Microeconomics: Concerned with understanding how individual persons and firms make choices. From a basic grounding in microeconomic theory, one can describe and predict the responses of consumers and firms to economic conditions and extrapolate from these individual choices to understand aggregate supply, demand, and price determination.
Prerequisites for Declaring Microeconomics Track
MUST BE COMPLETE BEFORE APPLICATION!
| Course: | Requirements: |
|---|---|
ECON 102 ECON 202 | ECON ILLINOIS GPA of 2.33 or above
*Only ECON courses at ILLINOIS counted in GPA |
| MATH 220 or 221 Calculus | Grade of C or Higher
|
Requirements
| Course Name | Hours |
|---|---|
| Core Economics Requirements (12 credit hours) | |
| ECON 102 – Microeconomic Principles | 3 |
| ECON 202 – Economic Statistics I or equivalent | 3 |
| ECON 203 – Economic Statistics II | 3 |
| ECON 302 – Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | 3 |
| Microeconomics Track (6 credit hours) | |
| Two ECON 400-Level Microeconomics Elective Courses (See below) | 6 |
| Total Hours | 18 |
400-Level Microeconomics Courses
The below courses are approved 400-level Courses for this Minor Track. Courses are not available every semester, and there may be limited availability within the courses as economics majors receive first priority to register.
| Course Name |
|---|
| ECON 402 American Economic History |
| ECON 411 Public Sector Economics |
| ECON 414 Urban Economics |
| ECON 415 Environmental Economics |
| ECON 418 Health Economics |
| ECON 436 Economics of Coordination |
| ECON 437 Game Theory |
| ECON 440 Economics of Labor Markets |
| ECON 442 Women in the Economy |
| ECON 447 Economics of the Workplace |
| ECON 448 Employee Compensation & Incentives |
| ECON 450 Development Economics |
| ECON 455 Econ of Poverty Alleviation in Dev. Countries |
| ECON 456 Economic Development & Migration |
| ECON 460 Financial Economics |
| ECON 469 Economics of Risk |
| ECON 472 Financial Econometrics |
| ECON 480 Industrial Competition & Monopoly |
| ECON 482 Economics of the Digital Economy |
| ECON 483 Economics of Innovation & Technology |
| ECON 484 Law and Economics |
| ECON 490 Behavioral Economics |
| ECON 490 Corporate Finance |
| ECON 490 Consumer & Investor Protection |
| ECON 490 Economics of Education |
| ECON 490 Technology & Labor Markets |
| ECON 490 Gender in the Economy |
| ECON 490 Social Insurance |
| ECON 490 Political Economy |
| ECON 490 AI & Firms |
| ECON 490 Tech and the Future of Jobs |