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.