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ECON 488. Senior Capstone Seminar

3.00
This course is writing-intensive seminar offering a student the opportunity to integrate many of his/her undergraduate studies in economics. Its substantive content will emphasize applying the methods of theoretical and empirical analyses employed by all economists. The seminar will be structured so as to contain embedded assessment measures of the learning objectives specified by the department of economics, including those related to command of basic economy theory and of quantitative methods used in quantifying empirical relationships and testing hypotheses. Prerequisites: Senior standing and completion of each of the following courses with a grade of at least “C”: ECON 331 , ECON 332  and ECON 385 .