BSS (Hons) in Economics

This course introduces students to real life economic phenomena and the ways of dealing with them that they will encounter in their everyday life.

This course lays the foundation of students’ understanding of Mathematical Economics as it incorporates all the basic concepts and tools that they will use to express various economic phenomena.

This course introduces students with the basic and fundamental concepts and tools of descriptive statistics that they will use latter address various economic issues.

Computer Skill – 1 is one of the basic courses of Computer Science which elucidates the computer fundamentals.

The aim of this course is to help the learners to improve their reading, writing, listening and speaking skill.

By emphasizing the use of scientific evidence to investigate, quantify and interpret phenomenon that occur in the social world, sociology reinforces the primary principles of scientific inquiry and relies on observation, logic, data, analysis, and presents opportunities to develop skills and tools that are useful in the acquisition of knowledge.

After successful completion of the course students are expected to be able to a. Formally represent economic relationships using mathematical forms b. Construct economics models using matrix algebra and calculus and interpret the results of economics models. c. Formulate optimization problems in microeconomics and macroeconomics.

To provide the students with an introduction to the basic macroeconomic principles; to enable students to appreciate the workings of real and money markets and the nature of equilibrium in each market; to emphasize the role of macroeconomic policies that affect internal and external deficits, inflation and growth of per capita income. Throughout the course a focus will be on ‘critical thinking’ to analyze macroeconomic problems.

This course offers the students a deeper insight into the problem of statistical inference and teaches how to apply statistics to solve real life problems. It also lays the foundation for studying Econometrics.

Computer Skill-II is a basic course on computer science. The objective of this course is to learn the fundamental and elementary concepts of computer science.

The object of this course is to give students a general overview of concepts, techniques and analytical tools in microeconomics. In particular, the course is concerned with the analysis of the choices consumers and producers make, and the interaction of these choices. We will analyses the nature of equilibrium in competitive, monopolistic and oligopolistic markets. We will also discuss game theory (study of strategic decision-making) and some of its applications to economics.

Students will be able to a. Identify the determinants of various macroeconomic aggregates such as output, unemployment, inflation, productivity and the major challenges associated with the measurement of these aggregates. b. Describe the main macroeconomic theories of short-term fluctuations and long-term growth in the economy. c. Critically evaluate the consequences of basic macroeconomic policy options under differing economic conditions within a business cycle.

The course will acquaint the students with the broad economic features of Bangladesh. This knowledge will help them to visualize economic theories and policies in the context of real-life situations.

: Modern mainstream Economics asserts that Capitalism is an eternal socio economic system. Alternative doctrines however prevail, which explain how societies change historically in form and content, and identify some of those societies. A student of economics should be familiar with these doctrines and the present course satisfies that need.

This course introduces students with the basic tools of international trade and demonstrates why and how trade takes place among countries in the world to form a trade network.

This course offers students an opportunity to advance their knowledge of Microeconomics that they acquired previously by incorporating topics that help students to understand various public and private issues and enable them to formulate effective economic policies.

This course takes students’ knowledge in Macroeconomics a step further as it incorporates topics that facilitates the understanding of an economy in more aggregate level. It teaches topics that are more related to economic policy making.

This course introduces and examines key concepts and approaches in economic geography and their contribution to the understanding of the contemporary globalizing world. It highlights the importance of economic geography in the contemporary world, relates economic geography approaches to key social and economic issues in the context of economic globalization and introduces major policy dilemmas

Agriculture in the developing and under developed countries are experiencing rapid transition. Students of economics need to be acquainted with the nature, pace and impediments to progressive changes in agriculture and rural livelihood in these countries.

This course offers students a platform to testify the ideas and theories of Economics. It also explains how economic theories are used to real life economic phenomena.

This course offers students an opportunity to understand the role of the public sector as it addresses various aspects and tools of public finance.

The aim of this course is to help the learners to improve their grammatical forms, reading, and writing, listening and speaking skill.

