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    Dec 18, 2025  
American University Catalog 2025-2026 
    
American University Catalog 2025-2026

ECON-440 Communicating Economics (3)


Students practice the fundamentals of communicating economics content to both economists and audiences without expertise in economics. Students gain proficiency in finding relevant and reliable information, synthesizing the information, using the vocabulary and rhetoric of economics, and describing quantitative information. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Written Communication and Information Literacy II. Crosslist: ECON-640 . Usually Offered: fall, spring, and summer. Grading: A-F only. Prerequisite: ECON-100 ; ECON-150  or ECON-200 ; STAT-202 STAT-203  or STAT-204 ; and completion of Written Communication and Information Literacy I  requirement.