Mar 03, 2025  
Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Catalog 2025-2026

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  Area 1A and 1B and 1C and 2 with a C- or better)
General Education: UD4 Social&Behavioral Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall term only

Units: 3