ECON 4692 — Senior Economics Seminar

4 semester hoursUndergraduateSeminarNUpath CENUpath WIusually offered: fall, springtypical days: M/WBostonTraditional

Incorporates aspects of real-world and academic experiences of students into an analytical context, enabling students to demonstrate their ability to apply economic concepts, methodology, and data to economic issues and problems of personal and philosophical significance.

Prerequisites

all of:
- ECON 2315 (min D-)
- ECON 2316 (min D-)
- one of:
  - ECON 2350 (min D-)
  - BUSM 22EM
  - MATH 2280 (min D-)
  - MATH 3081 (min D-)
  - MGSC 2301 (min D-)
  - BUSM 224M
  - POLS 2400 (min D-)
  - PSYC 2320 (min D-)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Summer B 2023	1	14	19	74%	5.0
Fall 2023	4	75	76	99%	0.3
Spring 2024	3	56	57	98%	0.3
Fall 2024	2	36	39	92%	1.5
Spring 2025	4	79	80	99%	0.3
Summer A 2025	1	18	20	90%	2.0
Fall 2025	2	37	39	95%	1.0
Spring 2026	3	56	57	98%	0.3

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 60% · T 20% · W 56% · Th 47% · F 5%

Common patterns: MWR (41% of sections), T (15% of sections), M (13% of sections), W (10% of sections), R (5% of sections), MW (5% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Peter Simon (26% of students) · reviews
Ilter Bakkal (24% of students) · reviews
Madhavi Venkatesan (13% of students) · reviews
Michael Stone (13% of students) · reviews

Spring

Ilter Bakkal (50% of students) · reviews
Peter Simon (30% of students) · reviews
Michael Stone (10% of students) · reviews
Shuo Zhang (9% of students) · reviews

Summer A

Peter Simon (100% of students) · reviews

Summer B

Gustavo Vicentini (100% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (ECON course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All ECON courses · Plan it at numap.app