This undergraduate course, will deal with a wide range of issues relevant to less developed countries. The idea is to introduce students to a relatively large number of interesting facts of development economics. In the beginning, the course gives an overview of the concepts and measurement of development of countries. Then it turns to special topics in development economics as poverty, population, agriculture, education and health.

This course covers the statistical tools needed to understand empirical economic research and to plan and execute independent research projects.

This course is an introduction to the field of health economics. Health economics is an active field of microeconomics with a large and growing literature. The emphasis will be on key economic concepts that health economists use to analyze health and healthcare markets.

This course is designed for undergraduate Economics students who eventually face complex and dynamic business environment and have to take decisions that are related the financial well-being of both local and international business. This course is a blender of Finance, Accounting and Business. Although the students are not business majors, but a basic understanding of financial management, managerial accounting, and global business environment is essential for the students who will be working in the area trade and industry after completion of their graduation program.

This course offers deep insights into the aspects of urbanization as it addresses the issues like choice of industry location, housing facilities and issues related to urban welfare

This course provides a discussion of the economics of the labor market. The course begins with an overview of the trends and institutional features that characterize the labor market. At the end of the course, students should be able to use the tools learned in this course to understand, analyze, and predict some of labour market outcomes and examine the different ways social policy can affect the interaction between workers and firms.

This course draws students’ attention to the issues of normative economics and critically discusses various aspects of the welfare of the society

The course provides students with a basic understanding of the functioning of imperfectly competitive markets, which they will find useful in subsequent employment, graduate courses or research.

This course takes students’ knowledge a step forward and teaches them how to deal with multivariate regression models and how to cope with the problems arising from relaxing the assumptions of classical linear regression models.

East Asian Development phenomena have aroused both inquisitiveness and debate in academic as well as policy frontiers of economists and political scientists. Students having exposure in Development Economics are supposed to be benefited from studying development strategies and policies of the countries of the region.

Describe the system of accounting standards and principles. Prepare a balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in equity, and a statement of cash flows using both the indirect and direct method. Evaluate a company's financial performance, using a comprehensive set of financial tools.

Environmental challenges happen to be the most dominant issue in the development discourses of the contemporary world. Students of Economics and Development policy should have an exposure to the Economic, philosophical and technical aspects of the problem.

This course takes students’ understanding of international trade a step forward as it deals with ideas and issues of a more realistic complex world of international trade network.

After being familiar with economic concepts, tools and theories a student is ready to go deep into the philosophical roots of these theories, their genesis and logic of their development.

After successful completion of the course students are expected to be able to a. Evaluate the equilibrium in the bond market and know the factors that have significant influence on equilibrium interest rates. b. Examine the tools of monetary policy and also understand the markets for reserves and the Federal Fund rates. c. Explain the Foreign Exchange Market and the foreign exchange regimes in the International Financial System.

Bangladesh is now passing through a phase of “demographic dividence’ which needs to be diligently addressed in order to extract the maximum out of it. Population economics and demography can achieve the goal.

This course provides a discussion of the economics of the public sector and private sector. The course begins with an overview of the Public Sector Enterprise. Then the course switch to private sector at the end of the course, students should be able to use the tools learned in this course to understand, analyze, and predict the different ways social policy can affect the economy. Students can explain the importance of public sector and private sector.

This course will introduce students to some of the main concepts, theories and perspectives that inform policy making and analysis in the field of development economics.

This course offers students an opportunity to integrate the basic concepts of economics with the tools of mathematics and statistics in order to analyze and make optimal business decisions.

This course introduces infrastructure and finance, the sectors supplying oxygen to the production sectors. It also gives exposure to such social question as poverty, inequality, Human Resource Development etc. This may be viewed as the logical next step in the study of Bangladesh Economy, after the students get acquainted with macroeconomics and some development issues.

This course provides students a systematic and comprehensive understanding of the key concepts in transport economics and the graphical and numerical analytical techniques used by transport economists.