School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences
Economics and Finance (Double Major) (BS)
Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance (Double Major)
Degree Requirements (127 semester credit hours)1, 2
EPPS Faculty
Professors: Daniel G. Arce , Kurt J. Beron , Dong Li , Todd Sandler , Donggyu Sul
Associate Professors: Seth Giertz , Xin (Sherry) Li , Susan Williams McElroy , Kevin Siqueira , Victor Valcarcel
Assistant Professors: Rodney Andrews , Monica Deza , Asli Leblebicioglu
JSOM Faculty
Professors: Ashiq Ali , Indranil R. Bardhan , Alain Bensoussan , Gary Bolton , Metín Çakanyildirim , Daniel A. Cohen , William M. Cready , Milind Dawande , Theodore E. Day , Gregory G. Dess , David L. Ford Jr. , Umit G. Gurun , Varghese S. Jacob , Ganesh Janakiraman , Elena Katok , Dmitri Kuksov , Nanda Kumar , Stanley Liebowitz , Zhiang (John) Lin , Sumit K. Majumdar , Vijay S. Mookerjee , B. P. S. Murthi , Vikram Nanda , Özalp Özer , Mike W. Peng , Hasan Pirkul , Suresh Radhakrishnan , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Ram C. Rao , Brian Ratchford , Michael J. Rebello , Sumit Sarkar , Suresh P. Sethi , Kathryn E. Stecke , Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang , John J. Wiorkowski , Harold Zhang
Professor Emeritus: Dale Osborne
Clinical Professors: John Barden , Britt Berrett , Abhijit Biswas , Pamela Foster Brady , Shawn Carraher , Paul Convery , David Cordell , Tevfik Dalgic , Michael Deegan , Kutsal Dogan , Howard Dover , Greg Durham , Forney Fleming III , Randall S. Guttery , Charles Hazzard , William Hefley , Robert Hicks , Gerald (Jerry) Hoag , Marilyn Kaplan , Peter Lewin , Jeffrey Manzi , John F. McCracken , Dennis McCuistion , Diane S. McNulty , Radha Mookerjee , Parneet Pahwa , Joseph Picken , Divakar Rajamani , Daniel Rajaratnam , David Ritchey , Arthur Selender , Rajiv Shah , Kenneth Smith , Habte Woldu , Fang Wu , Laurie L. Ziegler
Associate Professors: Nina Baranchuk , Norris Bruce , Huseyin Cavusoglu , Jianqing Chen , Zhonglan Dai , Rebecca Files , Xianjun Geng , J. Richard Harrison , Ernan E. Haruvy , Surya N. Janakiraman , Robert L. Kieschnick Jr. , Seung-Hyun Lee , Lívia Markóczy , Amit Mehra , Syam Menon , Toyah Miller , Alp Muharremoglu , Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan , Valery Polkovnichenko , Ashutosh Prasad , Orlando C. Richard , Young U. Ryu , Gil Sadka , Jane Salk , Harpreet Singh , David J. Springate , Upender Subramanian , Kelsey D. Wei , Jun Xia , Ying Xie , Yexiao Xu , Alejandro Zentner , Yuan Zhang , Feng Zhao , Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng , Yibin Zhou
Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz , Larry Chasteen , Sonia Leach , Kannan Ramanathan , Carolyn Reichert , Avanti P. Sethi , Kelly Slaughter , James Szot , Mark Thouin , John McClain Watson
Assistant Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci , Emily Choi , Bernhard Ganglmair , Dorothée Honhon , Kyle Hyndman , Atanu Lahiri , Sheen Levine , Bin Li , Jun Li , Meng Li , Ningzhong Li , Xiaolin Li , Naim Bugra Ozel , Arzu Ozoguz , Anyan Qi , Alejandro Rivera Mesias , Alessio Saretto , Serdar Simsek , Gonca P. Soysal , Shaojie Tang , Christian Von-Drathen , Malcolm Wardlaw , Han (Victor) Xia , Steven Xiao , Shengqi Ye , Nir Yehuda , Jieying Zhang , Zhe (James) Zhang , Xiaofei Zhao
Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei , Moran Blueshtein , Judd Bradbury , John Gamino , Ayfer Gurun , Maria Hasenhuttl , Julie Haworth , Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks , Kristen Lawson , Vance Lewis , Liping Ma , Ravi Narayan , Dawn Owens , Anastasia V. Shcherbakova , Jeanne Sluder , Nassim Sohaee
Visiting.Assistant.Professor: Lale Guler
Senior Lecturers: Arthur M. Agulnek , Semiramis Amirpour , Frank Anderson , Anindita Bardhan , Tiffany A. Bortz , Richard Bowen , Monica E. Brussolo , George DeCourcy , Eugene (Gene) Deluke , Alexander Edsel , Amal El-Ashmawi , Carol Flannery , Mary Beth Goodrich , Thomas (Tom) Henderson , Jennifer G. Johnson , Jackie Kimzey , Chris Linsteadt , Michele Lockhart , Joseph Mauriello , Victoria D. McCrady , Edward Meda , Prithi Narasimhan , Madison Pedigo , Matt Polze , James Richards , Debra Richardson , Margaret Smallwood , Steven Solcher , Luell (Lou) Thompson , Amy L. Troutman , Jeremy Vickers , Robert Wright , Kathy Zolton , Hubert Zydorek
