Lewis & ClarkCollege of Arts & Sciences

Political Economy

Minoring

A minimum of 20 semester credits (five courses) distributed as follows:

Core Classes

(Two required core classes.)

IA 340: International Political Economy
Econ 250: Radical Political Economics

Elective Classes

(Three electives, no more than two may be taken from any one concentration.)

Global Concentration

Econ 232: Economic Development
Econ 260: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Econ 430: History of Economic Thought
IA 257: Global Resource Dilemmas
IA 318: Multinational Corporations
IA 341: Advanced Industrial Economies
SoAn 225: Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
SoAn 350: Global Inequality
SoAn 352: Women in Developing Countries

National-Regional Concentration

Econ 280: Political Economy of Japan
Econ 295: Political Economy of Korea
Hist 142: Modern Latin American History
Hist 330: Race and Ethnicity in American History
Hist 347: Modern Mexico--Culture, Politics, and Economic Crisis
SoAn 281: India in Sociological Perspective
SoAn 285: Culture and Power in the Middle East
SoAn 377: Postcolonial Identity in Latin America

Social and Cultural Concentration

Gend 440: Feminist Theory
Pols 311: Pillars of Western Political Thought
SoAn 221: Sociology of Work, Leisure, and Consumption
SoAn 227: Radical Social Movements
SoAn 228: Class, Power, and Society
SoAn 249: The Political Economy of Food
SoAn 254: The Social Life of Money and Exchange
SoAn 300: Social Theory
SoAn 314: Social Change
SoAn 340: Politics and Society

Contact Us

The Political Economy Program is located in John R. Howard Hall.

email kosansky@lclark.edu

voice 503-768-7661

Coordinator Oren Kosansky

Political Economy Program
0615 S.W. Palatine Hill Road, MSC 40
Portland, Oregon 97219