Undergraduate Course Sequence in Economics
The Department of Economics offers three undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in the College of Liberal Arts, and the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in the Tippie College of Business.
The B.A. degree is a good all-purpose degree, and students who graduate with a B.A. iin economics can go on to business school, law school, graduate school, or employment in government and industry. The B.S. degree has an increased emphasis on developing analytical tools; it is designed to prepare students for graduate work in economics or related business and technical fields. The BBA emphasizes economic foundations of business fields: accounting, finance, marketing, business law, and management. It is a good degree for students who want to work in management and/or eventually get an MBA. All three feature a theory core (micro and macro), a set of supporting courses in mathematics and statistics, and upper-division electives in the various fields of economics (labor, industrial organization, international trade, money and banking, econometrics, economic history, history of thought, etc.).
An ideal plan for your economics courses would look like this:
Keep in mind 6E:104 and 6E:105 are prerequisites for courses 170 level and above.
Ideal Program Sequences & Timing for the B.A., B.S., and BBA Degrees
| First Year | ||
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |
| 6E:001 (all) | 6E:002 (all) | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |
| 22M:017 (BBA and B.A.) 22M:025 (B.S.) |
6E:100 or 104 (BBA) 6E:104 (B.A. and B.S.) 22S:008 (BBA and B.A.) 22M:026 (B.S.) |
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| Third Year | ||
| Fall Semester | Spring Semester | |
| 6E:105 (all) 6E:071 (B.A. and BBA) 22S:120 (B.S.) Intro field course, from 6E:111 to 164 (all) |
6E:194 (honors) 6E:184 (B.S.) Intro field course (B.A. and BBA) |
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| Fourth Year | ||
| Intro field course (all) 2 advanced field courses, 6E:170 to 189 (all) 6E:195 (honors) |
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Of course, many students decide to major in economics sometime in their sophomore or junior year, so they have to compress their major course work into a shorter time span. (A two-year period is the minimum we recommend; anything less makes it difficult to take things in the right order.) Even so, it is a good idea to try to maintain this sequence of courses.
