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The Department of Economics
seeks to provide students with tools,
techniques, and a scientific system of analysis,
which will be valuable to them in their
understanding and appraisal of current economic
issues, the pursuit of graduate work, and a
future career in business, finance, government,
and international organizations. The
department’s goals are to offer an array of
challenging courses in theoretical and applied
economics and finance; encourage
interdisciplinary aspects of economic issues and
policies; and emphasize critical, analytical and
empirical insights, the environmental
responsibility, and global and equitable
perspectives of the economic discipline. The
mission of the Department of Economics is to
prepare students for a reflective, ethical, and
global understanding of economics.
Student Learning Outcomes
knowledge of existing standard economic theory,
as well as criticism of and alternatives to that
theory;
the effective use of verbal, written, graphical
skills, as well as technology, mathematics and
statistics in order to understand, analyze,
synthesize and communicate economic information;
and
the ability to apply economic theory to the real
and financial sectors, using the skills
described above to analyze practical situations
and economic policies. |
