IECO Senior Seminar

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

The principal aim of this course is to develop the skills and techniques needed for carrying out a substantive research project in international economics. To achieve this purpose, the course will focus on the writing and presentation of a senior thesis. Students may choose from a wide variety of topics. Along the way, students will learn how to evaluate scholarly literature, formulate and model an hypothesis, locate data and test hypothesis, write an elegant paper and give a convincing presentation. This course marks the culmination of the international economics major and an introduction to the world of scholarly research.