Minor

Minor in Economics

Program
Catalog
Undergraduate

The minor program extends a foundation in economic analysis and decision-making that is especially valuable for students in any major at Leighton and students considering graduate work in law, public policy, or business administration. Regardless of the major, a minor in economics is sure to enhance your education by exposing you more to how people generally make choices and how any of those choices affect resources, markets, and wealth.

As an economics minor, you will study the working of markets and how income is distributed. Other areas that your classes will explore include the role and positive and negative effects of competitive markets and monopolies on the economy and unemployment and inflation problems.

Program Goals and Outcomes

Upon the successful completion of the Economics Minor:

  • The student will understand economic theories and institutions in both microeconomics and macroeconomics.
  • The student will have the ability and skills to find and interpret financial information and data.
  • The student will have the ability and skills to analyze complex problems and arguments using economic models or reasoning.
  • The student will have the ability and skills to communicate economic arguments in written form following economics's communication conventions.
  • Students will demonstrate economic literacy by using economic terminology in everyday life.
  • Students will acquire a body of fundamental knowledge and skills to critically evaluate economic/social issues and policies from various perspectives.

Curriculum Requirements

The Minor in Economics requires a minimum for which eighteen (18) credit hours in the discipline and nine (9) semester hours must be advanced upper-level courses (numbered 300 or above) and for which a minimum of nine (9) credit hours must be taken at Leighton.

The Minor in Economics will be posted on a student’s academic transcript but not on the diploma. The following academic requirements must be met for the completion of the minor:

  • Students may use up to six credits earned credit hours to satisfy both a major and a minor's requirements.
  • Credits earned in one minor may not be used to meet the requirements in another minor program.
  • At least one upper-division credit applied to the minor must be taken at Leighton University.
  • No course with an earned grade below “C" grade may count towards a general business minor.
  • At least one upper-division credit applied to the minor must be taken at Leighton.

No course with a grade below “C-" may count towards the Minor in Economics.

Total Credits
18