Career Path at Duke

Graduation Requirements

Required: 34 Course Credits (Limitations and Restrictions)
- 24 of the 34 credits must be Duke-originated credits, as defined above.
- 10 of the 34 credits may be non-Duke-originated credits. as defined above.
General Education Requirements
- Areas of Knowledge To graduate you must successfully complete 2.0 course credits in each of five Areas of Knowledge (ALP, CZ, NS, QS, SS).
- Modes of Inquiry To graduate you must successfully complete 2.0 course credits in 5 Modes of Inquiry (CCI, STS, EI, R, W) and one to three courses in a sixth Mode of Inquiry (Foreign Language).
- Small Group Learning Experiences (SGLE) After your first year, you must complete two SGLEs. Seminars, tutorials, thesis courses, and independent study courses are considered SGLEs.
First Year Requirements
- First-year writing You must successfully complete Writing 101 in your first year of enrollment.
- First-year seminar You must successfully complete a 1.0 credit seminar in your first year of enrollment. Most seminars have an "S" following the course number; however, a few lack the S but are designed a seminar on the course details page on DukeHub. There are a wide range of available seminars, including seminars in the Focus program (if you are a Focus participant), 89S seminars which are only open to first-year students, 80S seminars which are lower-level seminars, and then seminars open to all students at the 100, 200 and 300 level.

Non-Duke-originated-credit
Two prematriculation credits, i.e., AP, International Placement Credit (IPC), and Prematriculation Course Credit (PMC). If you have more than two AP/IPC/PMC credits, Duke will record all of them on your Duke transcript and you may use all for placement into higher-level coursework and to satisfy departmental major or minor requirements to the extent allowed by the individual department, but only two will count toward the 34 credits needed for graduation. If you intend to graduate early, you may apply additional AP/IPC/PMC credits toward the 34 credits required for graduation, but you are still subject to the required number of Duke-originated courses taken post-matriculation.

Focus Program

Modeling in Economic and Social Sciences

When is it the right time to bluff in poker and diplomacy? Why do stock markets crash? How should the delivery of global healthcare be managed? And why do people have the values and beliefs that they do? All of these phenomena depend on models for the way that humans make decisions. This cluster, with faculty from economics, anthropology, sociology, and statistics, will teach students how to build and test models in the social sciences.

As part of their applied courses, students will be asked to work in small groups and complete an original research project. Students will have access to computer labs and other pertinent research facilities. The goal is to insure that students in this cluster achieve the technical toolkit and analytic perspective that will enable success at Duke and in life.

Statistics 110FS — An Introduction to Statistical Modeling (QS)
Political Science 189FS: Machine Learning and Legislative Behavior (R)
Psychology 190FS — Addiction: Brain, Individual and Society (SS)
Economics 190FS: Thinking Through Models (SS, STS)

Majors and Minors

Trinity School of Arts and Sciences students must declare a major by the end of their fourth semester at Duke, following the declaration guidelines established by the Academic Advising Center.

B.S. in Economics, Finance Concentration

Math Requirement: THREE courses
- MATH 111L Laboratory Calculus I OR MATH 105L Laboratory Calculus and Functions I AND MATH 106L Laboratory Calculus Functions II
- MATH 122 Introductory Calculus II OR MATH 112L Laboratory Calculus II OR MATH 122L Introductory Calculus II with Applications
- MATH 202 Multivariable Calculus for Economics or MATH 212 Multivariable Calculus OR MATH 222 Advanced Multivariable Calculus OR any higher-level math course with MATH 212 as prerequisite.
Statistics Requirement:
Core Economics Courses: SEVEN courses
- ECON 101D* Economics Principles
- ECON 104D Statistical Foundations of Econometrics and Data Science
- ECON 204D Econometrics Data Science (must be taken before senior year)
- ECON 201D Intermediate Microeconomics I
- ECON 205D** Intermediate Microeconomics II
- ECON 210D Intermediate Macroeconomics
- ECON 372 Asset Pricing and Risk Management
Finance Concentration Electives: THREE courses selected
Upper-level General Economics Electives: TWO courses selected
- ONE course at ECON 300-level or higher
- ONE course at ECON 400-level or higher

Minor in Statistical Science

Minor in Computer Science

Prerequisites : One of the following introductory COMPSCI courses or equivalent:
- COMPSCI 101L (Introduction to Computer Science)
- COMPSCI 102 (Interdisciplinary Introduction to Computer Science)
- COMPSCI 116 (Foundations of Data Science)
Requirements :
- COMPSCI 201 (Data Structures and Algorithms)
- COMPSCI 250 (Computer Architecture)
- Three additional COMPSCI courses, at least two of which must be at the 200-level or above. One COMPSCI course taken to fulfill the prerequisite can be counted towards the three.

Note: all COMPSCI courses at 200-level or above can be counted; EGR 103 is not a COMPSCI course and does not count towards the five courses.