Degree Structures

The B.Soc.Sc. in Economics is offered by the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Students are required to complete 132 credits in four years. Courses comprise:

  • Economics Major Courses (60 credits, 45.5%)
  • Languages and Skills (0-15 credits, 0 –11.4%)
  • Community and Peer Education (3 credits, 2.3%)
  • General Education Courses (27 credits, 20.4%)
  • Free Electives (27-42 credits, 20.4% – 31.8%)

Remark: Out of the 24 credits for @ Required Elective: Economics Courses (RE), a student is required to take at least 5courses (or at least 15 credits) from the list of economics required electives. For the rest 3 courses (9 credits), students may choose from the list of economics required electives or the list of no-pre-requisite or internship required electives.   

A student is required to take at least 5 courses (or at least 15 credits) from the following 25  economics required electives:
List of Economics Required Electives 

ECON3000 Managerial Economics

ECON3001 Money and Banking

ECON3016 History of Economic Thought

ECON3006 International Trade

ECON3007 International Monetary Economics

ECON3010 Development Economics I

ECON3011 Development Economics II

ECON3013 Urban Economics

ECON3012 Institutional Economics

ECON3019 Applied Economics

ECON3004 Mathematics for Economics

ECON3003 Econometrics II

ECON3005 Forecasting Methods

ECON4000 Advanced Microeconomics

ECON4004 Advanced Macroeconomics

ECON4003 Welfare Economics

ECON4005 Public Economics

ECON4006 Labour Economics

ECON4007 Industrial Economics

ECON4012 Selected Topics in Economics

ECON4013 Social Sciences Research Project II

ECON4008 Law and Economics

ECON4014 Financial Economics

ECON4001 Game Theory

ECON4002 Economics of Information
A student can take at most 3 courses (or at most 9 credits) from the following 9 no-prerequisite or internship required electives:
List of No-pre-requisite or Internship Required Electives

ECOB371 Western Economic History (no-prerequisite)

ECOB372 Chinese Social and Economic History (no-prerequisite)

ECOB332 International Economic Law (no-prerequisite)

ECOB460 The Modern Macao Economy (no-prerequisite)

ECOB461 The Chinese Economy (no-prerequisite)

ECOB361 Economy of Hong Kong, Macao and the Pearl River Delta (no-prerequisite)

ECOB362 European Economies (no-prerequisite)

ECOB462 Economies of the Asia-Pacific Region (no-prerequisite)

ECOB333 Internship