Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Honours)

University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus

Study how people, institutions and nations create and manage scarce resources, make choices by comparing costs and benefits, and act purposefully on those choices. Economics is a social science concerned with choice and trade-offs among competing alternatives given scarce resources. Economics also studies how people interact with each other, how their behaviour reflects the incentives they face, and how they change their behaviour in response to different incentives. Economics has such pervasive influence in our lives that the modern age is often referred to as ‘the age of the economist’.The Honours program in Economics enables high-achieving B.A. Major students in Economics to gain research experience through the completion of a directed-studies project (ECON_O 499 Honours Essay) under the supervision of a faculty member. Students intending to pursue graduate studies in economics are advised to consider taking the Honours program since it better equips them to be successful in addition, most of the high-quality programs in Economics expect potential graduate students to have completed an Honours degree.

Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences