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EconomicsDepartment Chair: John OlsonFaculty: Ernest Diedrich, Daniel Finn, Joseph Friedrich, Louis Johnston, Margaret Lewis, Lawrence Litterst, John Olson, Charles Rambeck, Sharmistha Self Economics is the study of how people interact within their social and natural environments to provide goods and services to one another according to the constraints that those environments impose. The Department of Economics offers students the opportunity to explore these interactions and to examine important economic issues and policies from the perspectives of various schools of economic thought. In accord with the mission of the two colleges, the department’s faculty is committed to the explicit treatment of the values implicit in economic choices and policies, to the benefits of methodological diversity in economic inquiry, and to the practice and improvement of contemporary pedagogies to engage students as active learners. The department’s curriculum prepares students to be informed, critical citizens and engaged, competent professionals. The economics curriculum is structured within three levels or tiers. Tier One provides an introduction to the subject of economics by presenting the student with the fundamental economic principles and ideas and with some issues and problems examined by economists. Building on the Tier One foundation of ECON 111 (Introduction to Economics), the courses in Tier Two (numbered between 300 and 349) address in greater depth particular areas of economic theory and application. Tier Three courses (numbered 350-399) are advanced courses in analysis and applications. Primarily intended for economics majors and minors, each of the Tier Three courses has a prerequisite of ECON 334 (Quantitative Methods in Economics) and either ECON 332 (Microeconomic Theory) or ECON 333 (Macroeconomic Theory). The major prepares students for employment or graduate study. Recent graduates are pursuing careers in banking, insurance, finance and brokerage, journalism, sales and marketing, and management. Others are employed as policy analysts for various agencies and branches of the local, state and federal governments. Economics majors have gone on to graduate study in economics, business, law, public policy analysis, agricultural economics, environmental economics, labor relations and human resource management, health administration and public administration. The economics program also offers a minor that can be matched with many different majors as preparation and support for a broad variety of career opportunities. |
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