Department DescriptionThe Department of Economics is committed to promoting excellence in broad-based undergraduate programs, graduate and interdisciplinary doctoral education, research and community, university and professional service. The department focuses its research, teaching and service efforts on the urban mission of the University by fostering a diversity of research and teaching perspectives for faculty and students.The department offers an undergraduate major that can be completed either through day or evening classes and is a major participant in PACE (Program for Adult College Education). The department offers an M.A. degree, an M.A. applied degree in economics and is a coordinating discipline in the doctoral interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. Most graduate courses are offered after 4 p.m. The department houses a number of complementary academic centers and programs:
The Center is involved in research, teaching and outreach activities. The primary expertise of the center is in application of Information Technology for economic analysis.
This national policy center produces original research and sponsors national and international workshops on the use of full employment policies to achieve both economic growth and price stability. The Center funds doctoral assistantships in the department and provides financial support to faculty members participating in C-FEPS research at UMKC and other universities, such as Harvard University, New School University, University of Ottawa and others. The Center continues to add prominent faculty to its research staff. C-FEPS fully participates in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program and provides interdisciplinary research links among the faculty and students at the economics department, other social science departments at UMKC, as well as among an international community of scholars concerned with the issues of full employment and price stability. In an effort to incorporate research into policy, the Center sponsors interdisciplinary, non-partisan research, collaborates with universities, organizes symposia, conferences and lectures, and participates in community programs.
Hospitality Studies ConcentrationThe Hospitality Studies Concentration is housed admistratively within the department. It provides students with the fundamentals of hospitality administration within a liberal arts program, drawing on the social science discipline. See the Hospitality Studies section of this catalog for more information.
Missouri Council for Economic EducationThe department houses the Missouri Council for Economic Education. MCEE is the statewide provider of economic education training for elementary and secondary education.
Social Science ConsortiumThe department is the administrative home of the Social Science Consortium. The SSC is a co-discipline for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program. The SSC faculty is drawn from the departments of economics, political science and sociology.
Our StudentsThe department provides undergraduate and graduate service courses to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Bloch School and the School of Computing and Engineering. Undergraduate and graduate majors participate in a variety of visiting lecture programs and faculty colloquia through the Economics Club, Omicron Delta Epsilon (the economics honorary society), the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Social Science Consortium. Students publish their own academic journal. Enrollment is international, with current and former students representing more than 25 countries.
Faculty and FacilitiesFaculty members of the department maintain active, extensive research programs and a strong commitment to teaching -- holding four outstanding teaching awards. Faculty members have served as presidents for national and regional economic associations and lectured and conducted research in the Fulbright Program, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Labor. Faculty members have established national reputations in a number of research fields. For a small faculty, the department has ranked high among other economics departments at comparable institutions nationally.Current regular faculty membership consists of six professors, two associate professors, one assistant professor and four lecturers. The faculty are cooperative and highly interactive with students, resulting in several team-taught PACE block classes, other team-taught classes and collaborative research. The department offers graduate assistantships, augmented with additional funding through the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Social Science Consortium. The Department of Economics and the Center for Economic Information are housed in Haag Hall. The Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, faculty and other department programs are housed in Manheim Hall. Students have access to state-of-the-art computer labs and classrooms.
InformationYou may request information about economics programs by calling the department's main number, (816) 235-1314, visiting the Web site, http://cas.umkc.edu/econ, or e-mail economics@umkc.edu.For specific information on degree programs, contact Michael Forstater, Undergraduate Adviser (forstaterm@umkc.edu or (816) 235-5862) or Frederic Lee, Graduate Admissions Adviser (leefs@umkc.edu or (816) 235-2543).
Department GoalsAs part of its urban mission, the department continues to expand its research, grants and service performance through the Center for Economic Information, the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and the Institute for Labor Studies.The immediate goals of the department are to:
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