Symposium: A Fresh Look at the Future of the Intermediate Microeconomics Course – Challenges and Opportunities

Parama Chaudhury; Gail Hoyt

doi:10.1177/05694345251353698

Symposium: A Fresh Look at the Future of the Intermediate Microeconomics Course – Challenges and Opportunities

Parama Chaudhury, Gail Hoyt

Economics

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Intermediate microeconomics occupies a key position in the undergraduate economics curriculum. It is considered the hardest ‘core’ course: mathematically rigorous, abstract in content, and frequently a turning point in students’ decisions to persist in the major. Yet, as the discipline grapples with declining enrolments, increasing emphasis on quantitative methods and persistent underrepresentation of women and minorities, the pedagogical and curricular design of intermediate microeconomics is ripe for scrutiny. This overview paper summarizes three papers describing those issues and proposing both pedagogical and curricular reforms.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	280-283
Número de páginas	4
Publicación	American Economist
Volumen	70
N.º	2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1177/05694345251353698
Estado	Published - oct 2025

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