PPE CLASSES FOR FALL 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 Fall 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
Economic Principles | ECON 101D
Statistical Foundations of Econometrics and Data Science | ECON 104D
Thinking Through Models | ECON 113FS
Introduction to Political Economy | ECON 119
Intermediate Microeconomics I | ECON 201D
INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS II | ECON 205D
Intermediate Macroeconomics | ECON 210D
Life Within Capitalism | ECON 270
History of Economic Thought | ECON 311
Adam Smith and the System of Natural Liberty | ECON 312S
Argument Across the Disciplines | ECON 315S
Economics of the Public Sector | ECON 338
Gender in the Economy | ECON 348
Global Inequality Research | ECON 436
Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy | PHIL 101
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art | PHIL 202
Political and Social Philosophy | PHIL 207
Philosophy of Language | PHIL 209
Knowledge and Certainty | PHIL 210
Appearance and Reality | PHIL 211
Philosophy of Mind | PHIL 212
The Good Life: Religion, Philosophy, and Life’s Ultimate Concerns | PHIL 214
Problems in Ethical Theory | PHIL 216
Introduction to Ethical Theory | PHIL 217
Philosophy and Neuroscience | PHIL 252
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud | PHIL 286
Adam Smith and the System of Natural Liberty | PHIL 312S
Kant | PHIL 331
Philosophy of Time & Space | PHIL 411
Political Science
Climate Change: A Political Economy Perspective | POLSCI 128
Introduction to Political Economy| POLSCI 145
Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics | POLSCI 205
Nuclear Weapons: US Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Global Proliferation | POLSCI 233
Life Within Capitalism: A History of its Values, Measures and Struggles | POLSCI 252
Religion and Politics in American History | POLSCI 267
Left, Right, and Center: Competing Political Ideals | POLSCI 275
Special Topics in Political Science | POLSCI 290
Black Politics | POLSCI 305S
Prisoner's Dilemma and Distributive Justice | POLSCI 331
The Modern Regulatory State | POLSCI 340D
Political Violence, Repression, and Organized Crime | POLSCI 364
Foreign Policy of the United States | POLSCI 365D
Environment and Conflict: The Role of the Environment in Conflict and Peacebuilding | POLSCI 367S
Marxism and Society | POLSCI 371
Marx, Nietzsche, Freud | POLSCI 378
Ancient Athenian Law | POLSCI 380
Inequality in Western Political Thought | POLSCI 384
Origins of WWI and WWII in Europe | POLSCI 402S
Global Inequality Research | POLSCI 425