70 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.
ECON 101Economic Principles/Problems1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3General introduction to both macroeconomics and microeconomics, along with an introduction to economic history, international economics, and political economy. The course also examines the origin of economic ideas in the works of Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, and others.
ECON 104The Evolution of Economic Ideas and Systems25
Offered Fall, Spring, Summer,Topics course; Lecture hours:1This course covers how economic ideas evolved alongside changes in economic systems. Topics include the economic thought of Smith, Marx, Veblen, Keynes and Hayek, and economic systems such as ancient communism, empires, feudalism, mercantilism and various forms of capitalism. Students read and write independently on the topic.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of international economic relations today and of the theory used to analyze trade and financial relations. Attention is given to the problems of government policy with respect to international issues.
Topics course,Offered Fall, Spring or Summer; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3; RepeatableIndependent Study - Individual product or project supervised by a member of the economics department.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Intermediate Microeconomic theory of the consumer, the firm, market structures, and resource allocation. Topics are introduced using differential calculus. Prerequisites: ECON 101 and (MATH 192 or MATH 201).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The study of national income, employment, inflation, interest rates, and the impact of monetary and fiscal policy on the economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 and (MATH 192 or MATH 201).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Intermediate study of Marxist and institutionalist political economy. The ideas of Marx and Veblen applied to such matters as the distribution of income and power, the environment, working conditions, consumerism, and race and gender issues. Prerequisite: ECON 101.
Offered Both Fall and Spring; Lecture hours:3Inquiry into local and global changes in economic activity, location and spatial organization, especially focusing on implications for the well-being of people in particular places. Crosslisted as GEOG 209.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to the field of economics focused on incorporating psychological insights into models of decision making and group interaction. This course provides students with an overview of an assortment of research topics and methods within the field of behavioral economics. Seniors require permission of the instructor.
ECON 211Economic Alternatives: Evaluating Proposals for a Fair Economy1
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3We introduce three perspectives within the field of economics–neoclassical, institutional and Marxian. We draw on these theories to critically analyze essays from a broad spectrum of contemporary theorists and practitioners who advocate for alternative institutions and policy including: redistribution of wealth, commoning, universal basic income, reducing work time, participatory planning and workplace democracy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or instructor permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course integrates the study of economics with education by employing economic principles, frameworks and analytical tools, to analyze and assess the various factors influencing educational decision-making, policies, resource allocation and outcomes. At its core, this course explores the fundamental question: What role does education play within the economy?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In this course, we will build a critical understanding of the nature and processes of development in the global south countries while exploring the role of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. Includes topics such as global political-economic change, population growth, human capital, microfinance, food politics and gender inequality. Crosslisted as GEOG 227.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course interrogates our current economic period: Neoliberalism. We analyze power differentials and economic disparities created by neoliberalism. Specific attention is paid to the shifting role of government in the economy, mass incarceration, and the 2008 financial crisis. Prerequisite: ECON 101. First- and second-year students only; others by permission.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Analysis of topics in films and novels by Ousmane Sembene: pre-colonial history, colonialism, post-colonial independence, racial and gender oppression, worker exploitation, religious conflict, and modernization. Prerequisites: ECON 101 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as WMST 224.
ECON 226Political Economy of the European Integration1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Introduction to core issues and theories related to the economic and political processes of European integration. Offered through Bucknell in London. Crosslisted as POLS 221.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course reviews climate science and the sources and expected impacts of climate change. Domestic and international climate policy instruments are evaluated with special attention given to the effects of climate policy on economic development and equity. Prerequisite: ECON 101.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A historical, institutional analysis of Sub-Saharan African economic, social, and political development. Primary emphasis will be on the analysis of the economic crisis facing the subcontinent since the late '70s and the structural adjustment programs that have been instituted to deal with the crisis. Prerequisite: ECON 101.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3History of health care delivery and financing in the United States and introduction to and evaluation of current topics in health policy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or permission of the instructor. First- or second-year standing, others by permission.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3This course explores the complexities of globalization, analyzing its benefits, challenges and diverse impacts. The course hones critical thinking, reading, writing and communication skills while addressing global political, economic, cultural and environmental issues. Students will engage with multiple perspectives to become informed participants in global discussions and problem-solving. Crosslisted as SOCI 343.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course explores the origins and development of capitalism in the United States. Property rights, how notions of time and space changed markets, prolitarianization, alienation, commodification, and the role the government played (or not) in shaping the economy are some of the topics that we will cover. Crosslisted as HIST 226.
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3The course exposes students to an analysis of how capitalism works via the work of two of its greatest analysts: Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes. It analyzes the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of material wealth under the laws of capitalism.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course analyzes the rise of a new global authoritarian state, characterized by economic monopolies, political violence and heightened international conflict. By combining political economy with psychoanalysis from a historical and comparative perspective, students will examine the forces driving modern authoritarianism. Crosslisted as IREL 262.
Offered Summer Session Only; Lecture hours:15The course examines the legacy of apartheid and the role of Community Development efforts and social entrepreneurship in transforming communities. Students are placed in community organizations in nearby townships. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as UNIV 284.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course deals with historic and contemporary economic problems, starting from colonial times and reaching the present integration into world economy. Crosslisted as IREL 278 and LAMS 273.
ECON 280Political Economy of Media and Advertising1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Examines the interrelationship of cultural, political, and economic aspects of media content and advertising from the perspective of Institutional and Marxian political economy. Prerequisite: ECON 101 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course develops a political economy framework to analyze the global economy. It covers theories of international trade, international finance, economic development, and technological change. The course applies the theoretical tools to assess how globalization influences performance, strategy, and policies within nations and firms, and across industries.
ECON 282Introduction to Programming for Economics1
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3Students are introduced to Python programming and some of its applications in economics and finance. Students develop the necessary skills to bring datasets to Python and answer interesting questions. The course covers the basics of preparing various data types, data visualization, and solving problems. No programming background is needed.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:3Individual product or project supervised by a member of the economics department typically resulting in the production of a long research paper. Prerequisites: ECON 101 and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This course can only be taken by economic majors who have permission and have taken the prerequisites. Prerequisites: ECON 202 with a minimum grade of D or ECON 203 with a minimum grade of D or ECON 204 with a minimum grade of D.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course is focused on the theory of finance and asset pricing. Topics include state pricing theory, capital asset pricing model, portfolio theory and risk aversion. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227 or PSYC 215).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course introduces students to the important issues related to technological change and innovation – how new technologies impact the economy and our society. The lectures also focus on economic and social policies aimed at promoting growth and development.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3In Economic Democracy, we will critically assess three contemporary proposals for creating a sustainable, non-exploitative, democratic economic system, including democratic enterprises, commoning and community economies, democratic planning and the development of a partner state. We apply and develop the approaches to Political Economy introduced in Intermediate Political Economy. Prerequisites: ECON 101 and ECON 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of economic models related to labor markets, current labor market trends, and the influence of related government policies. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227 or MATH 304 or STAT 304 or PSYC 215).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An analysis of the government's role in the economy. Topics include the economic rationale for government, expenditure analysis, and the allocative and distributive consequences of taxation. It is strongly recommended that students have one semester of statistics. Prerequisite: ECON 202.
ECON 319Economic History of Women in the United States1
Offered Occasionally; Lecture hours:3An examination of economic models related to labor markets, current labor market trends, and the influence of related government policies. Prerequisite: ECON 202 or ECON 203 or ECON 204. Crosslisted as WMST 318.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will explore how we can understand power in the economy by studying different social theoretical approaches to power. Following a survey of theories of power, we will begin to apply these theories in economic contexts to understand how power hierarchies are created, sustained, maintained and changed.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Discussion of original sources of economic ideas. Readings about Quesnay, Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Marshall, Keynes, Hayek and others. Prerequisite: ECON 203 with a minimum grade of D and ECON 204 with a minimum grade of D.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableAn analysis of the role of the financial system in the U.S. economy. Topics include determinants of asset prices, risk management, and financial regulations. Prerequisites: ECON 203 and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course examines several areas of law from the "Law and Economics" perspective and analyzes the assumptions that underlie this approach to law. Property rights law, contract law, and tort law will be covered. Prerequisite: ECON 202.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableGuided discussion of economic issues. Topics to be announced at time of preregistration. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 203 and ECON 204 or permission of the instructor.
ECON 337International Monetary and Financial Economics1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course covers balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, international monetary systems, the adjustment mechanism, macroeconomic policy in an open economy and monetary integration. Prerequisite: ECON 203 or permission of the instructor.
Lecture hours:3An analysis of economic transition and development in China, with emphasis on its role in the Asia-Pacific and world economies. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 203 or permission of the instructor. Crosslisted as EAST 339.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The application of statistical methods to quantify and test economic theories, analyze government policies and forecast economic variables. Prerequisites: (ECON 202 or ECON 203 or ECON 204 or permission of instructor) and MATH 216 or STAT 216. Not open to students who have taken ECON 241.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course provides students with an introduction to methods used in conducting experimental economics research. The course explores different types of experiments (survey/lab/or field) used in economic research, experimental design and select research topics. Prerequisites: (ECON 202 or ECON 210) and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227 or ANOP 102 or PSYC 215).
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3The goal is to develop an understanding of Marx's analysis of capitalism by reading mainly original texts by Marx and consider its applications both to disciplinary thinking and contemporary events. Crosslisted as GEOG 350.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course focuses on the role of gender in internal and international migrations. It covers gendered motivations for and patterns of migration; the global economy and migration, migration and families, forced migration, migration and economic restructuring, and transnational marriage and identity. Prerequisites: ECON 203 or ECON 204 or WMST 150. Crosslisted as WMST 353.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The main theories of development; economic and social dualism; agricultural, industrial, and trade strategies; and the role of less developed countries in the emerging global economy. Prerequisites: ECON 202 with a minimum grade of D and ECON 203 with a minimum grade of D and permission of the instructor.
Lecture hours:3Applies Marxian value theory and class analysis to understand contemporary U.S. capitalism. Explains how prices are determined and how competition acts to distribute value, revolutionize technology and working conditions, and trigger economic crises. Explores gender and class in the enterprise and household and examines economic democracy as a viable alternative.
