Program: Applied Economics BS Semester Guide - University of Southern Mississippi - Modern Campus Catalog™

Apr 01, 2025

2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

Freshman

1st semester (15 hours)

ENG 101 - Composition One 3 hrs.
HIS 101 - World Civilizations: Beginnings to 1500 C.E. 3 hrs. or
HIS 102 - World Civilizations: 1500 to the present 3 hrs.
Foreign Language 3 hrs.
ECO 101 - Basic Economics 3 hrs.

Select 1 course:

2nd semester (15 hours)

ENG 102 - Composition Two 3 hrs.
ECO 202 - Principles of Microeconomics 3 hrs.
Foreign Language 3 hrs.
Elective 3 hrs.
MAT 100 - Quantitative Reasoning 3 hrs. or
MAT 101 - College Algebra 3 hrs. or higher level MAT course

Sophomore

1st semester (16 hours)

ECO 201 - Principles of Macroeconomics 3 hrs.
ENG 203 - World Literature 3 hrs.
Elective 3 hrs.
Laboratory Science 4 hrs.

Select 1 not previously taken:

HIS 101 - World Civilizations: Beginnings to 1500 C.E. 3 hrs.
HIS 102 - World Civilizations: 1500 to the present 3 hrs.
PHI 151 - Introduction to Philosophy 3 hrs.
PHI 171 - Ethics and Good Living 3 hrs.
REL 131 - Comparative Religion 3 hrs.

2nd semester (16 hours)

ECO 336 - Survey of International Economics 3 hrs. or
ECO 436 - International Economics 3 hrs.
Elective 3 hrs.
Laboratory Science 4 hrs.
BA 201 - Business Analytics I 3 hrs. or
MAT 115 - Elementary Statistics 3 hrs. or
PSY 360 - Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 3 hrs. or
SSGS 401 - Data Analysis and Statistics in the Social Sciences 3 hrs.

Select 1:

Junior

1st semester (15 hours)

ECO 305 - History of Economic Thought 3 hrs.
ECO 345 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory 3 hrs.
Elective 3 hrs.
Minor 3 hrs.

Select 1:

CMS 111 - Public Speaking 3 hrs. (SI)
CMS 305 - Interpersonal Communication 3 hrs. (SI)
CMS 320 - Professional Communication 3 hrs. (SI)
CMS 330 - Small-Group Communication 3 hrs. (SI)

2nd semester (16 hours)

ECO 340 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory 3 hrs.
ECO 450 - Introduction to Econometric Methods 4 hrs.
ECO Elective 3 hrs.
Minor 3 hrs.
ANT/LGL/PS/SOC 3 hrs.

Senior

1st semester (15 hours)

ECO 493 - Economics Capstone Seminar 3 hrs.
ECO Elective 3 hrs.
Minor 6 hrs.
ANT/LGL/PS/SOC 3 hrs.

2nd semester (13 hours)

Minor/Elective 3 hrs.
Elective 1 hr.
ECO Elective 6 hrs.
Minor 3 hrs.