Economics at University of California, Los Angeles

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.

• ECON 11Microeconomic Theoryopens 96 courses (50.3 directly)
• ECON 101Microeconomic Theoryopens 73 courses (57.3 directly)
• ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economistsopens 38 courses (9 directly)
• ECON 103Introduction to Econometricsopens 32 courses (28 directly)
• ECON 2Principles of Economicsopens 28 courses (3 directly)
• ECON 102Macroeconomic Theoryopens 25 courses (22.5 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 163 ECON and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 175 more ECON 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 ECON. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 106A

  1. ECON 106ALEconomics in Practice Laboratory
  2. ECON 106AEconomics in Practice

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 106F

  1. ECON 106FBFinance Laboratory
  2. ECON 106FFinance

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 106M

  1. ECON 106MLFinancial Markets and Financial Institutions Laboratory
  2. ECON 106MFinancial Markets and Financial Institutions

• 6 courses deep, ending at ECON 109C

  1. ECON 1Principles of Economics
  2. ECON 11Microeconomic Theory
  3. ECON 101Microeconomic Theory

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ECON yet.

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