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Welcome to the Department of Economics. Faculty and staff are back on campus for Fall 2021 and can be contacted by email or telephone. Arrangements for office hours and meetings can be made by contacting your course instructor directly. Please see our Faculty Listing for more information. Staff continue to provide academic advising. Please see our Contact Page for more information.

At Trent you will study the impact that individuals, businesses, financial institutions, and governments have on the economy. Through your studies, you will gain an understanding of the methods and tools required to analyze complex economic issues, such as unemployment, inflation, economic growth and the regulation of the market structure. You will use national and international data to explore trends and tendencies and to test economic models.


 

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Gain experience through participation in faculty research during your undergraduate degree.

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Benefit from small-group classes, seminars and workshops. Undertake individual research projects using economic modeling tools

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Trent University is renowned for the innovative and ground-breaking research being conducted by faculty and students, on our campuses and around the world. 

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