Advanced Certificate in PPE

The Advanced Certificate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics offers students an opportunity to receive comprehensive training in the core formal and experimental methods that have shaped the field. Thanks to UB’s research focus in PPE, our graduate students are able to develop a powerful combination of skills.

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We offer extensive training in formal modeling approaches such as game and decision theory, computational and experimental methods. In this program, students will learn to integrate these approaches with a rich understanding of social and political philosophy as well as the philosophy of social science and political economy. This program will train students in interdisciplinary methods to facilitate innovative new research and develop skills that are valuable in both the academic and the non-academic job markets.

Learning Outcomes

By the completion of their studies in the proposed advanced certificate program in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, students are expected to demonstrate the following primary student learning outcomes:

  1. Students will demonstrate domain expertise in their chosen area of normative philosophy.
  2. Students will be capable of producing, analyzing, and critiquing social science experiments.
  3. Students will gain mastery in their chosen area of formal methods.
  4. Students will be able to use models and normative philosophy to address concrete real world problems.

Curriculum

Total program credits: 15
Format: In-person only
Schedule: Full-time or part-time options
Time to completion: As little as 1 year

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Core Required Course

PHI 533 Intro to PPE Methods

Normative Philosophy Requirement (Students Choose One Course)

PHI 534 Contemporary Political Philosophy
PHI 540 Advanced Topics in Political Philosophy
PHI 510 Social Norms
PHI 573 History of Moral and Political Philosophy

Experimental Methods Requirement (Students Choose One Course)

PHI 524 Research Methods in Experimental Philosophy
PSC 534 Text as Data
PSC 535 Experimental Design and Analysis
ECO 580 Econometrics 1

Formal Methods Requirement (Students Choose One Course)

PHI 555 Modeling Society
PSC 533 Formal Political Theory
PSC 508 Basic Statistics for Social Sciences
PSC 531 Intermediate Statistics for Social Sciences
PSC 631 Advanced Statistics for Social Sciences
PHI 520 Philosophy of Science
PHI 527 History of Formal Methods
PHI 536 Formal Epistemology
ECO 567 Economics and Game Theory
ECO 505 Microeconomic Theory

Electives (Students Choose One Course)

Any course listed above that is not already taken to satisfy one of the above requirements
PHI 599 Independent study (on a PPE topic supervised by a PPE faculty member)

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