Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (BA)
The mission of Dallas Baptist University's Politics, Philosophy, Economics (PPE) program is to equip students through studying the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics with an intellectual versatility and interdisciplinary perspective to be Christ-like servant leaders prepared to engage the complexities of modern socio-economic challenges and problems.
Program Goals:
Students will acquire knowledge of key concepts and theories from the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics.
Students will identify and employ the methods of analysis from the constituent disciplines as they engage practical and theoretical problems.
Students will understand the application of the biblical Christian worldview to the study of PPE.
Students will be proficient at critical thinking and formal reasoning.
Students will construct and communicate arguments with clarity, precision, and effectiveness.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
courses | credit hours (ba) |
|---|---|
DBUE 1301 - Foundations for the DBU Experience | 3 |
Developing A Christian Mind | 3 |
English | 9-10 |
ENGL 1301/1401 - Composition and Rhetoric I ENGL 1302 - Composition and Rhetoric II and ENGL 2301 - World Literature I or ENGL 2302 - World Literature II | |
Fine Arts | 3 |
History Lower Level (LL) | 3 |
Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List. | |
Kinesiology | 1 |
KNES 1101 - Fitness for Living | |
Mathematics (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-hour course from Math LL Course List. | |
Natural Science (3-4 hour LL course) | 3-4 |
Choose one 3-4 hour course from Nat. Lab Science LL Course List. | |
Religion | 9 |
RELI 1301 - Old Testament Survey RELI 1302 - New Testament Survey and one additional RELI course from RELI Course List. | |
Social Science | 3 |
POLS 2301 - American National Government | |
Total Core Experience | 40-43 |
Additional Program General Education Hours | 12 |
PHIL 2301 - Introduction to Philosophy Choose one 3-hour course from HIST LL Course List (Must be different from the course chosen above). Choose two 3-hour 2000-level courses in the same language from LANG/BL Language Course List. | |
Major Core | 39 |
ECON 2301 - Principles of Macroeconomics ECON 2302 - Principles of Microeconomics PHIL 2302 - Introduction to Logic PHIL 4303 - Ethics POLS 4305 - American Political Tradition POLS 4310 - Fundamentals of International Relations (S-L) PPE 2301 - Introduction to Politics, Philosophy, and Economics PPE 3301 - Political Philosophy PPE 3302 - Strategic Reasoning PPE 3303 - Core PPE Seminar PPE 3304 - PPE Internship (S-L) PPE 4303 - Senior PPE Seminar Choose 3 hours from: ECON 4312 - History of Free Market Thought PHIL 4301 - Metaphysics PHIL 4302 - Epistemology POLS 2303 - Statistics for Social Sciences POLS 4302 - Comparative Government | |
Electives | |
Upper-Level | 6 |
Lower or Upper-Level | 20-23 |
TOTAL CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED | 120 |
A 120-credit-hour minimum for a bachelor's degree is required, including 36 upper-level credit hours.
At least 12 credit hours in the major program must be completed at Dallas Baptist University, including nine upper-level course hours.
Minimum GPA Required for Graduation from Dallas Baptist University: DBU requires a minimum institutional cumulative, major, and minor GPA of 2.0.
(S-L) = Course(s) with field-based service-learning component.
Refer to individual course descriptions for course requisites.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
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