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Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy
Studies
Public
Policy Studies is an interdisciplinary program offering majors the option to
pursue concentrated work in the areas of environmental studies and urban
studies. Students take a Common Core of six courses dealing with public policy
processes, methods of public policy analysis, and important environmental and
urban policy issues.
Beyond the core curriculum, students choose either
the Environmental Studies or Urban Studies track, selecting a group of courses
from a focused curriculum drawn primarily from the several disciplinary
departments participating in the Public Policy Program. A capstone senior
seminar reconvenes the students from each concentration.
The Public Policy Studies program is guided by learning outcomes for both our core curriculum and tracks. Please click here to download a .pdf copy of our learning outcomes.
Core Curriculum
Required Courses for all Public Policy Studies majors (seven courses = 28 quarter hours):
PPS 201 Public Policy and Urban Issues
PPS 202 Public Policy and Environmental Issues
PPS 204 Quantitative Public Policy Analysis
PPS 301 Public Policy and the Political Process
PPS 302 Implementation of Environmental and Urban Policy
One course from the following:
MAT 242 Elements of Statistics
PSY 240 Statistics I
SOC 279 Social Staistics
GEO 241 Computer Cartography (only for the Urban Studies concentration)
GEO 242 Geographic Information Systems (only for the Urban Studies concentration)
GEO 243 Remote Sensing (only for the Urban Studies concentration)
Capstone experience (ONE course):
PPS 393 Senior Capstone
Environmental Studies Track (Six courses = 24 quarter hours)
Required:
PPS 320 Public Policy in Production and Use of Energy and Pollution Control
PPS 324 Public Policy and Natural Resources
Four additional courses, with no more than two courses from the following group:
ENV 202 Resources, Population, and the Environment
ENV 216 Earth System Science
ENV 217 Human Impacts on the Environment
ENV 250 Applied Ecology
ENV 322 Ecosystem Ecology
PPS 256 Economics, Environment and the Government: Resolving the Conflict
The following courses are also available for fulfilling the Environmental Studies concentration:
ECO 335 Energy and Environmental Economics
ENV 340 Issues in Urban Forestry
ENV 342 Natural History of Forests
ENV 350 Environmental Impact Analysis
GEO 310 Land Use Ethics
PHY 201 The Atmosphere and the Oceans
PPS 358 Internship in Environmental Studies
PPS 359 Topics in Environmental Studies
PPS 330 Sustainable Development
Urban Studies Track (Six courses = 24 quarter hours)
Choose three courses from the following group:
GEO 230 Transportation Issues and Development
GEO 233 Comparative Urbanism
PSC 223 Urban Politics
PPS 250 Issues in Neighborhood Development
PPS 251 Urban Poverty
PPS 252 Urban Policy in Comparative and Historical Perspective
PPS 253 The Cinematic City
PPS 254 Screening Suburbia
PPS 255 Cities, Globalization and Public Policy
SOC 214 Police and the Urban Community
Choose three courses from the following group:
ECO 310 Economics of the Urban Environment
GEO 333 City Problems and Planning
PSC 322 Urban Policymaking
PPS 303 Public Policy and Leadership
PPS 330 Sustainable Development
PPS 331 Environmental Justice
PPS 340 Dynamics of Public Policy
PPS 350 Critical Issues in Urban Development
PPS 351 The Policy and Politics of Urban Housing
PPS 352 Issues in Urban Education Policy
PPS 358 Internship in Urban Studies
PPS 359 Topics in Urban Studies
SOC 348 City of the Future
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