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2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog

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2008-2009 Undergraduate Catalog [NOTE!!!! THIS IS AN ARCHIVED CATALOG. FOR THE CURRENT CATALOG, GO TO CATALOG.NIU.EDU]

Economics (B.A. or B.S.)

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Requirements in Department (33-34)

ECON 260 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ECON 261 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ECON 360 - Intermediate Microeconomics Credits: 3
ECON 361 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Credits: 3

For the B.A. Degree

Select from economics courses at the 300 or 400 levels (21)

For the B.S. Degree

Select from economics courses at the 300 or 400 levels (18)

ECON 390 - Basic Econometrics and Economic Applications Credits: 3
and
ECON 390A - Basic Econometrics Laboratory Credits: 1
or
ECON 393 - Introduction to Mathematical Methods in Economics Credits: 3
and
ECON 393A - Mathematical Economics Laboratory Credits: 1

Requirements outside Department (B.A., 3-16; B.S., 11-14)

For the B.A. degree

Fulfillment of B.A. foreign language requirement (0-12)
(See “Foreign Language Requirement for the B.A. Degree.”)

STAT 208 - Basic Statistics Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
or
STAT 301 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 4
or
UBUS 223 - Introduction to Business Statistics Credits: 3

For the B.S. degree

One of the following groups (11-14)

Either

CSCI 210 - Elementary Programming Credits: 4
OR
CSCI 230 - Computer Programming in FORTRAN Credits: 4
AND the following
MATH 210 - Finite Mathematics Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
MATH 211 - Calculus for Business and Social Science Credits: 3
(Available for general education credit.)
STAT 301 - Elementary Statistics Credits: 4

Or

MATH 229 - Calculus I Credits: 4
(Available for general education credit.)
and
MATH 230 - Calculus II Credits: 4
STAT 350 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics Credits: 3

Recommendations

The Department of Economics strongly recommends that students planning to pursue an advanced degree in economics select group 2 from the requirements outside the department. Such students are also urged to take:

ECON 490 - Economic Statistics and Econometrics Credits: 3
ECON 491 - Mathematical Methods for Economics Credits: 3