What you will learn:

• This program will provide you with knowledge and the tools to comprehend, assess and analyze the many pressing issues and problems of individuals, businesses and society in an economic context.

About

• Economics is the science describing the production and distribution of wealth. Business Economics provides you with a background in both economics and commerce, with special emphasis in economics, so as to prepare you for the world of business, finance, and public service.

A first-year schedule sample
This degree program is flexible and offers you the opportunity to take courses in many different subject areas. Here’s what a typical first-year schedule might look like:

Fall Term

• ECON 111a Introductory Microeconomics
• COMM 105a Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
• ENG 113b Literature and Composition Reading Narrative
• INDG 107c Introduction to Canadian Indigenous Studies
• MATH 110d Calculus I

Winter Term

• ECON 114a Introductory Macroeconomics
• CMPT 140 or CMPT 141a Introduction to Creative Computing or Introduction to Computer Science
• STAT 245a Introduction to Statistical Methods
• POLS 111e Democratic Citizenship in Canada
• PHIL 140e Critical Thinking

Featured classes

ECON 214: Intermediate Macroeconomic

• Presents the student with a formal analysis of national accounting, the consumption function, investment, public expenditure, taxes, budgets, money and interest, general equilibrium, the open economy, aggregate supply and demand, public policy, inflation, and growth theory.

ECON 387: Economics Career Internship

• Designed to provide students with an opportunity to study economic policy development, the application of economic theory and quantitative methods, and general economic analysis from the perspective of public, private, and non-profit organizations through a combination of on-site observations, directed readings, research and analysis.

ECON 450.3: Strategic Choice

• A study of game theory - the analysis of choice in situations involving strategy, in which optimal behaviour depends explicitly on the behaviour of others. Covers the theories of bargaining games, both cooperative and non-cooperative games, both zero-sum and non-zero-sum games, and the analysis of uncertainty.

Why study here
Internship opportunity

• One of the unique advantages of our uSask program is a Workplace Career Internship Program. The internship format is designed to provide students with valuable workplace experience that includes exposure to various research topics as well as an opportunity to apply learned skills to various smaller projects specifically developed by the host organization.

Faculty

• The faculty members of the Department of Economics are leaders in their fields and are widely published in topics covering the spectrum of quantitative, theoretical and historical economics. Facultycombine their research on economic and social issues with teaching in a broad range of courses, servicing the needs of economics majors and the interests of students in many other programs

Careers

• Commodities broker
• Investment analyst
• Investment administrator
• Financial service manager
• Fixed income portfolio manager
• Foreign trade analyst
• Sales analyst
• Business analyst
• Market research analyst