Director: Associate Professor Alfred P. Montero
Political Economy Concentration (POEC)
The study of political economy involves issues that range from the analysis of American public policy, globalization, comparative national economic policies, the relationship of micro-level to macro-level activity, and the ways that public and private choices affect one another.
Requirements for the Concentration:
Since the study of politics and economics are
closely and intimately related, we ask students (1) get a grounding in
political science and economics, and perhaps a third discipline,
sociology; (2) to specialize in either American public policy or World
Trade and Development; and (3) to integrate their studies in a final
senior seminar that cuts across the different fields of specialization.
Lower Level Course Requirements (four courses required):
All three of the following:
ECON 110 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECON 111 Principles of Microeconomics
POSC 265 Politics of Global Economic Relations (Not offered in 2007-2008) or
POSC 263 European Political Economyplus one course from:
ECON 250 History of Economic Ideas
HIST 141 Europe in the Twentieth Century
POSC 170 International Relations and World Politics
Middle-Division Requirement (one course required):
The selected course must correspond with area of specialization.
American Public Policy:
ECON 270 Economics of the Public Sector
POSC 201 National Policymaking (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 266 Urban Political Economy (Not offered in 2007-2008)
SOAN 220 Class, Power, and Inequality in America
or World Trade and Development:
ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development
ECON 280 International Trade
ECON 281 International Finance
Upper Level Course Electives (three courses required):
Each student will select at least three courses
from the two areas of specialization listed below in consultation with
the concentration coordinator. These courses must come from at least
two different departments. Two of these courses will be in the same
area of specialization with the third coming from the other area.
Courses listed under Middle-Division Requirement (above) may also count
as upper level course electives if they are not being used to satisfy
the Middle-Division Requirement. Political Science 263 may be used to
satisfy one upper level elective requirement in the area of World Trade
and Development if Political Science 265 was used to satisfy the lower
level course requirement. It may not satisfy both requirements
simultaneously.
American Public Policy:
ECON 232 American Economic History (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 245 Economics of Inequality (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 262 Economics of Sports (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
ECON 272 Organizations and Decisionmaking (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 273 Water and Western Economic Development (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 274 Labor Economics
ECON 275 Law and Economics (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 276 Money and Banking (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 278 Industrial Organization and Pricing Policy
ECON 282 Investment Finance
POSC 262 Environmental Policy and Politics (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC Carleton Political Science Seminar in Washington D.C.* (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 308 Poverty and Public Policy (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 213/313 Labor Politics in a Global Age
POSC 366 Urban Political Economy (Not offered in 2007-2008)
SOAN 221 Law and Society (Not offered in 2007-2008)
SOAN 222 Working in the New Economy (Not offered in 2007-2008)
SOAN 266 Urban Sociology
World Trade and Development:
ECON Carleton Economics Seminar in Cambridge*
ECON 231 Soviet and Post-Soviet Economics (Not offered in 2007-2008)
ECON 233 European Economic History
ECON 236 Economics of the European Union
ECON 241 Growth and Development
POSC 245 Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 263 European Political Economy
POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policy
POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 362 Globalization and the State
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 383 Maastricht Program: Politics of the European Union
POSC 387 Maastricht Program: Europe of Regions
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture
SOAN 244 Biodiversity Conservation, Culture and Development
SOAN 312 Actors and Issues in Contemporary Third World "Development" (Not offered in 2007-2008)
Upper Level Seminar Requirement: (one course)
POSC 360 Political Economy Seminar (Not offered in 2007-2008)
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics (Not offered in 2007-2008)
* selected courses from the off-campus seminar
During academic years that neither POSC 360 nor
364 are offered, POSC 362 or 366 may act as the upper level seminar
requirement course.