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Basic
Curriculum
The Policy
Studies basic curriculum introduces students to the concepts and tools
needed to understand and study policy, regardless of the policy area
they choose to focus on. It ensures that all Policy Studies majors
have a common professional vocabulary and conceptual frame of reference.
The Basic Policy Studies Basic Curriculum encompasses four courses.
The courses can be taken in any order.
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Policy
Analysis (POLI 338). This course includes applied analytical
techniques, theoretical notions of public goods and externalities,
and an introduction to general governmental issues such regulation
and political feasibility. POLI 338 is cross-listed as SOSC/POST
301. |
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Principles of Economics
I (ECON 211) or an approved advanced course. Economic analysis
is fundamental to the study of policy. |
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Bureaucracy and Public
Policy, POLI 337, provides sound introduction to the organization
and working of the governmental enterprise. |
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One advanced analysis
course that provides students more depth in discipline-specific
approaches. Such a course should focus on the craft or nature
of inquiry within a discipline, advanced statistical or other
data techniques, or an advanced language (if appropriate). Most
likely, students will choose such a course in their other major.
Students are required to get approval from the policy studies
advisor for credit for this requirement. |
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