To complete a concentration in public policy, 2 electives must be policy-designated, meaning courses within the Public Policy department or from the following list of approved classes. All electives must be courses related to policy areas, but they do not necessarily need to be in the Policy department. All three broad electives must be in different subject areas.
Course No
Course Title
AFRI 1100C
Slavery and Empire in the United States
AFRI 1270
Slavery, Democracy, and Racial Violence in the Americas
ANTH 1242
Bioethics and Culture
ANTH 1301
Anthropology of Homelessness
ANTH 1315
Race, Racialization, and Health
ANTH 1911
Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East
BIOL 1530
Emergency Medical Systems: An Anatomy of Critical Performance
BIOL 1555
Methods in Informatics and Data Science for Health
CLPS 1250
Human Factors
CLPS 1271
Cognition in the Classroom: Seminar in the Science of Teaching and Learning
CSCI 1800
Cybersecurity and International Relations
CSCI 1951I
CS for Social Change
ECON 1110
Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON 1130
Intermediate Microeconomics (Mathematical)
ECON 1170
Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory
ECON 1210
intermediate Macroeconomics
ECON 1350
Environmental Economics and Policy
ECON 1385
Intergenerational Poverty in America
ECON 1410
Urban Economics
ECON 1430
The Economics of Social Policy
ECON 1440
The Economic Analysis of Political Behavior
ECON 1630
Mathematical Econometrics I
EDUC 1300
Schools as Sites of Social Welfare: An Exploration of the Role of Social Workers in Schools
EDUC 1615
Introduction to Community-Based Participatory Research in Education
ENVS 1350
Environmental Economics and Policy
ENVS 1547
Finance and the Environment
ENVS 1555
Urban Agriculture: The Importance of Localized Food Systems
HIST 1531
Political Movements in Twentieth-Century America
HIST 1972J
Racial Capitalism and US Liberal Empire
HIST 1977I
Gender, Race, and Medicine in the Americas
IAPA 1200
Foundations of Security
IAPA 1402
Beyond Sun, Sea and Sand: Exploring the Contemporary Caribbean
IAPA 1403 / DEVL 1874
Development's Visual Imaginaries
IAPA 1500A
Ethnographic Research Methods
IAPA 1700A/PLCY 1200
Program Evaluation
IAPA 1700B
Modes of Social Change
IAPA 1700D/PLCY 1700M
Law and Public Policy
IAPA 1700E/PLCY 1700V
Non Profit
IAPA 1804B
Global Megaprojects
IAPA 1804
Diplomacy, Crisis, War in the Modern Era
IAPA 1804N
Democracy and Capitalism in the Post-colonial World
IAPA 1804L
Africa’s Colonization in Comparative Perspective
PHP 1610
Tobacco, Disease and the Industry: cigs, e-cigs and more
PHP 1650
Race, Racism and Health
PHP 1820
Designing Education for Better Prisoner and Community Health
PHP 1854
The Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases
POLS 1130
The American Presidency
POLS 1170
Constitutional Law: Individual Rights
POLS 1225
The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
POLS 1265
Political Institutions of East Asian Democracies
POLS 1280
Politics, Economy and Society in India
POLS 1310
African American Politics
POLS 1435
Politics of Climate Change
POLS 1440
Security, Governance and Development in Africa
POLS 1500
The International Law and Politics of Human Rights
POLS 1600
Political Research Methods
POLS 1820F
Black Protest: Theory and Praxis
POLS 1820R
Extralegal Governance and the Problem of Social Order
POLS 1820X
Democratic Erosion
POLS 1821I
Issues in Democratic Theory
POLS 1821N
Political Journalism
POLS 1822I
Geopolitics of Oil and Energy
POLS 1824C
Political Communication
POLS 1825E
Health Care Politics and Policy
SOC 1490
Power, Knowledge and Justice in Global Social Change
SOC 1873F
Feminist Perspectives in Criminal Justice
SOC 1873G
The Geography of Urban Inequality
URBN 1870M
Urban Regimes in the American Republic