- Concentrations and course offerings may vary by campus and/or by program modality. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for the course availability each term at your campus or within your program modality.
- Certain options within the program may be required at certain campuses or for certain program modalities. Please consult with your advisor or admissions coach for requirements at your campus or for your program modality.
Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified and complete any additional courses needed beyond specific college and major requirements to satisfy graduation credit requirements.
Universitywide Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the Universitywide Requirements.
NUpath Requirements
All undergraduate students are required to complete the NUpath Requirements.
History Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
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History Colloquium | ||
HIST 1200 | Historical Research and Writing | 1 |
HIST 1201 | First-Year Seminar | 4 |
Introductory Level | ||
Complete one history course from the 1000 level (except HIST 1200 and HIST 1201). | 4 | |
History Seminar and Historical Writing | ||
HIST 2301 | The History Seminar | 4 |
HIST 2302 | Historical Writing | 1 |
History Elective | ||
Complete two HIST courses at any level in any field. | 8 | |
Pre-1800 History Elective | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Law and History | ||
Introduction to Middle Eastern History | ||
Pirates, Planters, and Patriots: Making the Americas, 1492–1804 | ||
Japanese Literature and Culture | ||
Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1500 | ||
History of Espionage 1: Antiquity to World War II | ||
Colonial and Revolutionary America | ||
Renaissance to Enlightenment | ||
The Tudors, the Stuarts, and the Birth of Modern Britain | ||
Africa and the World in Early Times | ||
Assassinations in World History | ||
Intermediate/Advanced History Courses | ||
Complete minimum of one history course numbered 2000 to 2999 (except HIST 2301 and HIST 2302). | 4 | |
Advanced History | ||
Complete minimum of one history course numbered 3000 to 4999 (except HIST 4701). | 4 | |
Supplemental Course for History—Research Methods | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Statistics for Economists | ||
Geographical Information Systems | ||
Statistics and Software | ||
Quantitative Techniques | ||
Statistics in Psychological Research | ||
Statistical Analysis in Sociology |
Economics Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Introduction to College | ||
ECON 1000 | Economics at Northeastern | 1 |
or HIST 1000 | History at Northeastern | |
Required Economics Courses | ||
ECON 1115 | Principles of Macroeconomics | 4 |
ECON 1116 | Principles of Microeconomics | 4 |
ECON 2315 | Macroeconomic Theory | 4 |
ECON 2316 | Microeconomic Theory | 4 |
ECON 2350 | Statistics for Economists | 4 |
ECON 2560 | Applied Econometrics | 4 |
Economics Electives | ||
Complete four economics elective courses that are found in the following ranges, with no more than two in the ECON 1200 to ECON 1999 range. Additionally, courses used to satisfy the integrative course requirement may not be used as economics electives: | 16 | |
ECON 1200 to ECON 1999 | ||
ECON 2990 to ECON 3559 | ||
ECON 3561 - ECON 4689 | ||
ECON 4900 to ECON 4996 | ||
ECON 5200 to ECON 5999 | ||
Unless otherwise noted in specific combined majors, required core economics courses cannot be counted as electives by students completing Department of Economics programs. | ||
Supplemental Courses | ||
Computer Science | ||
Complete one of the following: | 4-5 | |
Computer Science and Its Applications and Lab for CS 1100 | ||
Programming with Data and Data Science Programming Practicum | ||
Fundamentals of Information Analytics | ||
Calculus | ||
Complete one of the following: | ||
Calculus for Business and Economics (It is highly recommended that students who take MATH 1231 take sections devoted to ECON students only.) | ||
or MATH 1241 | Calculus 1 | |
or MATH 1245 | Calculus with Applications | |
or MATH 1251 | Calculus and Differential Equations for Biology 1 | |
or MATH 1340 | Intensive Calculus for Engineers | |
or MATH 1341 | Calculus 1 for Science and Engineering |
Capstone Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Complete one of the following options: | 4 | |
Senior Economics Seminar | ||
or ECON 4997 | Senior Economics Thesis | |
Capstone Seminar |
Integrative Requirements
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Complete one of the following: | 4 | |
Economic History of the Middle East | ||
American Economic History | ||
Capitalism and Business: A Global History | ||
History of Capitalism in East Asia |
History and Economics Major GPA/Credit Requirement
Grades in the following four economics courses must average to a minimum of C (2.000):
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Macroeconomic Theory | ||
Microeconomic Theory | ||
Statistics for Economists | ||
Applied Econometrics |
Complete 98 semester hours in the major.
Experiential Liberal Arts
All students in this College of Social Sciences and Humanities program are required to complete the Experiential Liberal Arts Requirement.
Program Requirement
128 total semester hours required
Sample Plan of Study - Four Years, Two Co-ops in Summer 2/Fall
Year 1 | |||||||
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Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
ECON 1000 or HIST 1000 | 1 | ECON 1116 | 4 | ECON elective 2 | 4 | Elective | 4 |
ECON 1115 | 4 | ECON elective 1 | 4 | Elective | 4 | Elective | 4 |
HIST 1200 | 1 | HIST elective 1 | 4 | ||||
HIST 1201 | 4 | HIST elective 2 | 4 | ||||
MATH 1231, 1241, 1245, 1251, 1340, or 1341 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
18 | 16 | 8 | 8 | ||||
Year 2 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
CS 1100, DS 2000 and DS 2001, or MISM 2510 | 4 | ECON 2316 | 4 | HIST elective 5 | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
ECON 2315 | 4 | HIST elective 3 | 4 | Elective | 4 | ||
HIST 2301 | 4 | HIST elective 4 | 4 | ||||
HIST 2302 | 1 | Elective | 4 | ||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
17 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 3 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | Summer 1 | Hours | Summer 2 | Hours |
Co-op | 0 | ECON 2350 | 4 | ECON 2560 | 4 | Co-op | 0 |
ECON elective 3 | 4 | ECON elective 4 | 4 | ||||
HIST elective 6 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
0 | 16 | 8 | 0 | ||||
Year 4 | |||||||
Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours | ||||
Co-op | 0 | ECON 3470, HIST 2011, or ECON 1292 | 4 | ||||
ECON 4692, HIST 4701, or ECON 4997 | 4 | ||||||
HIST elective 7 | 4 | ||||||
Elective | 4 | ||||||
0 | 16 | ||||||
Total Hours: 131 |