Division
of Social Studies
Website: http://economics.bard.edu
Updated
May 5, 2022
Advising Faculty
1. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou(director)
2. Sanjaya DeSilva
3. Kris Feder
4.
Aniruddha Mitra
5.
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
6.
Randall Wray
The Bard Program in Economics and Finance is a five-year
B.S./B.A. dual-degree program. Students receive both a
B.S. degree in Economics and Finance and a B.A. degree in a field other than
economics. The program is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to
achieve a broad education in the liberal arts and sciences even as they prepare
themselves for careers in the financial world.
The B.A./B.S. program requires 160 credits; the
student must fulfill all general educational requirements of the Colleges B.A.
academic program. Students must moderate
in the selected B.A. program followed by a moderation in the Economics and
Finance program. Moderation requirements
for Economics and Finance include those listed under the Economics program.
The B.S. degree will not be awarded unless the student also receives the B.A.
degree. However, a student may elect to step out of the program at the junior
year, continuing in the B.A. program. Hence, the dual-degree program is
structured to allow all requirements for the B.A. to be met within four
years.
Candidates for the dual degree must complete 56 credits in economics and
finance, comprising the core courses of the program:
1. ECON 100 Principles of Economics
2. ECON 105 Foundations of Finance and
Investments
3. ECON 200 Money and Banking
4. ECON 201 Intermediate Microeconomics
5. ECON
205 Mathematical Economics
6. FIN 190 Accounting
7. ECON 317 Industrial Organization
8. ECON 229 Introduction to Econometrics
9. Seminar in International Economics
10. ECON
329 Advanced Econometrics
11. ECON
390 Contemporary Developments of Finance
12. FIN
391 Corporate Finance
13. Senior
Project I
14. Senior
Project II
A practicum in portfolio investing or a financial planning
model is part of the Senior Project.
Sample Program of Study
First
Year |
Sophomore
Year |
Junior
Year |
Senior
Year |
Year
Five |
ANTH 101 ECON 100 ECON 105 FYSEM I (fall) FYSEM II (spring) elective elective elective |
ANTH 200-level
course ANTH elective ECON 200 ECON 201 elective elective elective elective BA Moderation (spring) |
ANTH 350 ANTH 300-level
course ECON 205 FIN 190 elective elective elective elective BS Moderation (spring) |
ANTH Sr. Project I ANTH Sr. Project II ANTH 300-level
course ECON 317 ECON 229 elective elective elective |
FIN Sr. Project I FIN Sr. Project II Seminar in Intl
Economics ECON 329 ECON 390 FIN 391 elective elective |