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Bachelor of Mathematics and Economics

To qualify for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Mathematics and Economics a candidate shall satisfactorily complete at least 192 credit points of prescribed subjects, together with the requirements prescribed for this program.

Recommended Programs
The following programs of study are recommended to satisfy the requirements in minimum time. The subjects listed in the Recommended Programs are compulsory.

Year 1
ACCY100 Accounting IA
6
ECON101 Macroeconomic Essentials for Business
6
ECON111 Introductory Microeconomics
6
MATH111 Applied Mathematical Modelling 1
6
MATH187 Mathematics 1A Part 1
6
MATH188 Mathematics 1A Part 2
6
STAT131 Understanding Variation and Uncertainty
6
Plus either
BUSS111 Business Programming I
6
or
CSCI111 Computer Science 1A
6


Year 2
ECON205 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
8
ECON215 Microeconomic Theory and Policy
8
MATH201 Multivariate and Vector Calculus
6
MATH202 Differential Equations 2
6
MATH203 Linear Algebra
6
Plus at least 12 credit points of 200-level MATH and/or STAT subjects from the List of Electives, plus one 6 or 8 credit point ACCY or ECON subject from the list of electives.

Note: Statistics sub-majors are recommended to take STAT231, STAT232 and STAT332.

Year 3
ECON221 Econometrics
8
ECON322 Mathematical Economics
8
MATH302 Differential Equations 3
6
MATH317 Financial Calculus and Logistics
6
Plus either one 8 credit point 300-level ECON subject from the List of Electives or STAT232, plus choice of one 6 credit point 300-level MATH or STAT subject from list of electives, plus a further 6 or 8 credit point ACCY, BUSS or ECON subject from the list of electives.

Year 4 (Non Honours Strand)

ECON327 Advanced Econometrics
6
MGMT308 Introduction to Management for Professionals A
6

Plus either 16 credit points of 300-level ECON subjects from the List of Electives, or 8 credit points of 300-level ECON subjects from the List of Electives and STAT232.

Plus at least 24 credit points of 300- and/or 400-level INFO and/or MATH and/or STAT subjects from the List of Electives.

Year 4 (Honours Strand - Entry to this program is restricted to candidates who satisfy the pre-requisite to INFO402)

ECON327 Advanced Econometrics
8
MATH471 Honours Topics in Mathematics A (see Note 1)
6
MATH472 Honours Topics in Mathematics B (see Note 1)
6
INFO402 Mathematics and Economics Honours Project (see Note 2)
6
MGMT308 Introduction to Management for Professionals A
6

Plus at least 8 credit points of 300 ECON subjects from the List of Electives.

Plus at least 6 credit points of 300-or 400-level INFO and/or MATH and/or ECON and/or STAT subjects from the List of Electives.

Note 1: Enrolment in this subject is restricted to those candidates who have a WAM greater than or equal to 67.5 on satisfactory completion of 144 credit points of the course, or permission of the Head of the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics.
Note 2: Enrolment in this subject is restricted to those candidates who have a WAM greater than or equal to 67.5 on satisfactory completion of 144 credit points of the course, or permission of Course Coordinator.

LIST OF ELECTIVES

ACCY102 Accounting 1B
6
ACCY241 International Finance
6
BUSS110 Introduction to Business Information Systems
6
BUSS201 User- Centred Business Programming
6
BUSS211 Systems Analysis and Design
6
ECON207 Economic Policy
8
ECON301 Monetary Economics
8
ECON309 Environmental Economics
8
ECON310 Cost Benefit Analysis
8
ECON322 Mathematical Economics B
8
ECON331 Financial Economics
8
INFO411 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
6
INFO412 Mathematics for Cryptography
6
MATH204 Complex Variable and Group Theory
6
MATH212 Applied Mathematical Modelling 2
6
MATH222 Continuous and Discrete Mathematics
6
MATH305 Partial Differential Equations
6
MATH321 Numerical Analysis
6
MATH322 Algebra
6
MATH323 Topology and Chaos
6
MATH324 Analysis
6
MATH371 Special Topics in Industrial and Applied Mathematics 3
6
MATH372 Special Topics in Mathematical Analysis 3
6
MATH473 Honours Topics in Mathematics C
6
MATH474 Honours Topics in Mathematics D
6
STAT231 Probability and Random Variables
6
STAT232 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
6
STAT304 Operation Research and Applied Probability
6
STAT332 Multiple Regression and Time Series
6
STAT333 Statistical Inference and Multivariate Analysis
6
STAT335 Sample Surveys and Experimental Design
6
STAT373 Special Topics in Probability and Statistics 3
6
STAT471 Honours Topics in Statistics A
6
STAT472 Honours Topics in Statistics B
6