Public Policy, Minor

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Program Overview

A minor in public policy is available to all undergraduates at CWRU. The course requirements are in four categories: the public policy process; economic analysis; policy or political institutions or history; and a specific policy field. Substitutions can be made under exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the program director. 

Undergraduate or graduate courses with public policy content are offered through the Departments of Anthropology, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, History, Political Science, and Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences; the Department of Economics and other departments in the Weatherhead School of Management; the School of Law, the School of Medicine, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing; and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Students can engage with policy issues both through courses and through the extracurricular programming of the Center for Policy Studies and other university bodies.

Undergraduate Policies

For undergraduate policies and procedures, please review the Undergraduate Academics section of the General Bulletin.

Program Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required Courses:
ECON 102	Principles of Microeconomics	3
Choose one of the following:		3
POSC 386	Making Public Policy
POSC 383	Health Policy and Politics in the United States
POSC 306	Interest Groups in the Policy Process
Choose one of the following:		3
POSC 308	The American Presidency
POSC 310	Congress in an Era of Polarization
POSC 323	Judicial Politics
POSC 384	Ethics and Public Policy
POSC 385	Doing Government Work: Public Administration in the U.S.
Courses on public policy a		6
Total Credit Hours		15

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Students choose two courses on a particular field of public policy with the approval of the program director. A list of courses that have been approved in the past is available on the Public Policy Program’s website.