Economics Concentration Credit for Harvard Summer School 2012

If you are considering taking economics courses at Harvard Summer School in 2012, please check below. Ordinarily, only ONE approved summer school course (OR study abroad course) can be used towards meeting the economics concentration requirements.

IMPORTANT: Summer school course grades will NOT be factored into your economics gpa. This applies to summer school courses taken starting Summer of 09 and forward.

The following courses will count toward the economics concentration:

ECON S-10ab: Principles of Economics will count as Ec 10 (aka Social Analysis 10)
ECON S-10a: Principles of Economics: Microeconomics will count as the micro semester (fall semester) of Ec 10
ECON S-10b: Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics will count as the macro semester (spring semester) of Ec 10
ECON S-1010: Microeconomic Theory will count as Ec 1010a
ECON S-1012: Macroeconomic Theory will count as Ec 1010b
Note: The Economics Department can not comment on whether the above courses will meet the Gened EMR or USW requirements. Please consult the Gened Office
ECON S-1123: Introduction to Econometrics will count as Ec 1123

The following courses will also count as economics courses for the concentration. The prerequisite for these courses is, in all cases, ECON S-10ab. Therefore these courses can not be used to fulfill the "intermediate theory as prerequisite requirement." If you write a 15+ page economics research paper in any of the courses below, you can bring your graded paper into the advising office and have it evaluated for "writing requirement credit." You will need to consult the course syllabi and/or the faculty to find out if a paper will be required or accepted.

[ECON S-1050: Strategy, Conflict, and Cooperation]
[ECON S-1316: Economic Development in India and East Asia]
ECON S-1452: Money, Financial Institutions, and Markets
ECON S-1530: International Monetary Economics
ECON S-1913: Financial Strategy and Behavioral Finance, C. Bulent Aybar
ECON S-1920: Cpaital markets and Investments, James L. Grant
ECON S-1941: Derivatives and Risk Management: Analytics and Applications, C. Bulent Aybar
ECON S-1945: The Global Financial Crisis, James L. Grant and Richard T. Selden

Any (1) of the following courses from the Venice Summer Program may count for an elective credit in the concentration

ECON S-1749: Corporate Finance, Effraim Benmelech
ECON S-1753: Corporate Risk Management, Guido Mantovani (University Ca' Foscari, Venice)
ECON S-1936: Redeeming Keynes, Stephen Marglin

STAT S-100: Introduction to Quantitative Methods will fulfill the statistics requirement for the economics concentration.

IMPORTANT: All other economics courses offered at Harvard Summer School will not count for concentration credit, elective or otherwise.