We recommend students take courses within the economics discipline for their degree as these courses are specifically designed to teach students economic methods, analysis, and understanding, and prepare students for more advanced economics courses.

Restrictions

The below criteria should be considered with substitutions:

  • Some substitutions will show automatically within the DARS (Degree Audit) in the curriculum, and others may need to be submitted by an Econ Advisor.
    • Econ MINORS (not majors): If you substitute an approved course for Econ 202, you will need to contact an Econ Advisor so that they can submit a Minor Modification form to process this course substitution. 
  • These substitutions are only for the economics declaration criteria and to be used within the Econ majors/minor.
    • Substitutions are not applicable to any other majors/minors; you must discuss any substitutions with the overseeing department/unit.
  • Non-ECON substitutions will not count within the Economics Major/Minor required hours.
    • There may be a minimum number of hours of ECON courses required (for example, BALAS Economics requires 30 hours in ECON). Substitutions outside of the ECON department may require taking additional ECON courses to satisfy the "minimum hours of Economics" degree requirement. Check your DARS (degree audit) to track your total ECON hours.
  • Substitutions may not prepare students for additional courses within the curriculum. Students should assess their own understanding and preparation within the content area before continuing into the next course.

 

ECON 102 Microeconomics Principles Substitutions

  • ECON 101 Introduction to Economics (not offered at ILLINOIS)
    • Will substitute for either ECON 102 or 103 in the major (if you received 4 hours for ECON 101, you only receive 2 hours for ECON 102 or 103~ limit of 6 hours for intro sequence)
  • ACE 100 Agr Cons and Resource Econ

We highly recommend ECON 102 for students pursuing an Economics degree.

ECON 103 Macroeconomics Principles Substitutions

  • ECON 101 Introduction to Economics (not offered at ILLINOIS)
    • Will substitute for either ECON 102 or 103 in the major (if you received 4 hours for ECON 101, you only receive 2 hours for ECON 102 or 103~ limit of 6 hours for intro sequence)

ECON 202 Economic Statistics I *See note below for CS+Econ majors

Please note that ECON 202 is specifically designed to prepare students for ECON 203. 

  • ACE 261
  • ASRM 401
  • BADM 210
  • CEE 202
  • CS 361
  • ECE 313
  • EPSY 480
  • GGIS 280, 470
  • IE 300
  • MATH 161, 408, 461, 463
  • PSYC 235, 301
  • SOC 280
  • STAT 100, 200, 212, 400, 408
  • UP 116

*For CS+ Econ the only approved substitutions are: CS 361, STAT 200 & STAT 212

MATH 225 (Econometrics & Quantitative Economics Major; Econometrics Track Minor)

  • MATH 257
  • MATH 415
  • MATH 416
  • ASRM 406

No other substitutions will be accepted. Some other courses may be indirect duplicates with MATH 225 (students with credit in these courses may take MATH 225, but may not receive credit hours).

Math 257 is 3 credit hours and also requires completion of Math 220/221 and CS 101 or equivalent programming experience.

CS 105 (Econometrics & Quatitative Economics Major)

  • CS 105 or CS 101
  • CS 124 or CS 125

Other Course Substitutions

Please visit the curriculum pages for more details on the requirements and substitutions:

Economics

Econometrics & Quantitative Economics

CS + ECON

Economics Minor

We will NOT accept any substitutes for any other courses within the Economics Majors/Minor (only ECON 102, 103, and 202 may be substituted) unless listed on the above requirement pages.

Evaluation of Substitution Courses

All accepted course substitutions are listed above. At this time the department is not taking additional courses under review.