It is recommended that students take SOK-0001 Basic Economics and economic policy (10 ECTS) (Autumn) as part of their first semester studies. 50 ECTS are obligatory in this line of study:
SOK-1001 Markets, prices and economic behaviour (20 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-1010 National accounting and states of the market (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2001 Strategic behaviour (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
SOK-2010 The open economy and growth (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
The remaining 10 ECTS are chosen from the following courses:
BED-2001 Finance - intermediate level (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
SOK-2037 Intermediate Natural Resource Economics (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2038 Topics in microeconomics (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2039 Challenges for the Norwegian Economy (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2050 Dissertation in Economics (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
BED-2011 Research methods and statistics for social science (10 ECTS) (Spring) are obligatory. The remaining 20 ECTS are chosen from the following courses:
SOK-2030 Business economics and competition strategy (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2031 Economic organisation theory (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2032 International trade and economic geography (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2033 Environmental economics (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
SOK-2034 Economic policy (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
SOK-2035 Development economics (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2036 Regulation theory (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2037 Resource economics (10 ECTS) (Spring)
SOK-2050 Economics project assignment (10 ECTS) (Spring)
BED-2001 Financing (10 ECTS) (Autumn)
Years 4-5
In addition to the practical-educational training, which accounts for 60 ECTS, students must take 30 ECTS of SOC-3000 courses and write a master’s thesis of 40 ECTS (SOK-3913).
60 ECTS group
50 ECTS are obligatory. SOK-1001, SOK-1010, SOK-2001 og SOK-2010. The remaining 10 ECTS can be chosen at will from the following courses: SOK-2030, SOK-2037, SOK-2050 and BED-2001.