May 10, 2024  
Catalog 2024-25 
    
Catalog 2024-25

GS 342 - Economic Thought: History and Contemporary Interpretations


Explores political economy from historical, critical, global, indigenous, and feminist perspectives. Students analyze relationships among economic systems and cultural, political and social institutions. Issues include global economic and environmental crises, labor activism, labor migration, informal work and precarity, coloniality, poverty and inequality, global public health, wars, refugees, and resistance. Students assess assumptions and critically apply theories and methods to local/global events. 

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (GE  Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall term only

Units: 3