Political Economy (POLECON)
POLECON 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 2 hours of Seminar per week for 8 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 24.
POLECON 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week per unit for 15 weeks. 1 and 1 half hours of seminar per week per unit for 10 weeks. 2 hours of seminar per week per unit for 8 weeks. 3 hours of seminar per week per unit for 5 weeks.
Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor.
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 84.
POLECON 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Group meetings to be arranged.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Student-directed course under the supervision of a faculty member. Subject matter to change from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 98.
POLECON 100 Classical Theories of Political Economy 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks. 10 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
One-semester lecture course offered each semester. In-depth analysis of the classical political economy literature, including such authors as Locke, Smith, Marx, Mills, and Weber to Veblen and Polanyi. Strong emphasis is placed on providing appropriate background for understanding the evolution of the literature that has emanated from the various social science disciplines which forms the basis of modern political economy.
Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 100.
POLECON 101 Contemporary Theories of Political Economy 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100, Political Economy of Industrial Societies 100 or consent of instructor.
This course is designed to introduce students to modern theoretical works of central intellectual debates on 20th century international political economy. The course explores alternative explanations for inequality in economic development among nations and economic declines of of the dominate powers. It will also examine tensions between the increasing "globalization" of that economy and continued fragmentation of the international political system in nation-states.
Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 101.
POLECON 130 Cross-Listed Topics 1 - 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This course is designed to accommodate cross-listed courses offered through other departments, the content of which is applicable to PE majors. Content and unit values vary from course to course.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 130.
POLECON 133 Junior Seminar in Political Economy 3 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
These small research and writing seminars will focus on the research area of the faculty member teaching the course and will provide students the opportunity to engage in conversation, research, and writing in greater depth than is possible in a larger class.
POLECON 140 Special Topics 2 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A short course designed to provide a vehicle to take advantage of short-term visitors coming to campus who have considerable expertise in areas of interest to political economy of industrial societies. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 140.
POLECON 150 Advanced Study in Political Economy of Industrial Societies 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Seminar per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and background in political economy or related social sciences.
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues of political economy and industrialization. Seminars will focus on specific geographical areas or topics with appropriate comparative material included. A major research project is required as well as class presentations. Topics change each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 150.
POLECON 155 Developments in Modern Political Economy 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 and 101 or consent of instructor.
This course focuses on the relationship of politics and economics in modern societies. Special attention is given to problems and issues in social science or public policy best examined from an interdisciplinary perspective with an eye toward building students' knowledge of recently developed analytical tools in political economy.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrical Societies 155.
POLECON 160 Political Economy in Historical Context 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 100 and 101, or Political Economy of Industrial Societies 100 and 101, or consent of instructor.
This course focuses specifically on the historical context and perspective of the relationship of politics and economics in modern societies. Students are guided through an interdisciplinary survey of the historical experience of peoples and places who have participated in the ongoing great transformation away from argricultural societies to the rise of the industrial state and onto post-industrialism. Each term provides a different perspective of this transformation.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 160.
POLECON W160A Political Economy in Historical Context: The Twentieth Century: Economies, Societies, Polities, Technologies 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Web-based lecture and 3 hours of Web-based discussion per week for 8 weeks. This is an online course.
Prerequisites: Econ 1 or equivalent.
The world today is more different-in its economies, in its forms of political organization, in its sociological dynamics, and perhaps most of all in the technologies we use and abuse every day-than the world of 1870 was from the world of 1820, or indeed than the world of 1870 was from the world of 500 BC. We who live on this globe now are who we are because the history of the past century and a half has taken the form that it has. And that history is predominantly economic and technological. This course is web-based.
Students will receive no credit for W160A after taking 160A or Economics 115 or Political Economy of Industrial Societies 160A. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies W160A. Instructor: DeLong
POLECON 192 Senior Thesis 3 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual weekly meetings.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing; consent of instructor.
This course is designed to provide a vehicle for undergraduate students interested in writing a major paper on a political economy topic. The paper should be approximately thirty pages in length; the topic should be agreed upon in advance by both the student and faculty sponsor.
Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 192.
POLECON H195 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of seminar plus 1 hour of consultation per week.
Prerequisites: International and Area Studies 102 and consent of instructor; senior standing.
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies H195.
POLECON 196 Special Field Research 1 - 6 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 240-300 hours work per semester plus regular meetings with the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Students to work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as produce a final paper for the course consisting of no fewer than 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 196.
POLECON C196A/GWS C196A/HISTART C196A/HISTORY C196A/MEDIAST C196A/POL SCI C196A/SOCIOL C196A/UGIS C196A UCDC Core Seminar 4 Units
Department: Political Economy; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Science; Sociology; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 10 weeks.
Prerequisites: C196B (must be taken concurrently).
This course is the UCDC letter-graded core seminar for 4 units that complements the P/NP credited internship course UGIS C196B. Core seminars are designed to enhance the experience of and provide an intellectual framework for the student's internship. UCDC core seminars are taught in sections that cover various tracks such as the Congress, media, bureaucratic organizations and the Executive Branch, international relations, public policy and general un-themed original research.
Instructor: Cain
POLECON C196B/GWS C196B/HISTART C196B/HISTORY C196B/MEDIAST C196B/POL SCI C196B/SOCIOL C196B/UGIS C196B UCDC Internship 6.5 Units
Department: Political Economy; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Science; Sociology; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 20-4 to Thirty hours of Internship per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: C196A (must be taken concurrently).
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the UCDC and Cal in the Capital Programs. It must be taken in conjunction with the required academic core course C196A. C196B requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experienc in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts or other areas or relevance to their major fields of study.
Instructor: Cain
POLECON C196W/GWS C196W/HISTART C196W/HISTORY C196W/MEDIAST C196W/POL SCI C196W/SOCIOL C196W/UGIS C196W Special Field Research 10.5 Units
Department: Political Economy; Gender and Women's Studies; History; History of Art; Media Studies; Political Science; Sociology; Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 240-300 hours of work per semester plus regular meetings with the faculty supervisor.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Students work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as a final paper for the course consisting of at least 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units. Formerly known as 196W.
POLECON 197 Field Studies 1 - 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Regular individual meetings.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing and consent of instructor.
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of Political Economy of Industrial Societies in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 197.
POLECON 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Group meetings to be announced.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing and consent of instructor.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 198.
POLECON 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research for Undergraduates 1 - 4 Units
Department: Political Economy
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual meetings, to be announced.
Prerequisites: Written proposal must be approved by a faculty adviser.
Enrollment restricted by regulations of the college.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Political Economy of Industrial Societies 199.
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