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ECONOMICS 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 YEAR
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
SECOND YEAR
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
THIRD YEAR
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
ENGL 311	Advanced Communication Skills	(3-0) 3
	Elective	(3-0) 3
FOURTH YEAR
Seventh Semester
ECO 421	Economics of Integration and the EU	(3-0) 3
	Elective	(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) International students will take HST 205 and HST 206 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:

• 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

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