200-level Courses & Outlines

Economics (Arts): A critical study of the insights to be gained through economic analysis of a number of problems of broad interest. The focus will be on the application of economics to issues of public policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ECON 205D.
• Restriction: This course does not count for credit towards the Minor Concentration, Major Concentration, or Honours degree in Economics.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MGCR 293, ECON 230 or ECON 250

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Licun Xue, Paul T Dickinson, Leonie Baumann

Economics (Arts): A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 295, ECON 330 or ECON 352

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Paul T Dickinson
  • Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta

Economics (Arts): This course will deal with topical issues of importance to the Canadian economy.

Offered by: Economics

• This course will also be of interest to students outside of Economics

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 208

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Ling Ling Zhang

Economics (Arts): A study of the application of economic theory to questions of environmental policy. Particular attention will be given to the measurement and regulation of pollution, congestion and waste and other environmental aspects of specific economies.

Offered by: Economics

• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-325 or 154-425

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Economics (Arts): Distributions, averages, dispersions, sampling, testing, estimation, correlation, regression, index numbers, trends and seasonals.

Offered by: Economics

• Students must register for both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to ECON 227
• You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta

Economics (Arts): See ECON 227D1 for course description.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 227D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• ECON 227D1 and ECON 227D2 together are equivalent to ECON 227
• You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • John W Galbraith, Francisco J Ruge-Murcia

Economics (Arts): The introductory course for Economics Major students in microeconomic theory. In depth and critical presentation of the theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution, welfare economics and the theory of general equilibrium.

Offered by: Economics

• Students must register for both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Nicolas Gendron-Carrier

Economics (Arts): See ECON 230D1 for course description.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 230D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 230D1 and ECON 230D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Fernando Saltiel

Economics (Arts): An intermediate level microeconomics course. Includes theory of exchange, theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and cost curves, theory of the firm, theory of distribution; general equilibrium and welfare economics. The assumptions underlying the traditional neo-classical approach to economic theory will be carefully specified.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisites: MATH 140 and MATH 141 or equivalent
• Students must register for both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Licun Xue

Economics (Arts): See ECON 250D1 for course description.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 250D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 250D1 and ECON 250D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Rohan Dutta

Economics (Arts): Stochastic phenomena; probability and frequency distributions, introduction to probability theory. Statistical inference about proportions, means and variances; analysis of variance; nonparametric statistics; index numbers and time series; economic forecasting; regression and correlation analysis; introduction to general linear models, its uses and limitations; uses and misuses of statistics.

Offered by: Economics

• Corequisites: MATH 141 and MATH 133 and ECON 250
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-357 or are taking ECON 217 or ECON 227.
• Students must register for both ECON 257D1 and ECON 257D2.
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 257D1 and ECON 257D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

• Terms
  • Fall 2024
• Instructors
  • Francesco Amodio

Economics (Arts): See ECON 257D1 for course description.

Offered by: Economics

• Prerequisite: ECON 257D1
• No credit will be given for this course unless both ECON 257D1 and ECON 257D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
• You may not be able to receive credit for this course and other statistic courses. Be sure to check the Course Overlap section under Faculty Degree Requirements in the Arts or Science section of the Calendar.

• Terms
  • Winter 2025
• Instructors
  • Jean Marie Dufour

Economics (Arts): This applied macroeconomics course focuses on current and recurrent macroeconomic issues important in understanding the public policy environment in which firms make their decisions. Topics include national accounts; national income determination; economic growth and fluctuations; money, monetary policy and financial markets; international trade and finance.

Offered by: Economics

• Corequisite: MGCR 293
• Restriction: For B.Com. students
• Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 209, ECON 330D1/D2 or ECON 352D1/D2.
• Continuing Studies: requirement for CMA, CGA, I.C.B., the EA of AACI, and the CRA
• Continuing Studies: not open to full-time day students

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year