Economics |
Major and Minor Field Requirements
The requirements for the major and minor fields are listed below.
Please keep in mind that
each semester a student's course enrollment must be approved
by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) who consults with
the faculty in the respective fields. If a course is not offered,
then the faculty and DGS may approve alternatives. Typical
course schedules for the first three years are listed
here.
| Field | Major and Minor Requirements |
| Econometrics | Major:
Econ. 870 (273); 871 (274) and/or 873 (276). Please discuss the additional econometrics
and statistics requirements with faculty in the field and the DGS. Minor: Econ. 870 (273); 871 (274) or 873 (276) |
| Financial Econometrics | Major:
financial econometrics
requirements.
Minor: Non-majors may take the Financial Econometrics courses but a minor in Financial Econometrics is not offered. |
| Health Economics | Major
and Minor: Econ. 850 (250) and 851 (255) Seminar for Majors: Econ. 985 (375) |
| International Trade and Development | Major
and Minor: Econ. 860 (261) and 865 (263) Seminar for Majors: Econ. 960 (361) |
| Labor Economics | Minor: Econ. 880 (291) and 881 (294) |
| Microeconomic Theory/Industrial Organization | Major
and Minor: 2 courses from Econ. 810 (221), 811 (225), and
846 (248)
Seminar for Majors: Econ. 985 (375) or other courses approved by the faculty and the DGS. |
| Open-Economy Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics | Major
and Minor: Econ. 820 (281) together with Econ. 861 (262) or
875 (386)
Seminar for Majors: Econ. 920 (381) |
Our program provides a great deal of flexibility and we work with students to design courses of study that fit their academic goals. For example, although we do not offer a minor field in financial econometrics, students with interests in macroeconomics can easily satisfy their major and minor field requirements and still take the two courses in financial econometrics. In addition to the seven core courses, students are required to take eight PhD level courses. Those with macro interests might take Econ. 820 (281) and Econ. 861 (262), two econometrics courses (Econ. 870 (273) and 871 (274)), the the two financial econometrics courses, a third-year seminar course in macroeconomics, and another course complementary with their interests. For the last course, macroeconomics students with a specific focus on the international aspects of the field might take the international economics class, Econ. 860 (261); others might want to take a macroeconomics course at Duke University or a finance course from the Business School at UNC or Duke The major field would be Open-Economy Macroeconomics and International Finance, and the minor field would be Econometrics. The web page link for Open-Economy Macroeconomics and International Finance explains other alternatives.
There are also a number of possibilities for students with interests in the microeconomic fields. For example, students with policy interests in health economics might take our two health courses in the second year, two econometrics courses (Econ. 870 (273) and 873 (276)), along with public finance courses at Duke or UNC. In the third year, students with a major field in Health Economics often enroll in a Duke University health economics class. Students who want to focus intensively on microeconomic theory and industrial organization take two of the microeconomic theory courses offered by our department along with econometrics and two (or three) microeconomic theory/industrial organization courses from the Economics Department at Duke University or from the Business Schools at UNC or Duke.
There are many other options for structuring
an academic program. Students should consult with faculty in their
fields and the Director of Graduate Studies about the options.
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