Economics majors may take any concentration offered by the College of Business or the Political Science or Social Sciences departments in lieu of the economics concentrations described below, provided appropriate prerequisites are satisfied. Students may also choose to select Adviser Approved Electives in place of a concentration.

Business and Industrial Economics Concentration

The Business and Industrial Economics concentration, designed for those students who intend to seek business and industrial application of the economics discipline, provides a balanced program of economic and business theory and application.

ECON 306 Applied Forecasting	4
ECON 403 Industrial Organization	4
ECON 413 Labor Economics	4
MGT 312 Organization and Management Theory or MIS 318 Modeling Systems	4
Adviser approved electives	8
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International Trade and Development Concentration

This concentration provides a core of trade and development theory, plus study in ancillary elective fields that meet the occupational needs of students. It is designed for those students interested in working in an international area in the public or private sectors.

ECON 325 Underdevelopment and Economic Growth	4
ECON 401 International Trade	4
ECON 402 International Monetary Economics	4
Foreign language	4
Adviser approved electives	8
To be selected from upper division courses in ECON, FIN, MGT, MKTG, or any other discipline with approval of adviser.
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Quantitative Economics concentration

This concentration will offer a combination of mathematics, statistics, and quantitative economics courses. As a unit they are designed to provide the graduate with a background adequate for employment in a variety of business and other situations where the economic decision makers rely on the precision of the mathematician's tools, or for entrance to graduate study in such fields as economics, business administration, or operations research.

ECON 306 Applied Forecasting	4
ECON 339 Econometrics	4
MIS 318 Modeling Systems	4
Adviser approved electives	12
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Adviser Approved Electives

Students have the option of choosing one of the above mentioned concentrations or 24 units of adviser approved electives. Students can study the interrelationships among different disciplines. The world is rapidly changing and the technological and sociological prototypes might not be applicable any longer. Evolution in science and technology is changing the social and economic structure and the student is encouraged to explore these changes. Students select courses according to individual talents and interests.

Students select courses with adviser approval

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