Student Learning Goals

Below are the departmental learning goals mapped to College-wide goals for student learning.

Goals for the economics major:

• Understand how economic theories and models are formulated and appreciate their explanatory 权力. IIb (Ia)
• Be able to use economic models to evaluate current economic issues and public policy. (IIa, IIb, IIId)
• Understand the role of historical and institutional context as conditioning policy-making. (Ia, IIa, IIIb, IIId)
• 支持 students’ growth in critical thinking and problem solving including choosing appropriate models and understanding their limitations. (Ia, IIa, IIb)
  Understand the differing perspectives of economics and other social science fields. (IVa Ic)
• Analyze economic systems in a cultural, global, and/or social justice context. (Ib, 集成电路,IId)
• Appreciate the impact of economic activity on environmental and ecological systems. (Ia, IIb, IIId)
• Appreciate the impact of economic activity on human well-being and welfare. (IIb, IIId, IVb)司长委任
• Learn how economists use quantitative approaches to measure economic outcomes and test competing theories. (Ia,集成电路, IIb, IIIc)

Information literacy

• Use appropriate search methods to find existing economic literature; find and access current and historical economic data. (Ia, IIb, IIIc)

视觉读写能力

• Use a variety of visual modes to display and communicate information about economic phenomena and relationships, including charts and graphs. Create presentations that effectively summarize research. (IIb IIIc)

Technological literacy

• Be proficient in the use of STATA (or R) econometric software to describe and summarize data and to investigate hypotheses using a variety of methods. (Ia,集成电路, IIb, IIc)
• Use appropriate data and empirical methods to evaluate economic research. (Ia,集成电路, IIb)

Effective oral communication

• Explain, debate and/or discuss models and economic phenomena. (IIa, IIc, IIIc).
• 小组合作. (IId)

Effective written communication

• Both descriptive and persuasive writing regarding economic phenomena, conditions and 政策. 国际教育协会(Ic)
• Create new knowledge by identifying and formulating a question or series of questions about some economic issue that will facilitate its investigation. (IIa, Ic, IIId)