Minor in Global Political Economy (GPE)

The minor in Global Political Economy is an interdisciplinary program in the social sciences designed to help students explore all the dimensions and implications of globalization in   contemporary international relations. The minor is administered    by the International Relations Program and is open to all      Syracuse University students in good academic standing. 

The GPE minor consists of six (6) courses, eighteen (18) credits.  These include two required introductory-level courses, PSC 124 International Relations and GEO 273 World Economic Geography, plus 12 credits in courses numbered 300 or above, which must include one course in Economics, one in Geography, and one in Political Science.  Other advanced undergraduate courses (300-level or higher) designated in the International Political Economy (IPE) topic area of international relations may be accepted toward completion of the minor upon approval by the Director of Undergraduate Studies in International Relations.

ANT 353 Technology & Cultural Change in Developing Countries

ANT 417 Economic Anthropology

ANT 479 Anthropology of Global Transformations

ECN 365 The World Economy (prerequisite: ECN 101, 102, 109, or 203)

ECN 461 Economics of Less Developed Countries (prerequisite: ECN 301 or 311)

ECN 465 International Trade Theory & Policy (prerequisite: ECN 301 or 311)

ECN 566 International Macroeconomics and Finance (prerequisite: ECN 302)

GEO 302 Worlds of Food and Famine

GEO 305 Population Change

GEO 361 Global Economic Geography

GEO/ANT/WSP 367 Gender in a Globalizing World

GEO 558 Sustainable Development

GEO 561 Global Economic Geography

GEO 573 Geography of Capital

IRP 404 Global Trade Policy (IR in Washington)

PSC 346 Comparative Third World Politics

PSC 355 International Political Economy

PSC 365 International Political Economy of the Third World

SOC 421 Population Issues

SOC/WSP 487 Women & Economic Development


 


 


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