43 courses with the subject ECON, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
323 Milbank Hall MATH UN1102 CALCULUS II. 3.00 points. integration, applications of the integral, Taylors theorem, infinite series. (SC) Fall 2025: MATH UN1102 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
328 Milbank Hall Gebreyohannes
301 Pupin Laboratories ECON UN2029 FED CHALLENGE WORKSHOP. 1.00 point. to compete in the annual College Fed Challenge sponsored by the Federal Reserve. Topics covered include macroeconomic and financial conditions, monetary policy, financial stability and the Federal Reserve nt
323 Milbank Hall ECON BC2017 INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH ECONOMICS. 3.00 points. the core microeconomic theories and concepts needed to understand health and health care issues in the United States. It describes how the markets for health and health services are different from those for other goods, with an emphasis on providing the tools and skills for understanding health policy and regulations. In addition, it discusses theoretical and empirical aspects of key health economics issues, with a primary focus on applying the tools of economic analysis to understand the basic forces—supply and demand, asymmetric information, incentives, and externalities, for example—that influence health policies ECON BC2020 Introduction to Development Economics. 3 points. Students will be introduced to current issues within development economics, and to fundamental economic concepts explaining economic growth. It will discuss the crosscutting themes of gender equality and environmental sustainability, while approaching topics within economic growth, population growth, human capital, health, agriculture, urbanization, natural resources, conflict, and institutions. Spring 2026: ECON BC2020 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol
328 Milbank Hall Gebreyohannes MDES UN2042 South Asia at the Crossroads of Empires. 3.00 points. In this course we will study the late colonial and early post-colonial periods of South Asian history together. Some of the events we will cover include: the climax of anti-colonial movements in South Asia, WWII as it developed in South and Southeast Asia, the partition of British India, the two Indo-Pakistan wars, and the 1971 Bangladesh War. While we will read selected secondary literature, we will focus on a range of primary sources, including original radio broadcasts and oral history interviews. We will also study artistic interpretations of historical developments, including short stories and films. In this lment course, we will strive to remain attentive to the important changes engendered by colonialism, while simultaneously recognizing the agency of South Asians in formulating their own modernities during this critical period. We will also seek to develop a narrative of modern South Asian history, which is attentive to parallel and/or connected events in other regions
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328 Milbank Hall Gebreyohannes ECON BC3018 ECONOMETRICS. 4.00 points. STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. or STAT W1111 or STAT W1211, or permission of the instructor. Specification, estimation and evaluation of economic relationships using economic theory, data, and statistical inference; testable implications of economic theories; econometric analysis of topics such as consumption, investment, wages and unemployment, and financial markets Fall 2025: ECON BC3018 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
323 Milbank Hall Timmer
504 Diana Center Reback ECON BC3013 Economic History of the United States. 3 points. BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). instructor. Economic transformation of the United States from a small, open agrarian society in the late colonial era to the leading industrial economy of the 20th century. Emphasis is given to the quantitative, institutional, and spatial dimensions of economic growth, and the relationship between the changing structures of the economy and state. Fall 2025: ECON BC3013 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
207 Milbank Hall ECON BC3023 Topics in Economic History. 3 points. Not offered during 2024-2025 academic year. instructor Topics vary in content. Fall 2011 topic: The American Century. ECON BC3033 INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY. 4.00 points. knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or permission of the instructor. Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments Fall 2025: ECON BC3033 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
4 328 Milbank Hall ECON BC3033 INTERMEDTE MACROECONOMC THEORY. 4.00 points. 4 Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics and a functioning 3.00 knowledge of high school algebra and analytical geometry or 4 permission of the instructor. Systematic exposition of current macroeconomic theories of unemployment, inflation, and international financial adjustments Fall 2025: ECON BC3033 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
328 Milbank Hall ECON BC3022 Economic History of Europe. 3 points. permission of the instructor. An introduction to the transformative economic developments that began in Western Europe and spread globally. This course applies economic and empirical reasoning to analyze the industrial revolution, its underlying causes and consequences, from pre-modern times to the 20th-century emergence of a global economy. Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 291 ECON BC3024 MIGRATION # ECONOMIC CHANGE. 3.00 points. a wide variety of topics about migration and its relationship to economic development, globalization, and social and economic mobility. At its core, this course reflects a key reality: that the movement of people--within regions, within countries, and across borders--is both the result of and impetus for economic change Spring 2026: ECON BC3024 t Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
