The Department of Economics and Economic History allows students the choice of a range of courses at both the under graduate and Honours level. These include Money and Banking, Finance Economics, Monetary Economics, Public Finance, Econometrics, International Trade, Development Economics and Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. These career-focused courses will allow the students to become an ECONOMIST in a range of cutting-edge occupations. Economics is required study for every student in the Commerce Faculty and is recommended as complementary to the Social Sciences. Since Economics touches so many parts of life it may equally be taken together with any of the Sciences, Journalism, Law and many others. Economics at Rhodes is offered at a number of distinct levels. The first-year course is intended as a broad introduction to the discipline which will give students taking only one year of Economics a sound understanding of basic issues of microeconomics and macroeconomics, while laying the foundations on which more advanced study is based. In the second year students proceed with intermediate level microeconomics and macroeconomics, after which the third-year and Honours studies allow further specialisation in career-focused disciplines.