Requirements

Required

• PP 330 - Public Policy Process  (4 units)

• PP 331 - Policy Evaluation  (4 units)

• PP 338 - Policy Design & Implementation  (4 units)

• SP&E 318 - Cost Benefit Analysis  (4 units)

Policy Analytics Research Tool

• One course must be selected from:

  • SP&E 489 - Computational Tools for Social Science  (4 units)

  • IST 370 - Introduction to GIS Analytics and Solution Development  (4 units)

  • IST 377A - GIS Special Topics: GIS for Data Science  (4 units)

  • IST 377B - Location-based Market Intelligence  (4 units)

  • through IST 377G – GIS Special Topics (various letters and topics)

Note: Students may not double count coursework applied to the Specialized Research Tool or the Methods for Policy Analysis subcategory elective requirement below.

Additional Elective

Students will select four additional units from one of the categories listed below.

Diversity Policy

• SP&E 354 - Comparative Public Policy  (4 units)

• PP 408 - Seminar in World Politics: Political Demography & Development  (4 units)

• PP 341 - US Immigration Policy  (4 units)

• EDUC 699 - Educating Minority Students in Urban Schools: Policy & Practices 

• TNDY 407K - Transdisciplinary Approaches to Inequality  

• CGH 317 - Ethics, Human Rights & Cultural Diversity  

• CGH 418 - Health Equity in Research and Practice  

Evaluation (with Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences)

• PSYCH 326 - Foundations of Evaluation  (2 units)

• PSYCH 315Z - Comparative Evaluation Theory  (4 units)

• PSYCH 315EE - Evaluation Procedures  (4 units)

Note: PSYCH 326 and PSYCH 315Z should be taken before PSYCH 315EE.

Education Policy (with School of Educational Studies)

• EDUC 407 - Foundations of Educational Policy  (4 units)

• EDUC 457 - Economics and Finance of Higher Education  (4 units)

• EDUC 657 - Access & Equity in Higher Education  (4 units)

• EDUC 698 - Teaching & Learning in Developing Countries  (4 units)

Health Policy (with School of Community and Global Health)

• CGH 300 - Theoretical Foundations in Health Promotion & Education  (4 units)

• CGH 302 - Epidemiology  (4 units)

• CGH 303 - Health Services in the US & Abroad  (4 units)

• CGH 310 - Foundations of Global Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach  (4 units)

• CGH 317 - Ethics, Human Rights & Cultural Diversity  (4 units)

• CGH 349F - US Health Policy  (1-4 units)

• CGH 418 - Health Equity in Research and Practice  (3 units)

Methods for Policy Analysis

• PP 487L - Applied Data Analysis: Limited Dependent Variables and MLE  (4 units)

• PP 487M - Applied Data Analysis: Machine Learning and Data Mining for Social Scientists  (4 units)

• PP 487S - Applied Data Analysis: Survey of Advanced Methods  (4 units)

• IST 370 - Introduction to GIS Analytics and Solution Development  (4 units)

• IST 377A - GIS Special Topics: GIS for Data Science  (4 units)

• IST 377B - Location-based Market Intelligence  (4 units)

• through IST 377G – GIS Special Topics (various letters and topics)

• SP&E 489 - Computational Tools for Social Science  (4 units)

• SP&E 448 - Seminar in Social Network Analysis  (4 units)

• SP&E 487 - Visualizing Data  (4 units)

• PP 487S - Applied Data Analysis: Survey of Advanced Methods  (4 units)

• SP&E 316 - Computational & Agent-Based Modeling  (4 units)