B.A. in Business Economics

Business Economics Major (B.A.)
  37 credit hours required. Plus 7 credits of cognates.

All courses are 3 credits unless noted. Credits are divided as follows:

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Credits

Required Courses

      7
ECON 105Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 110Principles of Macroeconomics 
ECON 492Senior Seminar (1 credit) 

      Group I (Microeconomics): One of the Following
      3
ECON 355Intermediate Microeconomics 
ECON 450International Economics 
ECON 460Industrial Organization 
ECON 470Economics of the Public Sector
     

        Group II (Macroeconomics): One of the Following

        3
ECON 360Intermediate Macroeconomic 
ECON 441      Money and Banking 
                       

Elective Courses: choose eight courses

24
 
  • Students must take at least three electives from Economics (ECON).
  • Students must take at least two electives from ACCT, MGMT, FINA, and/ or EMRE. 
  • A student may take any combination of elective courses so long as at least three are Economics (ECON) and two are ACCT, MGMT, FINA, and/ or EMRE. 
  • ECON 490 (Legislative Internship) and 491 (Internship) may not be used to fulfill elective requirement. 
  • A list of qualified electives is kept in the department office.  
                                                                   
      Cognate Requirements 7
STAT 100, MATH 125 or equivalent Statistics course
COMP 201Intermediate Writing (4 credits) 


Special Notes

  1.   Business Economics majors must earn a minimum grade of 2.0 in every course counted toward the major (required, elective and cognate courses).
  2. Students need not take ECON105 and110 in sequence.  Students must receive a grade of 2.0 or higher in each appropriate prerequisite before taking upper-division economics courses.
  3. Students may not double-count more than two common courses between any majors and minors in the Department of Economics and Employment Relations and the Department of Business Administration. Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
  4. Transfer students are expected to meet the same major requirements as non-transfer students. Eighteen hours of the major course work must be completed at Potsdam.