De La Salle University - Manila

Physics Department

Bachelor of Science in Physics Minor in Economics or Finance

Description and Aims of the Program:

The BS-Physics minor in Economics or Finance is an 11-term undergraduate program in physics, that provides students with

• a full undergraduate physics program;
• the essential mathematical preparations required for the study of complex systems;
• an introduction to the fundamental concepts and ideas in either economics or finance.
• It is hoped that with this curriculum, graduates of the program will have
• the quantitative analytical skills characteristic of a good graduate of a BS-Physics program;
• sufficient mathematical sophistication to deal with complex systems;
• enough background in economics or finance to understand the subject of his/her study.

Graduates of the program will hopefully find placements in financial institutions where they can offer a unique set of skills and offer fresh perspectives to the fields, thus opening an opportunity to contribute to a fuller understanding of the complex phenomena of economics and finance.

Program Structure

Students in the minor in Economics or Finance programs will join the other undergraduate physics majors in their physics and computer courses, except for Stochastic Methods and Dynamics of Complex Systems. These courses will however be open to students of the graduate physics programs as electives. For elementary statistics, upper-level mathematics and basic finance courses, the students in the program will join the mathematics majors. For the minor courses in economics or finance, students of the program will join economics or finance majors of the college of business and economics.