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Programs · Barnard College · 2025-2026

Political Economy at Barnard College: what LionPlan checks

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Tell us your school, your major, and what you have taken. A course card then shows what a class satisfies (“Satisfies Probability / Statistics”) and what it unlocks (“Opens up 7 more courses”), plus the section time and instructor rating.

The groups below are the ones LionPlan actually checks for this program. They were transcribed from the 2025-2026 Bulletin. Confirm them with your school before you register.

  1. Introduction to Economic Reasoning

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC1003.

    ECON BC1003. 3 points.

  2. Mathematics

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: ECON BC1007, MATH UN1101.

    ECON BC1007 Math Methods for Economics, or MATH UN1101 Calculus I. Note this is Calculus I — the Economics track requires Calculus III instead. If you have AP college credit for calculus you have already satisfied this, but you must take an additional economics elective in its place so the course total is unchanged; we cannot see AP credit, so this group will show unmet for you.

  3. Statistics

    Choose N

    Choose 1 of: ECON BC2411, STAT UN1101, STAT UN1201, PSYC BC1101.

    ECON BC2411 Statistics for Economics, or STAT UN1101, or STAT UN1201, or PSYC BC1101. Required for the class of 2021 and later; it replaced one of the three interdisciplinary electives the older curriculum had.

  4. Intermediate theory

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC3033, ECON BC3035.

    ECON BC3033 Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and ECON BC3035 Intermediate Microeconomics. Both. Note that unlike the Economics track, Political Economy does NOT require ECON BC3018 Econometrics.

  5. Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy

    All of these

    All of these: ECON BC3041.

    ECON BC3041. The course the track is built around.

  6. Three economics electives

    N matching

    3 courses matching ECON courses, numbered 2000 to 4999, not counting courses already used for another group in this program.

    Three economics electives, two of which must be upper-level — that is, they must have intermediate micro- or macroeconomic theory as a prerequisite. We count three ECON courses at the 2000 level or above that the requirements above and the senior requirement below have not consumed, and do not check the upper-level condition: it is defined by prerequisite, not by course number.

  7. Two interdisciplinary electives

    Attested

    You confirm this yourself. I have completed two interdisciplinary electives, each linked to an economics elective and approved by my major adviser.

    Two courses outside economics, each LINKED to one of your economics electives — addressing related subject matter, and approved as such by your major adviser. That pairing is a relation between two of your own courses that a person adjudicates, so you certify it. The department's suggested areas are Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Environmental Science, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Women's Studies, Africana Studies, American Studies, Human Rights Studies, Jewish Studies, Science and Public Policy, and Urban Studies — but the list is explicitly "NOT an exhaustive list" and you may propose alternatives.

  8. Senior requirement

    One sequence

    One sequence: Senior Thesis I and II (ECON BC3061, ECON BC3062), or Senior Seminar (plus an additional upper-level elective) (ECON BC3063).

    One of two options. The thesis is a year-long sequence — ECON BC3061 then ECON BC3062 — and half of it satisfies nothing, which is why this is a sequence choice. Choosing ECON BC3063 Senior Seminar instead also requires an ADDITIONAL upper-level economics elective beyond the three above, which the rule cannot show.

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