3 Political Economy Course Programs

The International Political Economy (IPE) major investigates the intersection between economics and politics in the global environment. It encourages the integrated analysis of global problems and issues using the tools and methods of political studies and economics. Learn to consider the multiple and overlapping economic and political linkages between and among global actors.

The program was designed to give its students an understanding of the many ways that politics and economics interact in the formation of public policy. Majors acquire a substantial mastery of economics, broad knowledge of the American and international political context, an understanding of the economic and moral stakes in key current public policy issues, and the opportunity to analyze policy for themselves. The major is notable for its high degree of structure, with requirements in Economics and Political Science, along with three distinctive core courses.

Critical Race and Political Economy (CRPE) introduces students to the intersectional and interdisciplinary study of race, colonialism, migration, and political economy. The Department of Critical Race and Political Economy’s (CRPE) curriculum cultivates an understanding of how race, colonialism, and other systems of power have structured human lives and their environments on local, national, and global scales. CRPE students explore how race has informed the imagination of social transformation, justice, and liberation in the past and present. CRPE approaches “race” as a shifting relation through which power and domination are rationalized, but also a foundation on which struggles for liberation and self-determination are waged.