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Public Policy Concentration

A concentration in Public Policy consists of

All concentrators must take:

Course NumberTitleCredits
PPOL-251/GOVT-251Introduction to Public Policy

1
PPOL-382/GOVT-382Topics in Public Policy

1
GOVT-116The American Political Process

1
GOVT-230Data Analysis

1
PPOL-500/501Senior Project

1

Students should take Economics-166 prior to Government-230

Starting with the class of 2022, follow this sequence:

Course NumberTitleCredits

Take the following courses:

Course NumberTitleCredits
ECON-100Introduction to Economics

1
ECON-166Economic Theory and Evidence

1

Students must receive permission to enroll in ECON-166 if they have already taken GOVT-230

All concentrators should choose two of the following Ethics courses:

Course NumberTitleCredits
GOVT-117/PHIL-117Introduction to Political Theory

1
PHIL-117/GOVT-117Introduction to Political Theory

1
PHIL-219Introduction to Moral Theory

1
PHIL-221Food and Philosophy

1
PHIL-235Environmental Ethics

1
PHIL-452Evolution and Morality

1

Choose one of the following “Issue Areas” course:

Course NumberTitleCredits
ECON-318The Economics of Technology and Innovation

1
ECON-325Comparative Economic Systems

1
ECON-331International Trade Theory and Policy

1
ECON-340Economic Development

1
ECON-341Energy Economics

1
ECON-350Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution

1
ECON-360Health Economics

1
ECON-378Economics of Gender

1
ECON-380Environmental Economics

1
ECON-390Economics of Labor Market Policy

1
ECON-415Economics of Higher Education

1
ECON-433International Economics

1
ECON-435Industrial Organization Theory and Applications

1
ECON-440Public Economics

1
ECON-446Monetary Policy

1
ECON-453Economic Development in Latin America

1
GOVT-212/ENVST-212/GEOSC-212Climate Change

1
GOVT-273Law and Justice Laboratory: Seminar in the Criminal Justice System in Oneida County, New York

1
GOVT-285/ENVST-285Introduction to Environmental Politics

1
GOVT-287/ENVST-287Political Theory and the Environment

1
GOVT-335Seminar: Criminal Law

1
GOVT-338American Public Administration

1
GOVT-340/AFRST-340Race and American Democracy

1
GOVT-356The Political Theory of Personal Privacy

1
GOVT-359The Organization and Politics of American Policing

1
GOVT-360/ENVST-360The Politics and Theory of Place and Space

1
GOVT-363Poverty and Development

1
GOVT-365Free Speech Theory

1
GOVT-376Government Failure?:The American Administrative State

1
GOVT-389Capitalism, Democracy, and the Workplace

1
SOC-204Social Class in American Society

1
SOC-216Sociology of Aging

1
SOC-223Law and Society

1
SOC-226The Sociology of Health and Illness

1
SOC-278Race, Class, Gender

1
SOC-308Issues in Higher Education

1
SOC-319Seminar: Globalization and Its Discontents

1
SOC-345Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Urban America

1
SOC-372Sociology of Disability

1
SOC-373Seminar on the Constitution and Social Policy.

1