Economics at University of Alaska Fairbanks

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ECON coursework.

• WRTG F211XWriting and the Humanities3 Creditsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• WRTG F212XWriting and the Professions3 Creditsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• WRTG F213XWriting and the Sciences3 Creditsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• WRTG F214XArguing Across Contexts3 Creditsopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• MATH F230XEssential Calculus with Applications in the Life Sciences3 Creditsopens 5 courses (5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ECON work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 39 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 7 more ECON courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ECON, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ECON. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECON F322

  1. MATH F122XEssential Precalculus with Applications3 Credits
  2. MATH F230XEssential Calculus with Applications in the Life Sciences3 Credits
  3. ECON F322Managerial Economics3 Credits

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECON F420

  1. WRTG F111XWriting Across Contexts3 Credits
  2. WRTG F211XWriting and the Humanities3 Credits
  3. ECON F420Labor Markets and Public Policy3 Credits

• 2 courses deep, ending at ECON F321

  1. ECON F101XPrinciples of Microeconomics3 Credits
  2. ECON F321Intermediate Microeconomics3 Credits

• 2 courses deep, ending at ECON F327

  1. ECON F227Introductory Statistics for Economics and Business3 Credits
  2. ECON F327Intermediate Econometrics for Forecasting and Business3 Credits

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ECON yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Economics does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the UAF campus feed.