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• ECON 287 AI: Economic Impacts, Challenges, & Opportunities 6 credits

  This course explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), economics, and policy. We examine AI's economic potential impacts on labor markets (job creation/displacement, skills, wages, and implications for policies like minimum wage or Universal Basic Income), productivity, economic growth, market structures, and innovation, using theory and empirical evidence. Real-world AI applications and socio-economic consequences are analyzed through case studies across multiple sectors of the economy. The course also investigates AI's use as a research tool (literature review, data collection, analysis, forecasting) and explores critical ethical challenges (bias, fairness, privacy, transparency, environmental implications), and broader policy/governance issues.

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
  • Prerequisites:

    Student has completed any of the following course(s): ECON 110 or ECON 111 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 5 on the Macroeconomics AP exam or received a score of 5 on the Microeconomics AP exam or a score of 6 or better on the Economics IB exam or received an ECON 110 requisite equivalency or received an ECON 111 requisite equivalency.

  • Tags: CL: 200 level ECON Elective PPOL Economic Policy Making & Development

  • ECON  287.01 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm

• POSC 364 Capitalism and Its Critics 6 credits

  This research seminar examines the contemporary institutions, processes, and challenges of modern capitalism in advanced and developing countries. The course begins with a review of key thinkers on modern capitalism: Marx, Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Polanyi, Offe, Tilly, and Piketty. It then proceeds to an analysis of the sweeping debate concerning inequality and democracy. Student work in this course focuses on the research and composition of a 20-25-page original work on a topic relevant to the questions covered in the seminar. Intense course participation, including classroom discussion and periodic debates, is required. Majors may develop their comps based on this seminar.

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry WR2 Writing Requirement 2
  • Tags: CL: 300 level POSI Elective PPOL Economic Policy Making & Development

  • POSC  364.01 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm