Details & Requirements
CORE COMPETENCIES
In completing the requirements for the certificate, students will:
- Expand the scope and methods of their inquiry through instruction in multiple economic paradigms, including those not typically emphasized in traditional curricula.
- Interrogate questions of employment, inequality, discrimination, and economic (in)security, to name a few, using interdisciplinary and intersectional research methods.
- Develop data skills to examine these challenges from macro and micro perspectives.
- Learn to write public policy briefs for policy-making audiences.
Upon completion of the certificate, students will gain a deeper understanding of today’s economic challenges and contemporary policy discussions and be equipped with tools to conduct their own policy analysis and research in a multidisciplinary manner. Each of the courses fulfilling the requirements for the Certificate contribute to this outcome.
REQUIREMENTSTo earn the certificate, students must complete a total of five (5) courses (two required and three electives) for a total of 15 US or 30 ECTS credits. Two of these courses must be OSUN Network Collaborative Courses (NCCs). Students at OSUN institutions that do not yet offer these two NCCs, can fulfill the requirements by enrolling in OSUN Online Courses, such as Democratizing Work after the Pandemic or the Right to Employment, or by participating in an comparable curricular program, subject to approval of their advisor and Certificate coordinator. The remaining three courses may be part of the regular curriculum of the student’s home institution and/or OSUN courses and will fulfill the certificate’s methods and additional elective course requirements.
COURSE OF STUDYTwo required core courses - OSUN Network Collaborative Course: Economic Perspectives for Policy Making (or a corresponding OSUN policy-focused History of Economic Thought course)
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course: Right to Employment (or a corresponding OSUN Online Economic History course, such as Democratizing Work or Full Employment: History, Theory, Policy)
Three elective coursesOne elective methods/data analysis course offered by the home institution.
Two elective courses focused on public policy to address questions of economic insecurity, offered at the home institution. Students are strongly encouraged to take at least one of these courses in a discipline outside of their primary program of study.
A public policy briefStudents will be required to submit a public policy brief before completion of the program. This requirement can be fulfilled by producing a brief for one of the courses taken for the certificate or as an additional paper approved by the advisor.
ELIGIBILITY All undergraduate students across the Open Society University Network are eligible for the Certificate.
ADMISSIONTo ensure timely progression through the program, students are asked to submit approval from their program advisor along with their application, which can be emailed to the Institution’s Certificate coordinator. Prior to submitting an application, students should have completed one of the Certificate’s core course requirements.
SUGGESTED PROGRAM OF STUDY FOR STUDENTS AT OSUN PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
BARD COLLEGECore courses
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course: History of Economic Thought course Economic Perspectives for Policy Making (Fall semester)
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course: The Right to Employment (Spring semester)
- or The Right to Employment OSUN Summer Course
Electives
- One data/methods course at Bard
- ECON 329 Advanced Econometrics (FA, Guatam Sethi)
- EUS/ES 340 Statistics & Econometrics (FA, Gautam Sethi)
- EUS/ES 321 GIS for Environmental Justice (FA, Jordan Ayala)
- SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods (FA, Yuval Elmelech)
- Two additional electives from Bard
- Economic Security (Unemployment, Inequality, Poverty, Development)
- ECON 221 Economic Development (FA, Sanjay DeSilva)
- ECON 319 Developing Cities (SP, Sanjay DeSilva)
- HR 376 Housing Justice (SP, Kwame Holmes)
- SOC 120 Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality (Yuval Elmelech)
- Climate and Ecological Sustainability
- SOC 231 The Environment and Society (FA, Peter Klien)
- EUS/ES 324 Environmental Law for Policy (FA, Danielle Spiegel-Feld)
- EUS 224 Climate Change Science and its Human Dimensions (SP, Beate Liepert)
- Health and Disability
- ECON 212 Health Economics (SP, Michael Martell)
- HR 354 Reproductive Health and Human Rights (SP, Helen Epstein)
- HR 372 Chronic: Disability, Sickness, and Care (SP, Evan Calder Williams)
- BGIA 313 Data and Public Health in a Global Context (FA, Gabriel Perron) | Data: Quantifying Human Health
- Intersectionality
- ECON 338 Seminar in Discrimination (Mike Martell)
- HR 274 Immigrants Among Us: Political Rights of Non-Citizens (FA, Peter Rosenblum)
- PSY SOC Gender and Sexuality Studies 220 Social Psychology (SP, Kristin Lane)
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDESCore courses
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course, History of Economic Thought (offered fall and spring semesters at Los Andes, Prof. Jimena Hurtado Prieto)
- The Right to Employment OSUN Summer Course
Electives
- One data/methods course at Uni Andes:
- CPOL-2503 Métodos cuantitativos and CPOL-2504
- Econometrics 1 (ECON3321 or ECON3311)
- EGOB-2601Introducción a la práctica de la estadística (that has as pre-requisite MATE-1252 Cálculo integral con probabilidad)
- Open to undergraduates in the 3rd and 4th yeear: EGOB-4104 Técnicas de análisis de datos, and EGOB-4105 Análisis económico de las políticas públicas
- Two additional electives from Uni Andes:
- HIST-2800 AMÉRICA LATINA: MERCADOS Y REVOLUCIONES GLOBALES, 1700-1850
- HIST-2771 CAPITALISMO Y ESPACIO: HISTORIA URBANA GLOBAL
- CBCA-1006 TENER Y PODER (Economic anthropology course)
- CPOL-2424 TEORÍA POLÍTICA MARXISTA Y POSTMARXISTA.
AL-QUDS BARD COLLEGE (AQB)Core courses
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course, History of Economic Thought (offered spring semester at AQB, Prof. Sobhi Samour)
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course, The Right to Employment (offered spring semester, AQB, Prof. Sameh Alhallaq)
Electives
- One data/methods course at AQB: Quantitative Research Methods (9117301)
- Two additional electives from AQB: AQB elective course list
BARD COLLEGE BERLIN (BCB)Core courses
- Core Course Origins of Political Economy (offered each Fall semester)
- Right to Employment (TBD), The Right to Employment OSUN Summer Course.
One data/methods course at BCB: Statistics (MA151 Introduction to Statistics), Econometrics, Methods in Social and Historical Studies (SO104 Field Research: Dilemmas and Possibilities, SO105 Researching Social Life)
Two additional electives from BCB, from the modules Behavioral Economics (e.g. EC221 Sustainability Economics), History of Political Thought (e.g. SO181 Race, Racism and Resistance: From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter), Political Systems and Structures (e.g. PS119 Intro to Comparative Politics, PS208 The Political Economy of Globalization), Methods in Social and Historical Studies (e.g. SO182 Research and Activism in the Urban Context), Ethics and Moral Philosophy (e.g. the OSUN Network collaborative course: PT160 Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody)
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ASIA (AUCA)AUCA CertificateCore courses
- OSUN Network Collaborative Course History of Economic Thought (offered fall semester at AUCA, Prof. Asel Kyrgyzbaeva)
OSUN Network Collaborative Course, The Right to Employment (offered spring semester, AUCA, Prof. Akylai Muktarbekkyzy and Prof. Meerim Djakypova)
Electives
- One data/methods course at AUCA: ECO 401 Research Methods in Economics and Social Sciences
- Two additional electives from AUCA: SOC 201: Stratification, Inequality, & Power, ECO 305: Labor Economics, ECO 313: Environmental and Resource Economics