Rocky Mountain Undergraduate Review

Colorado College offers an undergraduate research outlet that you may be interested in pursuing. Please take a look at www.coloradocollege.edu/students/rmur/.

Advising offer

The university has recently altered (in a good way!) my ability to access your records. As such, I can now easily view a record of your academic progress. If you would like to sit down and go over your degree progress, please let me know (email me at ddeboer@uccs.edu).

I will be unavailable for the next couple of weeks, so I will be scheduling for after the first of the year.

Happy holidays, Dale

Schedule Changes for Spring 2010

A quick update on department offerings for Spring 2010. First, the Winterim course, Econ 398: Inner Economist, is being cancelled today due to low enrollment (off regular term courses have higher enrollment caps because of campus budgetary constraints).

Second, section 4 of Econ 101 has been cancelled and replaced with an additional section of Econ 202 at the same time/same place. Sorry for any inconvenience with this switch but our 202 offerings were close to full while we had plenty of spare capacity in 101.

Hope you have a good holiday season.

Going to graduate school?

If you are planning on graduate school and are engaged in research you might want to take a look at the CUR Registry of Undergraduate Researchers.

Spring and Summer 2010

Likely everyone this is old news, but the spring schedule is now online at http://www.uccs.edu/~admrec/courses.html.

Also, the schedule for next summer is basically set. There will be one section of Econ 202 during the regular 8 week summer session and an offering of Econ 341: International Economics during the May intersession. This class will have two long meetings per week for the three week session along with online supplements.

Planned offerings for Spring 2010

Below is what the department has planned for Spring 2010. This is subject to change, but will be close to what we will have on offer.

• Econ 100, Shaffer, Friday 8-10.40
  
• Econ 101, 6 sections
  
• Econ 105, Economics in Practice, Brock, MW 12.15-1.30
  
• Econ 202, 3 sections
  
• Econ 301, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, DeBoer, TR 10.50-12.05
  
• Econ 315, Great Books, Ballantyne, TBD
  
• Econ 331, Ecological Economics, Greenwood, MW 1.40-2.55
  
• Econ 369, Economics of Business, Brock, MW 9.25-10.40
  
• Econ 398, Special Topics: Inner Economist, Eubanks, Winterim course
  
• Econ 398, Special Topics: Personal Economics (this may be changed to Econ 221 pending university action), Brock, MW 3.05-4.20
  
• Econ 398, Special Topics: Austrian Economics, Eubanks, TR 1.40-255
  
• Econ 402, Advanced Macroeconomic Theory, DeBoer, F 10.50-1.30
  
• Econ 425, Urban Economics, Eubanks, R 10.50-1.30

Student/Faculty Gathering

The Department of Economics is funding a Student/Faculty gathering on April 15th from 2 to 4 in Dwire 204. Food and drink to be provided!

Here is your chance for a free lunch!

Change in major requirements

The department is altering one portion of the requirements for the major. Currently, either Math 112 or Math 135 is required for graduation; starting next fall that requirement will not longer be in force. Of course, requirement changes always take some time to phase-in, but I will now waive that requirement for anyone who has not completed it.

Math 135 is still strongly advised (you won't get in without it!) for anyone planning on continuing on for graduate work in economics.

Watch for it!

We will be having a student/faculty gathering on 4/15 -- look for details soon!

Drop Deadline

Just a quick reminder -- the drop deadline is April 3. After that you may only drop a course under exceptional circumstances.

Program Review

This week the department will be going through a program review (required of all units every 7th year). Students will have an opportunity to meet with the review team on Friday, March 13 from 9.00-10.00 in 2025A Columbine Hall.

Cushman Internship

While applications are not currently be accepted, keep the Cushman Internship in mind. Details may be found on the website for The Colorado Center for Policy Studies.

Fall Schedule Information

Please find schedule information for fall 2009.

ECON 100: Economics of Social Issues, Friday, 8-10.40, Shaffer

ECON 101, 6 sections at various times/days

ECON 105: Economics in Practice, MW 12.15-1.30, Brock

ECON 202, TR 3.05-4.20, Ballantyne
ECON 202, TR 4.30-7.05, Lucchesi

ECON 302: Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory, TR 10.50-12.05, DeBoer

ECON 361: Work and Pay, TR 1.40-2.55, Greenwood

ECON 371: Comparative Economic Systems, F 10.50-1.30, DeBoer

ECON 398: Special Topics in Economics -- Behavioral Economics, MW 3.05-4.20, Brock

ECON 401: Advanced Microeconomic Theory, MW 9.25-10.40, Brock

ECON 450: Money and Banking, R 4.30-7.05, Lucchesi

Summer Schedule Information

During the May Inter-term (after Spring but before Summer) the department will be offering Econ 281: Introduction to Statistics and Computing.

During the regular Summer term the department will be offering Econ 101: Introduction to Microeconomics and Econ 202: Introduction to Macroeconomics.

Details:

Econ 101 meets 6/15/09 to 8/7/09 from 8.00-10.40 in Dwire 114 with Professor Ballantyne.

Econ 202 meets 6/15/09 to 8/7/09 from 8.00-10.40 in Dwire 114 with Professor DeBoer.

Econ 281 meets from 5/26/09 to 6/12/09 with Professor DeBoer. This is a mixed on-line/in-class offering with in-class meetings scheduled on 5/26, 6/1 and 6/8 from 8.00-11.30 in Columbine 209.