Required Courses: 13 Credits

• ECON 105 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 355 - Intermediate Microeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 360 - Intermediate Macroeconomics 3 Credit(s)
• ECON 492 - Senior Seminar 1 Credit(s)

Elective Courses: 18 Credits

Students must take at least six courses.

A list of qualified electives is kept in the department office.

Cognate Requirements: 7 Credits

• STAT 100 - Statistics 3 Credit(s)

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• MATH 125 - Probability and Statistics I 3 Credit(s)

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• Equivalent Statistics Course 3 Credits

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• MATH 110 - Pre-Calculus Mathematics 4 Credit(s)

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• MATH 141 - Integrated calculus, IA 4 Credit(s) and
• MATH 142 - Integrated Calculus, IB 4 Credit(s)

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• MATH 151 - Calculus I 4 Credit(s)

Note(s)

• Economics majors must earn a minimum grade of 2.0 in every course counted toward the major (required, elective and cognate courses).
• Students do not have to take ECON 105  and ECON 110  in sequence. Students must receive a grade of 2.0 or higher in each appropriate prerequisite before taking upper-division economics courses.
• Students may not count more than three lower-division courses toward the 31-credit-hour requirement for the Economics major. These include ECON 105  and ECON 110 . Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
• Students may not double-count more than two common courses between any majors and minors in the Department of Economics and the Department of Business Administration. Cognate requirements are excluded from this rule.
• Transfer students are expected to meet the same major requirements as non-transfer students. 15 hours of the major work must be completed at Potsdam.
• Students may not double major in Economics and Business Economics.