Overview
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.
Minors are awarded only at the time of completion of the bachelor's degree and cannot be awarded either as a stand-alone program of study or after completion of the first bachelor's degree.
Curricular Overlap Policies
Students majoring or minoring in Political Science may count PLCY 2103/POLS 2103 and PLCY 3151/POLS 3151 towards that program.
Students in the Public Policy minor have flexibility in the electives and may count up to two courses towards another major, minor, or certificate program in the College of Liberal Arts. CLA students may count CLA courses numbered 2000-4999 towards the upper level CLA requirement. Non-CLA courses count towards free electives only.
Students may not declare this minor after application to the Accelerated Master of Public Policy (4+1) Program. Students may declare this minor and later apply to that program and no courses will double-count between the two programs.
Campus Location: Main
Contact Information
Please contact the College of Liberal Arts' Center for Academic Advising for more information on minors, certificates or other CLA programs.
Requirements
This minor requires 6 courses for a total of 18 credits. The courses are distributed as follows:
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Policy Courses | ||
| PLCY 2103 | Making Public Policy | 3 |
| or POLS 2103 | Making Public Policy | |
| PLCY 3151 | Public Policy Analysis | 3 |
| or POLS 3151 | Public Policy Analysis | |
| Policy-Related Electives | ||
| Select four from the following: | 12 | |
College of Liberal Arts Electives | ||
| Introduction to Juvenile Justice | ||
| Victims in Society | ||
| Criminal Courts and Criminal Justice | ||
| Introduction to Corrections | ||
| Ethics, Crime, and Justice | ||
| Drugs, Crime, and Justice | ||
| Race and Criminal Justice | ||
| Police Organization and Management | ||
| The American Jury System | ||
| Community Corrections | ||
| Prisons in America | ||
| Rehabilitation of the Offender | ||
| Capital Punishment | ||
| White Collar Crime | ||
| Street-Level Criminology | ||
| Organized Crime | ||
| Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Global Security | ||
| Youth and Crime | ||
| Violence, Crime, and Justice | ||
| Criminal Gangs | ||
| Criminal Procedure: Police Phase | ||
| Criminal Procedure: Prosecution & Adjudication | ||
| Land Management and Federal Law Enforcement | ||
| Energy, Ecology, and Economy | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Public Economics | ||
| Economics of State and Local Governments | ||
| The Economics of Education and Human Capital | ||
| Public Control of Business: Antitrust | ||
| Law and Economics | ||
| Economics of Labor Markets | ||
| Women in the Economy | ||
| Economics of Development and Growth | ||
| Energy, Ecology, and Economy | ||
| Health Economics | ||
| Environmental Law and Regulation | ||
| The Urban Environment | ||
| Geography of Natural Resources | ||
| Environmental Policy Issues | ||
| Environmental Hazards and Disasters | ||
| Sustainable Cities | ||
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
ENST 3152 | ||
| International Environmental Policy | ||
| Health and Environment Seminar | ||
GUS 2014 | ||
| Geography of the Global Economy | ||
| Urban Systems in a Global Economy | ||
| Urban Environment | ||
| The Geographic Basis of Land Use Planning | ||
| Economic Development Planning for Cities | ||
GUS 3021 | ||
| Transportation & Culture | ||
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Drugs in Urban Society | ||
| Special Topics I | ||
| Special Topics II | ||
| Internship I | ||
| American State and Local Politics | ||
| Comparative Public Policy | ||
| U.S. Foreign Policy | ||
| American Constitutional Principles II: Civil Rights in America | ||
| Politics of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity | ||
| The Politics of Inequality | ||
| U.S. Environmental Policy | ||
| Health Policy | ||
| Special Topics: Research Preparation Seminar (Research Prep Seminar in Public Policy) | ||
| Sociology of Law | ||
| Sociology of Education | ||
| Immigrant America: Belonging and Integration | ||
| Social Movements and Conflict | ||
| Social Inequality | ||
| Urban Sociology | ||
| Methods in Program Evaluation | ||
Electives from other colleges at Temple: | ||
| Socio-cultural Foundations of Education in the United States | ||
| Natural Disasters: Response and Recovery | ||
| Politics and Payments in US Healthcare System | ||
| Introduction to Human Resource Management | ||
| Corporate Sustainability: People, Profits & Planet | ||
| Power, Influence and Negotiation | ||
| Human Resource Management and Public Policy | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |