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2024-2025 Catalog
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
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Daniel Layman (Associate Professor of Philosophy)-PPE Primary Advisor
Britta Crandall (Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies)-PPE Advisor
Shyam Gouri Suresh (Associate Professor of Economics)-PPE Advisor
Meghan Griffith (Professor of Philosophy)-PPE Advisor
Vikram Kumar (Professor of Economics)-PPE Advisor
Sean McKeever (Professor of Philosophy)-PPE Advisor
Ken Menkhaus (Professor of Political Science)-PPE Advisor
Susan Roberts (Professor of Political Science)-PPE Advisor
Clark Ross (Professor of Economics)-PPE Advisor
Fred Smith (Professor of Economics)-PPE Advisor
Caleb Stroup (Associate Professor of Economics)-PPE Advisor
Paul Studtmann (Professor of Philosophy)-PPE Advisor
Silvi Toska (Assistant Professor of Political Science)-PPE Advisor
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Major requirements
The PPE center-established major is composed of ten courses (eleven for students pursuing the Thesis option), that fulfill the following requirements, some of which include subrequirements as detailed below: 1) Introduction to PPE 2) Foundations 3) Methods 4) Explorations 5) Capstone/Thesis. Introduction to PPE
Introduction to PPE: (PHI 190) Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) is a resurgent, deeply interdisciplinary program of research and teaching that seeks to address some of the most pressing and perennial problems of social, political, and economic life. Many problems we face today-systemic racism, poverty, and immigration, for example-cannot be adequately addressed by either purely empirical or purely normative analysis; they require both. To understand our own place in the history of ideas and institutions that has led to them, we must apply the tools of political analysis, economic measurement, history of ideas, and moral argument, not in isolation from one another, but in concert. This course introduces students to PPE’s major problems, aims, and methods-including the important PPE method of game theory-through a combination of contemporary and historical readings and guest lectures by scholars from several disciplines. *PHI 190 must be taken at Davidson College Foundations
Foundations (3 courses): All PPE majors must acquire basic competence in the relevant portions of PPE’s component disciplines by completing one disciplinary foundation course from each of the core disciplines: Philosophy PHI 220: Political Philosophy Political Science POL 101: Contemporary Political Ideologies POL 121: American Politics POL 140: Comparative Politics POL 141: Comparative Global Politics POL 161: Intro to International Relations Economics *ECO 202: Microeconomics *ECO 203: Macroeconomics * Must be taken at Davidson College Methods
Methods (1 course): PPE is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Students majoring in PPE will rely to differing degrees on the methods of PPE’s constituent disciplines, depending on their chosen emphases and Capstone/Thesis projects. PPE students satisfy the Methods requirement with any of the following courses: *PHI 200: Symbolic Logic *PHI 102: Reason and Argument *POL 182: Intro to Research Methods *ECO 204: Stats and Basic Econometrics *Must be taken at Davidson College Explorations
Explorations: (4 courses): PPE majors must complete four additional courses at the 200 level or above. These courses must be selected from the following list: ECO courses numbered 200, 300, or 400 (Except ECO 211, ECO 212, ECO 213, ECO 214, ECO 295, ECO 395, and ECO 494.) PHI courses: PHI 210: Games and Decisions PHI 215: Ethics PHI 219: Freedom and Responsibility PHI 240: Anarchism and the State PHI 325: Philosophy of Law PHI 350: Seminar in Philosophy PHI 451: Senior Colloquium in Philosophy POL courses numbered 200, 300, or 400 (Except POL 385 and POL 389.) Courses outside of ECO/POL/PHI: ANT 321 - Borderlands, Identity, and Rights ANT 323 - Human Rights in Latin America (JEC) CIS 276 - Racial Justice Seminar (JEC) COM 311 - Media, Empathy, and Justice (JEC) COM 330 - The Ignored and Forgotten (JEC) ENG 373 - Modern Poetry and Politics ENV 244 - South Asian Environmental Issues (JEC) HIS 355 - American Legal History HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement (JEC) PBH 280 - Introduction to Global Health (JEC) PBH 395 - Public Health Ethics To satisfy the Explorations requirement for the major, the four courses selected from must meet the following requirements: a. Political and Economic Justice. One of the four courses must have a substantial focus on social and political structures that facilitate and sustain-or burden and destroy-social justice and equality. This requirement supports the major’s second learning outcome (see page two above). The courses below may be used to satisfy this requirement. ECO 221 - Economic History of the United States (JEC) ECO 227 - Economics of Gender and Family (JEC) ECO 232 - Economics of Migration ECO 234 - Latin American Economic Development ECO 235 - Economics of South Asian Environmental Issues ECO 288 - International Political Economy ECO 324 - Labor Economics ECO 325 - Public Sector Economics PHI 215 - Ethics (JEC) POL 206 - Contemporary Political Theory (JEC) POL 226 - Racial and Ethnic Politics POL 227 - Law, Politics and Society POL 228 - US Environmental Politics POL 241 - Comparative Public Policy POL 283 - Ethics and Policymaking POL 291 - Politics of the Middle East POL 304 - Foundations of Liberalism (JEC) POL 307 - Lincoln and the Crisis of American Democracy (JEC) POL 325 - Constitutional Law POL 327 - Civil Liberties POL 344 - The Politics and Economics of Brazil POL 347 - Politics of Development POL 354 - Political Economy of the Southern Cone POL 381 - Philanthropy and the Non-Profit Sector POL 398 - Global Environmental Politics POL 404 - Marxism and After (JEC) POL 423 - The Politics of Reproduction POL 424 - Women in US Politics (JEC) ANT 321 - Borderlands, Identity, and Rights ANT 323 - Human Rights in Latin America (JEC) CIS 276 - Racial Justice Seminar (JEC) COM 311 - Media, Empathy, and Justice (JEC) COM 330 - The Ignored and Forgotten (JEC) ENG 373 - Modern Poetry and Politics ENV 244 - South Asian Environmental Issues (JEC) HIS 355 - American Legal History HIS 357 - The Civil Rights Movement (JEC) PBH 280 - Introduction to Global Health (JEC) PBH 395 - Public Health Ethics b. Breadth. The courses must represent no fewer than three different disciplines. c. Advanced Study. Two of the four courses must at the 300 or 400 level. Note: Courses not currently listed may be used to satisy the Political and Economic Justice requirement upon approval by (a) the course instructor, (b) the student’s advisor(s), (c) the chairperson of PPE, and (d) the director of CIS. Capstone or Thesis
Capstone or Thesis (1 course for capstone or 2 courses for thesis): Every student majoring in PPE must complete an original research project during his/her/their senior year. This project may take the form of a one-semester capstone (CIS 495) or a two-semester thesis (CIS 495 and CIS 496). PPE majors must work with their advisor(s) to design a project of appropriate depth, rigor, and originality for either one semester (for a capstone) or two semesters (for a thesis) of research and writing. Only students who complete the thesis are eligible to graduate with honors in the major. Students who choose to complete a thesis must work with two advisors, from distinct academic departments, to complete their project. Students who choose to complete a capstone will need (1) a primary advisor, who will bear primary responsibility for directing their research and (2) a resource advisor, a faculty member in a discipline other than that of the primary advisor who will be available to help the primary advisor ensure interdisciplinarity in the project. Capstone students should secure a resource advisor before defending their capstone prospectus. If a capstone student is unsuccessful in securing a resource advisor, the chair/primary advisor of PPE will, in the last resort, serve in that role for that student. Prerequisites: Students must have completed the following portions of the major before enrolling in CIS 495 or CIS 496: i. Introduction to PPE ii. Disciplinary Foundations iii. Methods iv. Political and Economic Justice Note
Note: No more than four courses taken at other universities, whether abroad or in the United States, may be applied to the PPE major. |
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