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Academics>> Economics Undergraduate Program |
METU-NCC Economics program started education in the academic year of 2004-2005 with the principal aim of establishing and improving the understanding of economic problems from the elementary to the most complex, in an interdisciplinary manner, supported by historical, social and political aspects and providing its students with necessary skills and tools to undertake critical and systematic analysis of the economic environment, with a special focus on the local economic issues, and area studies.
Besides teaching basics of the economic theory to develop economic understanding at the international standards, the general structure of the program has enough flexibility to permit interdisciplinary feedback from different programs by allowing its students to take courses from Political Science and International Relations and Business Administration programs. Thus the students of the program will develop an extensive economic understanding as well as a general comprehension of social and administrative sciences.
Career Opportunities
Turkish government institutions and public organizations like the Ministry of Finance, Central Bank, Undersecretariat of Treasury, State Planning Organization, Undersecretariat Foreign Trade, Turkish Statistical Institute, Competition Authority, Capital Markets Board, Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, and international institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and FAO are examples of potential job opportunities. In general a wide variety of private sector jobs especially the ones in the banking and financial sector will be available for our graduates.
Curriculum
First Semester ECO 101 Microeconomics (4-0) 4 MAT 119 Calculus with Analytic Geometry (4-2) 5 PSIR 101 Intro. to Sociology and Politics (3-0) 3 ENGL 101 Development of Reading and Writing Skills I (4-0) 4 CNG 100 Intro. to Information Technologies and Appl. (2-0) NC Restricted Elective (3-0) 3 TUR 101 (a) Turkish I (2-0) NC Second Semester ECO 102 Macroeconomics (4-0) 4 MAT 120 Calculus for Functions of Several Variables (4-2) 5 BUS 152 Statistics for Social Sciences (3-0) 3 ENGL 102 Development of Reading and Writing Skills II (4-0) 4 Restricted Elective (3-0) 3 TUR 102(a) Turkish II (a) (2-0)NC Third Semester ECO 201 Intermediate Microeconomics (4-0) 4 ECO 211 Economic History (3-0) 3 ECO 275 Mathematics for Economists (3-0) 3 ENGL 211 Academic Oral Presentation Skills (3-0) 3 HST 201 (c) Principles of Kemal Atatürk I (2-0)NC Elective (3-0) 3 Fourth Semester ECO 202 Intermediate Macroeconomics (4-0) 4 ECO 205 Statistics for Economists (4-0) 4 ECO 212 History of Economic Thought (3-0)3 BUS 232 Info. Sys. and Prog. (3-0) 3 HST 202 (c) Principles of Kemal Atatürk II (2-0)NC Elective (3-0) 3 Fifth Semester ECO 311 Principles of Econometrics I (3-2) 4 ECO 303 International Trade Theory and Policy (3-0) 3 BUS 281 Principles of Finance (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Sixth Semester ECO 312 Principles of Econometrics II (3-2) 4 ECO 304 International Macroeconomics (3-0) 3 ECO 306 Monetary Theory and Policy (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Seventh Semester ECO 421 Economics of Integration and the EU (3-0) 3 ENGL 311 Advanced Communication Skills (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Eighth Semester ECO 400 Graduation Project (0-6) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 Elective (3-0) 3 (a) Foreign students will take TUR 201 and TUR 202, which may be taken in the first year by the consent of the advisor.
(b) Foreign students will take HST 400 instead of HST 201 and HST 202
Restricted Electives
One of the following courses in the first semester:
* BUS 221 Organizational Behaviour and Social Psychology
* PSIR 105 Modern World History
One of the following in the second semester
* BUS 142 Financial Accounting
* PSIR 106 Pre-Modern Civilizations
Electives
* In addition to restricted electives, the curriculum has 13 electives, at least 7 of which should be taken from the ECO program. Maximum of 3 courses may be taken from the fields other than BUS, PSIR, MAT and engineering.
* Out-of-department electives should be second year or higher level and should have at least 3 credits.
* If the student's advisor let's him/her take more electives than stated above, they should be taken under NOT INCLUDED category.
* Some ECO electives:
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- Financial Markets
- Real Estate Economics and Finance
- Topics in Monetary Macroeconomics
- International Money, Finance and Banking
- International Money, Finance and Banking
- Turkish Banking System
- Welfare Economics and Theory of Social Choice
- Economics of Gender
- Environmental Economics
- Economics of Natural Resources
- Game Theory and its Applications
- Industrial Economics
- Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
- Technology and Industrial Dynamics
- Agricultural Trade Policies
- Development Economics
- Economics of Growth
- Labor Market Economics
- Labor Market in Turkey
- Structure of the Turkish Economy
- European Union and Turkey
- Introduction to Mathematical Economics
- Input-Output Analysis and Economic Modeling
- Topics in Linear and Non-Linear Programming
- Project Evaluation
- Applied Econometrics
- Business Forecasting
- World Economy
- International Economic Institution
- Topics in Economic History
- Turkish Economic History
- Practical Training in Economics