International Economics and Modern Languages, B.A.

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The B.A. IEML program has a qualitative and international focus. In the major section of the program students take International Economics, International Trade and International Finance. Students will take multiple language courses in either Spanish, French, German or Chinese Culture and Society.

The curriculum includes:

• 42 hours of undergraduate core courses (Areas A – E)
• 18 hours of courses appropriate to the major (Area F)
• 24 hours of major common course curriculum (Area G)
• 24 hours of modern languages common core (Area H)
• 12 hours of declared minor courses (Area I)
• Total of 120 credit hours

View a detailed list of curriculum requirements.

The Department is ranked first in Georgia, ninth among 33 Southeastern programs, and 50th in the U.S., according to a recent issue of the Southern Economic Journal, with considerably higher national rankings in the subfields our faculty selected as primary areas of concentration, including: eighth in Urban, Rural and Regional Economics; 11th in Public Economics; 20th in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; and 23rd in Labor and Demographic Economics. The department also got high marks in general Economics and teaching (14th), methodology and History of Economic Thought (16th).