What type of course taken elsewhere, either elsewhere in the U.S. or abroad, can count towards an economics major?
It is department policy that credit will not be awarded to those courses that are specifically appropriate to a business curriculum – in other words, lacking any economics principles in any way. For example: we would not give credit toward your economics major for such business courses with titles such as Management and Entrepreneurship or Bargaining and Negotiation. These classes are appropriate to a business curriculum, not an economics program. Nonetheless, such courses as International Economics or The Economics of European Integration would be worthy of credit as 300-level economics field courses. The first is probably most similar to our 361 International Trade, and it might cover a bit of 362 International Finance. It is important to note that if you have already taken either of these (but especially 361), you could not get credit for the equivalent. You can’t repeat a course for credit. Although our department does not have an equivalent course to the Economics of European Inte
