Learning Outside the Classroom: Driving Student Involvement and Engagement in an Economics Club

This paper focuses on successful techniques to build an economics club, which fosters real-world learning opportunities through research. Club participation also facilitates social outreach and opportunities outside the classroom to gain “real world” experience and deepen interest in economics as a discipline. One technique with which we have experienced particular success is a Student Price Index activity. The “nuts and bolts” of how to implement a student price index have been previously demonstrated (Corcoran, Mulroney, & Sankaran, 2016) and the benefit to students is substantial and can be easily duplicated by other economics clubs. This paper will primarily focus on how we have grown our club, the commitments required by faculty members and students for the club to be successful, the types of academic and social activities that are deemed value-added to the students, how to integrate résumé-building opportunities, and examples of active learning in club activities.

by Daniel Kuester

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Kuester, D. (2024). Learning Outside the Classroom: Driving Student Involvement and Engagement in an Economics Club. Journal of Economics Teaching, 9(3), 194-201. DOI: 10.58311/jeconteach/54d016327fd31b8d881330c13124e9a110081dd1

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