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Economics
Contact information
Coordinator
Prof. David Harris
Email: econ-major@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
All course planning and enrolment queries must be directed to Stop 1. Major Coordinators cannot assist with these.
Future Students:
Structure
62.5 credit points
This major requires the completion of 62.5 points, including 25 points of core level-2 subjects, and 37.5 points at level-3. Level-3 subjects must be a mix of Economics (ECON prefix) and Econometrics (ECOM prefix).
The standard quantitative requirement pathway for student majoring in Economics is Quantitative Methods 1 and Econometrics 1. However students who are strong in mathematics may wish to follow the mathematics pathway recommended for students considering further studies in economics.
Subject Options
Level 2
Both of:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ECON20001 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON20002 | Intermediate Microeconomics |
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Level 3
Three level-3 Economics elective subjects - one of which must have a prefix ECON and one must have a prefix ECOM - chosen from:
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ECON30001 | International Trade Policy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30002 | Economic Development | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30003 | Industrial Economics | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30005 | Money and Banking | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30006 | Labour Economics | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30007 | Economics of Food Markets | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30008 | History of Economic Thought | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30009 | Macroeconomics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30010 | Microeconomics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30011 | Environmental Economics | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30013 | Economic Analysis and Policy | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30016 | The Economics of Taxation | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30017 | Organisations, Economics and Incentives | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30018 | Economics of the Law | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30019 | Behavioural Economics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30020 | Mathematical Economics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30022 | Experimental Economics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30023 | Health Economics | Not available in 2020 | 12.5 |
ECON30024 | Economics of Financial Markets | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30025 | Computational Economics and Business | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30029 | International Macroeconomics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECOM30001 | Basic Econometrics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECOM30002 | Econometrics 2 |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ECOM30003 | Applied Microeconometric Modelling | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECOM30004 | Time Series Analysis and Forecasting | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Last updated: 18 December 2020