Minor Requirements

MINOR IN ECONOMICS

Requirements (28 units)

Lower-division requirements (8 units)

  1. ECON 200. Principles of Microeconomics (4)
  2. ECON 202. Principles of Macroeconomics (4)

Upper-division requirements (20 units)

  1. ECON 500. History of Economic Thought (4)
  2. Sixteen units of additional economics courses.

MINOR IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

Requirements (28 units)

Lower-division requirements (4 units)

  1. ECON 202. Principles of Macroeconomics (4)

Upper-division requirements (24 units)

  1. ECON 445. Political Economy (4)
  2. ECON 500. History of Economic Thought (4)
  3. A minimum of twelve units chosen from:
    • ECON 333. Political Economy of Women: Money, Sex, Race, and Power (4)
    • ECON 352. Political Economy of Poverty and Discrimination (4)
    • ECON 357. Political Economy of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered People (4)
    • ECON 421. Economic History of the United States (4)
    • ECON 450. Global Economy (4)
    • ECON 520. Social Economics (4)
    • ECON 530. The Good Economy (4)
    • ECON 540. Political Economy of Latin America (4)
  4. Four units of additional economics courses.

MINOR IN PHILOSOPHY, POLICY, AND ECONOMICS

Requirements (28 units)

  1. Students must complete 28 units from the courses listed below with a minimum of eight units in each of the fields. Students who major in philosophy, political science or economics must earn 20 units outside their major from the courses listed below.

      2. Course Requirements (28 units)

      Philosophy (8-12 units)

    • PHIL 314. History of Modern Philosophy: Ethics and Politics (4)
    • PHIL 350. Ethics (4)
    • PHIL 353. Topics in Applied Ethics (4)
    • PHIL 359. Philosophy and Economics (4)
    • PHIL 361. Social and Political Philosophy (4)
    • PHIL 362. Philosophy of Law (4)
    • PHIL 460. Advanced Issues in Value Theory (4)

      • Economics (8-12 units)

    • ECON 443. Origins of Political Economy (4)
    • ECON 445. Political Economy (4)
    • ECON 500. History of Economic Thought (4)
    • ECON 520. Social Economics (4)
    • ECON 530. The Good Economy (4)

      • Political Science (8-12 units)

    • PSCI 310. Classical Political Thought (4)
    • PSCI 311. Foundations of Modern Political Thought (4)
    • PSCI 313. Modern Political Thought (4)
    • PSCI 315. Post Modern Political Thought (4)

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