Major Overview

We’ll provide you with the tools and techniques you’ll need to develop a scientific system of analysis that will allow you to better understand and appraise current economic issues. Our courses emphasize both theoretical and applied economics, thus enabling you to develop critical, analytical, and empirical insights into economic issues. We respect that economics is only one lens through which to examine societal problems and thus maintain an interdisciplinary approach on a variety of issues, while laying the groundwork for a reflective, ethical, and global understanding of the subject area. 

Professor Suprinyak

The classroom environment at AUP is different from anything I’ve experienced before.

Ecological and Environmental Economics

Learn the economic theory underpinning green policy initiatives worldwide.

Professor Valeonti

I like building links with other disciplines in which students have classes at AUP.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The educational goals for this major are as follows:

  • You will identify existing standard economic theory, its criticism and alternatives.
  • You will employ verbal, written, graphical, and mathematical skills to assess and communicate economic information.
  • You will examine economic trends and policies using the skills developed in the previous educational goal.
  • You will autonomously develop methods for managing knowledge, useful for professional development and to undertake education at a higher level.

Learning Environment

In keeping with our recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary thinking, we encourage you to incorporate your other interests into the major, and more than half of our students choose to double major in another discipline, including Finance, Global Communications, French Studies, and Psychology. With many of our graduates now working in the government or in international organizations like the OECD and JP Morgan Chase, while others have been accepted into diverse graduate programs at schools like the University of Cambridge and Yale, you’ll soon discover that no matter what you pursue, Economics can provide a useful place from which to launch your future. 

Julie

Alumna

My favorite memories of AUP have to do with all the people I met there: peers, friends and professors.

Shadi

Alumnus

I encourage anyone looking to go into economics to make the most of the liberal arts program.

Tony

Alumnus

AUP was right for me both because of the international student population and the location.

Major Components
Build Your Degree

With every single one of our majors, you’ll find a carefully curated medley of core courses and electives, which will provide you with the tools you need to establish an unshakeable foundation in the principles and concepts fundamental to your growth within your disciplines of choice. Many majors also enable you to specialize further within the broader area of study.

Core Courses

Core Courses

We aim to help you develop a range of skills, capacities, and modes of inquiry that will be crucial for your future since employers and graduate schools are looking for the critical thinking and innovative problem-solving skills that are associated with a liberal arts education, including sophisticated writing abilities, willingness to pose difficult questions, and an understanding of the historical and cultural contexts surrounding a topic or decision. 

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Electives

Electives

Each elective provides you with entry to a variety of subject areas which you can choose among to further focus your studies. With the help of your academic advisor, you’ll be able to tailor your major so that it most effectively prepares you for the next step in your academic and professional journey.

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Core Courses

The International Economics core courses, which you must take as part of the major requirements, will provide you with the tools you’ll need to ground your present and future studies. Your introduction to the fundamentals of International Economics will help pave the way for your successful completion of other International Economics courses.

 
 
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