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Tisha L. N. Emerson; KimMarie McGoldrick; Scott P. Simkins – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
This article's authors use student transcript data to identify differences in the study of economics among Black students at HBCUs and PWIs. The data show that a higher fraction of Black students at HBCUs initially intend to study economics, relative to those at PWIs (4.0% vs. 1.3% of micro principles enrollees) and persist in the major (9.4% vs.…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Black Colleges, Predominantly White Institutions, African American Students
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Wade, Bruce H.; Stone, Jack H. – Journal of Economic Education, 2010
The authors describe an interdisciplinary course team-taught by an economist and a sociologist. Historically mindful of the less than amicable relationship between these disciplines, these colleagues developed a course that attempted to illuminate the different perspectives of economics and sociology in relation to selected health themes. Such a…
Descriptors: Course Content, Sociology, Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach