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Economics minor
Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2022
Economics minor
Contact information
Coordinator
Professor Paul Jensen
Department of Economics
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Future students:
Overview
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Last updated: 12 November 2022
Structure
75 credit points
The Department of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Economics offer a 112.5-point major and 75-point minor in the BA. Introductory Microeconomics must be completed before entering Introductory Macroeconomics and Intermediate Microeconomics at level 2. Introductory Macroeconomics must be completed before Intermediate Macroeconomics at level 2
Students intending to complete a minor complete 75 points of core Economics subjects taken as breadth.
This minor requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 core subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 2 core subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 3 Economics electives
- Note: all 75 points of subjects in this minor are required to be taken within the breadth component of the degree
Level 1 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ECON10004 | Introductory Microeconomics |
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ECON10003 | Introductory Macroeconomics |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
Level 2 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ECON20002 | Intermediate Microeconomics |
Summer Term (Online)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
|
12.5 |
ECON20001 | Intermediate Macroeconomics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Economics electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ECON30001 | International Trade Policy | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30002 | Economic Development | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30003 | Industrial Economics | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30005 | Money and Banking | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30006 | Labour Economics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30007 | Economics of Food Markets | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30008 | History of Economic Thought | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30009 | Macroeconomics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30010 | Microeconomics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30011 | Environmental Economics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30012 | Ecological Economics | No longer available | |
ECON30013 | Economic Analysis and Policy | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30014 | Business Applications of Economics | No longer available | |
ECON30016 | The Economics of Taxation | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30017 | Organisations, Economics and Incentives | Not available in 2022 | 12.5 |
ECON30018 | Economics of the Law | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30019 | Behavioural Economics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30020 | Mathematical Economics | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30021 | Regional Economics | No longer available | |
ECON30022 | Experimental Economics | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30024 | Economics of Financial Markets | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ECON30025 | Computational Economics and Business | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Notes
Please note: ECOM30001 Basic Econometrics can meet entry requirements in place of ECOM30002 Econometrics in the 2017 and 2018 Honours intakes, but from the 2019 intake and onwards, ECOM30001 Basic Econometrics will no longer meet entry requirements for Honours (Economics).
Students are strongly advised to give early consideration to a topic for their fourth year research essay. They will need to obtain approval for it from an advisor during semester one of their fourth year.
Last updated: 12 November 2022