Carleton College

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 (or

POSC 263 European Political Economy (Not offered in 2009-2010)

plus 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 2009-2010)

SOAN 220 Class, Power, and Inequality in America (Not offered in 2009-2010)

or World Trade and Development:

ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development

ECON 241 Growth and Development (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 280 International Trade

ECON 281 International Finance (Not offered in 2009-2010)

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: A Cliometric Approach (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 245 Economics of Inequality (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 262 Economics of Sports (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 270 Economics of the Public Sector

ECON 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment

ECON 273 Water and Western Economic Development (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 274 Labor Economics

ECON 275 Law and Economics (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 276 Money and Banking (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 278 Industrial Organization and Pricing Policy (Not offered in 2009-2010)

ECON 282 Investment Finance

POSC Carleton Political Science Seminar in Washington D.C.*

POSC 308 Poverty and Public Policy (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 213/313 Labor Politics in a Global Age (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 366 Urban Political Economy

SOAN 215 Social Welfare

SOAN 220 Class, Power, and Inequality in America (Not offered in 2009-2010)

SOAN 221 Law and Society (Not offered in 2009-2010)

SOAN 266 Urban Sociology (Not offered in 2009-2010)

World Trade and Development:

ECON Carleton Economics Seminar in Cambridge*

ECON 233 European Economic History

ECON 236 Economics of the European Union

POSC 229 International Institutions

POSC 245 Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 263 European Political Economy (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 268 International Environmental Politics and Policy

POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America

POSC 333 Sustainability Science (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 361 Approaches to Development

POSC 362 Globalization and the State (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 383 Maastricht Program: Politics of the European Union (Not offered in 2009-2010)

SOAN 224 Global Migrations (Not offered in 2009-2010)

SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture (Not offered in 2009-2010)

Upper Level Seminar Requirement: (one course)

POSC 322 Political Economy of Latin America

POSC 360 Political Economy Seminar (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics (Not offered in 2009-2010)

POSC 366 Urban Political Economy

* selected courses from the off-campus seminar

Participants on the Cambridge program will normally be granted 12 economics credits under the world trade and development division.