ECON 160

Money and Banking

Economics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Principles of money and banking in U.S.; legal and institutional framework; money supply process; instruments, effects, and practice of monetary policy.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisite: course 102.

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ECON 102

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ECON 160

ECON 102Macroeconomic Theory
- ECON 2Principles of Economics
  - ECON 1Principles of Economics
- ECON 101Microeconomic Theory
  - ECON 11Microeconomic Theory2 more beneath

1 direct requisite. Showing 5 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

ECON 160

ECON 161Monetary Theory

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.