Economics Major with Inclusive Education

The Economics Program is part of the Nazareth College School of Management. The program offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. Students also have the option to use the economics major to achieve inclusive education certification for elementary education (grades one through nine) and as a generalist at the middle school level.

Successful completion of the Economics major will allow students to students to understand, evaluate, and analyze the economic issues and challenges of everyday life as well as the economic systems in which we live.

A perspective rooted in the liberal arts is used to examine the causes and patterns of societal change within the framework of economics. The approach helps students to prepare for graduate study in the fields of economics, business, law, and related disciplines, as well as professional careers in a variety of fields in the public and private sector.

The goals of the program are accomplished through:

Instructional staff devoted to teaching excellence and student development
An innovative, dynamic and relevant curriculum
The development of skills in the areas of critical thinking, qualitative and quantitative analysis, communication, and technology
And opportunities for interpersonal development through activities such as clubs and honor societies with peers and the community

A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required for the Economics Core.

Economics Core

All Economics majors are required to take the following courses:

CIS 141 - Survey of Computer Applications Credits: 3
ECO 101 - PI Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ECO 102 - PI Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ECO 333 - Intermediate Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ECO 334 - Intermediate Microeconomics Credits: 3
ECO 480 - Senior Seminar in Economics Credits: 3
MTH 111 - PI Applied Calculus Credits: 3
or MTH 113 - PI Calculus I Credits / Units: 4
MTH 207 - PII Elementary Statistics Credits: 3

Economics Electives

In addition to the Economics Core listed above, students must select five courses from the following list:

ECO 330 - Investments Credits: 3
ECO 331 - Money and Banking Credits: 3
ECO 338 - PII Economic Issues Gender, Race & Class Credits: 3
ECO 340 - PII Labor Economics Credits: 3
ECO 347 - PII History of Economic Thought Credits: 3
ECO 349G - International Business and Economics Credits: 3
ECO 350 - PII Environmental Economics Credits: 3
ECO 351G - PII Economics of Development Credits: 3
ECO 357 - PII Consumer Economics Credits: 3
ECO 360 - Natural Resource Economics Credits: 3
ECO 410 - Econometrics Credits: 3
ECO 419 - PII Public Finance Credits: 3
ECO 483 - Economics Internship Credits: 3
ECO 485 - Independent Study Credits: 3
ECO 486 - Independent Study Credits: 3
MGT 312 - Production and Operations Management Credits: 3
SOC 352 - Social Research Methods Credits: 3

Required Courses for Inclusive Education

The following courses are required for Quad Inclusive Education certification. The Quad Inclusive program includes: Childhood Education (Grades 1-6), Childhood with Disabilities (Grades 1-6), Middle Childhood (Grades 5-9), and Middle Childhood with Disabilities (Grades (5-9).

EDU 090 - Orientation to the Personal Electronic Portfolio Credits: 0 (Fall Only)
EDU 204 - History and Philosophy of Education Credits: 3
EDU 475 - Health Education, Child Abuse, and Violence Prevention Workshop Credits: 0
INCL 355 - Introduction to Literacy and Differentiated Learning Credits: 3 (Fall Only)
INCL 360 - Inclusive Practices in the Construction Of Meaning in Mathematics/Science/ Social Studies Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
INCL 370 - Learning Theory and Curriculum for Diverse Learners Credits: 3 (Fall Only)
INCL 372 - Developmentally Appropriate Strategies For Reading in the Content Areas Credits: 3 (Spring Only)
INCL 440 - Curriculum and Planning for Diverse Learners Credits: 3 (Summer Only)
INCL 441 - Field Work in Inclusion At the Elementary Level Credits: 3 (Summer Only)
INCL 455 - Behavior Management Credits: 3 (Fall Only)
INCL 460 - Integrating the Arts for Individualized Needs Credits: 3 (Fall Only)
INCL 464 - Reflective Seminar Credits: 3 (Fall Only)
INCL 466 - Student Teaching Credits: 6 (Fall Only)
INCL 474 - Current Issues in Inclusive Education Credits: 3 (Spring Only)

Economics Senior Experience

ECO 480 (Seminar in Economics) provides the Senior experience for the major. In this course students will complete projects and/or submit papers which will give them the opportunity to make connections between the knowledge and insights gained from the Perspectives I and II courses and those courses within the major.