Health Economics
430 Urban and Regional Economics
432 Environmental Economics
435 International Trade
438 Education Economics
440 Income Inequality
441 Industrial Organization
460 Public Economics
463 Economics of Taxation
464 Personal Economics & Public Policy
469 State and Local Public Finance
475 Women, Men and the Economy
481 Economics of Uncertainty
484 Market Discipline
486 Operations Research I
Prerequisites: Intermediate Macroeconomics (321) and Econometrics (322):
412 Monetary Theory/Policy
414 Capital Markets (this course also has Eco 413 as a pre-requisite)
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (320), Intermediate Macroeconomics (321) and Econometrics (322):
400 Advanced Time Series and Financial Econometrics
401 Advanced Cross Sectional and Panel Econometrics (minimum grade of B+ in 322 and permission of instructor required as well)
411 Global Financial Crises
415 Portfolio Theory (this course also has Eco 413 as a pre-requisite)
421 Economic Forecasting and Big Data
436 International Finance & Macroeconomics
439 Economic Development
443 European Econ. History
444 Financial and Monetary History of the United States
445 Advanced International Economics
470 Economic Growth
477 Economics of Population
485 Mathematical Economics
489 Advanced Topics in Economic Theory
490 Adv. Independent Study
491 Adv. Independent Study
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (320), Intermediate Macroeconomics (321) and Econometrics (322) and co-requisite of Advanced Econometrics:
493 Honors Research Seminar
494 Honors Research Seminar
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (320), Econometrics (322), and Calculus I and II:
480 Behavioral and Experimental Economics
487 Operations Research II
Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (320), Statistics (960:211 or 960:285), Calculus I and II:
481 Economics of Uncertainty
482 Game Theory and Economics
483 Economics of Information