Goals for the Economics Major

1. Multiple Inquiry Goals
   • MI1. Demonstrate proficiency in the comprehension, analysis, and interpretation of economic texts;
   • MI2. Produce work that effectively employs the distinctive modes of inquiry, analysis, and expression characteristic of economics;
   • MI3. Produce work that effectively applies quantitative, inductive, or deductive reasoning in a substantial analysis, argument, or synthesis.
2. Integrative Thinking Goals
   • IT1. Apply economic analysis to evaluate economic problems and to proposed policies to solve them.
   • IT2. Apply economic analysis to problems that cross disciplinary boundaries with political science, sociology, epidemiology, etc.
   • IT3. Apply non-economic analysis to economic problems.
   • IT4. Produce capstone seminar paper and presentation integrating content, methods, and perspectives from across the major.
3. Effective Communication Goals
   • EC1. Write effectively and intelligently to a range of purposes in the English language (e.g., informing, persuading, advancing an argument, expressing, creating, etc.);
   • EC2. Read with understanding a wide range of texts in economics;
   • EC3. Secure with proper citation, evaluate critically, and use effectively relevant information for problem-solving and presentation of ideas, issues, and arguments;
   • EC4. Speak effectively to a purpose before an audience;
   • EC5. Demonstrate effective listening skills;
   • EC6. Demonstrate skill in using electronic media generally appropriate to contemporary academic and professional workplaces;
   • EC7. Produce scholarly works that effectively employ the communication conventions and means of economics.
4. Informed Citizenship Goals
   • IC1. Demonstrate an understanding of a Non-Western culture, including salient differences from the West;
   • IC2. Demonstrate an understanding of some element of diversity within the culture of the United States, OR, demonstrate an understanding of a significant concept related to diversity (such as race, gender, cultural identity, etc.);
   • IC3. Produce work that effectively recognizes the relevance of cultures other than that of mainstream U.S. culture;