CLAS majors are required to complete 12 credits (usually 4 courses) of related courses. Related courses are courses taken outside of your major but relate to your major subject.
For Economics majors, related courses are courses taken outside the ECON Department, but relate to the field of economics as a supplement to your major.
For a course to apply to the ECON major as a Relateds Course, the course must meet the following criteria:
1. The course must be taken at the 2000 level or higher;
2. The course can NOT be cross-listed with an Economics course in the course description in the University Catalog
3. Any 2000-level or above course taken from any of the departments listed below are pre-approved as ECON related courses and will reflect on your Advisement Report. They do not need to all be in the same department.
| **Please note: any course cross-listed as an ECON course does not count as a related course. It will count as an ECON major course, even if you enroll in the cross-listed section.** |
| Accounting – ACCT |
| AFRA 3042/ HDFS 3042/ WGSS3042 |
| Agriculture and Natural Resources – AGNR |
| Agricultural and Resource Economics – ARE |
| Anthropology – ANTH |
| Business Administration – BADM |
| Business Law – BLAW |
| Biomedical Engineering – BME |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering – CE |
| Chemical Engineering – CHEG |
| Cognitive Science – COGS |
| Computer Science and Engineering – CSE |
| Communication – COMM |
| Electrical and Computer Engineering – ECE |
| Engineering – ENGR |
| Finance – FNCE |
| Geography – GEOG |
| History – HIST |
| Healthcare Management and Insurance – HSMI |
| Journalism – JOUR |
| Mathematics – MATH |
| Mechanical Engineering – ME |
| Management – MENT |
| Marketing – MKTG |
| Materials Science and Engineering – MSE |
| Natural Resources and the Environment – NRE |
| Operations and Information Management – OPIM |
| Philosophy – PHIL |
| Political Science – POLS |
| Public Policy – PP |
| Psychology – PSYC |
| Sociology – SOCI |
| Statistics – STAT |
| Urban and Community Studies – URBN (EXCEPT FOR 3439) |
4. Any 2000+ level course cross-listed with any of the above departments will count as a related course, even if in a department not listed above. You may enroll in either department’s section and it will still count as a related.
5. Any of the following individual pre-approved courses will count as a related course:
| SPAN 3170 Business Spanish | HDFS 3342 Family Resource Management |
| FREN 3217 Business French | HDFS 3421 Low Income Families |
| HRTS 3254 Business Solutions for Societal Challenges | HDFS 3431 Families and Work |
| HRTS 3475 Economic Development and Human Rights | HDFS 3433 Consumer Rights and Responsibilities |
| WGSS 2267 Women and Poverty | HDFS 3442/LLAS 3250 Latino Health and Health Care |
| WGSS 3264 Gender in the Workplace | HDFS 3473/AASI 3473 Asian-Pacific American Families |
| HDFS 3510 Planning and Managing Human Service Programs |
5. Or, the Department will approve any other 2000-level or above course for a declared double major or minor as relateds, even if it is not on the pre-approved list above. Keep in mind, these courses must be housed within a double major or minor program to be approved as relateds. If they are not on the pre-approved list below, they will not reflect on your Advisement Report but will be approved on your Final Plan of Study when you apply for graduation in your final semester.