Economics
Unit of study table (Table A)
Major | ||
|---|---|---|
| A major in Economics requires 48 credit points from this table, including: | ||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units; | ||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level core units; | ||
| Students who have counted the 2000-level core units towards another major/minor should complete 2000- or 3000-level selective units from this table. | ||
| (iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units; and | ||
| (iv) 6 credit points of Interdisciplinary Project units | ||
Minor | ||
| A minor in Economics requires 36 credit points from this table, including: | ||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units; | ||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level core units; and | ||
| Students who have counted the 2000-level core units towards another major/minor should complete 2000- or 3000-level selective units from this table. | ||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | ||
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | |
|---|---|---|---|
1000-level units of study | |||
Core | |||
| ECON1001 Introductory Microeconomics | 6 | A Minimum result of Band 4 in HSC Mathematics Advanced (or equivalent); or Band E3 in HSC Mathematics Extension 1 or 2 (or equivalent). Students who do not possess the assumed knowledge are strongly advised to enrol in ECON1003 prior to or concurrently with this unit N BUSS1040 or ECON1040 | |
| ECON1002 Introductory Macroeconomics | 6 | A Minimum result of Band 4 in HSC Mathematics Advanced (or equivalent); or Band E3 in HSC Mathematics Extension 1 or 2 (or equivalent). Students who do not possess the assumed knowledge are strongly advised to enrol in ECON1003 prior to or concurrently with this unit. | |
2000-level units of study | |||
Core | |||
| Students choose either ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 as appropriate. | |||
| ECOS2001 Intermediate Microeconomics | 6 | P ECON1001 or BUSS1040 or ECON1040 N ECON2001 or ECON2901 or ECOS2901 | |
| or | |||
| ECOS2901 Intermediate Microeconomics Honours | 6 | A ECOS2903 or MATH2070 or MATH2970 P Minimum of 70% in (ECON1001 or BUSS1040 or ECON1040) N ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECON2901 Students are strongly advised to undertake one of ECOS2903 or MATH2070 or MATH2970 either concurrently with or prior to ECOS2901. | |
| Students choose either ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 as appropriate. | |||
| ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics | 6 | P ECON1002 or ECON1040 N ECON2002 or ECON2902 or ECOS2902 | |
| or | |||
| ECOS2902 Intermediate Macroeconomics Honours | 6 | P Minimum of 70% in (ECON1002 or ECON1040) N ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECON2902 | |
Selective | |||
| ECMT2150 Intermediate Econometrics | 6 | P ECMT1020 N ECMT2110 or ECMT2950 | |
| ECMT2950 Intermediate Econometrics - Advanced | 6 | P (A minimum of 65% in (ECMT1010 or BUSS1020 or ((MATH1005 or MATH1905) and MATH1115) or DATA1001 or DATA1901 or ENVX1002)) and (a minimum of 65% in (ECMT1020 or QBUS1040 or MATH1002 or MATH1902 or MATH1014 or DATA1002 or DATA1902)) N ECMT2110 or ECMT2150 | |
| ECOS2004 Money and Banking | 6 | P (ECON1001 and ECON1002) or (ECON1040 and ECON1002) or BUSS1040 | |
| ECOS2005 Indigenous Economics and Public Policy | 6 | P ECON1001 or ECON1040 or BUSS1040 | |
| ECOS2025 East Asian Economies | 6 | P ECON1001 or ECON1002 or BUSS1040 or ECON1040 N FASS2300 | |
| ECOS2030 Applications of Economic Policy | 6 | P (ECON1001 or ECON1040 or BUSS1040) and ECMT1010 | |
| ECOS2201 Economics of Competition and Strategy | 6 | P ECON1001 or BUSS1040 or ECON1040 N ECON2201 or ECOS3005 | |
| ECOS2307 The European Economy | 6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level | |
| ECOS2903 Mathematical Economics | 6 | P Minimum of 70% in (ECON1001 or BUSS1040 or ECON1040 or ECON1002) N ECON2903 or MATH2070 or MATH2970 | |
3000-level selective units of study | |||
| ECOS3002 Development Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 | |
| ECOS3003 Hierarchies, Incentives and Firm Structure | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 N ECON3003 or ECOS2306 | |
| ECOS3004 History of Economic Thought | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 or ECOP2011 or ECOP2001 or ECOP2012 or ECOP2002 | |
| ECOS3005 Industrial Organisation | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 N ECOS2201 | |
| ECOS3006 International Trade | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3007 International Macroeconomics | 6 | P ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 or ECOS2040 | |
| ECOS3008 Labour Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3010 Monetary Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 or ECOS2040 N ECON3010 | |
| ECOS3011 Public Finance | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3012 Strategic Behaviour | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 N ECOS3901 | |
