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Social Sciences Consortium: Economics, Political Science and Sociology

Discipline Coordinator
Doug Bowles, (816) 235-1394, bowlesdh@umkc.edu
Doctoral Faculty Participation
See the individual entries for economics, political science and sociology.
Social Sciences Consortium is a discipline in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program administered by the School of Graduate Studies.
Note: The discipline-specific requirements listed here are in addition to the requirements listed in Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Application Procedure and Minimum Criteria for Admission and Minimum Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Academic Regulations and Degree Requirements earlier in this section.

Discipline-Specific Admission Requirements

The Social Sciences Consortium is only available as a co-discipline option, not as a coordinating-unit discipline. Each participant in the consortium, economics, political science and sociology, is fully involved, as a discipline, in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, with discipline-specific criteria for admission and core program requirements. In addition, however, these three disciplines have developed a special co-discipline option that blends elements of economics, political science and sociology for students who desire a broader interdisciplinary approach to their doctoral studies.

Recommendations for admission are made by a committee of doctoral faculty (from the three disciplines) which reviews all applications. After admission, the faculty committee aids in the formation of each student's supervisory committee.

Suggested Compatible Coordinating Discipline

Curriculum and instruction, economics, geosciences (with a geography focus), history, political science, psychology, public affairs and administration, sociology and urban leadership and policy studies in education.

Core Program Requirements

Students admitted with this combination of social science areas as their co-disciplines will normally take at least one doctoral-level core course in each of the three participating social science disciplines, plus two three-hour interdisciplinary social science courses. One of these interdisciplinary courses, SocSc 5561 Philosophy of Social Science, is taken early in students' programs, and the other, SocSc 5620 Seminar in Social Theory and Policy Analysis, is taken near the end of students' programs to provide a capstone to the co-disciplines and a place to begin designing and polishing students' research proposals for their dissertations.
The discipline-specific, doctoral-level core courses are:
  • ECON 5688 Colloquium on Political Economy (ECON 5551 Advanced Institutional Theory may be substituted)
  • POLSC 5680 Traditions, Theories, and Trends in Political Science
  • SOC 5503 Controversies in Contemporary Social Theory and Practice
Students with economics, political science or sociology as their coordinating-unit discipline may substitute a course from one of the other two disciplines or from history in place of the doctoral-level core course from their coordinating-unit discipline. The total minimum co-discipline core requirement is 15 credit hours (five courses).

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