Students are required to complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of the requirements offered through the School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Freshmen students are also strongly advised to take Bus 100 Introduction to Business during their first semester. Students are encouraged to take their upper-division core courses in the sequence shown below. The ethics, writing and oral communication requirements may be met by courses in ethics, business writing and public speaking taken as part of the student's general education requirements. The B.A. in economics produces students who have a thorough understanding of the tools of microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis and the ability to apply these tools appropriately to real world situations.
Students can communicate in a clear and rigorous style.
They will gain a thorough understanding of the operations of the institutions of the American economy and knowledge of how institutions in other economies compare. Students will understand the interdependence of economic units, from the individual to the international level. All courses in the major must be taken for a letter grade, except cooperative education and internships. Students are required to complete a minimum of 21 credit hours of the requirements offered through the School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. Students planning to pursue graduate studies in economics are strongly advised to take Econ 452.