MINOR

What You’ll Study

As an Economics minor at Warren Wilson, you’ll gain analytical and quantitative skills that will get you ready to be an entrepreneur, a non-profit manager, or an executive. You’ll develop your skills in advocacy and policy formulation while thinking deeply, honing your communication skills, and getting hands-on experience to sharpen your resume.

You’ll develop strategic thinking with respect to market characteristics and public policy, and you’ll develop critical thinking on economic systems and their relationship to political and ecological realities.

Alumni Entrepreneurship

Many Warren Wilson alumni are entrepreneurs. Here are just a handful of the alumni connections between Warren Wilson and local Asheville business:

Astral(Philip Curry ’95)
Liberty Bicycles(Claudia ’69 and Mike Nix ’70)
Southern Raft Supply(Justyn Thompson ’97)
Second Gear(Eric Smythers ’02)
Hickory Nut Gap Farm(Amy ’00 and Jamie Ager ’00)
Bull and Beggar(Matthew Dawes ’98)
Roots and Fruits Market(Kyle Nuccilli ’14)
TableandTod’s Tasties(Jacob ’98 and Alicia Sessoms ’00)
Organic Mechanic(Charlie Wilson ’04)

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为什么我们要有最低工资?移民对美国工人有害吗?减税能促进增长吗?本课程是对令人兴奋的经济学领域的介绍。你将学习供求关系，战略互动的基础知识，以及消费者行为的理论。在这个过程中，您将探索经济学家使用的方法和工具的优点和局限性。

This course stresses how the human resource management function and its contemporary activities contribute to organizational effectiveness and the achievement of strategic organizational objectives. It is grounded in the assumption that traditional human resource management practices need to be reconsidered in light of the transformed employment relationship of the twenty-first century. You’ll delve into the material through experiential opportunities including role plays, simulation, exercises, and cases.

Today, most of the world’s population, and the world’s poor, reside in what is often called the developing world: geographic regions which exhibit, among many other characteristics, high incidences of poverty and inequality, low levels of public investment, and reliance on agriculture. In this course, you’ll learn about the primary issues of development economics and economic growth.

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Students at Garden Market — Sales and Marketing at Work

在每周的园艺市场工作提供了学习市场营销和销售的机会。

Volunteering at a food pantry — Non-Profit Understanding

Through your community engagement experience, you'll develop in-depth understanding of nonprofit business.

students smiling — Top Ten Career Services

Get on the road to your career.

Cuba — Broaden Your Experience

Spend a semester or year studying abroad and exploring the economies of other countries.

Economics

MINOR

What You’ll Study

Alumni Entrepreneurship

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Survey in Economics

The Art and Science of Managing People

Development Economics

Hands-on, All-in

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