ECON 360Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism: Economic Crises & Conflict1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will focus on the structure and the dynamics of the advanced capitalist economies, including the United States. Among other topics, it will examine the empirical evidence and the theoretical claims of the political economy approach concerning economic and financial crises.
ECON 365Global Value Chains: How the Modern World Economy Works1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course provides an in-depth analysis of how our modern world capitalist economy organizes the politics and economics of contemporary supply chains by slicing up the financing, production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of the goods and services that we consume across the world.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Urban and Regional Economics examines how space, location and distance shape economic activity. It explores why cities form, firms cluster and some regions thrive while others decline. Using theory, economic models and empirical works, the course investigates urban and regional dynamics that are shaping cities, neighborhoods and local economies. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and (STAT 216 or STAT 227).
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:Varies,Other:Varies; RepeatableIndividual study or project, supervised by instructor. Prerequisites: ECON 202 or ECON 203 or ECON 204 and permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3This course can only be taken by economic majors who have permission and have taken the prerequisites. Prerequisites: ECON 202 with a minimum grade of D or ECON 203 with a minimum grade of D or ECON 204 with a minimum grade of D.
Topics course,Offered Spring Semester Only; Lecture hours:3A critical analysis of economic inequality focused on competing frameworks for inequality and proposed visions for what should be done. Topics include class conflict, race and ethnicity, gender, wealth, labor markets and social change. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A comparison of the cultures and institutions of modern economic systems. The characteristics of selected capitalist, social democratic and socialist economies are assessed from mainstream, Institutionalist and Marxian analytical perspectives. Prerequisite: ECON 204 or permission of the instructor.
ECON 408Seminar in Political Economy: The State and The Economy1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course analyzes the role of The State in the economy. We will explore alternative theoretical understandings of the role of the state. Following this, we will investigate the role the state is playing in the economy today. Is it the source of problems or the solution to current issues?.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3The course is focused on the applications of finance theory in asset pricing and risk management. The topical coverage will extend to fixed income, equity securities, options, derivatives, risk analysis, and hedging strategies. Prerequisite: ECON 202 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Theoretical and empirical examinations of issues in health economics. Course includes semester-long research project on a health topic. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and (MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227 or MATH 304 or STAT 304).
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3An examination of the development and influence of American economic institutions from colonial to current times. Prerequisites: ECON 203 and ECON 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Experimental economics uses researcher-controlled methods to investigate individual and group decision-making. Students will critically analyze existing experimental economic research through discussion, reading and writing. Students will also learn best practices in experimental economic research through a semester-long research project. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and MATH 216 or STAT 216 or MATH 227 or STAT 227 or MATH 304 or STAT 304.
ECON 426Topics in the History of Economic Thought1
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableDiscussion of the relation between economic ideas and policy in the United States. Readings about Hamilton, Carey, Ely, Commons, Clark, Eccles, Okun, and others. Prerequisite: ECON 203.
Offered Fall Semester Only; Lecture hours:3Theoretical principles underlying international trade, investment, commercial policy, economic integration, adjustment mechanisms, and balance of payments policy will be examined with an application to current national/international policies. This course isn't open to students that have taken ECON 327. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 203.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3This course will explore the causes and consequences of financial crises from macroeconomic perspectives, with most of the attention given to the recent financial crisis in the United States. Prerequisite: ECON 204 or permission of the instructor.
ECON 430Democracy, Race & Justice: Twentieth Century African American Economic History1
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3What is the relationship between race, economic justice and democracy? This course examines the changing landscape of African American economic history during the 20th century by focusing on structural, demographic, legal and customary practices that shaped their experiences through the visionary writings, speeches and policy recommendations of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black American economist. ECON majors. Prerequisite: ECON 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3A historical, institutional analysis of Sub-Saharan African economic, social and political development. Analysis of the economic crisis facing the subcontinent and the structural adjustment programs instituted to deal with the crisis. Evaluation of the performance of African countries adopting various approaches to development. Prerequisites: ECON 203 and ECON 204. Not open to students who completed ECON 235.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3Advanced panel data methods, instrumental variables and two stage least squares, simultaneous equations, limited dependent variables, sample selection bias, advanced time series, and writing and presenting an empirical research project. Prerequisites: (ECON 202 or ECON 203 or ECON 204) and (ECON 241 or ECON 341).
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3Topics to be announced at the time of preregistration. Prerequisites: ECON 202 and ECON 203 and ECON 204.
Offered Either Fall or Spring; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableThe course examines recent theoretical and empirical debates pertaining to the political economy of digital economic processes and their impact, in turn, on domestic and global development. Prerequisite: ECON 204 or permission of the instructor.
Offered Either Fall or Spring,Topics course; Lecture hours:3; RepeatableIndividual research, leading to an honors thesis in economics, undertaken by qualified students, and supervised by an instructor in the department of economics. Prerequisite: permission of instructor and Honors Council. Prerequisite: ECON 202 or ECON 203 or ECON 204.
