PPE CLASSES FOR SPRING 2025
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 2025.
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 122S GATEWAY: EYEWITNESS TO SLAVERY
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 309 ANTHROPOLOGY OF MONEY
ECON 311 HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
ECON 312S ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY
ECON 313 THE USES OF ECONOMICS
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 355 INTERNATIONAL TRADE
ECON 436 GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH
ECON 443 GENDER AND FAMILY ECONOMICS
ECON 445 ECONOMICS OF CRIME
Philosophy
PHIL 101 INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 103S INTRO 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 212 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
PHIL 218 MEDICAL ETHICS
PHIL 220 PHILOSOPHY OF DISABILITY
PHIL 230 VIRTUE THEORY
PHIL 242 PROBLEMS IN PHIL OF SCIENCE
PHIL 263 CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
PHIL 270 BUSINESS ETHICS
PHIL 285S EXISTENTIALISM
PHIL 286 MARX, NIETZSCHE, FREUD
PHIL 312S ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY
PHIL 314 PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY
PHIL 331 KANT
Political Science
POLSCI 107 INTRO TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS
POLSCI 108 INTRO TO AFRICAN STUDIES
POLSCI 110 CRITICAL APPR GLOBAL ISSUES
POLSCI 120 CHALLENGES LIVING ETHICAL LIFE
POLSCI 128 CLIMATE CHANGE
POLSCI 159 ISRAEL/PALESTINE
POLSCI 175D INTRO TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
POLSCI 204 9/11 & ITS AFTERMATH
POLSCI 206 AMERICAN VALUES, INST, CULTURE
POLSCI 228 AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES
POLSCI 229 INSTITUTIONS & SELF GOVERNANC
POLSCI 233 NUCLEAR WEAPONS
POLSCI 238 RACIAL ATTITUDES AND PREJUDICE
POLSCI 240D POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
POLSCI 241SA CIVIC PARTICIPATION & PUB POL
POLSCI 252 LIFE WITHIN CAPITALISM
POLSCI 262 THE HOLOCAUST
POLSCI 267 RELIGION AND US POLITICS
POLSCI 275 LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER
POLSCI 324S CHINESE POLITICS
POLSCI 333S DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHOICE
POLSCI 335S ECON, POL, SOC INSTITUTIONS
POLSCI 338 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SE ASIA
POLSCI 359S SOCIAL ENGINEERING & MOVEMENTS
POLSCI 364 VIOLENCE, REPRESSION, CRIME
POLSCI 365D FOREIGN POLICY OF THE US
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 425 GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH
POLSCI 427S WORLD IN YOUR HAND
POLSCI 451S PUB CHOICE AND AMER POLITICS