Computational tools and algorithms used in macroeconomics and financial economics including applications to unemployment, inequality, asset pricing, and economic growth. Prerequisite: One of ECON 301, ECON 304, ECON 315 and one of ECON 323, CPSC 103, CPSC 107, CPSC 110, CPSC 301, MATH 210, COMM 337, PHYS 210, EOSC 211, APSC 160 and one of MATH 152, MATH 221, MATH 223.

Economic analysis applied to various environmental issues, including sustainable development, quality of life, and environmental impacts of specific industrial and consumption activities. The design and implementation of government policies. Global environmental effects of human economic activity. Credit will be granted for only one of COEC 475, COMM 487, or ECON 371. Prerequisite: One of ECON 101, ECON 310.

The determinants of trade patterns, trade policy, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, political economy of protectionism, bilateral and multilateral trade disputes, trade liberalization, trade and development. Prerequisite: One of ECON 101, ECON 310 and one of ECON 102, ECON 311.

Financial markets and financial institutions in theory and practice; structure and development of the Canadian financial system; development and theory of the regulation of the financial system; process of monetary control; theory and history of central banking and monetary policy. Prerequisite: One of ECON 101, ECON 310 and one of ECON 102, ECON 311.

The development of economic thought from Aristotle to Adam Smith, focusing on the conceptual foundations of economics, particularly the problems of value, distribution, and economic growth. Credit will be granted for only one of ECON_V 318 or PHIL_V 362 Prerequisite: One of ECON_V 101, ECON_V 310 and one of ECON_V 102, ECON_V 311. Equivalency: PHIL_V 362.