Do you want to engage in discussions about health care, financial markets, or Social Security reform? Or perhaps you'd like to investigate why working women earn a fraction of what men earn, or the effectiveness of policies aimed at improving the environment, or even the impact of our economy's growing globalization. If you are interested in developing a coherent framework to answer questions like these, then you should consider studying economics at Hamilton.
Students who concentrate in economics learn to identify economic issues and problems, to form hypotheses and to gather and use data to test these hypotheses. They also learn how to formulate policies to deal with economic problems and how to analyze both the intended and unintended effects of these policies.
A concentration in economics requires the completion of five required courses and four electives within the department. Economics majors do need to take calculus prior to taking some intermediate-level courses but do not need to have taken any economics in high school. To earn a minor in economics, a student must complete four required courses and one additional economics course of her or his choice.
We offer active, hands-on learning at all levels of the curriculum. Students have access to professors, in and out of the classroom. Courses are intensive, interactive and demand full student engagement. Some economics majors work as tutors in the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center or as faculty research assistants or graders in the department.
Faculty members in economics are dedicated teachers and scholars who publish regularly in leading academic journals, author textbooks and write articles on teaching economics to undergraduates. Several have received teaching awards from the College.
Hamilton's Economics Department is routinely ranked among the nation's top liberal arts economics departments in research productivity. A recent study placed Hamilton's department eighth overall and fourth when adjusted for size.
We offer active, hands-on learning at all levels of the curriculum. Students have access to professors, in and out of the classroom. Courses are intensive, interactive and demand full student engagement. Some economics majors work as tutors in the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center or as faculty research assistants or graders in the department.
Faculty members in economics are dedicated teachers and scholars who publish regularly in leading academic journals, author textbooks and write articles on teaching economics to undergraduates. Several have received teaching awards from the College.
Hamilton's Economics Department is routinely ranked among the nation's top liberal arts economics departments in research productivity. A recent study placed Hamilton's department eighth overall and fourth when adjusted for size.
We offer active, hands-on learning at all levels of the curriculum. Students have access to professors, in and out of the classroom. Courses are intensive, interactive and demand full student engagement. Some economics majors work as tutors in the Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning Center or as faculty research assistants or graders in the department.
Faculty members in economics are dedicated teachers and scholars who publish regularly in leading academic journals, author textbooks and write articles on teaching economics to undergraduates. Several have received teaching awards from the College.
Hamilton's Economics Department is routinely ranked among the nation's top liberal arts economics departments in research productivity. A recent study placed Hamilton's department eighth overall and fourth when adjusted for size.
