Major Requirements
A major in economics requires a minimum of ten courses.
The major can be completed in fewer than four years, but it is almost impossible to complete the major in less than three years.
For exceptions to the ten course minimum please refer to the section "OFF-CAMPUS AND TRANSFER CREDITS" below.
COURSEWORK
| ECON 101 | Principles of Economics I | 4 units |
| ECON 102 | Principles of Economics II | 4 units |
| Calculus 1 | Scientific Modeling and Differential Calculus | 4 units |
| ECON 250 | Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | 4 units |
| ECON 251 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory | 4 units |
| ECON 272 | Applied Econometrics | 4 units |
| | Three 300-level ECON electives | 12 units |
| ECON 495 | Senior Seminar | 4 units |
Two of the three 300-level elections must be completed at Oxy. Please note the COMP 146 (Statistics) is a requirement for ECON 272.
Choosing Electives
The economics department offers many electives, please choose from the following. If you would like to know how these electives might be grouped with other non-economics courses to give more intellectual continuity to a course of study, please refer to the department website: https://www.oxy.edu/academics/areas-study/economics/courses-requirements/choosing-electives.
Please select three of the following electives for your major requirements:
| ECON 301 | Environmental Economics and Policy | 4 units |
| ECON 302 | Industrial Organization | 4 units |
| ECON 305 | Game Theory | 4 units |
| ECON 306 | Advanced Econometrics | 4 units |
| ECON 308 | Public Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 309 | Free Market Economics: The Austrian Perspective | 4 units |
| ECON 311 | International Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 314 | Economic Institutions in Historical Perspective | 4 units |
| ECON 315 | Economics of Financial Markets | 4 units |
| ECON 319 | Law and Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 320 | Economic Development | 4 units |
| ECON 324 | The Economics of Immigration | 4 units |
| ECON 325 | Labor Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 326 | Economics of Human Resource Management | 4 units |
| ECON 327 | Economics of Gender - Marriage, Motherhood, and Money | 4 units |
| ECON 328 | Economics of Race and Gender | 4 units |
| ECON 329 | Family, Neighborhood and Intergenerational Mobility | 4 units |
| ECON 331 | Radical Economic Thought | 4 units |
| ECON 337 | The Great Depression | 4 units |
| ECON 340 | Behavioral Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 350 | Managerial Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 351 | Macroeconomic Policy Since the Great Depression | 4 units |
| ECON 352 | Firm-level International Trade and Investment | 4 units |
| ECON 361 | Topics in Macro-Economic Theory and Policy | 4 units |
| ECON 395 | Special Topics in Economics | 4 units |
| ECON 397 | Independent Study | 2 or 4 units |