Economics Major in Three Integrated Levels
The Economics program at Ripon is designed to provide structure and flexibility, analytical tools and applications, concentration and diversity. Students move through three levels of study, each building in depth and variety.
After a year of learning essential economic principles and their applications, students proceed to a more in-depth study of economic theory at the intermediate level. At the same time, they may examine a number of applied fields, such as money and the banking system; financial operations of corporations; natural resources and polution control; salaries, profits and pricing in professional sports; uses of economic analysis in making business decisions; and economic change in developing countries around the world..
In their advanced work, economics students apply the understanding and experience they have already gained to examining such areas as the historical development of economic thinking, the process of economic growth and development over the long term, and the nature and causes of the flows of commodities and capital among nations. Other economic topics, often of the student's own choosing, may be pursued in a seminar or in an independent study project supervised by a member of the department faculty.
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