Economics at Iowa State 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 ECON coursework.

• MATH 1600Survey of Calculusopens 15 courses (3.5 directly)
• MATH 1650Calculus Iopens 15 courses (3 directly)
• MATH 1510Calculus for Business and Social Sciencesopens 15 courses (1.5 directly)
• MATH 1660Calculus IIopens 15 courses (1.5 directly)
• ECON 2070Applied Economic Optimizationopens 8 courses (1.5 directly)
• ECON 3010Intermediate Microeconomicsopens 6 courses (6 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. 76 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.

• 8 courses deep, ending at ECON 3710

  1. MATH 1600Survey of Calculus
  2. MATH 1510Calculus for Business and Social Sciences
  3. ECON 2070Applied Economic Optimization
  4. ECON 3010Intermediate Microeconomics
  5. ECON 3710Introductory Econometrics

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 4020

  1. MATH 1510Calculus for Business and Social Sciences
  2. MATH 1600Survey of Calculus
  3. ECON 3020Intermediate Macroeconomics

• 3 courses deep, ending at ECON 1030X

  1. ECON 1010Principles of Microeconomics
  2. ECON 1020Principles of Macroeconomics
  3. ECON 1030XIntroduction to Economics: Real World Applications

• 2 courses deep, ending at ECON 3370

  1. ECON 2350Introduction to Agricultural Markets
  2. ECON 3370Agricultural Marketing

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ECON yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

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Department events

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