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The Economics minor at UNH offers a flexible pathway to understanding how businesses, governments and individuals make decisions in a world of scarce resources. Here you'll be able to complement any major with fundamental economic principles while choosing from diverse electives in predictive modeling, economic history, and labor markets.
Whether you're a business student seeking deeper insight into market forces or a liberal arts major wanting to analyze public policy, the economics minor will enhance your critical thinking and analytical skills. With applications across banking, consulting, law and public service, this minor provides valuable perspectives for many career paths.
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Economics is a social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices about allocating scarce resources between alternate and competing wants. A grounding in economics, no matter what your major, will help you better understand real-world situations such as efficiency of resource use, fairness of economic outcomes, and development of global and national economies.
For business administration majors, a minor in economics provides an understanding of the foundational issues in business in relation to the larger economy, and for liberal arts majors a minor can provide a tool kit for understanding and critically evaluating public policy issues. You will get a grounding in macro and microeconomics, with elective choices that include among others predictive modeling, the economic history of the United States, economic development, and labor economics. Economics is an excellent background for many careers including banking and financial services, consulting, public service, NGOs, entrepreneurial venture, law, and government.
Students pursuing a minor in Economics acquire the analytical tools needed to analyze how individuals and firms make decisions and how their interactions shape market outcomes. Students develop skills in economic reasoning, data interpretation, and critical thinking that complement majors across the social sciences, business, and liberal arts. For business students, the minor provides a deeper understanding of foundational issues such as incentives, market behavior, and agency concerns. For liberal arts majors, it offers a framework for evaluating public policy and social outcomes. The Economics minor enhances preparation for careers in business, government, consulting, and nonprofit work, as well as for graduate study in law, business, and public policy.
Academic policies related to Minors.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ECON 401 | Principles of Economics (Macro) 2 | 4 |
| ECON 402 | Principles of Economics (Micro) 2 | 4 |
| Select one course from the following: | 4 | |
ECON 605 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis 1 | |
or ECON 606 | Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus | |
ECON 611 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis 1 | |
ECON 635 | Money and Banking 1 | |
| Electives | ||
| Select two courses from the following: | 8 | |
ECON 565 | Predictive Modeling: Data Driven Economic Analysis | |
ECON 605 | Intermediate Microeconomic Analysis 1 | |
or ECON 606 | Intermediate Microeconomics with Calculus | |
ECON 611 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis 1 | |
ECON 620 | Topics in Economics | |
ECON 620W | Topics in Economics | |
ECON 625 | Economic History of the United States | |
ECON 635 | Money and Banking 1 | |
ECON 645 | International Economics | |
ECON 653 | Law and Economics | |
ECON 652 | Economics of Artificial Intelligence | |
ECON 654 | Industrial Economics and Business Innovation | |
ECON 655 | Innovation in the Global Economy | |
ECON 656 | Labor Economics | |
ECON 676 | Economics of Sports | |
ECON 706 | Economics of Climate Change | |
ECON 726 | Introduction to Econometrics | |
ECON 727 | Advanced Econometrics | |
ECON 760 | Game Theory | |
ECON 720 | Economic Problems | |
ECON 720W | Economic Problems | |
ECON 765 | Machine Learning for Economics | |
Any 600 or 700 level ECON course 3 | ||
| Total Credits | 20 | |