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PPE CLASSES FOR Spring 2023

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 2023.

 

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 213  FOLLOW THE RUBLE

ECON 246S  ARTS POLICY AND LEADERSHIP

ECON 310S  ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW

ECON 311  HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT

ECON 312S  ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY

ECON 313  THE USES OF ECONOMICS

ECON 319  PHILOSOPHY/METHOD OF ECONOMICS

ECON 325S ECON ANALYSIS OF ENERGY ISSUES

ECON 337S  INEQUALITIES AND LOW-WAGE WORK

ECON 338  ECON OF THE PUB SEC

ECON 344  HISTORY OF ART MARKETS

ECON 345  URBAN ECONOMICS

ECON 348  GENDER IN THE ECONOMY

ECON 368  BEHAVIORAL FINANCE

ECON 379  EMERGING MARKETS

ECON 436  GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH

ECON 442  DEVELOPMENT ECON: THRY/EVI/POL

ECON 468  POLITICAL ECONOMICS

 

Philosophy

PHIL 103S  INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 163D  ETHICS FOR ROBERTSON SCHOLARS

PHIL 203  HST ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 206  PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

PHIL 211  APPEARANCE AND REALITY

PHIL 212  PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

PHIL 216  PROBLEMS IN ETHICAL THEORY

PHIL 221S  PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

PHIL 222  GENDER AND PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 230  VIRTUE THEORY

PHIL 242  PROBLEMS IN PHIL OF SCIENCE

PHIL 263  CHINESE PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 285S  EXISTENTIALISM

PHIL 302  HOW TO LIVE AND HOW TO DIE

PHIL 312S  ADAM SMITH & NATURAL LIBERTY

PHIL 314  PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

PHIL 331  KANT

PHIL 335  MORAL PSYCHOLOGY

PHIL 345  PHILOSOPHY/METHOD OF ECONOMICS

PHIL 353  NEUROETHICS

PHIL 463S  EAST/WEST ETHICS & POLITICS

 

Political Science

POLSCI 102 THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS

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 186 WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE M E

POLSCI 208  POLITICAL POLARIZATION

POLSCI 229  INSTITUTIONS & SELF GOVERNANC

POLSCI 245  AMER CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOP I

POLSCI 254S US INTELLIGENCE ENTERPRISE

POLSCI 257 LATIN AM WARS OF INDEPENDENCE

POLSCI 267 RELIGION AND US POLITICS

POLSCI 302  AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

POLSCI 324S  CHINESE POLITICS

POLSCI 333S  DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHOICE

POLSCI 334  HOW TO RULE THE WORLD

POLSCI 335S  ECON, POL, SOC INSTITUTIONS

POLSCI 352S   U.S. POLICY IN MIDDLE EAST

POLSCI 353   GLOBALIZATION OF DEMOCRACY

POLSCI 358  GLOBALIZATION/PUBLIC POLICY

POLSCI 362  INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

POLSCI 364  VIOLENCE, REPRESSION, CRIME

POLSCI 367S   ENVIRONMENT AND CONFLICT

POLSCI 368S   CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA

POLSCI 371   MARXISM AND SOCIETY

POLSCI 372S   SEX, POLITICS & FEMINIST PHIL

POLSCI 375   NEWS/MORAL BATTLEGROUND

POLSCI 379S   RELIGION & POLITICS

POLSCI 380   ATHENIAN LAW

POLSCI 396S  AUGUSTINE’S CITY OF GOD

POLSCI 425 GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH