Business Economics
Business Economics Major
(Cooperative Major between the College of Business and the Department of Economics)
The objective of the Business Economics major is to provide a high quality education with a balanced emphasis in both business and economics. Such an education should equip graduates with a unique set of skills distinguishing them from other graduates. In particular, they will have the ability to use both business and economic reasoning to think critically and address complex issues using tools and decision making models of economics, business, mathematics, statistics, as well as concepts from the biological, physical, and social sciences; to make decisions and to communicate effectively.
| Required courses (10 credits) | ||
| ECON 301 | Intermediate Microeconomics | 3-4 |
| ECON 353 | Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions | 3 |
| ECON 431 | Managerial Economics | 3 |
| ECON 492 | Graduating Senior Survey | R |
| Elective courses (9 credits) | ||
| Three credits of ECON 230-289, 300-389, 400-489. | ||
| Select two additional 400 through 489 level ECON courses | ||
| Notes: | ||
| Business Economics majors must take STAT 326 | ||
| Business Economics majors take MATH 160 and ECON 207 instead of MATH 150 and 151 | ||
