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Fall 2019 Featured Electives

puzzles

An exciting new ECON course for non-majors the looks at movies, literature, and history and the puzzles to analyze questions such as “what is the course of segregation by sex, age, or income? Can one be better off by limiting choices? Is it ever possible to benefit from being though erratic or even worse, insane?”

R programming

Gain a working knowledge of R while applying skills to real-world problems that mirror work being done at Google, Uber, Microsoft, Amazon, Deloitte, Federal Reserve as you complete a group project designed by students

big data

How has the use of cell phones and digital devices led to companies and governments having too much data? How can one analyze so much data?

labor

The study of labor economics seeks to understand the relationship between workers and employers. It's important to society as it determines wages, the causes of discrimination, the impact of migration on employment, and how governments should manage recessions.

growth & development

What affects economic growth, inequality, and poverty? Why do some countries achieve high levels of economic development and others do not? What are the policies governments can implement to change the growth path of their countries?

china

What is the secret to China’s economic growth in the last 30 years? The answer is in the economic events and reforms that have occurred since 1949 (when the People’s Republic of China was founded).

experimental

To answer the questions, why do people make the decisions they make and how do individual decisions change markets, economists run experiments in computer labs to answer these questions and others.