Economic and Financial Analysis

Economic and Financial Analysis

Issued by Farmingdale State College

Earners of this microcredential will demonstrate a mastery of the concepts and tools necessary to conduct economic and financial analysis using cutting-edge tools. This microcredential provides skills in using R statistical programming language with an emphasis on using this powerful system to deal with economic and business data. Students will learn to import data, clean and transform raw data, visualize data, run simple models and apply these tools to conduct their own projects.

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Prerequisites include MTH 110, MTH 117 or MTH 129, and ECO 156 or ECO 157. Some of the elective classes have additional prerequisites that economics students will complete. For students in other majors or non-matriculated students seeking the microcredential but not a larger degree, prerequisites can be waived on a case-by-case basis.
  • Particpants complete a three course sequence: R for Economics: ECO365; Econometrics: ECO 380; One Elective ECO course. Please see list of approved courses at the following link. All courses must be completed with a grade of C or better.