I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours3
Communication: 6 semester credit hours
COMM 1311 Survey of Oral and Technology-based Communication
RHET 1302 Rhetoric
Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I4, 5, 6
Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from Life and Physical Sciences core courses (see advisor and degree requirements)
Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Language, Philosophy and Culture core courses (see advisor)
Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
Select any 3 semester credit hours from Creative Arts core courses (see advisor)
American History: 6 semester credit hours
Select any 6 semester credit hours from American History core courses (see advisor)
Government / Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
GOVT 2305 American National Government
GOVT 2306 State and Local Government
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics4, 5
Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II4, 5, 6
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics4, 5
II. Major Requirements: 67 semester credit hours
Major Preparatory Courses: 15 semester credit hours beyond Core Curriculum
ACCT 2301 Introductory Financial Accounting4
ACCT 2302 Introductory Management Accounting4
BLAW 2301 Business and Public Law4
ECON 2301 Principles of Macroeconomics4, 5
ECON 2302 Principles of Microeconomics4, 5
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I4, 5, 6
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II4, 5, 6
MATH 2333 Matrices, Vectors and Their Application4, 7
or OPRE 3333 Quantitative Business Analysis4
OPRE 3360 Managerial Methods in Decision Making Under Uncertainty
or STAT 3360 Probability and Statistics for Management and Economics4
Major Core Courses: 52 semester credit hours
FIN 3100 Professional Development
BCOM 3310 Business Communication
BCOM 4350 Advanced Business Communication
FIN 3320 Business Finance
FIN 3330 Personal Financial Planning
ITSS 3300 Information Technology for Business
OPRE 3310 Operations Management
OBHR 3310 Organizational Behavior
MKT 3300 Principles of Marketing
FIN 3390 Introduction to Financial Modeling
BPS 4305 Strategic Management
FIN 4310 Intermediate Business Finance
IMS 3310 International Business
ECON 3310 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory4
ECON 3311 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory4
ECON 4351 Mathematical Economics
ECON 4355 Econometrics
FIN 4300 Investment Management
III. Elective Requirements: 18 semester credit hours
Guided Electives
Select 9 semester credit hours from: FIN 3305, FIN 3340, FIN 3350, FIN 3365, FIN 3380, FIN 4313, FIN 4315, FIN 4320, FIN 4321, FIN 4340, FIN 4345, FIN 4380, FIN 4390, or FIN 4V90.
Select 9 semester credit hours from: ECON 3312, ECON 4301, ECON 4310, ECON 4345, ECON 4360, ECON 4382, ECON 4385, or ECON 4396.
Each student is expected to complete a minimum of 160 hours of business-related work to fulfill the JSOM professional practicum requirement.
1. Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course. Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
2. Degree is 128 semester credit hours if student is required to take BA 1110 or EPPS 1110.
3. Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses from institutions of higher education. The courses listed are recommended as the most efficient way to satisfy both Core Curriculum and Major Requirements at UT Dallas.
4. Indicates a prerequisite class to be completed before enrolling for upper-division classes in Economics and Finance.
5. A Major requirement that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Semester credit hours are counted in Core Curriculum.
6. Students may substitute MATH 2313 and MATH 2414 or MATH 2417 and MATH 2419.
7. Students may substitute MATH 2418, OPRE 3333 or CS 2305.