Going further in Economics.

This course fulfills a general education requirement, and is intended to give students a broad view of economics. Most students who take the course will have had little exposure to economics either in high school or here at UConn. After you've spent some time in the course, however, you may decide you really like Economics and want to take more of it -- maybe even to major or minor in Economics.

Now what?

Economics 1000 does not by itself fulfill the prerequisites for upper-division courses in Economics. Students who start out wanting to major or minor in Econ (or related areas like Business) often take Economics 1201 (microeconomics) and 1202 (macroeconomics), which are the necessary prerequisites.

But never fear. There is an alternative path into Economics. If you take Econ 1000 and find you like it, you can take Econ 1200, which is a four-credit course that covers much the same material as 1000 (both macro and micro) but in greater depth and breadth. Econ 1200 is basically a compressed version of Econ 1201 and 1202. Taking the sequence 1000-1200 is just as good as taking the sequence 1201-1202.

For more information about Economics as major (or minor), click here.