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Requirements for Bachelor of Arts with a Major in International Economics

(Students who declared a major in economics between Fall 2007 and Summer 2010, please click here (link to the file BAint2)

The BA with a major in international economics requires 30 semester hours in economics, 24 of which must be at the 30000 level or above, plus a minimum of 18 semester hours in associated requirements. A grade of "C" or better must be attained in any course that is to count as one of the 30 hours in economics or as one of the associated requirements. Specific requirements are as follows:

Foundations (12 hours)
Any 10000-level economics course
ECON 30223 Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON 30233 Intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON 30243 Contending Perspectives in Economics

International Economics (12 hours)
A. Core (6 hours)
ECON 40213 International Trade and Payments
ECON 40223 International Monetary Economics

B. Electives (6 hours)
ECON 30213 Development Theory
ECON 30433 Development Studies
ECON 30443 Asian Economics
ECON 30453 Economics of the European Union
ECON 30463 Latin American Economics
ECON 30493 International Economic Studies

Additional Electives in Economics (6 hours)

Associated Requirements
I. Quantitative Skills (6 to 7 hours):
MATH 10283 or 10524 (Note that the former will not serve as the prerequisite for any upper-level math courses) and INSC 20153 or MATH 10043.

II. International and Comparative Politics (6 hours)
POSC 20303 International Politics
POSC 33xx3 Any course in International Politics
POSC 35xx3 Any course in Comparative Politics

III. Language, History and Culture (6 hours)
Internationally related courses from ANTH, GEOG, HIST, JOUR, RELI, FINA, MANA or MARK, or upper-division foreign language, selected with department approval (current list of approved classes available; offerings by other departments may be substituted with permission). Participation in TCU's Study Abroad Program may waive three hours of this requirement (with prior approval from the Department of Economics).

A minor is required. Any minor approved by AddRan College is acceptable. A minor in mathematics is recommended for those planning to enter graduate school in economics. With the approval of the chair of the Department of Economics and the associate dean of undergraduate studies of the M. J. Neeley School of Business, economics majors may minor in finance or accounting. For the finance minor, ECON 40153 may substitute for FINA 30203, but cannot be used to satisfy both the major and minor requirements.

Foreign Language Requirement
All students pursuing the BA degree in AddRan College must demonstrate competency in a foreign language equivalent to the completion of one of the following:

CHIN 20063 Intermediate Chinese II
FREN 20063 Fourth Semester College French
GRMN 20063 Intermediate German
GREE 20063 Fourth Semester College Greek (Hellenistic)
ITAL 20063 Fourth Semester College Italian
JAPN 20063 Fourth Semester College Japanese
SPAN 20203 Intermediate Spanish

This requirement may be satisfied by either satisfactory completion of coursework taken at or transferred to TCU or by presenting satisfactory scores on recognized standardized tests (i.e., AP, CLEP or SAT II). Required scores on standardized tests may be found in the Credit by Exam booklet available from the Office of Admission. For languages not currently taught at TCU, six semester hours at the sophomore-level, transferred to TCU from another accredited institution, may be used to satisfy this requirement. Students may also provide evidence of competency in the non-English language by successfully completing one academic year in a secondary or post-secondary institution in which the language of instruction is other than English, for which the student will receive 12 hours of credit.