Bachelor Economics
BACHELOR’S PROGRAM IN ECONOMICS (B.S.)
Please note: The information given on this page only concerns students of the bachelor's program in Economics (examination regulations 2015 or later).
Course overview
Detailed information on the courses can be found in the faculty’s current course schedules, the module catalogs, in the Digicampus and on the websites of the respective chairs.
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Program Structure
The bachelor's degree program in economics can essentially be divided into two sections. In the first section, students acquire basic methodological and subject knowledge in order to specialize in the second section. In both the first and second section, 90 credit points (ECTS) must be completed.
Section 1
The first section of the program, covering the first three semesters, consists of the module groups Economics, Business Administration, Methods and Fundamentals. In each of the module groups Economics, Business Administration and Principles, students must take four of the five offered topics. In the module group Methods, all six courses offered must be taken.
Section 2
The second section consists of the module groups Advanced Methods, the Major Economics, General Management & Economics as well as a term paper and the Bachelor’s thesis. In the module group Advanced Methods, three subjects must be taken, in the module groups Major Economics and General Management & Economics six subjects each must be taken.
Recommended course packages
For orientation purposes within the Major Economics and to facilitate the composition of a program of courses, you find below some suggestions for course-packages with related content. For more detailed information, please note the following information or feel free to get in touch with the contact persons of the chairs. However, the course packages below are provided for orientation purposes only and are by no means mandatory.
Economics Major
- Public Economics
- International Trade
- International Environmental Policy 1
- Macroeconomics III
- Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
- International Monetary Economics
Advanced Methods
- Methods in empirical social sciences
- Econometrics
- Game Theory
Alternative suggestions
- Financial Accounting III
- Operations Research
- Incentives & Contracts
- Introductory Health Economics
- Risk Management
- International Taxation
Economics Major
- Incentives & Contracts
- Public Economics
- Public Choice Theory
- Economics of Insurance
- Introductory Health Economics
- Behavioral Economics
Advanced Methods
- Methods in empirical social science
- Econometrics
- Game Theory
Alternative suggestions
- Financial Accounting III
- Operations Research
- Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
- Social Policy
- Risk Management
- International Taxation
Economics Major
- Introduction to Environmental Law for Economists
- Energy and Environmental Economics
- International Environmental Policy I
- Natural Resource Economics
- Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics
- Markets, nets, strategies
Advanced Methods
- Methods in empirical social sciences
- Econometrics
- Game Theory
Alternative suggestions
- Data Mining
- Operations Research
- Public Choice Theory
- Public Finance
- Risk Management
- Sustainable Operations
- Seminar on Environmental Economics
- Seminar on Environmental Policy
- Seminar on Resource Economics
Economics Major
- Incentives & Contracts
- Public Economics
- Public Choice Theory
- Introductory Health Economics
- International Monetary Economics
- Markets, nets, strategies
Advanced Methods
- Methods in empirical social sciences
- Econometrics
- Game Theory
Alternative suggestions
- Financial Accounting III
- Data Mining
- Economics of Insurance
- Risk Management
- Corporate Finance
- Financial intermediation and regulation
TERM PAPERS
Seminar Economics
The chairs of the Economics cluster offer a variety of seminars each winter and summer term. The information events of the respective chairs take place on different days in the first two weeks of lectures of each term. The current dates for the respective information events and the questionnaire for the seminar spot allocation can be found in Digicampus under Seminar: Economics.
| Seminar | Chair | |
| winter term | Seminar on Environmental and Climate Economics | Diekert |
| Seminar on Resource Economics | Michaelis | |
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Seminar on Empirical Economics Project Seminar on Industrial Economics and Information |
Nuscheler Welzel |
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| summer term | Seminar on Environmental and Climate Economics | Diekert |
| Seminar on Public Finance (Bachelor) | Heer | |
| Seminar on Environmental Economics | Michaelis | |
| Seminar on Introduction to Health Economics (Bachelor) | Nuscheler | |
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Seminar on Behavioral Economics |
Roeder | |
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Project Seminar on Industrial Economics and Information |
Welzel |
Allocation of seminar spots
The spots for the seminars of the module group Seminar: Economics are allocated centrally via Digicampus. The allocation is based on your preferences for the topics and the chairs’ available supervision capacities. In order to apply for a seminar spot, register in Digicampus for the course Seminar: Economics and enter your three preferences in the questionnaire. You can find the questionnaire under the Short Info tab. After the registration deadline, you will be informed by the supervising chair which seminar you have been assigned to. Please note: only inscribing in Digicampus for the course Seminar: Economics is not sufficient to apply for a seminar spot.
Assignment of topics
Once we have assigned you to a seminar, please register in Digicampus in the appropriate course. There you will find the information from the chair's information event - e.g. important dates such as the processing time - as well as information about the concrete schedule of the seminar.
WHO CAN HELP ME
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