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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

A. BACHELOR OF ARTS (B.A.) or BACHELOR OF GENERAL STUDIES (B.G.S.) Degree
1. GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences defines the general requirements for both the B.A. and the B.G.S. Degrees. (See the Undergraduate Catalog.)

2. ECONOMICS MAJOR REQUIREMENTS:
a) Core Requirements: (Credit hours)
Econ 142/(143), Principles of Microeconomics (Honors) (3)
Econ 144/(145), Principles of Macroeconomics (Honors) (3)
*Econ 520/(521), Microeconomics (Honors) or
Econ 524/(525), Managerial Economics (Honors) (3-4)
Econ 522/(523), Macroeconomics (Honors) (3)
Statistics: Math 365 or Math 526 or Bus 368 (3-4)

b) Elective Requirements:
**Five Additional Courses (15)

Total Minimum Required Credit Hours 30-32

*Econ. 520/(521), Microeconomics (Honors) is recommended. If you took Econ 524 (525) Managerial Economics (Honors) for the Business School requirement, that will be accepted in lieu of Econ 520.
**At least three of the required electives must be taken from the University of Kansas Department of Economics. Econ 496, Econ 497 and Econ 310 cannot be used to satisfy this elective course requirement.

B. BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.S.) DEGREE IN ECONOMICS
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences also offers the degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics. This degree program is designed for those students who wish to undertake a more structured and extensive study in economics than may be possible in the B.A. degree program. More math and economics is required for the B.S. degree. A foreign language is not required.

1. GENERAL EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS Credit Hours
a) English: (Same as the College B.A. Requirements) (9)

b) Western Civilization (6)

c) Mathematics: Math 115, 116, and 122; or 121 and 122 (10-11)

d) Statistics: Math 526 or Bus 368 (3-4)

e) Principal Course Distribution: (Same as College B.A. Degree, Calculus and Econ 142 are principal courses) (27)

f) Non-economics Electives: At least 3 courses at the 300 level or above (9)
(The statistics course counts as one course for this requirement).

g) Jr./Sr. Credit Hours: 40 hrs at the 300 level or above. (The required Jr./Sr. Economics courses, 30-31 hrs, statistics, 3-4 hrs, and non-economics electives, 6 additional hrs will count as satisfying 39-41 hours for this requirement). (40)

Minimum total required credit hours in addition to the required Economics credit hours
(9 in English, 6 in Western Civilization, 10 in Calculus, 3 in Statistics, 21 in additional principal courses, 6 in additional non-economics electives, 0-1 in additional Jr./Sr. credit hrs.) 55-56

2. ECONOMICS REQUIREMENTS

a) Core Requirements Credit Hours
Econ 142/(143), Principles of Microeconomics (Honors) 3
Econ 144/(145) Principles of Macroeconomics (Honors) 3
*Econ 520/(521), Microeconomics (Honors)
or Econ 524/(525) Managerial Economics (Honors) 3-4
Econ 522/(523), Macroeconomics (Honors) 3
**Econ 700, Survey of Microeconomics 3
**Econ 715, Elementary Econometrics 3
Total Core Credit Hours (18-19)

*Econ. 520/(521), Microeconomics (Honors) is recommended. If you took Econ 524 (525) Managerial Economics (Honors) for the Business School requirement, that will be accepted in lieu of Econ 520.
**Econ 700 and Econ 715 must be completed at the University of Kansas, Department of Economics. The Prerequisites for Econ 700 and Econ 715 include completion of Econ 142, 144, 520, and 522 with a grade point average of at least 3.0 Econ 700 and 715 are scheduled only once per year in alternate semesters.

b) Required Electives: Six paired courses from three of the following five areas must be completed. At least four of the six required electives must be courses offered by the University of Kansas Department of Economics.

1) Public Economics and Resource Economics-Energy Economics (510), Income Distribution & Inequality (515), Environmental Economics (550), Regional Economics (595), Resource Economics & Environmental Policy (610), Public Finance (622), Introduction to Welfare Economics (675), The Theory of Public Finance (760), Public Sector: Urban & Regional Finance (761)

2) Growth and Development and Area Economics-Economic Issues in Europe (536), Economic Systems (560), The Russian Economy (562), Current Economic Issues of East Europe (563), Economic Growth & Development (582), Economic Issues of East Asia (583), Economic Development of Latin America (584), Elements of Economic Planning (585), Economic Issues in China (586), Theory of Economic Growth & Development (740), Economic Planning (741)

3) Economic History and History of Economic Thought-History of Economic Analysis (505), American Economic Development (530), Economic History of the Caribbean Region (534), Economic History of Europe (535), Recent American Economic History (540), Science and Technology in Economic Growth (635), Development of Economic Thought (705), Economic History (766), The Industrial Revolution (768)

4) Applied Microeconomics-Game Theory (590), Industrial Organization (630), Economics of Regulation (631), Labor Economics (640), Economics of Future Markets (670), Topics in Industrial Organization (730), Economics of the Labor Market (770)

5) Macroeconomics and International Economics-Money & Banking (600), International Trade (604), International Finance (605), Survey of Macroeconomics (701), The Theory of International Finance (750)

Total Required Economics Credit Hours 36-37
TOTAL REQUIRED GRADUATION CREDIT HOURS 124

GRADUATION WITH HONORS
Graduation with honors in the Department of Economics is limited to students who have:

A. Completed all economics major requirements for the B.A., B.G.S., or B.S. degree and achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or above in all economics courses and an overall grade point average of 3.25 or above at the time of graduation.

B. Completed Economics 497, Senior Research Honors.
1) Normally a student will enroll in Econ 497 for 2 hours credit in each semester of their senior year.

2) Prior to (or very shortly after) enrollment in Econ 497, it is important that the student arrange or negotiate an agreement with a faculty member who will direct the student's research activity and honors thesis.

3) A student is expected to complete all/or the bulk of the basic research activity and have written a preliminary draft of some portions of the thesis during the first semester enrollment in Econ 497. The second semester will be devoted to completion of the research paper.

C. Submitted and defended a research paper before at least three faculty members of the Department of Economics.

1) Three copies of the research paper, appropriately bound, must be submitted to the Department Honors Coordinator no later than April 1 (November 1) for Spring (Fall) graduation. Failure to meet the submission deadline will foreclose graduation with honors. (See note 3 below for remaining options.)

2) The faculty examining committee, on the basis of the research paper and its oral defense, will decide whether the student shall be graduated with Honors in Economics.

3) Note: A student on his or her own initiative, or on the recommendation of the faculty member directing the student's research, may elect not to defend the research paper. In this case the student will not be graduated with honors and the grade in Econ 497 will be decided by the faculty member directing the research.

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