Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
Representative topics: policy issues and debates such as social welfare programs, health policy, energy and climate policy, minimum wage, housing and zoning laws, education policy, poverty alleviation and discrimination, and regulations and institutions more broadly. Examines the role of government interventions and how incentives shape individual consumer and firm behavior under different market structures. For students from any discipline. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years.
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.
Provides students with supervision and training to participate in the Fed Challenge, a debate/presentation competition organized by the Federal Reserve Board with a focus on monetary policy. Prerequisite: ECON 2400.
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.
How to locate, use, and present economic data to understand economic issues, problems, and policy, and integrate data into written and oral presentations. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.
Economic analysis of the law, including property, contracts, torts and criminal law. Covers accident and malpractice compensation, product liability, breach of contract, deterrence of crime. Prerequisites: ECON 1400, ECON 1450.
See Schedule of Courses for specific titles.
Advanced topics in microeconomic theory, including general equilibrium in exchange and production economies; the first and second welfare theorems; choice under risk; information and insurance; and key concepts in game theory with applications to imperfectly competitive market structures and other topics. Prerequisites: STAT 1410, ECON 2400, 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.
Explores fundamental issues in the field of environmental economics, such as policy instrument choice, theories of regulation, regulation-competitiveness relationship, and cost-benefit analysis. Includes a substantial writing component. May be repeated 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.