Offered by
Department of Economics:
Economics Major
Economics Option
Bachelor of Arts
BT BA 1307
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by major
- English Language minimum = 9
- Humanities minimum = 9
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9 including:
- ECON 270GS, Principles of Economics, Macroeconomics -
3 hours
- ECON 271GS, Principles of Economics, Microeconomics -
3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 2
- BA Language requirement = a minimum of 6
- The BA requires completion of two intermediate or advanced courses in a single modern
language. Students coming to campus having met the admission requirements taking effect in
1997 will typically have a 5-6 hour requirement. Students without two years of high school
language study will typically take 10 hours of first year language before completing this
requirement for intermediate or advanced courses.
- Major Option = 24
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
- Minors are 24 hours; 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other requirements, the
unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 99
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 26
- Minimum total hours required for BA in Economics = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
- A. Economics Requirements (12 hours required)
- ECON 314 Public Finance - 3
- ECON 320 Economic Theory, Microeconomics - 3
- ECON 321 Economic Theory, Macroeconomics - 3
- ECON 365 Quantitative Methods - 3
- Acceptable substitutes for ECON 365 are:
- BMGT 233, Business Statistics - 3 hours (Prereq: MATH 102 (if necessary) or MATH
120 or MATH 123)
- BMGT 334, Intermediate Statistics - 3 hours
- MATH 123, Applied Calculus I - 3 hours (Prereq: MATH 102 (if necessary))
- STAT 241, Elementary Statistics - 3 hours
- B. Economics Electives (12 hours required)
- ECON Economics electives - 12 Credit Hours
16 May 2005
