This Ph.D. degree program combines courses from the Department of International Studies and the Department of Economic Sciences in the Division of Politics and Economics for an interdisciplinary political economy degree.  Students must be accepted into the Ph.D. interfield by both the Department of Economic Sciences and the Department of International Studies and complete an Interfield Coursework Proposal form that is signed and approved by each department.

Degree Requirements

Coursework.  A minimum of 80 units is required for the doctoral degree.  In addition to the tools requirements, students are required to complete six-course sequences in two of the program’s field offerings.

Research Tools.  Satisfactory completion of research tool requirements through our core methods courses.

Transdisciplinary Requirement. All CGU Doctoral students are required to complete a Transdisciplinary course (T-Course) within the first two years of their program or by the completion of 48 units in their program. The course will count as 4 units towards the doctoral degree requirement. It will not add any additional units to the student’s degree requirements nor count against the total number of transfer units from previous graduate coursework.

Qualifying Exams. 

A modified qualifying exam structure takes into account the requirements of the two programs. There are three qualifying exams in total:

• Economics: Successful completion of the Interfield Microeconomics qualifying exam and a qualifying exam or paper in the major field of study.

• Political Science: Successful completion of a qualifying exam in the chosen concentration.

Dissertation.  Campus policies and procedures are detailed in the Doctoral Degree Regulations section of the current Policies and General Information Bulletin and on the registrar’s webpage.

University Policies. Policies detailed in the current Policies and General Information Bulletin apply.

Admission. Admission requirements are detailed in the Admissions section of the current Policies and General Information Bulletin.

Practical Experience Milestone

Coursework Requirements

Microeconomics & Macroeconomics (12 units)

• Econ 302 Modern Macroeconomics: Analysis, Policy, and Applications
• Econ 313 Microeconomic Analysis or Econ 316 Consumer Theory and General Equilibrium

One of the following, with approval of the field advisor:

• Econ 317 Game Theory and Asymmetric Information (Prerequisite: Econ 316)
• SP&E 317 Advanced Formal Modeling

Political Economy (8 units)

• SP&E 352 Comparative Political Economy
• SP&E 411 International Political Economy

Research Tools (16 units)

If your primary department is the Department of Economic Sciences, take the following sequence (16 units):

• ECON 381 Probability and Statistic for Econometrics
• ECON 382 Econometrics II
• ECON 383 Econometrics III
• INST 489 Advanced Research Design

Transdisciplinary Requirement

One class (4 units).

Doctoral students are required to complete a Transdisciplinary (TNDY) course (T-Course) within the first two years of their program or by the completion of 48 units in their program. The course will count as 4 units towards the doctoral degree requirement. It will not add any additional units to the student’s degree requirements nor count against the total number of transfer units from previous graduate coursework. See the class schedule for TNDY classes.

Fields

Choose one area of study in Economics and one concentration in International Studies:

Economics (20 units)

• Applied Microeconomics
• International Economic & Development Policy

 

International Studies (20 units)

• Comparative Politics
• Computational Analytics
• International Political Economy*
• World Politics

* This field is only available to students completing the interfield between International Politics and Political Science and Economics Ph.D.