Programs

The department regularly offers courses in international economics, environmental and natural resource economics, labor and sports economics, public finance, economic development, and comparative economic systems. For those students who wish to focus on business, the department offers many elective business courses.

The department welcomes students from all majors and nearly all of the department’s elective courses are open to any student who has completed the introductory Principles of Economics (150 or 151 and 152) and Principles of Financial Accounting (160) courses.

The college's location, resources, and unique Block Plan allow the faculty to offer students truly extraordinary learning experiences.  Many of the department's courses incorporate experiential learning opportunities, including guest lecturers, executives-in-residence, and field trips. Field Trips range from one-day visits to Denver to visit with executives of high-tech telecommunications firms to extensive one-to two-week field trips throughout the Southwest.

A large percentage of students take advantage of opportunities to study at another college or university in the United States such as the Washington Semester program offered by the American University in Washington, DC or to study abroad at the London School of Economics or the Maastricht Program in the Netherlands. The college also maintains an exchange program with the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, one of the leading business schools in northern Europe, that provides Colorado College students with opportunities for in-depth study of entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, and other business fields. Students internationally minded can take advantage of the international affairs option.  In addition, the department and college have significant resources to support student research activities.

Business study at Colorado College

For those students who wish to focus on business, the department offers many elective business courses including Intermediate and Managerial Accounting, Legal Environment of Business, Theory of Business Finance, Investments, Entrepreneurship, Business and Society, and Business Policy and Strategy.

Perspectives on Business in a Changing World – an ongoing program of guest speakers, executives-in-residence, and special programs – richly complements the department’s business courses. Over the last several years, the Perspectives program has sponsored more than 40 business executives who have taught courses or given talks at Colorado College. Executives have included the CEOs of Experian Corporation and trip.com, an executive vice president of Bank of America, a senior vice president of Universal Studios, the manager of the Janus Twenty Fund. The Perspectives Program has also sponsored several major college-wide symposia, including Changing Gender Perspectives: Professional Women in the ‘90s, Reforming Entitlements: War between the Young and Old or Détente over the Decades, Symposium on Technology and E-Commerce, and Economics and the Environment.