Economics
Major/Minor
Economics is for students who are curious about people and society and prefer an analytical style of reasoning that isn鈥檛 provided by the humanities. Economics not only helps students to understand the 鈥渆veryday ordinary business of life鈥, it helps them to make sense of current events at home and around the country and the world.
When people are yelling at each other over some government policy, anyone who has studied economics can offer something reasoned and empirical in conversation instead of just pure opinion. If students want to train their critical thinking skills to improve the world and to learn how to discover general principles from specific examples, then economics is a perfect fit for them.