In addition to Faculty of Graduate Studies requirements and Faculty of Arts requirements, the Department requires:

a) For students holding an Honours Economics degree with credits in Economics 387, 389, 395, 495, 497, 557, and 559 or their equivalents, the completion of 18 units of graduate-level Economics courses. Such students may be able to complete the degree in one year. In special cases the Department may allow students to substitute a maximum of 6 units from a related discipline for one of the elective graduate courses in Economics.

b) For students without an Honours Economics degree or students whose Honours degree in Economics does not include the undergraduate courses specified in (a) or their equivalents, the completion of such courses as are required to raise their competence to the appropriate level. Graduate course requirements for such students are the same as in (a). Such students may be able to complete the degree in two years.

c) The completion of course, course and course unless one or more of them is explicitly exempted by the graduate program director.

Students, with the approval of the graduate program director, may replace Economics 615, 657 and 659 with course/course, course/course and course/course respectively.

d) Successful completion and examination of the MA thesis (in accord with examination procedures of the Faculty of Graduate Studies).

Master of Arts (MA) Thesis-based in Economics

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