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Programs · Barnard College · 2025-2026

Economics at Barnard College: what LionPlan checks

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Tell us your school, your major, and what you have taken. A course card then shows what a class satisfies (“Satisfies Probability / Statistics”) and what it unlocks (“Opens up 7 more courses”), plus the section time and instructor rating.

The groups below are the ones LionPlan actually checks for this program. They were transcribed from the 2025-2026 Bulletin. Confirm them with your school before you register.

  1. Introduction to Economic Reasoning

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC1003.

    ECON BC1003. 3 points.

  2. Mathematics

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: ECON BC1007, MATH UN1201.

    ECON BC1007 Math Methods for Economics, or MATH UN1201 Calculus III. Two things the table does not show: you will NOT receive credit for ECON BC1007 if you have already taken ECON BC3035 Intermediate Microeconomics — in that case the requirement must be met with MATH UN1201. And the department's prose allows MATH UN1101 Calculus I together with MATH UN1201 as a third route. Neither is checkable here: the first depends on the order you took two courses in, the second is already matched by MATH UN1201.

  3. Statistics

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: ECON BC2411, STAT UN1101, STAT UN1201, PSYC BC1101.

    ECON BC2411 Statistics for Economics, or STAT UN1101, or STAT UN1201, or PSYC BC1101 (Barnard's psychology statistics lecture and recitation, which the Economics department accepts).

  4. Econometrics

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC3018.

    ECON BC3018. Required on the Economics track and not on Political Economy.

  5. Intermediate theory

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC3033, ECON BC3035.

    ECON BC3033 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and ECON BC3035 Intermediate Microeconomics. Both. The department expects them finished by the beginning of junior year, because they are the prerequisite that makes an elective count as upper-level.

  6. Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC3041.

    ECON BC3041. Required on both tracks, and one of the clearest places the Barnard major differs from Columbia College's, which has no counterpart to it.

  7. Three economics electives

    N matching

    3 courses matching ECON courses, numbered 2000 to 4999, not counting courses already used for another group in this program.

    "Three electives in economics, two of which must be upper-level (that is, they must have intermediate micro- or macroeconomic theory as a prerequisite)." We count three ECON courses at the 2000 level or above and exclude the courses the requirements above and the senior requirement below already consume. We do NOT check the upper-level condition: it is defined by prerequisite, not by course number, and ECON BC numbering does not separate the two.

  8. Senior requirement

    One sequence

    One sequence: Senior Thesis I and II (ECON BC3061, ECON BC3062), or Senior Seminar (plus an additional upper-level elective) (ECON BC3063).

    One of two options. The thesis is a year-long sequence — ECON BC3061 in the fall and ECON BC3062 in the spring — and half of it satisfies nothing, which is why this is a sequence choice rather than a pick-one over three courses. Note that the Senior Seminar option carries a cost the rule cannot show: choosing ECON BC3063 also requires an ADDITIONAL upper-level economics elective beyond the three above, which is why the major is published as a minimum of 12 courses rather than exactly 12.

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