ECON

or

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Electives

Subject

ECON

Credits (min)

12

Credits (max)

12

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This first-year seminar course presents basic economic concepts and tools of analysis in the context of current economic issues. Controversies over the distribution of income, 614

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

POLSCI 454 - Recnt&Cntmp Pol Tght SOCIOL 201 - Sociological Theory

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 615

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

* * One of the following statistics courses may be used in p ENVSCI 261 - Statistics for Environmental Science

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

ECON 214GL - Ecological Economics • Any 300 and 400-level ECON courses One of the following courses at UMass Boston can be taken instead of ECON 205 and will transfer courses: ENVSCI 261 - Statistics for Environmental Science

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Description: This course is designed to introduce students to statistical programming, data structure, and statistical inference through the latest data visualization techniques. Students will learn how to visually represent the relationship between two or more variables. Students will also be introduced to the merits and limitations of various causal inference techniques used in answering economic research questions through the use of graphs and hypothesis testing of means. Through a lecture and lab format, students will gain hands-on experience evaluating social scientific data with a statistical software package. Enrollment Requirements: Pre-Req= (ECON 101 or ECON 102 ) and (ECON 205 or MATH 125 or MSIS 111) or instructor permission. Semester(s) typically offered: Spring Course Catalog ID: 042413 618

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

EDC U 466 - Teaching and Learning in the Discipline History and Social Studies 88

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

GERMAN 225L - Berlin: Crossroads of History GERMAN 255L - Pacting with the Devil: The Faust Tradition GERMAN 280 - Special Topics in German Literary and Cultural History • GERMAN 300 or higher

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

ENVSCI 340L - Planning and Land Use Law ENVSCI 375L - Urban Planning POLSCI 340 - Boston: Cooperation and Conflict in the Urban POLSCI 344 - Problems of Urban Politics (A) Area III: Environmental Policy

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Topical Electives (9 Credits) POLSCI 265L - World War II Internment of Japanese Americans (A) POLSCI 307 - Political Change and Group Identity (A) POLSCI 365 - Japan and the United States POLSCI 402 - World Politics and World Order (B) POLSCI 410 - Pol Intrnatnl Econ POLSCI 411 - International Organizations I (B) POLSCI 420 - Imperialism (B) POLSCI 421 - War (B) POLSCI 424 - American Foreign Policy (B) POLSCI 435 - Foreign Policy Analysis POLSCI 453 - Democratic Theory (D)

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An economic analysis of the US financial system, including examination of the major types of financial assets, financial markets, and financial institutions, as well as the major factors that determine asset prices and the structure of interest rates. Attention is given to the nature and operation of banking firms and the structure and regulation of the banking industry. Other topics may include the Federal Reserve and monetary policy; the determination of the money supply; recent trends in the banking industry; lending discrimination and community reinvestment; and current public policy issues in the areas of banking and finance. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 101 and ECON 102 Course Catalog ID: 013740 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An examination of alternative theories of international trade, including traditional neoclassical free trade approaches and newer theories addressing imperfect competition, economies of scale, national competitiveness issues, and managed trade. Topics also include the economic analysis of trade policies and trade imbalances: quotas, tariffs, GATT, free trade areas, NAFTA, trade problems and policies in economically developed and developing countries. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 101 and ECON 102 Course Catalog ID: 013979 Course Offer Number: 1 621

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

133

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

GLBAFF 313 - Regional Political Economy

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 622

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Description and analysis of the economic characteristics and problems of Latin American countries. Diversity Area: International Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 100 or ECON 101 or ECON 102 Course Catalog ID: 013985 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

ENVSCI 260 - Global Environmental Change • ENVSCI 280 - Global Society and the Environment 3 Credit(s)

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is a study of the economic, political, and sociological status of minoritized populations in the U.S. and the competing explanations for why differences in economic indicators exist and persist between white Americans and underrepresented minorities. Topics covered include disparities in wealth, income, educational attainment, health, and experiences with the criminal justice system. Explanations will be explored from multiple theoretical frameworks within economics including neoclassical economics, feminist economics, stratification economics, and Marxism. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ECON 100 or ECON 101 . Course Catalog ID: 013988 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

or

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

• ENVSCI 340L - Planning and Land Use Law 3 Credit(s) ENVSCI 378 - Ecosystem Management Law and Policy

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: This course provides an opportunity, at the 300 level, for the department to offer one-time-only courses on special topics of current interest to faculty members and students. It also is sometimes used as a way of offering proposed new courses on a trial basis before they are officially approved as part of the economics curriculum. Course Catalog ID: 013918 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

ENVSCI 280 - Global Society and the Environment

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to provide an understanding of the major challenges to the organization, delivery and financing of health care in developing countries. This course will combine economic theory with insights from epidemiology, medicine, and program evaluation. The main aim of the course is to describe current health issues and analyze policies that would improve the health of individuals in developing countries. The major topics may include: clean water; HIV/AIDS; malaria; obesity nutrition and helminth infections; non-communicable diseases; health insurance; maternal mortality; the health workforce; the pricing of essential medicines. Students also develop skills in evaluating and identifying potential solutions to global health challenges using randomized controlled trials. This course uses team-based learning. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ECON 101 or ECON 102 Course Catalog ID: 041133 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course deals with a variety of questions about the role of education in the economy and about economic aspects of the educational system. First, attention is given to the historical development of US public education and to different theories trying to explain that development. Students examine such issues as: Does education make people more productive? If so, how? Does education affect people's behavior in ways that make them "fit" better or worse in the large enterprises of the economy? Whose interests are served by the structure of our educational system? How does the educational system affect economic, social and political equality? Much of the course is devoted to particular controversies, for example, the issue of school choice, merit pay for teachers, the equalizing or disequalizing impacts of schooling, the importance of education in making the US "more competitive." 627

