Intensive course in a broad disciplinary area (humanities, social sciences, arts, or natural sciences). Part of an integrated first-year experience in which students take 2-4 classes exploring aesthetic, humanistic, social, linguistic, environmental, or scientific issues. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Co-requisite: Enrollment in the appropriate Liberal Arts Scholars Program.

An examination of the dimensions, causes and consequences of the international flows of goods and services (trade), people (migration), and financial capital. Credit not awarded for both ECON 1130 and versions of the course offered as ECON 1010 to 1029.

Introduction to economic concepts, institutions, and analysis, particularly as related to the economy as a whole. May be taught with traditional approach or with strong mathematical emphasis.

Study of individual economic units with particular emphasis on market interactions among firms and households.

Revenues and expenditures of federal, state, and local governments and intergovernmental relationships; the effects of expenditures and taxation upon individuals, business institutions, and the national economy. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.

Formal analysis of strategic interactions, in which decisions are based on the possible reactions of others, with applications to business, politics, and human relationships. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.

Keynesian and other theories of the macroeconomy. Government policies in relation to the problems of employment, price stability, and growth. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450; MATH 1212 or MATH 1234.

Analysis of consumer demand, supply, market price under competitive conditions and monopolistic influences, and the theory of income distribution. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450, MATH 1212 or MATH 1234; or Health & Society major or minor, Instructor permission.

The economics of work, including wage determination, unemployment, productivity, discrimination, unions, and policy issues. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.

Focus on the internal organization of firms and their strategic choices under imperfectly competitive market structures, as well as welfare implications and public policy responses to imperfect competition. Topics covered may include the theory of the firm, theories of oligopoly, and public policy responses to address imperfect competition, such as natural monopoly regulation and antitrust law. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.

On-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Offered at department discretion.

Topics such as national economic policies, income, wealth and welfare, financial markets and the macroeconomy, central banking, and other issues concerning macroeconomics and money. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. May be repeated for credit with different content. Prerequisites: STAT 1410, ECON 2400, and ECON 2450.

A combination of economic theory, mathematics, and statistics for testing economic hypothesis and developing economic models. Conceptual development and applications. Prerequisites: ECON 2400, ECON 2450, STAT 1410.

Topics from microeconomics and fields applying it, such as game theory, health economics, environmental economics, the Vermont economy and urban and regional economy, and urban and regional economics. Includes a substantial writing component. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. May be repeated for credit with different content. Prerequisites: STAT 1410, ECON 2400, and ECON 2450.

Examination of major contemporary research topics in economics. Prerequisite: ECON 3500.

Topics in economic theory of health and health care and empirical analysis of health care systems. Includes a substantial writing component. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisites: STAT 1410, ECON 2400, ECON 2450.

College honors thesis or other department/program honors, under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered at department discretion.