Economics Major
Economics Option
Bachelor of Arts
BT BA 1307
All College
of Business and Technology Graduation Requirements must be fulfilled.
- 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 = 12
- 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
For specific language requirements see
Bachelor of Arts Degree requirements.
- 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 minimum GPA of 2.0 is required in this major.
- Economics Requirements (12 hours required)
- ECON 300, Foundations of Research Methods in Economics and Business - 2 hours
- ECON 320, Economic Theory, Microeconomics - 3 hours
- ECON 321, Economic Theory, Macroeconomics - 3 hours
- ECON 365, Quantitative Methods - 3 hours
- Acceptable substitutes for ECON 365 are:
- ECON 485, Senior Seminar - 1 hour
- Economics Electives (12 hours required)
- ECON electives - 12 hours
