Economics Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete an Economics major are able to:

• Explain the basic elements of economic models.
• Identify important economic actors, organizations, and institutions and describe their role and impact.
• Understand and interpret statistical measures and techniques.
• Use the spoken and written word, graphs, and mathematics to present economic phenomena and arguments.
• Evaluate multiple economic arguments and multiple sources of evidence.
• Propose and model economic hypotheses.
• Collect relevant data for use in qualitative and quantitative research methods.
• Evaluate economic arguments and policy proposals using empirical methods.

The Economics Major

Economics majors are required to have a GPA of at least 2.0 in departmental courses at graduation. Only Economics courses taken at Allegheny on a letter grade basis are included in the GPA calculation. For repeated courses, only the most recent grade is included. All courses required for the major must be taken on a letter grade basis except one of the introductory courses (ECON 100  or ECON 101 ). Students may present a total of 12 semester hours of transfer credit toward the major; exceptions must be approved by the department chair.