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64 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 101Principles of Economics

An introduction to economics stressing the fundamental and central concepts in economics and disc

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 140Financial Accounting and Analysis

The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to analysis and assessment techniques useful for

Subject: ECON
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ECON 202Introduction to Environmental Economics

This course is designed to give students a better understanding of how the environment and the economy interact and how public policy can be us

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 205Markets and Democracy

This course examines how well markets work and what democratic states ought to do to affect their functioni

Subject: ECON
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ECON 210International Economics

This course examines the causes and consequences of international economic integration. It explores the forces that shap

Subject: ECON
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ECON 214Sustainable Finance

This course emphasizes the importance of risk management in a sustainable business. Financial Economics provides the too

Subject: ECON
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ECON 215Health Economics

The US healthcare has many stakeholders whose often opaque and complex market interactions ultimately affect the cost, accessibility, and quality of healthcare consumers face. Patients, policymakers and hea

Subject: ECON
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ECON 223Money and Banking

This course analyzes the financial and monetary systems in the United States. We will cover a variety of topics including the

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 224Macroeconomic Data and Analysis

Understanding how to find, manipulate and interpret macroeconomic date is an important tool to comprehend

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 246Evolutionary Game Theory

An introduction to the concepts, techniques, and application of evolutionary game theory. The mathematics of game theory and natura

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 251Intermediate Microeconomics

A study of how individuals and organizations deal with the problem of scarcity, the r

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 252Intermediate Macroeconomics

An examination of aggregate economic activity focusing on the forces that determine t

Subject: ECON
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ECON 253Fundamentals of Econometrics

This course focuses on building multiple regression models useful for testing economic theories and makin

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 255Multinational Business and Corporate Social Responsibility

Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) is about how a company resolves the dilemmas around its core product or service, how that product is produced, and how and to whom it is marketed. In effect, multi-national corporations which have a business model that uses profit to fuel constant innovation in n

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 300Industry, Strategy, and Policy

This course serially examines the major sectors of the global economy using the to

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 303Income Tax Topics

This course introduces students to the concepts and intricacies of federal i

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 309Justice and the Economy

This course examines the relation between justice and the economy through an understand

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 319Financial Theory and Analysis

This course takes the principles of accounting and applies them to the world of finance. The emphasis is on the theory tha

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 320Corporate Finance

Analysis and practical application of corporate financial data as it relates to

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 321Investments

An examination of the portfolio theory and security analysis involved with b

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 322Financial Markets

This course is an introduction to Flow of Funds analysis and interest rate deter

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 323Money, Financial Intermediation, and the Economy

A theoretical analysis of the role of money in determining the level of economic activity

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 324Options and Futures

This course examines the practices and principal theories of major options a

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 325Women and the Economy

This course surveys a wide range of economic issues relating to women's live

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 327Applied Microeconometrics

The course introduces students to the application of econometric techniques commonly used by microeconomists. The emphasis is on specification, esti

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 328Labor Economics

This course examines in detail one of the most important markets in economics: the labor market. The course will investigate the ke

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 329Financial Modeling

This course is designed to provide students with advanced analytical tools to analyze finance problems in business

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 330Urban Economics and Public Policy

An introduction to the economic analysis of urban areas. Theories of urban growth and

Subject: ECON
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ECON 331Industrial Organization: Market Structure and Strategy

This course integrates microeconomic theory with economic application techniques in an investigation of various market structures, st

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 332Economics of Health Care

This course provides an overview of the economics of health and medical care. By th

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 336Behavioral Economics

Drawing on methods from psychology, sociology, neurology, and economics, this course sheds light on one of the most fundamental human activit

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 337Personnel Economics

This course provides a theoretical and empirical economic analysis of human resources management policies. In p

Subject: ECON
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ECON 338Economics of Sports

The economics of sports is the study of how economic theories and principles apply to the sports industry

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 340Environmental and Resource Economics

This course provides a survey of environmental and natural resource economics with application to real world contemporary issues. We will discu

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 341Public Sector Economics

A study of the public sector of the economy that includes the theories of public revenues and expendi