302 Barnard Hall Timmer ECON UN3025 FINANCIAL ECONOMICS. 3.00 points. ECON W3211, W3213 and STAT 1201. Institutional nature and economic function of financial markets. Emphasis on both domestic and international markets (debt, stock, foreign exchange, eurobond, eurocurrency, futures, options, and others). Principles of security pricing and portfolio management; the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis Fall 2025: ECON UN3025 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
304 Barnard Hall Alvira ECON BC3026 Economics of the Public Sector. 3 points. The purpose of the course is to think about public policy issues t through an economic lens. We will explore the basic economic foundations of individual decision-making and discuss the ways in which economists hypothesize that individuals respond to the incentives embedded within public policies. We will pay particular attention to the nature and detail of existing public policies, and use economic analysis to predict how these policies might influence behavior. We will also explore some of the relevant empirical literature on a set of policy topics, to see how these predictions hold up. Fall 2025: ECON BC3026 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
140 Horace Mann Hall Ananat ECON BC3029 EMPIRICAL APPROACHES DEVLPMNT. 3.00 points. ECON BC3035 or ECON BC3033, or permission of the instructor. Examination of new challenges in the global economy from unequal income distribution and poor institutions to health epidemics and natural disasters. Accessing and analyzing real-time and historic data to understand the current global economy. Applied econometric techniques.
504 Diana Center ECON BC3035 INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS. 4.00 points. combined macro/micro principles course (ECON BC1003 or ECON W1105, or the equivalent) and one semester of calculus or ECON BC1007, or permission of the instructor. Preferences and demand; production, cost, and supply; behavior of markets in partial equilibrium; resource allocation in general equilibrium; pricing of goods and services under alternative market structures; implications of individual decision-making for labor supply; income distribution, welfare, and public policy. Emphasis on problem solving Fall 2025: ECON BC3035 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
504 Diana Center ECON BC3048 Introduction to Behavioral Economics. 3.00 points. This course reviews the assumption of rationality in microeconomic theory and presents evidence (primarily from experimental psychology and economics) of how judgement and decision-making systematically deviate from what rationality predicts Spring 2026: ECON BC3048 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
Ll002 Milstein Center Alvira ECON BC3039 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. 3 points. Economics majors: ECON BC3035. Link between economic behavior and environmental quality: valuation of non-market benefits of pollution abatement; emissions standards; taxes; and transferable discharge permits. Specific problems of hazardous waste; the distribution of hazardous pollutants across different sub-groups of the U.S. population; the exploitation of commonly owned natural resources; and the links between the environment, income distribution, and economic development. Fall 2025: ECON BC3039 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enro
328 Milbank Hall EDUC BC3040 MIGRATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND EDUCATION. 4.00 points. Globalization and mass migration are reconfiguring the modern world and reshaping the contours of nation-states. New technologies that facilitate the movement of information, goods and people across borders have made it easier for people to remain culturally, politically, economically and socially connected to the places from which they migrated. This seminar focuses on the experiences of the youngest members of these global migration patterns—children and youth —and asks: What do these global flows mean for educating young people to be members of the multiple communities to which they belong? This seminar will explore the following questions: What is globalization and why is it leading to new patterns of migration? How do children and youth experience ruptures and continuities across contexts of migration? How do language policies affect young people’s capacity to be educated in a new land? What does it mean to forge a sense of belonging and citizenship in a “globalized” world, and how does this challenge our models of national citizenship? How are the processes by which young people are incorporated into their new country entwined with structures of race, class, and gender? Drawing on fiction, autobiography, and anthropological and sociological research this class will explore these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives Fall 2025: EDUC BC3040 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol
504 Diana Center ECON BC3061 SENIOR THESIS I. 4.00 points. courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 1st semester of a two-semester course sequence Fall 2025: ECON BC3061 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
