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 Capitalist Crises, Power and Policy
or
POSC 263 European Political Economy (Not offered in 2012-2013)
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 (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 201 National Policymaking (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 220 Class, Power, and Inequality in America
or World Trade and Development
ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development
ECON 241 Growth and Development (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 280 International Trade (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 281 International Finance
ECON 284 Economic Development in Japan
POSC 365 Political Economy of Global Tourism* (not offered in 2012-2013)
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
ECON 246 Economics of Welfare
ECON 262 The Economics of Sports
ECON 264 Health Economics (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment
ECON 273 Water and Western Economic Development (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 274 Labor Economics (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 275 Law and Economics (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 278 Industrial Organization and Firm Behavior (not offered in 2012-2013)
ECON 282 Investment Finance (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 231 American Foreign Policy
POSC 266 Urban Political Economy
POSC 288 Washington D.C.: A Global Conversation Part I (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 289 Washington D.C. Seminar: A Global Conversation Part II (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 366 Urban Political Economy*
SOAN 210 Principles of Demography (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 215 Social Welfare (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 221 Law and Society (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 229 Demography of the Family (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 280 Statistical Tools for Quantitative Reasoning (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 308 Working Across the Life Course (not offered in 2012-2013)
World Trade and Development:
ECON 221 Cambridge Program: Contemporary British Economy
ECON 222 Cambridge Program: The Industrial Revolution in Britain
ECON 233 European Economic History
ECON 236 Economics of the European Union
ENTS 271 Environmental Economics and Policy
POSC 229 International Institutions
POSC 235 The Costs of Conflict
POSC 244 The Politics of the Celtic Fringe
POSC 267 Comparative Foreign Policy
POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 333 Global Social Changes & Sustainability
POSC 361 Approaches to Development*
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 365 Political Economy of Global Tourism* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 383 European Political Economy Seminar in Madrid and Maastricht: Politics of the European Union (not offered in 2012-2013)
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture
SOAN 239 Explorations in Social Data Analysis
SOAN 280 Statistical Tools for Quantitative Reasoning (not offered in 2012-2013)
Upper Level Seminar Requirement: (one course)
POSC 266 Urban Political Economy
POSC 361 Approaches to Development*
POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 365 Political Economy of Global Tourism* (not offered in 2012-2013)
POSC 366 Urban Political Economy*