Graduate Economics Curriculum
Following is a list of courses that doctoral and master's students in our program may be interested in taking. Some of the courses listed below are required for either the master's degree or the doctoral degree in economics. Please be certain to consult the degree requirements to determine which courses are appropriate.
List of current Special Topics courses in Economics
Economic theory courses:
- ECG 700 - Fundamentals of Microeconomics
- ECG 703 - Fundamentals of Macroeconomics
- ECG 701/702 - Microeconomics I / Microeconomics II
- ECG 704/705 - Macroeconomics I / Macroeconomics II
Econometrics courses:
- ECG 561 - Intermediate Econometrics
- ECG 751 - Econometric Methods
- ECG 752 - Time Series Econometrics
- ECG 753 - Microeconometrics
Field courses (5xx master's level, 7xx PhD level):
- ECG 512 - Law and Economics
- ECG 514 - Economics of Information Goods
- ECG 515 - Environmental and Resource Policy
- ECG 521 - Markets and Trade
- ECG 537 - Health Economics
- ECG 540 - Economic Development
- ECG 580 - Writing in Economics
- ECG 706 - Industrial Organization and Control
- ECG 707 - Topics in Industrial Organization
- ECG 708 - History of Thought
- ECG 715 - Environmental and Resource Economics
- ECG 716 - Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics
- ECG 730 - Labor Economics
- ECG 739 - Economic Growth and Development I
- ECG 740 - Economic Growth and Development II
- ECG 741 - Agricultural Production and Supply
- ECG 742 - Consumption, Demand and Market Interdependency
- ECG 748 - Theory of International Trade
- ECG 749 - Monetary Aspects of International Trade
- ECG 750 - Economic Decision Theory
- ECG 765 - Mathematical Methods for Economics
- ECG 784 - Advanced Macroeconomics
Mathematics courses:
- MA 131/231 - Calculus and analytic geometry for social scientists
- MA 141/241/242 - Calculus for engineers
- MA 301 (linear) or MA 532 (nonlinear) - Differential equations
- MA 405 - Linear algebra
- MA 425/426 - Real Analysis
- MA 504 - Math programming
- ECG 765 - A review of math for economists - prep. for the core
- BMA 571/572 - Modeling of deterministic biological/economic systems
- MA 629 or MA 631 - Advanced optimization theory
Statistics courses:
- ST 421/422 - An introduction to mathematical statistics
- ST 521/522 - A deeper treatment of mathematical statistics
- ST 514 - A review of statistics for economists
- ST 730 (applied) or ST 782/783 (theory) - Time series statistics
- ST 744 - Categorical statistics - limited dependent variables
- ST 778/779 - Measure theory - required for ST majors