Economics - Brigham Young University - Provo

Economics from Brigham Young University - Provo is a Campus Bachelor Economics degree that prepares you for a Business career. Program Purpose The Department of Economics shares with other departments a commitment to the Mission and Aims of Brigham Young University. The department can best meet these objectives by focusing exclusively upon undergraduate education. It has been our aim to purposefully design a curriculum that will provide our majors with one of the best undergraduate programs in Economics in the country. A careful study of Economics will help students better understand the world in which they live, including issues related to economic growth, levels of employment, inflation, international trade, globalization, taxation, and finance as well as providing insight into the consequences of alternative economic policies. Additionally, a careful analysis of costs and benefits of alternative proposals facilitates effective decision making and enhances our students participation and contribution in the communities in which they live. Expected Learning Outcomes 1. Program graduates will be further prepared to pursue a life of continued learning, analytic and critical thinking, and adjusting to changing information, needs, and challenges. 2. Program graduates will be prepared and qualified to pursue graduate studies in economics, business, finance, law, public policy, and related disciplines. 3. Program graduates who choose economics as a terminal degree will be prepared to accept productive jobs in consulting, business, finance, management, and related fields. 4. Program graduates will be able to conceptualize a wide range of constrained optimization problems in economics and related fields and will be able to apply formal mathematical analysis to evaluate these problems. 5. Program graduates will understand and apply intermediate microeconomic principles including the model of perfect competition, price theory and their neoclassical extensions; graduates will be able to analyze behavior given changes in constraints, prices and costs. 6. Program graduates will understand intermediate macroeconomic principles and will be able to apply standard macroeconomic models to the analysis of contemporary public policy issues or problems. 7. Program graduates will be able to conduct basic econometric analysis including using data to estimate behavioral models, test hypotheses and measure quantitative relationships; they will have a basic understanding of mathematical statistics that underlies applied econometric analysis. 8. Program graduates will be introduced to and become knowledgeable in one or more fields of economics including: history of economic thought, antitrust and regulation, law and economics, international trade theory, economic development, economic growth, monetary theory and policy, and natural resource and environmental, financial, labor, health, and agricultural economics . View more details on Brigham Young University - Provo, UT . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Economics courses.