328 Milbank Hall ECON BC3098 GUIDED RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS. 1.00-2.00 points. 1 or 2 points experience of participating in the research process by matching them to a faculty mentor who will put them to work on one of his or her current research projects Fall 2025: ECON BC3098 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
405 Barnard Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 299 ECON BC3062 SENIOR THESIS II. 4.00 points. courses (except for the senior requirement) required for the economics track, political economy track, or economics and mathematics majors. Exceptions to these prerequisites may be granted by the chair of the department only. Tutorials and conferences on the research for and writing of the senior thesis. This is the 2nd semester of a two-semester course sequence Spring 2026: ECON BC3062 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
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310 Fayerweather Musatti t ECON UN3213 INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS. 4.00 points. ECON W1105 or the equivalent; MATH V1101 or MATH V1207. or the equivalent. Corequisites: MATH UN1201 This course covers t the determination of output, employment, inflation and interest ra Topics include economic growth, business cycles, monetary and fisca policy, consumption and savings and national income accounting Fall 2025: ECON UN3213 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor
301 Uris Hall Alonso ECON UN3265 MONEY AND BANKING. 3.00 points. Introduction to the principles of money and banking. The intermedi institutions of the American economy and their historical developments, current issues in monetary and financial reform Spring 2026: ECON UN3265 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor
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517 Hamilton Hall ECON GU4020 ECON OF UNCERTAINTY # INFORMTN. 3.00 points. ECON W3211, W3213 and STAT 1201. Topics include behavior uncertainty, expected utility hypothesis, insurance, portfolio choice, principle agent problems, screening and signaling, and information theories of financial intermediation ECON GU4211 ADVANCED MICROECONOMICS. 4.00 points. ECON W3211, W3213, and MATH V2010. Students must register for required discussion section. Corequisites: MATH UN2500 or MATH GU4061 The course provides a rigorous introduction to microeconomics. Topics will vary with the instructor but will include consumer theory, producer theory, general equilibrium and welfare, social choice theory, game theory and information economics. This course is strongly recommended for students considering graduate work in economics. Discussion section required Spring 2026: ECON GU4211 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
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503 Hamilton Hall Alonso ECON GU4228 URBAN ECONOMICS. 3.00 points. W3213. Congestion and other games, and the pricing of transit services. Location theory and land rents. Segregation and discrimination. t The fiscal structure of American cities. Zoning and the taking issue. Abandonment and city-owned property. Economic development, abatements, subsidies, and eminent domain. Crime, deadweight losses, and the allocation of police services. ECON GU4230 ECONOMICS OF NEW YORK CITY. 3.00 points. ECON W3211, W3213 and STAT 1201. This course takes New York as our laboratory. Economics is about individual choice subject to constraints and the ways that choices sum up to something often much more than the parts. The fundamental feature of any city is the combination of those forces that bring people together and those that push them apart. Thus both physical and social space will be central to our discussions. The underlying theoretical and empirical analysis will touch on spatial aspects of urban economics, regional, and even international economics. We will aim to see these features in New York City taken as a whole, as well as in specific neighborhoods of the city. We will match these theoretical and empirical analyses with readings that reflect close observation of specific subjects. The close observation is meant to inspire you to probe deeply into a topic in order that the tools and approaches of economics may illuminate these issues in a fresh way Spring 2026: ECON GU4230 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
207 Mathematics
602 Hamilton Hall Gowrisankaran ECON GU4280 CORPORATE FINANCE. 3.00 points. ECON W3211, ECON W3213 and STAT 1201. An introduction to the economics principles underlying the financial decisions of firms. The topics covered include bond and stock valuations, capital budgeting, dividend policy, market efficiency, risk valuation, and risk management. For information regarding REGISTRATION for this course, go to: http://econ.columbia.edu/ registration-information Fall 2025: ECON GU4280 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
310 Fayerweather ECON GU4301 ECONOMIC GROWTH # DEVELOPMNT I. 3.00 points. W3213. on economic development, theoretical development models; problems of efficient resource allocation in a growing economy; balanced and unbalanced growth in closed and open economic systems; the role of capital accumulation and innovation in economic growth Fall 2025: ECON GU4301 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
