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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Economics - Economic Policy (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

     
First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
ECON 110   - Principles of Macroeconomics   3   KSC 050  
MATH 205   - General Calculus   3   KSC 030  
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
Communication Requirement 3 KSC 020  
DAS 101   - Discover, Create, and Thrive: Arts and Sciences Orientation   1      
Total Credits: 13      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 120   - Principles of Microeconomics   3      
English Requirement 3 KSC 010  
STAT 225   - Introduction to Statistics   OR 3      
STAT 240   - Biometrics I   OR 3      
STAT 250   - Business and Economic Statistics I   OR 3      
STAT 510   - Introductory Probability and Statistics I   OR 3    
STAT 610   - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I   OR 3      
STAT 703   - Introduction to Statistical Methods for the Sciences   3      
Natural & Physical Sciences Requirement 4 KSC 040  
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
ECON 510   - Intermediate Macroeconomics   3      
Outside Concentration 3    
STAT 351   - Business and Economic Statistics II   OR 3      
STAT 611   - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II   OR 3      
STAT 705  - Regression and Analysis of Variance   3      
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 520   - Intermediate Microeconomics   OR 3      
ECON 521   - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory   3      
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
BS Natural Science 3    
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Free Elective: ECON 401 recommended 1    
Outside Concentration 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
PHILO 130   - Introduction to Moral Philosophy   3      
Outside Concentration 3    
Economics Elective:      
ECON 620   - Labor Economics  OR 3      
ECON 630   - Introduction to Econometrics   OR 3      
ECON 633   - Public Finance   OR 3      
ECON 640   - Industrial Organization and Public Policy   3      
Economics Elective:      
ECON 620 - Statistical Methods I OR 3    
ECON 630 - Introduction to Econometrics OR 3    
ECON 633 - Public Finance OR 3    
ECON 640 - Industrial Organization and Public Policy 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
MUSIC 173   - Music as Protest and Propaganda in the United States   3      
ECON Elective: ECON 524 , ECON 527 , ECON 530 , ECON 536 , ECON 555 , ECON 605 , ECON 620 , ECON 630 , ECON 631 , ECON 633 , ECON 640 , ECON 682 , ECON 688 , ECON 710   3    
ECON Elective: ECON 524 , ECON 527 , ECON 530 , ECON 536 , ECON 555 , ECON 605 , ECON 620 , ECON 630 , ECON 631 , ECON 633 , ECON 640 , ECON 682 , ECON 688 , ECON 710 ​  3    
Global Perspectives 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
ECON 524   - Sports Economics   3      
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
ECON 580  - Senior Seminar in Economics   3      
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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