{"id":50046,"date":"2026-02-20T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:26:22","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Department of Economics!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: 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Students who wish to focus their studies may choose to complete either one or two of the eight available concentrations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    <div class=\"grid gap-6 mx-auto my-6 cu-column md:gap-10 md:grid-cols-2 md:my-10 first:mt-0\">\n        \n<div class=\"cu-column-content\">\n    \n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/b-econ-honours-concentration-in-computational-analysis\/\">Computational Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/b-econ-honours-concentration-in-economic-data-science\/\">Economic Data Science<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/b-econ-honours-concentration-in-advanced-economic-analysis\/\">Advanced Economic Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a 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