To declare the EPE major, please complete this form, attach your latest Yale transcript, and your course approval email(s) from the EPE DUS. Please check here for the new EP&E requirements. The remaining two prerequisites must be completed prior to graduation. This involves sending their transcript indicating successful completion of six of the eight prerequisite courses to the EPE registrar (see below for details), a completed coursework worksheet, and written permission to substitute any courses. Students who started at Yale prior to fall 2019 (who are not current EP&E majors) must complete six of the eight prerequisites and get approval before declaring EP&E. EPE seniors write a one-semester or a year-long senior essay that puts the three disciplines in service of addressing a complex empirical or analytical problem. EPE seminars are opportunities for advanced students in the major, having completed background courses, to apply inter-disciplinary thinking across a range of substantive areas. EPE majors may then take EPE seminars, including Classics of EPE, which along with Intermediate Microeconomics, three concentration courses, and the eight introductory courses listed above, are required for graduation. Students who have successfully completed the eight prerequisites may, upon confirmation with the EPE registrar, declare the EPE major (see below for details). For this reason, EP&E students may not substitute courses other than those listed as prerequisite choices as they complete the program. The courses listed as prerequisites for completion of the EP&E major have been carefully selected because they provide students with a strong foundational knowledge across the disciplines that constitute the program. Students who officially test out of Introductory Microeconomics or Introductory Macroeconomics (through the Economics Department) must take instead with the approval of the EP&E DUS, another higher-level course in Economics with introductory micro or macro as an explicit prerequisite. For a list of the specific courses that serve as these prerequisites, please see. The three Direct ed Studies courses will qualify as substitutes for three of those prerequisites: (1) Introduction to Ethics (2) Introduction to Political Philosophy (3) Introduction to Political Science (4) a course on Other Perspectives (5) Introductory Micro-economics (6) Introductory Macro-economics (7) Game Theory (8) Econometrics. These prerequistes must be successfully completed by their fifth term of enrollment.
Rather than applying to the major in the sophomore year as before, students who began at Yale in fall 2019 or later must successfully complete eight prerequisite courses before gaining entry to EPE seminars (students who started at Yale prior to fall of 2019 must complete six prerequisites). The Ethics, Politics and Economics major became an open major beginning in the fall of 2019, while remaining a highly rigorous, largely seminar-based interdisciplinary major combining the three disciplines of philosophy, political science, and economics.