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 342Public Finance

This course is a study of the role of government in the economy: when should government intervene,

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 345Political Economy

Political economy examines issues that lie on the boundary of political science and economics. At one level, the course uses

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 346Economic Development

An introductory survey of the economic structures and behavior of developing countries and how these factors influence their approach

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 350Economics of the European Union

This course explores the economics of the European Union (EU). The objective will be to learn how a diverse group of countries has joined a world economic power, yet struggles to agree on basic policy in some

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 351International Monetary Systems

This course provides students with an understanding of the international monetary system. Th

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 353International Trade Policy

This course examines the ways in which international trade in goods and services is regulated through trade policy. This cou

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 354Contemporary African Economics

Analysis of the contemporary economic environment in Africa: political sociocultural identity and ec

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 358Corporate Governance and Ethical Responsibility in the Global Environment

The publicly owned corporation is the dominant legal form for business enterprises in the past 100 years. Corporate governance refers to the organizational structure that supports an enterprise's efforts to utilize firm assets to produce goo

Subject: ECON
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ECON 360Industrial Organization: Marketing to the Consumer

We explore many questions that firms investigate about existing and potential markets, including: How to price and promote their prod

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 361Marketing Research

Although the pervasive assumption in microeconomics is that firms know their markets demand functions, understanding how firms actually acquire this inform

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 364Macro of Emerging Market Economies

This seminar will explore issues relating to the theory and practice of macroeconomic stabilization and adjustment in emerging market / developing countries. S

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 366Macroeconometrics

The twin objectives of this course are to 1) introduce students to macroeconometric theory and techniques and 2) provide students wi

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 367Internship

A one-semester course that emphasizes the practical application of economics or finance principles. Students secure their own internship

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 368Advanced Monetary Policy

A small group of selected students work together with faculty mentors in competition with teams from

Subject: ECON
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ECON 370380 Special Topics

A seminar study of major economic issues facing the United States and world

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ECON 370-380Special Topics1

A seminar study of major economic issues facing the United States and world economies. Topics to be announced in advance of each semester.

Subject: ECON
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 390391 Independent Study

An investigation and report on a subject selected by the student. Open by pe

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ECON 390-391Independent Study1

An investigation and report on a subject selected by the student. Open by permission of the department. Hours to be arranged.

Subject: ECON
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 401Economic Analysis of the Health Care Industry

This course applies microeconomic theory to analyze the health care market from the perspectives of those who supply health care. We will start with a description of what a health care system is and discuss the recent health care reform in the U.S.

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 402Economics of Education

This course applies economic theory to the analysis of the education sector and education policies. We will start by investigating why people make the decision to invest in education using two different models of the returns

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 403Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics

This course builds upon the theory introduced in Intermediate Macroeconomics, with emphasis on empirical research. First, using mathematical models of the macroeconomy, we will develop a set of tools in o

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 404Big Ideas in Economics

This is a survey course of big ideas in economics-the kind of ideas that transformed the way we understand economics today. We begin by developing an understanding of economics as a set of often-competing models, rather than

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 406Personnel Economics

This course provides an economic analysis (both theoretical and empirical) of human resources manageme

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 407Macroeconomic Forecasting

This course builds upon econometrics and macroeconomic theory to create and evaluate forecasts of macroeconomic variables. First we w

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 408Cost-Benefit Analysis

This course connects economic theory with policy analysis using the tool of "cost-benefit analysis." The goal of a cost-benefit analysis is to mea

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 410Computational Simulation of Markets and Behavior

We explore models of individuals' and firms' decision-making and interaction by running, modifying, and creating agent-based m

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 411The Economics of Inequality

This course examines economic inequality in all its different facets. The course begins by defining the concept

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 412Experimental Economics

Experimental economics helps us test predictions derived from economic models. It also provides a method to explore human behav

Subject: ECON
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Edition: 2025-2026
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ECON 495-496Thesis1

For honors candidates. One course each semester, only ECON 496 counts toward the required electives in the major; ECON 495 does not.

Subject: ECON
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Type: course
Edition: 2025-2026
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