To earn a minor in Economics, a student must complete 28 credits (12 credits of which must be taken in residence at PSU), to include the following:
Required Courses:
EC 201, 202, Principles of Economics................. 8
Upper-Division Economic Electives:...................20 Total 28
EC 101 Contemporary Economic Issues (4)
EC 314 Private and Public Investment Analysis (4)
EC 315 Economics of Sports (4)
EC 316 Intro to Health Care Economics (4)
EC 332 Economics of Environmental Issues (4)
EC 338 The Political Economy of Latin American Development (4)
EC 339 Political Economy of Japanese Development (4)
EC 340 International Economics (4)
EC 345 Marxist Political Economy (4)
EC 348 The Globalization Debate: Concept, History & Theory (4)
EC 380 Introduction to Mathematical Economics (4)
EC 410 Selected Topics (4)
EC 411 Cultural Economics (4)
EC 417 Women in the Economy (4)
EC 419 Economics of Race and Ethnicity
EC 420 Money & Banking (4)
EC 425 Economics of Industrial Organization (4)
EC 426 Economics of Regulation (4)
EC 431 Urban Economics (4)
EC 432 Environmental Economics (4)
EC 433 Natural Resource Economics (4)
EC 434 Business Environmental Management Economics (4)
EC 435 Public Spending & Debt Policy (4)
EC 436 Taxation & Income Policies (4)
EC 437 Public Utility Economics (4)
EC 440 International Trade Theory & Policy (4)
EC 441 International Monetary Theory & Policy (4)
EC 442 The Multinational Enterprise in the World Economy (4)
EC 443 Global Environmental Economics (4)
EC 444 Economics of Green Power (4)
EC 445 Comparative Economic Systems (4)
EC 446 Institutional Economics (4)
EC 447 Economics of Transition (4)
EC 450 Third-World Economic Development (4)
EC 451 Microenterprises in Developing Areas (4)
EC 453 Theory of Economic Growth (4)
EC 456 American Economic History: The 1st Century (4)
EC 457 American Economic History: The 20th Century (4)
EC 460 History of Economic Thought (4)
EC 465 Labor Economics and Industrial Relations (4)
EC 469 Introduction to Econometrics (4)
EC 472 Time Series Analysis and Forecasts (4)
EC 473 Macroeconomic Theory (4)
EC 474 Microeconomic Theory (4)
EC 480 Mathematical Economics
EC 485 Cost-benefit Analysis
MTH 457 or MTH 458 The Mathematical Theory of Games (3)
No more than 8 credits of Ec 410 & 300-level courses other than EC 469 (formerly EC 370), EC 473 (formerly Ec 375) & Ec 474 (formerly Ec 376) will be accepted (no omnibus courses other than 399 & 410 will be accepted).
Courses taken under the undifferentiated grading option (pass/no pass) are not acceptable toward fulfilling department minor requirements.
