MA/MS Sample Specializations

These are suggested programs of study within which students choose the appropriate number of courses to fulfill degree requirements.  Many students mix and match courses from the different options and choose from additional course offerings.  Courses indicated with an * are offered in Business Administration, Finance, Marine Studies, Political Science, Statistics, or Urban Affairs.

• INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR ECONOMICS
  • Industrial Organization and Antitrust Policy
  • Economics of Regulation
  • Labor Economics
  • Applied Regional Modeling
  • Advanced Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Advanced Production Economics*
  • U.S. Economic History
  • Economics of Information 
  • Managerial Forecasting
  • Seminar in Econometrics
• ECONOMETRICS AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  • Seminar in Econometrics
  • Managerial Forecasting
  • Topics in Advanced Econometrics
  • Time-Series Econometric Analysis
  • Applied Regional Modeling
  • Advanced Production Economics*
  • Data Analysis and Quality Management
  • Operations Planning & Control*
  • Regression Analysis*
  • Multivariate Methods*
  • Public Management Statistics
• INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
  • International Trade and Development 
  • International Finance and Development
  • Topics in Economic Development Policy
  • Industrial Organization and Antitrust Policy 
  • Managerial Forecasting  
  • Seminar in Econometrics
  • International Operations*  
  • International Financial Management*
  • International Law*
  • International Political Economy*

• MONETARY AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
  • Monetary Economics
  • International Finance and Development
  • Industrial Organization and Antitrust
  • Managerial Forecasting
  • Seminar in Econometrics
  • Financial Administration*
  • Corporate Financial Analysis*
  • Portfolio Management*    
  • International Financial Management*
  • Financial Institutions and Markets*
• NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
  • Economics of Natural Resources
  • Environmental Economics Policy
  • Advanced Fishery Economics
  • Advanced Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Advanced Production Economics
  • Managerial Forecasting
  • Seminar in Econometrics
  • Applied Policy Analysis* 
  • International Law*
  • Legal Aspects of the Coastal Zone*
• PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS
  • Public Finance
  • Industrial Organization and Antitrust
  • Economics of Regulation
  • Advanced Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Environmental Economics
  • Managerial Forecasting
  • Seminar in Econometrics
  • Applied Regional Modeling
  • Public Economics*
  • Applied Policy Analysis*