Program Overview

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences

The School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences offers a Double Major in International Political Economy and Global Business, leading to a Bachelor of Science degree.

Bachelor of Science in International Political Economy and Global Business

The Bachelor of Science in International Political Economy and Global Business is a double major program that requires 137 semester credit hours.

Degree Requirements

• The program requires an international experience, which can be fulfilled through a semester of study abroad, a faculty-led trip, or an international internship.
• Students must complete 42 semester credit hours of core curriculum requirements, including:
  • Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
• Major requirements include:
  • Global Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours
  • Major Core Courses: 27 semester credit hours
  • Major Related Courses: 12 semester credit hours
  • International Political Economy Core Courses: 21 semester credit hours
  • Foreign Language Requirement: 12 semester credit hours
  • Upper-Division Major Related Electives: 11 semester credit hours

Faculty

The program is supported by a diverse faculty with expertise in various fields, including:

• Professors: Brian J. L. Berry, Patrick T. Brandt, Paul Diehl, Euel W. Elliott, Jennifer S. Holmes, Dohyeong Kim, Clint W. Peinhardt, Richard K. Scotch
• Associate Professors: Jonas Bunte, Simon M. Fass
• Assistant Professors: Thomas Gray, Lauren Santoro
• Professors Emeriti: Lloyd J. Dumas, Donald A. Hicks, Murray J. Leaf
• Associate Professor of Instruction: Karl K. Ho

JSOM Faculty

The Jindal School of Management faculty includes:

• Professors: Ashiq Ali, Alain Bensoussan, Gary Bolton, Metín Çakanyildirim, Huseyin Cavusoglu, Jianqing Chen, William M. Cready, Milind Dawande, Gregory G. Dess, Umit G. Gurun, Dorothée Honhon, Kyle Hyndman, Varghese S. Jacob, Sanjay Jain, Ganesh Janakiraman, Elena Katok, Dmitri Kuksov, Nanda Kumar, Seung-Hyun Lee, Stanley Liebowitz, Zhiang (John) Lin, Sumit K. Majumdar, Stanimir Markov, Amit Mehra, Syam Menon, Vijay S. Mookerjee, B. P. S. Murthi, Vikram Nanda, Özalp Özer, Mike W. Peng, Hasan Pirkul, Cuili Qian, Suresh Radhakrishnan, Srinivasan Raghunathan, Ram C. Rao, Brian Ratchford, Michael J. Rebello, Gil Sadka, Sumit Sarkar, Suresh P. Sethi, Kathryn E. Stecke, Wing Kwong (Eric) Tsang, Jun Xia, Ying Xie, Harold Zhang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng
• Associate Professors: Mehmet Ayvaci, Nina Baranchuk, Zhonglan Dai, Rebecca Files, Bin Hu, Surya N. Janakiraman, Robert L. Kieschnick Jr., Atanu Lahiri, Jun Li, Ningzhong Li, Maria Loumioti, Lívia Markóczy, Ramachandran (Ram) Natarajan, Naim Bugra Ozel, H. Dennis Park, Anyan Qi, Young U. Ryu, Serdar Simsek, Harpreet Singh, Upender Subramanian, Shaojie Tang, Shouqiang Wang, Kelsey D. Wei, Han (Victor) Xia, Yexiao Xu, Alejandro Zentner, Jieying Zhang, Yuan Zhang, Zhe (James) Zhang, Feng Zhao, Yibin Zhou
• Assistant Professors: Khai Chiong, Andrew Frazelle, Ying Huang, Joonhwi Joo, Sora Jun, Jason Kautz, Sheen Levine, Meng Li, Jean-Marie Meier, Radha Mookerjee, Alejandro Rivera Mesias, Alessio Saretto, Simon Siegenthaler, Xiaoxiao Tang, Shervin Tehrani, Ashwin Venkataraman, Christian Von-Drathen, Guihua Wang, Junfeng Wu, Steven Xiao, Yingjie Zhang
• Professor Emeritus: John J. Wiorkowski
• Associate Professors Emeriti: J. Richard Harrison, Jane Salk
• Clinical Professors: John Barden, Abhijit Biswas, Shawn Carraher, Larry Chasteen, Howard Dover, John Gamino, Randall S. Guttery, William Hefley, Marilyn Kaplan, Sonia Leach, Peter Lewin, Jeffrey Manzi, Diane S. McNulty, Divakar Rajamani, Daniel Rajaratnam, Kannan Ramanathan, Mark Thouin, McClain Watson, Jeff Weekley, Habte Woldu, Fang Wu, Laurie L. Ziegler
• Clinical Associate Professors: Shawn Alborz, Dawn Owens, Carolyn Reichert, Avanti P. Sethi, Ramesh Subramoniam, Aysegul Toptal, David Widdifield
• Clinical Assistant Professors: Athena Alimirzaei, Moran Blueshtein, Jerome Gafford, Jeffery (Jeff) Hicks, Revansiddha Khanapure, Liping Ma, Ravi Narayan, Parneet Pahwa, Nassim Sohaee
• Professors of Instruction: Semiramis Amirpour, Mary Beth Goodrich, Chris Linsteadt, Matt Polze, Luell (Lou) Thompson
• Associate Professors of Instruction: Judd Bradbury, Monica E. Brussolo, Amal El-Ashmawi, Ayfer Gurun, Maria Hasenhuttl, Julie Haworth, Thomas (Tom) Henderson, Kathryn Lookadoo, Sarah Moore, Mohammad Naseri Taheri, Hubert Zydorek
• Assistant Professors of Instruction: Negin Enayaty Ahangar, Jennifer G. Johnson, Joseph Mauriello, Victoria D. McCrady, Edward Meda, Rasoul Ramezani, Gaurav Shekhar
• Professors of Practice: Tiffany A. Bortz, Ranavir Bose, Alexander Edsel, Rajiv Shah
• Associate Professors of Practice: Richard Bowen, Jackie Kimzey, David Parks, Margaret Smallwood, Steven Solcher, Kathy Zolton
• Assistant Professors of Practice: Khatereh Ahadi, Abu Naser Islam, Robert (Stephen) Molina, Timothy Stephens, Guido Tirone, Robert Wright
• Senior Lecturers: Juliann Chapman, Madison Pedigo

