Economics
Economics is a fascinating and challenging social science that deals
with such issues as resource allocation, the efficiency of economic
actors, inflation, unemployment, discrimination, economic growth,
pollution and poverty.
These problems affect us as members of society concerned with how our
economic system functions and as individuals concerned about our own
jobs, wages, taxes and the cost of living. Economics is about choice -
how to make rational choices between competing uses of scarce resources
in light of social and personal values and needs. One of the main
reasons to study economics is that it develops a method of thinking and
analysis that can be applied to a variety of different fields. The
Economics major offers courses in a variety of areas to allow students
to choose among various career objectives and also prepare them for
admission to graduate school in economics, law, business administration,
public administration, and other disciplines.