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Graduate Certificate in Applied Microeconomics

Admission to Program

Open to students with a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.

Requirements

  • 18 credit hours of approved graduate work.

Course work includes 9 credit hours of core requirements and 9 credite hours of electives. Prerequisite credite does not count towards the certificate. All courses must be taken for grades (the pass/fail option is not permitted).

Course Requirements


Prerequisite Courses
  • ECON-300 Intermediate Microeconomics (3)
  • ECON-301 Intermediate Macroeconomics (3)
  • MATH-211 Applied Calculus< (4)
  • STAT-202 Basic Statistics (4)

Waiver of these prerequisites may be granted for qualified persons with comparable prior education or experience.

Core Courses (9 credit hours)
  • ECON-500 Microeconomics (3)
  • ECON-505 Introduction to Mathematical Economics (3)
  • ECON-522 Econometrics (3)


Electives (9 credit hours)
9 credit hours from the following:
  • ECON-633 Financial Economics (3)
  • ECON-630 Monetary Theory (3)
  • ECON-541 Public Economics (3)
  • ECON-546 Industrial Economics (3)
  • ECON-547 Economics of Antitrust and Regulation (3)
  • ECON-573 Labor Economics (3)
  • ECON-574 Women in the Economy (3)
  • ECON-579 Energy Economics, Resources, and the Environment< (3)
  • ECON-665 Cost-Benefit Analysis (3)
  • ECON-662 Development Microeconomics (3)
  • ECON-671 International Economics: Trade (3)
  • ECON-672 International Economics: Finance (3)
Other approved electives may be substituted with departmental approval.

   

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