Program Details

The program requires a minimum of 137 semester credit hours, including:

• Core curriculum requirements: 42 semester credit hours
• Major requirements: 95 semester credit hours
• The program includes a foreign language requirement, which can be fulfilled by completing 12 semester credit hours of the same language.
• Students must also complete an upper-division major related elective, which can be fulfilled by completing a practicum experience or a community engagement experience.

Curriculum Requirements

The curriculum requirements for the program include:

• I. Core Curriculum Requirements: 42 semester credit hours
  • Communication: 6 semester credit hours
  • Mathematics: 3 semester credit hours
  • Life and Physical Sciences: 6 semester credit hours
  • Language, Philosophy and Culture: 3 semester credit hours
  • Creative Arts: 3 semester credit hours
  • American History: 6 semester credit hours
  • Government/Political Science: 6 semester credit hours
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 semester credit hours
  • Component Area Option: 6 semester credit hours
• II. Major Requirements: 95 semester credit hours
  • Global Business Major Preparatory Courses: 12 semester credit hours
  • Major Core Courses: 27 semester credit hours
  • Major Related Courses: 12 semester credit hours
  • International Political Economy Core Courses: 21 semester credit hours
  • Foreign Language Requirement: 12 semester credit hours
  • Upper-Division Major Related Electives: 11 semester credit hours

Admission Criteria

The admission criteria for the program include:

• Incoming freshmen must enroll and complete requirements of UNIV 1010 and the corresponding school-related freshman seminar course.
• Students, including transfer students, who complete their core curriculum at UT Dallas must take UNIV 2020.
• The program requires an international experience, which can be fulfilled through a semester of study abroad, a faculty-led trip, or an international internship.

Tuition and Financial Aid

The tuition and financial aid information for the program is available through the UT Dallas website.

Policies and Procedures

The policies and procedures for the program include:

• Academic policies: academic advising, academic grievances, academic progress, academic record and official transcription, dean's list, final examinations, grade changes, grade point average, grading scale, incomplete grades, mid-term grades, scholastic status, transcripts, transfer credit, transfer disputes for lower-division courses, reverse transfer transcripts
• Admission policies: admission criteria for first-time in college freshmen, admission criteria for transfer students, credit by examination, criminal background check, Texas Success Initiative (TSI)
• Course policies: course offerings, auditing courses, course load, guidelines for course numbering, course numbering system, credit
  o credit classes, independent study, internship program, repeating coursework
• Degree plans: degree plans, change of major, deadlines and fees, declaring a major, double major and double degree
• Disciplinary actions associated with academic standing: academic good standing, disciplinary status overview, academic probation, academic warning, academic departure, academic suspension, readmission, changing majors
• Fast track: fast track option, program requirements, choice of graduate degree and cross-tracking, choice of graduate courses, transition to master's program after bachelor's degree, official transcription
• Graduate courses: graduate courses, applied toward an undergraduate degree, possible future use as graduate credit
• Graduation policies: timely graduation, application for graduation, commencement ceremonies, graduation with honors, graduation under a particular catalog, graduation requirements
• Registration policies: classification of students, registration, registration dates, in absentia registration, concurrent enrollment at other public institutions of higher education, cooperative agreements, visiting UT System students program, deadlines for adding or dropping a class, dropping and withdrawing, administrative drop, drop appeal procedures, non-academic withdrawals, appeal of a denied petition for non-academic withdrawal, repeated non-academic withdrawal, withdrawal/resignation from the university, refunds following withdrawal
• Military: military training awarded as academic course credit, military service activation interruption of education
• Student travel: student travel policy, education abroad, policies, options, eligibility and conditions, financial information, transfer credit and graduation, international travel, policies and services
• Other policies: change of address, email, or name, copyrighted material, correspondence - email, emergency response, fire safety, and security, FERPA, hazing, making a false alarm or report, religious holy days, student-right-to-know and campus security act (Clery Act), use of facilities, addendum

University Resources

The university resources available to students include:

• General resources: academic advising, career counseling, counseling and psychological services, disability services, financial aid, health services, international student services, library services, multicultural services, registrar's office, student conduct and conflict resolution services, student life, student organizations, student union, testing and evaluation services
• Health resources: counseling and psychological services, health services, medical emergencies
• International resources: international student services, international student organizations, language support services
• Professional resources: career counseling, career fairs, job search resources, professional development workshops
• Student complaint resources: student conduct and conflict resolution services, student life, student organizations, student union