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Public Policy

Associate Professor: Payne (Coordinator)

Students may select either the Domestic Public Policy or International Public Policy minor.

Domestic Public Policy Minor:
Students are required to take PSCI 110, PSCI 220, either ECON 110 or 111, and MATH 123 or MATH 214. Students intending to pursue graduate work are strongly encouraged to enroll in MATH 214 and at least one social science research methods course. In addition to these four core courses, students are also required to take three electives from the following list. The three electives must be from three different departments, and at least one elective course must be numbered 300 or above. Only one elective may count toward any other major or minor program of student study.

Domestic Public Policy Electives:

CJCR 201 Policing and Society
CJCR 203 Correctional Systems
CJCR 300 Criminology
CJCR 341 Crime Prevention
ECON 224 Urban Economics
ECON 225 Environmental Economics
ECON 337 Public Finance
HIST 230 African American History
HIST 338 Rights, Reform, and Protest
HIST 404 Modern America
PHIL 334 Contemporary Political Philosophy
PSCI 211 State and Local Government
PSCI 231 Law in America
PSCI 316 Public Opinion and Polling
PSCI 321 Congress
SOC 210 Sociology of Mental Health
SOC 220 Sociology of Family
SOC 228 Aging and Society
SOC 310 Medical Sociology
SOC 334 American Immigration

Students are required to take PSCI 140 or PSCI 160, PSCI 261, ECON 110, and MATH 123 or MATH 214. Students intending to pursue graduate work are strongly encouraged to enroll in MATH 214 and at least one social science research methods course. In addition to these four core courses, students are also required to take three electives from the following list. The three electives must be from three different departments. Only one elective may count toward any other major or minor program of student study.

International Public Policy Electives:

ANTH 103 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 230 Anthropology of Latin America
ANTH 232 Environmental Anthropology
ANTH 334 Economic Anthropology
ECON 343 International Trade
HIST 217 20th Century Europe
HIST 232 Rise of Islam
HIST 243 Asia in a Global Context
HIST 246 Africa and the World
PHIL 334 Contemporary Political Philosophy
PSCI 242 Human Rights
PSCI 245 Latin American Politics
PSCI 341 Women and the Law
PSCI 342 Civil Conflict