Courses

PPE CLASSES FOR SPRING 2024

The PPE Certificate requires SIX courses. The Gateway (PS 331) is taken early on, though you are welcome to take some electives first.  The Capstone (PS 449) is a SENIOR level course, to be taken in your fourth year.

The other four courses are electives. You take two courses in one discipline (your “concentration” in the Certificate) and one in each of the others. For example, if you concentrate in Philosophy, you would take the Gateway, two Philosophy courses, one Economics course, and one Political Science class. If you concentrate in Economics, then you would take two Economics courses, and one in each Philosophy and Political Science, and so on.

Every semester we list the courses that are available for credit as PPE Electives for the coming semester.
Here are those courses for Spring 2024.

 

Gateway Course (Econ 361 | Phil 246 | Poli Sci 331) listed as “Prisoner’s Dilemma and Distributive Justice”

Capstone Course (Econ 386 | Phil 465 | Poli Sci 449) listed as “PPE Capstone”

 

Economics

ECON 101D  ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES

ECON 201D  INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS I

ECON 205D  INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS II

ECON 210D  INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS

ECON 246 ARTS POLICY, LEADERSHIP, AND ENGAGEMENT

ECON 270  LIFE WITHIN CAPITALISM

ECON 311  HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

ECON 312S  ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY

ECON 313  THE USES OF ECONOMICS

ECON 315 ARGUMENT ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES

ECON 325S ECON ANALYSIS OF ENERGY ISSUES

ECON 330S SLAVERY AND CAPITALISM

ECON 337S  INEQUALITIES AND LOW-WAGE WORK

ECON 338  ECON OF THE PUB SEC

ECON 344  HISTORY OF ART MARKETS

ECON 348  GENDER IN THE ECONOMY

ECON 436  GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH

ECON 442  DEVELOPMENT ECON: THRY/EVI/POL

ECON 445  ECONOMICS OF CRIME

 

Philosophy

PHIL 101  INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 120  CHALLENGES LIVING ETHICAL LIFE

PHIL 202  AESTHETICS: PHIL OF ART

PHIL 203  HST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 207  POLTCL & SOC PHIL

PHIL 209  PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

PHIL 210  KNOWLEDGE AND CERTAINTY

PHIL 211 APPEARANCE AND REALITY

PHIL 212  PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

PHIL 216 PROBLEMS IN ETHICAL THEORY

PHIL 252  PHILOSOPHY AND NEUROSCIENCE

PHIL 286  MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD

PHIL 312S  ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY

PHIL 314  PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

PHIL 331  KANT

PHIL 353 NEUROETHICS

PHIL 411  PHILOSOPHY OF TIME & SPACE

PHIL 463S  EAST/WEST ETHICS & POLITICS

 

Political Science       

POLSCI 108  INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES

POLSCI 110  CRITICAL APPR GLOBAL ISSUES

POLSCI 120  CHALLENGES LIVING ETHICAL LIFE

POLSCI 128  CLIMATE CHANGE

POLSCI 146  POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

POLSCI 175D  INTRO TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

POLSCI 205  RACIAL/ETH MINORITIES AMER POL

POLSCI 229  INSTITUTIONS & SELF GOVERNANC

POLSCI 233  NUCLEAR WEAPONS

POLSCI 242  CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS

POLSCI 252  LIFE WITHIN CAPITALISM

POLSCI 254S  US INTELLIGENCE ENTERPRISE

POLSCI 262  THE HOLOCAUST

POLSCI 267  RELIGION AND US POLITICS

POLSCI 275  LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER

POLSCI 276  CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY FILMS

POLSCI 305S   BLACK POLITICS

POLSCI 340D  THE MODERN REGULATORY STATE

POLSCI 356   COMPAR HEALTH CARE SYS

POLSCI 359S  SOCIAL ENGINEERING & MOVEMENTS

POLSCI 364   VIOLENCE, REPRESSION, CRIME

POLSCI 365D   FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US

POLSCI 367S   ENVIRONMENT AND CONFLICT

POLSCI 368S   CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA

POLSCI 371   MARXISM AND SOCIETY

POLSCI 375    NEWS/MORAL BATTLEGROUND

POLSCI 378   MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD

POLSCI 380   ATHENIAN LAW

POLSCI 384   INEQUALITY IN POL THOUGHT

POLSCI 402S    ORIGINS OF WWI & WWII

POLSCI 403D   POLITICAL RISK ANALYSIS

POLSCI 425   GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH

POLSCI 431S   REASON & PASSION IN POLITICS