History of Capitalism Minor Approved Courses
1. Regional/National/Global Survey of Capitalism
HIST 1540/AMST 1540/ILRLR 1845 American Capitalism
2. Economics and Business
Students will need to take at least one course from this list.
ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics
ECON 1120 Introductory Macroeconomics
ECON 3010 Accelerated Microeconomics
ECON 3030 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON 3300 Development of Economic Thought and Institutions
ECON 3310 American Economics History I
ECON 3320 American Economic History II
GOVT 3547 American Primacy Challenged: International Political Economy
GOVT 3557 American Exceptionalism Questioned: Comparative Political Economy
PAM 2000 Intermediate Microeconomics
AEM 2241 Finance (formerly AEM 2240)
HADM 2250 Finance
3. Historical Areas
Students will need to take at least three courses from the following list (students may also request inclusion of a "historical" course, please email staff).
GERST 4431 Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin (HIST 4234)
GERST 1170 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
GERST 3610 Homo Oeconomicus
HIST 1690 Latin America and the World
HIST 1950 The Invention of Latin America
HIST 1955 No gods, No masters: Histories of Anarchism
HIST 2062 Migrant Workers in the Americas
HIST 2210 Popular Culture in China
HIST 2452 Dress Cloth and Identity
HIST 2423 Dazed and Confused: The Politics of Drug and Alcohol in US History
HIST 2063 Anarchism: History, Theory, Practice
HIST 2500 Technology in Society
HIST 2581 Environmental History
HIST 3022 Capitalism and American Democracy
HIST 3050 Eighteenth-Century Britain
HIST 3181 Living in an Uncertain World: Science, Technology, and Risk (BSOC 3181, STS 3181)
HIST 3652 African Economic Development Histories
HIST 3740 America Becomes Modern: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era
HIST 4041 Atlantic Commodities
HIST 4261 Commodification and Consumerism in Historical Perspective
HIST 4490 Peddlers, Pirates and Prostitutes: Subaltern Histories of Southeast Asia, 1800-1900
HIST 4820 History of Slavery
ILRLR 1100 Introduction to U.S. Labor History
ILRLR 3040 Special Topics in Labor History
ILRLR 3060 Recent History of American Workers
ILRLR 3065 Immigrant America: Race and Citizenship in Modern Working Class History
ILRLR 3880 Unfree Labor: Servants, Slaves, and Wives
ILRLR 3870 The History of Consumption: From Wedgwood to WalMart