Bachelor of Arts, Minor in Political Economy

Regulations effective September 1, 2022.

The Political Economy Minor at Athabasca University is designed for both beginning students and professionals to understand and engage with Canadian and global political and economic issues. The course selection provides students the opportunity to develop a greater appreciation and understanding of diverse polities, economies, cultures, and regions of the world. Additionally, it offers to professionals the retooling skills and the academic credential necessary for successful employment in an era of globalization.

Minor (30 credits, of which at least 15 must be in senior courses)

Core courses

(12 credits)

POEC/GLST/INTR 230	Globalization and World Politics	(3)
POEC 302	Theories and Approaches to Political Economy	(3)
POEC/GLST/INTR 395	Political Economy of Development: People, Processes, and Policies	(3)
CMNS 308 or ECON 247 or ECON 248 or MATH 215 or MGSC 301	Understanding Statistical Evidence or Microeconomics or Macroeconomics or Introduction to Statistics or Statistics for Business and Economics I	(3)

Focus areas

(12 credits in one of the two Political Economy focus areas):

Focus area 1: Global Political Economy
Focus area 2: Canadian Political Economy

Focus area 1: Global Political Economy

ECON 366	Economic Development	(3)
ECON 475	International Trade	(3)
ECON 476	International Finance	(3)
ECON/LBST 330	Workers and the Economy	(3)
ENVS 435	Transformative Change in Building Sustainable Communities	(3)
ENVS/GLST 243	Environmental Change in a Global Context	(3)
FNCE 370	Overview of Corporate Finance	(3)
GEOL 313	Our Physical Resources	(3)
GOVN 450	Public Budgeting and Financial Management in a Globalized World	(3)
GLST/GOVN/POLI 403	Public Policy in a Global Era	(3)
LBST/SOCI/WGST 332	Women and Unions	(3)
MKTG 414	International Marketing and Exporting	(3)
POEC/GLST/INTR 483	International Political Economy: The Politics of Globalization	(3)
POLI 307	Political Ideologies	(3)
POLI/INTR 330	International and Global Politics	(3)
POLI 342	Introduction to Comparative Politics	(3)
POLI 480	Politics of Our Networked World in the Digital Era	(3)
SOCI 381	The Rich and the Rest: The Sociology of Wealth, Power, and Inequality	(3)
SOCI 435	Theories of Social Change	(3)

Focus area 2: Canadian Political Economy

CMNS 380	Corporate Communication	(3)
CMNS 401	Cultural Policy in Canada	(3)
CMNS 202/POLI 291	Media and Power in Canadian Society	(3)
ECON 385	Money, Banking and Canadian Financial Institutions	(3)
FNCE 322	Personal Finance	(3)
GEOG 311	Canadian Urban Development	(3)
GOVN 301	Governance, the Public Sector and Corporate Power	(3)
GOVN 450	Public Budgeting and Financial Management in a Globalized World	(3)
HIST 326	Contemporary Canada: Canada after 1945	(3)
HIST 330	Social History of Canada: European Contact to Early Industrialization	(3)
HIST 331	Social History of Canada: Early Industrialization to Contemporary Canada	(3)
HIST 336	History of Canadian Labour	(3)
HIST/WGST 365	Girls and Women in Urban Canada, 1880–1940	(3)
IDRL 320	The Law of Work	(3)
IDRL 309/LGST 310	Human Rights, the Charter and Labour Relations	(3)
POEC 393	Canada and the Global Political Economy	(3)
POLI 309	Canadian Government and Politics	(3)
POLI 311	Aboriginal Politics and Governments	(3)
POLI 325	Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics	(3)
POLI 390	Canadian Federalism	(3)
SOCI 291	Canadian Society	(3)
SOCI 321	Sociology of Work and Industry	(3)
TAXX 301	Taxation I	(3)

Electives

(6 credits from any of the following Political Economy designated courses)

ANTH 277	The Archaeology of Us: First Humans to First Civilizations	(3)
ANTH 320	Ancient Cities and Civilizations	(3)
ANTH 384	The Family in the World Perspective	(3)
ANTH 394	Urban Anthropology	(3)
ANTH 407	Examining Cultures—Advanced Readings in Regional Ethnology	(3)
CMNS 201	Introduction to Mass Media	(3)
CMNS 302	Communication in History	(3)
CMNS 358	Popular Culture and the Media	(3)
CMNS 402	Global Communication	(3)
CMNS 423	The Television Age	(3)
CMNS 385/ SOCI 378	Rebel with a Cause: Social Movements in History and Popular Culture	(3)
ECON/HADM 321	Health Care Economics	(3)
ECON 380	Public Finance and Expenditure	(3)
ENVS 435	Transformative Change in Building Sustainable Communities	(3)
GEOG 201	Introductory Human Geography	(3)
GEOG/GLST 200	World Regional Geography	(3)
GLST/HIST 209	A History of the World in the Twentieth Century I	(3)
GLST/HIST 210	A History of the World in the Twentieth Century II	(3)
GLST/HIST 308	Americas: An Introduction to Latin America and the Caribbean	(3)
HIST 404	Historical Foundations of Modern Science	(3)
HIST 407	The Enlightenment	(3)
HIST 486	The Industrial Revolution	(3)
HIST/GLST/WGST 460	Famous Feminists and Their Times: Global History of Feminism	(3)
HIST/INST 368	History of Canada’s First Nations to 1830	(3)
HIST/INST 369	History of Canada’s First Nations from 1830	(3)
HIST/INST 370	The Métis	(3)
INST 203	Indigenous Studies I	(3)
INST 205	Indigenous Studies II	(3)
INST 357	Contemporary Aboriginal Issues in Canada	(3)
INST 358	Aboriginal Women in Canada	(3)
INST 430	Indigenous Governance	(3)
PHIL 371	Ethics, Science, Technology, and the Environment	(3)
PHIL 375	Philosophy of the Environment	(3)
SOCI 380	Canadian Ethnic Relations	(3)
WGST 201	An Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies	(3)
WGST 302	Communication Skills – Feminist Practice	(3)

Information effective Sept. 1, 2022 to Aug. 31, 2023.

Updated March 15, 2023 by Office of the Registrar (calendar@athabascau.ca)