Academic Advising
Students majoring in Economics through the W.P. Carey School of Business are advised in the Undergraduate Programs Office of the W.P. Carey School. Students majoring in Economics through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are advised by tDr. Jerry Kingston: BAC 657 (Jerry.Kingston@asu.edu) and Alexa Shonteff: BAC 649 (Alexia.Shonteff@asu.edu). (Note: To contact Dr. Kingston or Alexia Shonteff please use e-mail. Do not use voicemail. Be sure to include your ASU ID on all e-mail requests.)
This advising web site is designed primarily for economics majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Students who are enrolled in the W.P. Carey School are encouraged to contact their academic advisor in the Undergraduate Programs Office of the W.P. Carey School.
Announcements as of 06/25/08
Table of Contents for Current Announcements
1. Registration for Fall Semester 2008
2. Summer Office Hours
3. Critical Tracking and Probationary Requirements
4. Science and Society Requirements
5. Revised Course Numbering for ECN Courses
6. Instructions for Running your own DARS (degree audit) report.
7. Degree Programs: Majors and Minors in Economics
8. Honors College Students Major in Economics
1. Registration Information for Fall Semester 08
Registration "appointment dates" began March 3 for the fall semester. Each student may have a different appointment date. This date is not actually for an "appointment" with anyone, but rather signifies the earliest possible date (and time) at which you may register for fall semester classes. Prior to your appointment date, go to http://asu.edu/interactive and click on the registration button. The screen that appears will indicate whether you have any current "holds" on your registration. These could be due to parking fines, mandatory advising requirements, immunization records, or many other issues. Please take care of any and all "holds" prior to your appointment date so that you will be able to register on, rather than following, your appointment date.
2. Office Hours for Summer 2008
Dr. Kingston
June 10 - July 31
Dr. Kingston will be available only via e-mail. He may
be contacted at Jerry.Kingston@asu.edu.
Students who require academic advising during this period should contact Alexia Shonteff in BAC 649 or at Alexia.Shonteff@asu.edu.
3. Critical Tracking and Probationary Requirements
Beginning in the fall semester of 2007, the university required that each department establish certain "critical tracking" requirements for entering first-time freshman. The requirements established by the Department of Economics are that students must pass, with a grade of C or higher, either MAT 210 or MAT 270 in the first semester, and either MAT 211 or MAT 271 in the second semester. Students also were required to complete, with a grade of C or better, either ECN 211 or ECN 212 in the second semester of their freshman year. Students were not considered to be "off track" if they were enrolled and successfully completed (with a grade of C or higher) the pre-requisite course for MAT 210 in the first semester and MAT 210 in the second semester.
At the end of the spring 2008 semester the Provost's office provided to the Department of Economics, a list of students who had not completed the two required mathematics course and one principles of economics course during their freshman year. These students are considered to be "off-track" and were informed by the Provost's office that they were to contact their departmental academic advisor(s) immediately.
If you received such a letter or e-mail from the Provost's office, please contact Alexia Shonteff (at Alexia.Shonteff@asu.edu) or Dr. Jerry Kingston (Jerry.Kingston@asu.edu) immediately. We will work with you to get you back "on-track" in your economics major or assist you in transitioning to another major.
Economics majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences who were placed on probation at the end of the Spring Semester will be required to complete a probationary contract before their advising "hold" is lifted. Details are available at http://clas.asu.edu/advising/students/disqualifcation.htm . Students should consult this web site and complete the required "homework" before contacting their academic advisor to have the advising "hold" removed.
