ECON454

Public Finance and Public Policy

Prerequisite: 1 course with a minimum grade of C- from (ECON306, ECON326); and 1 course with a minimum grade of C- from (ECON230, BMGT230, STAT400, ECON321). Restriction: Must be in one of the following programs (Economics Bachelor of Arts; Economics Bachelor of Science). The role of the the public sector in a market economy constitutes the over-arching topic of this course. Emphasis lies on analyzing government expenditure programs and the microeconomics of tax policy.

Spring 2026

Daniel Reck

9 reviews
Average rating: 2.44

Spring 2025

Melissa Kearney

1 review
Average rating: 5.00

Past Semesters

Daniel Reck

9 reviews
Average rating: 2.44

Ziqiao Liu

0 reviews
Average rating: N/A

Daniel Reck

9 reviews
Average rating: 2.44

Taylor Landon

0 reviews
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Melissa Kearney

1 review
Average rating: 5.00

Victoria Perez-Zetune

0 reviews
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Luke Pardue

0 reviews
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Charles Hulten

1 review
Average rating: 2.00

Kenneth Coriale

0 reviews
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Lesley Turner

0 reviews
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Brian Witzen

0 reviews
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Riley Wilson

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Adam Isen

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Charles Baschnagel

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Include P/F semesters During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 2.98 between 1,069 students*

A-: 12.63%

A: 17.96%

A+: 5.8%

B-: 9.35%

B: 17.49%

B+: 11.79%

C-: 3.09%

C: 8.51%

C+: 6.64%

D-: 0.09%

D: 1.22%

D+: 0.37%

F: 1.22%

W: 3.74%

other: 0.09%

* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.