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Chair's Welcome

Welcome to the Department of Economics!

The department offers a major and minor leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree to prepare students for careers in business and government, the study of law, and graduate work in economics, management, public policy, and related fields. Business careers requiring the analytical training of an economist in banking, management, insurance, marketing research, and securities trading. Economists who work for government agencies assess economic conditions in the United States and abroad and predict the economic impact of specific changes in legislation or public policy. Government careers include those in foreign and intelligence service, regulatory agencies, and international trade.

Economics majors must complete a minor (or another major) in a discipline outside economics. The department strongly encourages majors to choose a discipline that complements their chosen career path or builds on their analytical training. Suggested minors include: political science, business, sociology, a foreign language, computer science, and mathematics.

The department faculty welcomes and encourages student interaction with other students and the faculty through activities such as UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) projects, ODE (Omicron Delta Epsilon honorary society for economics), and the Economics Club. Students are encouraged to attend the meetings of these organizations to find other students interested in economics and to talk to individual faculty members about the various activities of the department. Jim Skurla, Acting Director of the LSBE Bureau of Business and Economic Research, and Curt Anderson, Director of the Center for Economic Education would welcome questions about their activities. And of course, please feel free to contact me or our departmental secretary Becky Skurla with any questions you have about our department.

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