Spring Summer Course Enrolment

Short on courses? Working towards a pathway? Pick up a spring and summer course!

Whether you are on the accelerated pathway, specialist option, co-op, or doing a minor, the Spring/Summer term is a great time to catch up, and stay on track! See our courses being offered below!

Spring Courses

Spring Courses May 5 – June 20

In person:

ECON 2H03 – Intermediate Macroeconomics I: Determinants of national income, employment, the rate of interest and the price level; introduction to the open economy.

Online:

ECON 1BB3 – Introductory Macroeconomics: An introduction to the method and theory of macroeconomics, and their application to the analysis of contemporary economic problems.

ECON 2CC3 – Health Economics and its Application to Health Policy: Economic analysis of health and health care, with a special emphasis on policy issues in the Canadian health care system.

ECON 2J03 – Environmental Economics: Allocation of environmental services: efficiency and market failure; measuring environmental benefits; environmental regulation in Canada and elsewhere: taxes, tradable permits and other instruments; further topics.

ECON 2P03 – Economics of Professional sports: The application of economic principles to team and individual professional sports. Theory of sports leagues, demand for sports, the market for athletes, broadcasting rights, competition policy issues, the public finance aspects of stadium financing.

ECON 2Z03 – Intermediate Microeconomics I (Midterms & Final in person): Theory of consumer choice; elements of production and cost; price and output determination in perfectly competitive markets.

ECON 3H03 – International Monetary Economics: Macroeconomic problems of an open economy with special reference to Canada; the international financial system and proposals for its reform.

ECON 3M03 – Introductory to Game Theory: An introduction to the theory of games, including strategic, extensive and coalitional games. Applications in economics, political science and evolutionary biology are discussed.

SOCSCI 2J03 – Intro to Statistics: An introduction to basic statistical concepts and their application to the analysis of data from the social sciences. The use of spreadsheets is emphasized.

Summer Courses

Summer Courses June 23 – August 8

In person:

ECON 1BB3 – Introductory Macroeconomics: An introduction to the method and theory of macroeconomics, and their application to the analysis of contemporary economic problems.

Online:

ECON 1B03 – Introductory Microeconomics: An introduction to the method and theory of microeconomics, and their application to the analysis of contemporary economic problems.

ECON 2P03 – Economics of Professional Sports: The application of economic principles to team and individual professional sports. Theory of sports leagues, demand for sports, the market for athletes, broadcasting rights, competition policy issues, the public finance aspects of stadium financing.

ECON 2HH3 – Intermediate Macroeconomics II: This course uses macroeconomic theory based on microeconomic underpinnings to study common topics including business cycles, growth and financial crises.

ECON 2I03- Financial Economic: Detailed investigation of the financial sector. Topics include the role of capital markets in facilitating investment and growth, bond markets, stock markets, financial statements and taxation.

ECON 2ZZ3 – Intermediate Microeconomics II: Firm and consumer behaviour in imperfectly competitive markets and the markets for factors of production; the role of taxes and subsidies; theory of exchange, welfare economics and general equilibrium analysis. May include other special topics.

ECON 3BE3 – Behavioural Economics: Economic theory rests upon the assumptions that all economic actors (consumers, firms, governments) are fully rational and narrowly self-interested. Behavioural economics examines the consequences and realism of these assumptions by designing laboratory and field experiments and conducting empirical analyses that test economic theory and its core assumptions and by incorporating psychologically plausible assumptions and motivations into economic theory. This course provides a survey of some of the central and current topics in behavioural economics.

ECON 4T03 – Advances Economic Theory I: Mathematically oriented approaches to the analysis of the behaviour of individual consumers, workers and firms.

You can view all courses and course description through the Academic Calendar.