School of Liberal Arts: Political Economy
2008-2009 Academic Year
455
PECN 303 Individual, Society, and State
PECN 304 Comparative and International Political Economy
PECN 600 Majors Seminar
The total number of required credits in the core is 24. The major also requires five
electives chosen from an interdepartmental list of courses grouped according to
the following four alternative concentrations. The required Political Economy
301-304 sequence has been designed to introduce students to the prominent and
common concerns of the three tracks. Studies along one of these concentrations
provides a focus within the major. Each major's selection of a concentration is
made in consultation with the Associate Director, who serves as the faculty
adviser for all majors.
POLITICAL ECONOMY CONCENTRATIONS
Law, Economics, and Policy Track
Two of the following eight:
ECON 332 Urban Economics
ECON 333 Environment and Natural Resources
ECON 334 Government in the Economy
ECON 335 Law and Economics
ECON 397/398 Special Studies in Economics
ECON 422 Industrial Organization
ECON 452 Economics of Public Expenditures
ECON 453 Economics of Taxation
Three of the following sixteen:
HISE 627 Intellectual History of Capitalism
HISU 360 History of Early American Law
PHIL 356 Social and Political Ethics
PHIL 364 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 654 Global Justice
PECN 404 Democracy, Capitalism, and Free Speech
PECN 414 Theories of Distributive Justice
PECN 419 Philosophy of Social Justice
POLA 324 Public Policy
POLA 421 Law and Administration
POLA 424 Budgets and Deficits
POLA 425 Power and Poverty in America
POLA 427 Constitutional Law
POLA 480 Science, Technology, and Public Policy
POLA 629 Judicial Process
SOCI 680 Society and Economy
Moral and Historical Perspectives Track
Two of the following five:
ECON 335 Law and Economics