Our Educational Vision
The industry-centric approach with robust partnerships and integrated learning through a multidisciplinary curriculum are the two common threads throughout any educational programs offered in the Department of Economics at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T).
We, the Department of Economics at Kummer College, will continually strive to provide a transformative education that prepares tomorrow’s leaders and decision-makers. To do so, all degree programs will be industry-centric in that industry leaders will be engaged in discussions involving current trends in the marketplaces and how they can be addressed in the program curriculum. In addition, collaborations will be sought to provide students with a wide range of hands-on experiential learning.
The economics curriculum also emphasizes a “personalized” educational experience that allows students to combine their “academic strengths” with their “career goals” and “personal interests” through a set of carefully designed market-driven multidisciplinary degree programs.
Economics Curriculum for Majors
S&T’s Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BS) degrees in economics are both 120-credit-hour programs.
The Major Difference between a BA & BS degree
BA degree has a required component in foreign languages. Specifically, students with a BA degree must take 12 hours of a single foreign language in three consecutive semesters or take 16 hours (8+8) of two foreign languages. S&T offered courses for four foreign languages: French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
Required Economics Courses – 10 Courses
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Three Emphasis Areas for BA & BS Economics
For students who pursue a specific emphasis area, they must take courses (see below) that are additional to the required economics courses for the BA & BS degrees:
Economics Elective Courses
Students have access to a wide variety of applications through the electives offered, including (but not limited to):
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Economics Curriculum for Non-Majors
Engineers, business managers, and applied scientists need to make decisions about projects, budgets, and teams regularly; core knowledge of Economics on allocating resources is critical for all to succeed in their careers. The S&T’s economics curriculum enables non-economics majors, including business, engineering, and science students, to take industry-focused certificates, quantitative economics minor, and even Economics as a second major to add job-market competitiveness to students’ primary major.
A Level-up System for students to become more competitive in today’s job market:
Add an Industry-focused Certificate: Requires a total of four (4) courses.
Add a Quantitative Economics Minor: Requires a total of six (6) courses.
Add Economics as the Secondary Major: Requires a total of eight (8) courses with approved substitutions; ten (10) courses without approved substitutions.