Current environmental issues are studied and evaluated from an economic perspective. The Impact of the Union Pacific on Wyoming History. Students will experience and interpret the impact of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad on the history and culture of Wyoming through the lens of three disciplinary perspectives. Students will explore how the railroad impacted Wyoming geography, economic development and the people of the state through personal research projects. A tutorial-conference course intended to give economics majors an opportunity to engage in extensive research in some aspect of economics.
Specific topics vary with students' needs and interests.
Designed to have an applied orientation in a number of estimation procedures, such as exponential smoothing and forecasting with and without the presence of trends and seasonal repetitive patterns. The Box-Jenkins procedure will be covered in detail. Students become proficient in the application of statistical tools used in time series analysis of economic data. Cross listed with STAT 4110 . The first semester of a one-year course on changing intellectual foundations of 20th century economics from Medieval through modern times.