Bachelor of Arts with Economics Major

About this programme

Economics is about much more than money and wealth. It’s about making the best use of resources and learning strategies for making effective decisions. In a way, everyone is an economist—from a child deciding which candy to buy to a country’s leader deciding how to support the nation during a pandemic. As an economics major, you examine contemporary issues and topics from an economic perspective. You learn that economic principles and foundations are relevant at personal, community, national and global levels. In this rigorous program, you sharpen your critical thinking skills and expand your mind. You also gain a strong grounding in the economic principles and theories needed in graduate studies or in a career in public, private and non-profit sectors. In the first two years of this program, you study the foundations of economics and basic economic principles. You also build your analytical skills through courses that focus on economic data management, analysis and interpretation. Classes are a mixture of discussion and lecture, with opportunities to ask questions and explore relevant contemporary economic issues and policies. This format builds toward specific economic areas of study in the third year. In your third and fourth years, you learn specific topics such as cost and benefit analysis, environmental economics, international trade and finance, money and banking, public finance and resource economics. You engage in seminar-style classes for some of the courses, presenting to classmates and your professors. These formal sessions give you the opportunity to show y