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Spring/ Summer Courses 2026 (Tentative)
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Take a look at our tentative spring and summer courses to help keep your Winter and Fall 2026 plans on track. Check out the academic calendar for course descriptions and prerequisites
Our Spring/Summer courses will be held online, except Econ 2YY3. * Indicating in person testing. Off campus/in person testing is an option for 2Y03, more details to come.
Spring 2026
- ECON 1BB3 – Introductory Macroeconomics
- ECON 2CC3 – Health Economics and its Application to Health Policy
- ECON 2I03 – Financial Economics
- ECON 2J03 – Environmental Economics
- ECON 2Y03 – Intermediate Macroeconomics I *
- ECON 2Z03 – Intermediate Microeconomics I *
- ECON 3H03 – International Monetary Economics
- ECON 3HH3 – International Trade
- ECON 3M03 – Introduction to Game Theory
- SOCSCI 2J03 – Introduction to Statistics
Summer 2026
- ECON 1B03 – Introductory Microeconomics
- ECON 2A03 – Labour-Market Issues
- ECON 2P03 – Economics of Professional Sports
- ECON 2YY3 – Intermediate Macroeconomics II (In-person)
- ECON 2ZZ3 – Intermediate Microeconomics II *
- ECON 4T03 – Advanced Economic Theory I *
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