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Dedman College

DEDMAN COLLEGE
PUBLIC POLICY

Professor Dennis Ippolito (Political Science), Director

The Public Policy major is an interdisciplinary program in economics and political science. The B.A. degree in Public Policy is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and historical context to understand and deal with contemporary policy issues. The major in Public Policy is useful as preparation for work in government and business and as preparation for postgraduate study in law, public policy, and the social sciences.

Major Requirements. The B.A. degree in Public Policy requires a total of 33 hours. The degree consists of two components:

1. Eighteen (18) hours of core courses:

ECO 1311, 1312, and 3301..

PLSC 1320, and PLSC 1340 or 1380.

PLSC 3320.

2. At least 15 hours of advanced courses selected from the fields below, with no fewer than six hours in Economics (ECO) and six hours in Political Science (PLSC) or Public Policy (PP).

To meet the advanced course requirements, students must take at least six hours in each of any two of the fields of Political Economy, Law and Social Policy, and International Politics and Policy, as well as three hours from the quantitative methods field. Although not a requirement, students are advised to take at least one term of calculus (MATH 1309 or 1337) and one term of statistics (STAT 2301 or ISOM 2305).

List of fields and acceptable courses (additional prerequisites not contained in the core are listed in parentheses):

Political Economy

ECO 4366 Economics of the Public Sector

ECO 4371 Theory of Industrial Structure

ECO 4382 Economics of Regulated Industries

ECO 4385 Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (Prerequisite: ECO 3302)

ECO 5361 Natural Resources and Energy Economics (Prerequisite: ECO 3302)

ECO 5365 Public Finance

PLSC 3329 Bureaucracy and Regulatory Politics

PLSC 3355 Political Economy of the Welfare State

PLSC 3389 International Political Economy

PLSC 3390 Negotiating International Trade

PLSC 4333 Policy, Politics, and the Budget

Law and Social Policy

ECO 4351 Labor Economics

ECO 5337 Urban Economics

ECO 5353 Law and Economics

ECO 5357 Economics of Human Resources

PLSC 3321 Congress and the Legislative Process

PLSC 3330 Law, Politics, and the Supreme Court

PLSC 3335 Judicial Process

PLSC 3370 Women and Politics

PLSC 4337 Civil Rights

PLSC 4338 Criminal Process Rights

PLSC 4339 Women and the Law

PP 3310 Environmental Policy

International Politics and Policy

ECO 3321 International Economic Policy

ECO 4357 International Trade

ECO 4358 International Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (Prerequisite: ECO 3302)

ECO 5360 Economic Development (Prerequisite: ECO 3302)

PLSC 3340 Western European Politics

PLSC 3345 Government and Politics of the Middle East

PLSC 3383 The American Foreign Policy Process

PLSC 3389 International Political Economy

PLSC 4356 Latin American Political Economy

PLSC 4381 National Security Policy

PLSC 4386 Issues of U.S.-East Asia Relations

PLSC 4391 NAFTA and Free Trade in the Americas

Quantitative Methods

ECO 5341 Strategic Behavior (Prerequisite: ECO 3301)

ECO 5350 Introductory Econometrics (Prerequisites: STAT 2301 or 4340 or ISOM 2305, MATH 1309 or 1337)

ECO 5370 Cost-Benefit Analysis

ECO 5375 Economic and Business Forecasting (Prerequisite: STAT 2301 or ISOM 2305)

The Courses (PP)

3310. Environmental Policy. Overview of governmental environmental policies designed to provide a foundation for future application and study in the growing environmental field.