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An analysis of labor as an economic resource. Topics include the demand and supply of labor; wage determination and the structure of labor markets; income distribution, discrimination and inequality; unemployment and contingent work; labor as a macroeconomic variable, and public policies affecting the labor market. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 101 and ECON 102 Course Catalog ID: 013751 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An analysis of work and the institutions of workers. The course surveys labor history, labor unions, labor laws, organizing, collective bargaining, strikes, international competition, and how globalization is affecting work and worker's ability to organize and improve their working conditions. Enrollment Requirements: 628

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Prerequisite

ECON 101

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class examines poverty in the US, what causes poverty, and solutions to poverty, as well as how the US compares to other countries. It provides tools to evaluate social welfare and poverty programs and examines theories for why people are poor, and examines major economic security programs in the United States, such as Social Security and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: United States Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 100 [Inactive] or ECON 101 or ECON 102 Semester(s) typically offered: Spring Course Catalog ID: 014023 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the nature and extent of income inequality primarily in the U.S. but with a comparative perspective. We will begin by describing the trends in income inequality in the United States in comparison to other developed nations. We will consider possible causes and consequences of income inequality. We will examine a range of social and economic 629

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course has two aims. In the first four weeks of the semester students will be introduced to some core issues in Development Economics. These topics will be covered at a more advanced level than they are covered in existing courses and will provide the basic framework for the remainder of the course. In the second part of the course, which constitutes the bulk, students will have an opportunity to engage with a specific topic in greater depth. This topic will vary with the instructor teaching the course. The proposed topics are: Urbanization in Developing Countries, Poverty and Inequality, Structural Change and Transformation, Gender and Development, War, Macroeconomic Issues in Developing Countries, and Political Economy of Development. Whichever the area, students will be given the skills necessary to critically analyze the process of economic development, to identify the winners and losers in this process, and to appreciate what would constitute just and sustainable policy in that area. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: ECON 101 and ECON 102 and ECON 201 and ECON 202 Course Catalog ID: 039921 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 630

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

POLSCI 311 - Political Parties (A) POLSCI 324 - The American Presidency (A) POLSCI 325 - Public Administration (A) Area VI: Comparative and International Public Policy

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

POLSCI 322 - Politics of Poverty and U.S. Social Welfare Policy (A) POLSCI 335 - Law and Public Policy (A) SOCIOL 160 - Social Problems

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

ENVSCI 280 - Global Society and the Environment

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture and Laboratory Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This is a course in the techniques of estimating economic models. The uses and pitfalls of empirical estimation in economics will be examined. In addition to lectures, there will be a weekly two-hour computer lab, where students will apply these methods using econometric software. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites: • ECON 201 or ECON 202 and • ECON 205 or MATH 125 or IT /MSIS 111L Course Catalog ID: 014041 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable 632

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Repeatable for credit: Yes - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: Special Topics consent required for enrollment: No Course Catalog ID: 014047 Course Offer Number: 01

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3-6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Carefully supervised field work for eight or sixteen hours per week in Boston-area institutions that conduct research on economic issues-e.g. government and non-government organizations. Course Note: Open to a limited number of students each spring; applications are typically due in November. More information is available from the Economics Department. 633

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 6 Description: Research and reading in any area in economics: the purpose of this course is to allow the student to do advanced work in an area of economics to which he or she has already been exposed or to investigate an entirely new area. Enrollment Requirements:

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Prerequisite

A minimum of 60 credits

Formerly: ECON 380 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture 634

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 6 / total completions: 2 Description: Reading and research, under the direction of an individual faculty member, that builds on knowledge and skills obtained in a student's previous economics courses and that culminates in the production of a substantial research paper. Course Note: Students will be allowed to enroll in ECON 481 only after the completion of a written proposal that obtains written approval from the supervising faculty member and from the department chairperson. (Fulfills the capstone requirement.) Enrollment Requirements:

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Prerequisite

Seven ECON courses and a minimum of 80 credits

Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Closely supervised individual research on a topic chosen by a student in consultation with a faculty supervisor. The course's aim is to enable highly qualified students to undertake the preliminary exploration-reading, thinking, data-gathering-necessary for the successful undertaking of writing a senior honors thesis during the following term. The thesis prospectus must be completed and accepted by the student's proposed thesis supervisor before enrollment. Course Note: Enrollment is limited to economics majors with at least 80 credits and an overall cumulative GPA of 3.25 who have completed at least 7 economics courses with a GPA of 3.5; permission of both a faculty supervisor and the department chairperson is required. (Fulfills the capstone requirement.) Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 014068 Course Offer Number: 1

Subject

ECON

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu

Capstone

Subject

ECON

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

catalog.umb.edu