3. Science and Society Requirement (CLAS)
Students who plan to complete their degree requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences under the provisions of the 2006 (or later) catalog are required to take a two-course sequence in "Science and Society" requirements. A grade of C or higher is required in both courses. Please note that, in some cases, the approved courses are both course and instructor specific. That is, you must not only be sure to have signed up for the correct course, but also you must be sure that the course is being taught by an instructor whose syllabus has been approved by Society and Society Committee as meeting the learning objectives established for these courses. Guidelines for Science and Society courses and a list of approved courses will be posted on the Economics Department advising web site at http://wpcarey.asu.edu/ecn. Click on "continuing students" and then on "Advising Assistance by Topic" and select "S" from the alpha menu (for "Science and Society" courses). According to a recent CLAS memo, the Science and Society courses may be taken concurrently, as long as both components of the two-course sequence are offered in the same semester. Please be particularly careful about enrolling in courses offered with "omnibus" numbers. These are generic course numbers assigned before a course is assigned a "permanent" number in the University Catalog. Some courses offered under a given omnibus number may be acceptable to meet the Science and Society requirement, but others using that same prefix and number may not. Please note that DARS is not yet programmed to correctly post the Science and Society classes. They will be posted only if students contact the Undergraduate Programs office in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to request such a posting. Until this is done, Science and Society courses may appear at other locations in the DARS report (e.g., other related courses as a part of the major) but will not continue to be posted there once they are correctly posted to the Science and Society section of the DARS report. This latter point is very important. Until a Science and Society course is posted to its correct position in your DARS report by the Undergraduate Programs Office, the course may appear elsewhere in the DARS report and indicate that the course is satisfying some other requirement. Once the course is moved to its correct location, this other requirement (if any) will no longer be satisfied. Students are encouraged to review their DARS report to make certain that any Science and Society class they have taken is not currently appearing as satisfying any other university or college requirement.
5. Revised Course Numbering
Several ECN courses have been re-numbered effective Fall, 2006. The old and new numbers are shown below. No changes in course content are implied by the new numbering system.
ECN 111 has been renumbered as ECN 211.
ECN 112 has been renumbered as ECN 212.
ECN 194 (Honors Macroeconomics has been renumbered as ECN 213.
ECN 194 (Honors Microeconomics) has been renumbered as ECN 214.
6. Instructions for Running Your Own DARS (Degree Audit) Reports
For instructions on how to run your own degree audit, see the link provided (item 6) in the Table of Contents for these announcements.
7. Degree Programs: Majors and Minors in Economics
The Department of Economics offers the Bachelor of Science degree in Economics through the NW. AP. Carey School and two degrees—the Bachelor of Arts degree and Bachelor of Science degree—through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. CLAS students who wish to use the 2006 or a later catalog must choose the BS degree program, as the BA program will not be available beginning with that catalog year. The Articulation Office of the Provost's Office lists the curriculum checks (select the appropriate catalog year in the line which corresponds to either the NW. AP. Carey School of Business or the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and then "economics"). Please note that some 300-level economics courses will not fulfill ECN major field requirements. Be sure to check the specific undergraduate catalog under which the major field requirements for your degree are determined.
The Department of Economics offers two minors in economics: a General Minor and a Minor for Students Planning a Career in Law
The Minor in General Economics consists of 18 semester hours of credit which include ECN 211 and ECN 212 plus any 12 hours of upper-division economics courses for which all prerequisites have been met. Minors in General Economics are encouraged to take calculus and statistics, which are prerequisites for ECN 313 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and ECN 314 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory so that these classes might be included in the minor.
The Minor in Economics for Students Planning a Career in Law provides an opportunity for a prospective law student to take courses that provide them with analytical tools essential for the student of law. One of the most dramatic recent developments in law is the integration of economic analysis in legal theory and decision making. Curricula at all major law schools reflect this change. Consequently, future lawyers are being trained with courses that rely increasingly on microeconomic theory and econometrics. The applications of economics to law have moved beyond the training areas of antitrust and regulation. First-year law courses now include microeconomic theory with applications to contracts, torts, criminal law, property and constitutional law.
The Minor in Economics for Students Planning a Career in Law consists of 18 semester hours. Required courses include: ECN 211—Macroeconomic Principles B (3), ECN 212—Microeconomic Principles B (3), ECN 314—Intermediate Microeconomic Theory B (3), ECN 450—Law and Economics AL (3), and ECN 453—Government and Business (3). Also required is at least one additional economics or accounting course at the 300 level or above. The total number of hours required for this minor is 18 semester hours.
8. Honors College Students Majoring in Economics
Many students who pursue degrees in Economics through CLAS are also enrolled in the Barrett Honors College. Details on admissions requirements and Honors College Programs may be found at http://honors.asu.edu. Honors college requirements are monitored by academic advisors in the Honors College. The Department of Economics offers a number of courses for honors credit, but the department does not require any minimum number of honors courses for the honors designation for an undergraduate degree. Students who choose to enroll in ECN 213 (Honors Macroeconomics) and ECN 214 (Honors Microeconomics) will not have to take ECN 211, ECN 212, ECN 313 and ECN 314. However, they will be required to take two additional upper division economics elective courses because only six credit hours can be earned by taking ECN 213 and ECN 214.
