Does anyone know of any, hopefully inexpensive, courses or exams that would satisfy Excelsior's requirements for the economics major? Introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics courses are offered everywhere, but how about courses like intermediate microeconomics or macroeconomics, money and banking, economics history of the US, or econometrics? -Chris
LSU has a couple of courses above the principles level that might meet your need. http://www.is.lsu.edu/courselist.asp?cat=Economics&nid=102&pg= Also UF has a Managerial Economics course that might work. Class starts the 27th. http://www.distancelearning.ufl.edu/course.aspx?s=6922 In the spring they usually offer a Natural Resource economics course. Upper Iowa University has several upper level economics courses under "business" http://www.uiu.edu/catalogs/eu/ug_courses.html#bus University of Nebraska Lincoln has an online International economics course - http://independentstudy.unl.edu/courses/ Also, when searching around for DL economics courses, you really got to hunt. Don't forget to try search terms like agricultural economics, environmental economics, health economics (sometimes taught by public health or pharmacy colleges). These all might work towards completing your requirements for Excelsior.
Kansas State has an Intermediate Microeconomics course http://www.dce.k-state.edu/courses/ Fort Hays State has some other economics courses (some graduate level) also: http://www.fhsu.edu/virtualcollege/degrees/schedule/index.htm
University of Texas - Austin offers 2 upper level economics courses for $500 each. University of Tennessee lists 3 upper level econ classes, including both intermediate macro and micro. Tuition = $576 per course.