Course Catalog

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics,and economics.

Students attend a selection of philosophy research seminars and conferences held in Paris during the semester including events in English. Students will prepare three episodes of a podcast called "Philosophy in Paris" in which they update listeners on new developments in the philosophy scene in Paris. This course combines experiential learning with digital literacy, requiring the acquisition of basic producing, editing and broadcasting skills for podcasts. The professor will brief students before the events and then debrief them. With advance planning students will complete some reading to prepare them for the events.

Upon a successful thesis application students must complete the thesis workshop in which they develop their thesis proposal through the submission of a literature review, an annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a draft of the first chapter. Students will learn how to plan and execute a substantial research project with the professor's close supervision.