310 Fayerweather Martin ECON GU4321 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 3.00 points. W3213. How do families decide who gets educated and who goes to work? Why do some people remain unemployed even when jobs are available? How do institutions, laws, and cultural norms shape who works, where, and for how much - and what are the consequences of these decisions around the world? ECON GU4321 explores the economic lives of t people in low- and middle-income countries, with a focus on family and labor market issues. We'll examine how individuals and families make decisions about work, education, and marriage - and how these choices are shaped by social norms, market failures, and government t policies. The course tackles contemporary development challenges including women's labor force participation, discrimination in hiring and wages, the relationship between marriage markets and human capital investment, and how climate change reshapes employment opportunities. Using both theoretical and empirical tools, we'll analyze the policy implications of these issues Fall 2025: ECON GU4321 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
633 Seeley W. Mudd
517 Hamilton Hall Casella t ECON GU4400 LABOR ECONOMICS. 3.00 points. W3213. The labor force and labor markets, educational and man power training, unions and collective bargaining, mobility and immobility, sex and race discrimination, unemployment. Spring 2026: ECON GU4400 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
703 Hamilton Hall Mocanu
503 Hamilton Hall ECON GU4415 GAME THEORY. 3.00 points. W3213. systematic treatment of game theory and its applications in economic analysis Fall 2025: ECON GU4415 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen
310 Fayerweather Somekh Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 233 ECON GU4840 BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS. 3.00 points. the standard model of behavior is that of a perfectly rational, self interested utility maximizer with unlimited cognitive resources. In many cases, this provides a good approximation to the types of behavior that economists are interested in. However, over the past 30 years, experimental and behavioral economists have documented ways in which the standard model is not just wrong, but is wrong in ways that are important for economic outcomes. Understanding these behaviors, and their implications, is one of the most exciting areas of current economic inquiry. The aim of this course is to provide a grounding in the main areas of study within behavioral economics, including temptation and self control, fairness and reciprocity, reference dependence, bounded rationality and choice under risk and uncertainty. For each area we will study three things: 1. The evidence that indicates that the standard economic model is missing some important behavior 2. The models that have been developed to capture these behaviors 3. Applications of these models to (for example) finance, labor and development economics As well as the standard lectures, homework assignments, exams and so on, you will be asked to participate in economic experiments, the data from which will be used to illustrate some of the principals in the course. There will also be a certain small degree of classroom ‘flipping’, with a portion of many lectures given over to group problem solving. Finally, an integral part of the course will be a research proposal that you must complete by the end of the course, outlining a novel piece of research that you would be interested in doing Fall 2025: ECON GU4840 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
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330 Uris Hall AMST GU4500 Eugenics. 4.00 points. For almost two hundred years, people around the world have sought to perfect society through scientifically directed breeding. Though often described as a thing of the past, contemporary life is suffused with fears over declining birth rates and dreams of producing perfect “designer babies.” In this class we will explore the long history of attempts to remake reproduction and regulate population across U.S. History (with some excursions into India and Germany), through a study of a range of interdisciplinary scholarship. Together, we will ask: why have panics around population emerged under specific circumstances, and who pushed them? How and why did eugenics explode into popularity at the turn of the century, and how was it adopted into and by various social movements? What, exactly, is (and was) eugenics? What is the relationship between it and earlier efforts to scientifically categorize and remake society? What role did it play in the development of twentieth-century politics? Why did states engage in campaigns of mass sterilization across the first half of the twentieth century? Why did they stop? How have different groups sought to remake reproduction since? Fall 2025: AMST GU4500 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol
517 Hamilton Hall Dingel ECON GU4750 GLOBALIZATION # ITS RISKS. 3.00 points. W3213. transformed by dramatic increases in flows of people, goods and services across nations. Globalization has the potential for enormous t gains but is also associated to serious risks. The gains are related to international commerce where the industrial countries dominate, while the risks involve the global environment, poverty and the satisfaction of basic needs that affect in great measure the developing nations. Both t are linked to a historical division of the world into the North and the South-the industrial and the developing nations. Key to future evolution are (1) the creation of new markets that trade privately produced public goods, such as knowledge and greenhouse gas emissions, as in the Kyoto Protocol; (2) the updating of the Breton Woods Institutions, including the creation of a Knowledge Bank and an International Bank for Environmental Settlements Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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