International Area Studies

Pre-Major

Major

Pre-Major Requirements

You must complete all pre-major requirements with a minimum 3.0 grade point average and a "C" or better in each course. You are allowed a maximum of one course repeat in the pre-major and you can repeat that one course one time only. Your application will be accepted if you have completed between 72 and 137 units. (AP units will not be included if they bring your total over 137.)

If you are a transfer student, your grades in pre-major courses taken prior to entering UCLA will be calculated into your pre-major GPA (each course will be calculated as four quarter units). Applications to enter the major are accepted year-round.

All courses for both the pre-major and the major must be taken for a letter grade.

*Economics 102 should be taken soon after Economics 101 (Economics 11, 101, and 102 must be taken in sequence).

You must be in good standing at UCLA at the time you apply in order to be considered for admission. This means that you cannot be on Probation or Subject to Dismissal status.

You are permitted to enroll in upper division Economics courses prior to being admitted to the major (except for courses restricted to Business-Economics majors: Economics 106's) as long as you have fulfilled the prerequisites for the courses. Please review the most recent version of the UCLA catalog each time you register for courses to ensure that you have fulfilled the prerequisites required for the courses. Most upper division Economics courses require completion of at least Economics 11 and many also require completion of Economics 101 and/or 102. Prerequisites will be enforced by URSA and no exceptions will be granted.

Please note that you are subject to any requirement changes in both the pre-major and the major until you are officially admitted to the major. You are not "protected" for the major requirements under the catalog in which you were admitted to UCLA. This "protection" applies only to General Education and other University and College requirements (such as English Composition and Quantitative Reasoning).

Major Requirements

You must complete the courses in the major with a minimum 2.0 grade point average and a minimum grade of "C-" in each course.

Students majoring in Economics/International Area Studies are permitted to substitute two upper division Management courses for two upper division Economics electives. You may select from Management 120A, 120B, 130A, and 130B.

Economics 100, Economics 110, and Economics 120 are upper division courses which are offered by the Department of Economics but do not fulfill the requirements for any of the three Economics majors. (Note: This is an example of why it is so important for you to review the UCLA catalog when you select your courses.)

Students majoring in Economics/International Area Studies are required to demonstrate foreign language proficiency (related to your declared concentration) through UCLA’s Level 6. You are eligible to apply for the major if you can show proficiency through Level 3. You may show Level 6 proficiency in one of several ways: Complete six quarters of a foreign language with a minimum grade of "C" or better in each course, take a UCLA foreign language placement exam (whether first year or second year) and place at a certain level. You will be exempt from taking the courses you placed out of, but you must complete any levels for which you did not show proficiency; take an intermediate foreign language placement test and pass out of Level 6. The foreign language you use to fulfill the major requirement must (1) relate to your concentration and (2) must be a language taught here at UCLA. Note: The rules regarding satisfaction of the foreign language requirement for the major are complicated. Please speak with a counselor in 2263 Bunche Hall if you have any further questions.

The Social Science electives for Economics/International Area Studies must be upper division and must relate to your declared concentration. You may select these courses from the pre-approved list or else obtain pre-approval for courses which are not on the pre-approved list (these courses must be in the Social Sciences (non-economics based), and must address issues in the your area of geographical concentration). When time permits, an approved list is sent out over Econ-Alert each quarter.

Fields of Economics: Each number series is a different field. Examples: all of the courses in the 140 series (such as Economics 141A, 141B, 143, 147A, 147B...) are one field; all the courses in the 170 series (Economics 170, 171, 172) are another field (refer to the UCLA catalog for specific field topics). So, if, for example, you take Econ. 107 and 143, those courses are from two different number series and so the remaining courses can be from the same number series. In other words, three of the four Economics electives can be from the same field, as long as two are from two different fields.