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Minor

Minor in Public Policy

Temple University College of Liberal Arts 82 courses 18 total credits

About This Program

The Minor in Public Policy, offered by the Department of Political Science, combines a student's interest in their major discipline or particular societal issue with the study of how public policies are created, implemented, and how they impact specific populations. This minor is specially designed to integrate well with many disciplines in CLA and several in other colleges. Students take two specifically required courses in Public Policy combined with four policy-related electives. See the Public Policy advisor for more options such as special topics courses that might complete this requirement. This six-course program may be completed in as few as two semesters.

Degree Requirements

Total Credits 18 credits

Policy-Related Electives

Code Course Title Credits
CJ 2001 Introduction to Juvenile Justice 3
CJ 2002 Victims in Society 3
CJ 2201 Criminal Courts and Criminal Justice 3
CJ 2301 Introduction to Corrections 3
CJ 2304 Ethics, Crime, and Justice 3
CJ 3002 Drugs, Crime, and Justice 3
CJ 3003 Race and Criminal Justice 3
CJ 3101 Police Organization and Management 3
CJ 3201 The American Jury System 3
CJ 3301 Community Corrections 3
CJ 3302 Prisons in America 3
CJ 3303 Rehabilitation, Re-entry, and Restoration 3
CJ 3304 Capital Punishment 3
CJ 3401 White Collar Crime 3
CJ 3402 Street-Level Criminology 3
CJ 3403 Organized Crime 3
CJ 3405 Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Global Security 3
CJ 3406 Youth and Crime 3
CJ 3407 Violence, Crime, and Justice 3
CJ 3409 Criminal Gangs 3
CJ 3501 Criminal Procedure: Police Phase 3
CJ 3502 Criminal Procedure: Prosecution & Adjudication 3
CJ 3701 Land Management and Federal Law Enforcement 3
ECON 3506 Energy, Ecology, and Economy 3
ECON 3507 Health Economics 3
ECON 3512 Public Economics 3
ECON 3513 Economics of State and Local Governments 3
ECON 3514 The Economics of Education and Human Capital 3
ECON 3535 Public Control of Business: Antitrust 3
ECON 3543 Law and Economics 3
ECON 3545 Economics of Labor Markets 3
ECON 3546 Women in the Economy 3
ECON 3547 Economics of Development and Growth 3
ECON 3596 Energy, Ecology, and Economy 3
ECON 3597 Health Economics 3
ENST 2025 Environmental Law and Regulation 3
ENST 2051 The Urban Environment 3
ENST 3004 Geography of Natural Resources 3
ENST 3051 Environmental Policy Issues 3
ENST 3055 Environmental Hazards and Disasters 3
ENST 3057 Sustainable Cities 3
ENST 3062 Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems 3
ENST 3265 International Environmental Policy 3
ENST 4017 Health and Environment Seminar 3
GUS 2031 Geography of the Global Economy 3
GUS 2032 Urban Systems in a Global Economy 3
GUS 2051 Urban Environment 3
GUS 3015 The Geographic Basis of Land Use Planning 3
GUS 3018 Economic Development Planning for Cities 3
GUS 3307 Transportation & Culture 3
GUS 3062 Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems 3
GUS 4013 Drugs in Urban Society 3
PLCY 2000 Special Topics I 3
PLCY 3000 Special Topics II 3
PLCY 3185 Internship I 1-12
POLS 2102 American State and Local Politics 3
POLS 2255 Comparative Public Policy 3
POLS 2341 U.S. Foreign Policy 3
POLS 3123 American Constitutional Principles II: Civil Rights in America 3
POLS 3124 Politics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 3
POLS 3134 The Politics of Inequality 3
POLS 3152 U.S. Environmental Policy 3
POLS 3154 Health Policy 3
POLS 3550 Special Topics: Research Preparation Seminar 3
SOC 2171 Sociology of Law 3
SOC 3176 Sociology of Education 3
SOC 3209 Immigrant America: Belonging and Integration 3
SOC 3243 Social Movements and Conflict 3
SOC 3249 Social Inequality 3
SOC 3251 Urban Sociology 3
SOC 3571 Methods in Program Evaluation 3
EDUC 2103 Socio-cultural Foundations of Education in the United States 3
HPM 2208 Natural Disasters: Response and Recovery 3
HPM 2214 Politics and Payments in US Healthcare System 3
HRM 2501 Introduction to Human Resource Management 3
HRM 2511 Corporate Sustainability: People, Profits & Planet 3
HRM 3501 Power, Influence and Negotiation 3
HRM 3512 Human Resource Management and Public Policy 3

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