| ECOS3013 Environmental Economics | 6 | P AREC2005 or ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3015 Law and Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3016 Experimental and Behavioural Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3017 Health Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3018 Economics of Growth | 6 | P (ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902) | |
| ECOS3020 Special Topic in Economics 1 | 6 | P (ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) or (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902) or (ECOS2040 and ECMT2130) | |
| ECOS3021 Business Cycles and Asset Markets | 6 | P ((ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902)) or (ECOS2040 and ECMT2130) | |
| ECOS3022 The Economics of Financial Markets | 6 | P ((ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902)) or (ECOS2040 and ECMT2130) | |
| ECOS3023 Personnel Economics | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3024 Economic History | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 | |
| ECOS3025 The Economics of Regulation | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2040 | |
| ECOS3026 Economics of Crime | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3027 Economics of the Family | 6 | P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3028 Macroeconomics of Fiscal Policy | 6 | P ECOS2002 or ECOS2902 or ECOS2040 | |
| ECOS3031 Heterodox Perspectives on Macroeconomics | 6 | P (ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902) | |
| ECOS3032 Globalisation and Finance | 6 | P ((ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902)) or ECOS2040 | |
| ECOS3035 Economics of Political Institutions | 6 | P [(ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902)] | |
| ECOS3037 Behavioural Insights for Public Policy | 6 | P (ECOS2030 or ECMT1020) and (ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 or ECOS2002 or ECOS2902) | |
| ECOS3038 AI and Economics | 6 | A Game theory, particularly games of complete information P ECOS2001 or ECOS2901 | |
| ECOS3040 Special Topic in Economics 2 | 6 | P (ECOS2001 or ECOS2901) or (ECOS2002 or ECOS2902) or (ECOS2040 and ECMT2130) | |
| ECOS3901 Advanced Microeconomics Honours | 6 | P Minimum of ((65% in ECOS2901) or (85% in ECOS2001)) and minimum of 65% in (ECOS2903 or MATH2070 or MATH2970) Students intending to proceed to Honours in Economics must also complete ECOS3902 and at least one of ECOS3903 or ECOS3904. | |
| ECOS3902 Advanced Macroeconomics Honours | 6 | P Minimum of ((65% in ECOS2901) or (85% in ECOS2001)) and minimum of ((65% in ECOS2902) or (85% in ECOS2002)) and minimum of 65% in (ECOS2903 or MATH2070 or MATH2970) Students intending to proceed to Honours in Economics must also complete ECOS3901 and at least one of ECOS3903 or ECOS3904. | |
| ECOS3903 Applied Microeconometrics | 6 | P Minimum of ((65% in ECOS2901) or (85% in ECOS2001)) and minimum of 65% in (ECMT2150 or ECMT2950 or ECMT2160) | |
| ECOS3904 Applied Macroeconometrics | 6 | P Minimum of ((65% in ECOS2902) or (85% in ECOS2002)) and minimum of 65% in (ECMT2130 or ECMT2150 or ECMT2950 or ECMT2160) | |
Interdisciplinary project units of study | |||
| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select one of the Interdisciplinary Impact units of study for your first major, and an Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select one of the Interdisciplinary Impact units of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select one of the Interdisciplinary Impact units of study for your major. | |||
| If you are completing this major within the Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, please select BPPE3999. | |||
| BPPE3999 PPE Project | 6 | P BPPE2000 C BPPE3000 N FASS3999 | |
| Select one of the following Interdisciplinary Impact units according to your preferred choice of topic – refer to the unit outlines for details on the topic to be covered in each unit. | |||
| ECOS3991 Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics A | 6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level from one of the following subject areas: Econometrics or Economic Policy Analysis or Economics or Environmental, Agricultural and Resource Economics or Financial Economics N ECOS3992 or ECOS3993 or ECOS3994 or ECOS3997 | |
| ECOS3992 Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics B | 6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level from one of the following subject areas: Econometrics or Economic Policy Analysis or Economics or Environmental, Agricultural and Resource Economics or Financial Economics N ECOS3991 or ECOS3993 or ECOS3994 or ECOS3997 | |
| ECOS3993 Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics C | 6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level from one of the following subject areas: Econometrics or Economic Policy Analysis or Economics or Environmental, Agricultural and Resource Economics or Financial Economics N ECOS3991 or ECOS3992 or ECOS3994 or ECOS3997 | |
| ECOS3994 Interdisciplinary Impact in Economics D | 6 | ||
| ECMT3997 Interdisciplinary Impact in Econometrics | 6 | P ((ECMT2150 or ECMT2950) and ECMT2160) or (ECOS2901 and (ECMT2150 or ECMT2950)) | |
| FASS3333 Industry and Community Project | 6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major | |