Economics Minor

Offered at: San Luis Obispo Campus

This minor is designed to give students from other majors a general competency in economics. Students are encouraged to meet with the advisor of the Economics Minor to develop a course of study that complements their major curriculum. For more information, contact the Economics Area office.

Program Learning Objectives

1. Apply economic reasoning to evaluate everyday problems.
2. Demonstrate correct use of economic analyses to evaluate specific business proposals, economic policy proposals and current events.
3. Recognize the role of assumptions about the structure of the economy as well as ethical assumptions in arguments made for and against economic policy issues
4. Describe how to use empirical evidence to evaluate an economic argument.
5. Summarize statistical methodology and interpret statistical evidence.
6. Conduct appropriate statistical analysis of data, and explain the statistical problems involved.
7. Communicate effectively about specific economics issues.
8. Identify and examine diverse perspectives when evaluating business, economic and social policy reform.
9. Utilize the tools of economics to evaluate economic and social policies based on equity, efficiency, and sustainability.

Minor Requirements and Curriculum

• At least half of the units must be from upper-division courses (3000-4000 level).
• At least half of the units must be taken at Cal Poly (in residence).
• No more than one-third of the units will be taken with credit-no credit grading (CR/NC), not counting courses with mandatory CR/NC. Departments may further limit CR/NC grading if desired.
• A minimum 2.0 GPA is required in all units counted for completion of the minor.