CAS EC at Boston University

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 CAS EC coursework.

• CAS EC 201Intermediate Microeconomic Analysisopens 15 courses (15 directly)
• CAS EC 202Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysisopens 9 courses (7 directly)
• CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2opens 9 courses (2 directly)
• CAS EC 203Empirical Economics 1opens 8 courses (6 directly)
• CAS MA 124Calculus 2opens 8 courses (2 directly)
• CAS MA 225Multivariate Calculusopens 6 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 CAS EC 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 43 CAS EC and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 3 more CAS EC courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 6 courses deep, ending at CAS EC 222

  1. CAS MA 121Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 1
  2. CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2
  3. CAS MA 124Calculus 2
  4. CAS MA 225Multivariate Calculus
  5. CAS EC 221Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  6. CAS EC 222Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

• 6 courses deep, ending at CAS EC 224

  1. CAS MA 121Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 1
  2. CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2
  3. CAS MA 124Calculus 2

• 6 courses deep, ending at CAS EC 571

  1. CAS MA 121Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 1
  2. CAS MA 122Calculus for the Life and Social Sciences 2
  3. CAS MA 124Calculus 2

• 5 courses deep, ending at CAS EC 542

  1. CAS EC 102Introductory Macroeconomic Analysis
  2. CAS EC 202Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis
  3. CAS EC 341Monetary and Banking Institutions

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CAS EC yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CAS EC yet.

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Department events

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