Global Political Economy Minor

International Relations Program
102 Maxwell Hall

The minor in Global Political Economy (GPE) is an interdisciplinary program in the social sciences designed to help students explore the dimensions and implications of economic globalization in contemporary international relations. The minor is administered by the International Relations Program and is open to all Syracuse University undergraduate students in good academic standing.

International relations majors whose topic concentration is international political economy (IPE) are not eligible to take the Global Political Economy minor.

Minor Requirements

In order to declare the minor, a student must receive a B grade or better in one of the two required lower division courses. The GPE minor consists of six (6) courses, eighteen (18) credits. These include

two required introductory-level courses, PSC 124 - International Relations (or PSC 139 Honors Sections) and GEO 273 - Geography of Capitalism: The Political Economy of Global Inequality , plus
12 credits in courses numbered 300 or above from our list of approved courses, which must include one course in Economics, one in Political Science, and two additional social science GPE courses. Of the four upper division courses, students may take a maximum of two political science and two economics courses.

Upper Division Courses

This is not a complete list of courses that can be applied to the minor. A full list of on-campus courses that are approved each semester for the minor (including special and selected topics) as well as courses through Syracuse Abroad and Maxwell in Washington can be found on the International Relations website.