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New Courses for Public Policy Minor

The following courses have been recently approved as satisfying specialized subject area requirements for the SBS Minor in Public Policy:

Business and Labor

• Geog 640: Economies, Space and Society
• Geog 642: Geography of Development

Communication

• Ant 630: Language and Culture in Education

Crime and Criminal Justice

• Econ 371: Economics and the Law
• Econ 597.01: Sex, Drugs and the Underground Economy

Environment and Natural Resources

• Geog 210: Physical Geog and Environ Issues
• Geog 420: Global Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
• Geog 630: Conservation of Natural Resources
• Pol. Sci. 559: International Environmental Politics

Gender

• Econ 482: Women and the Labor Market
• Econ 553: Economics of Population

Policy Methods

• AED Economics 503: Economics of Public Policy Analysis
• Geog 607: Fundamentals of GIS

Social Welfare

• Ant 601.01: Biosocial Aspects of Health
• Ant 601.04: Global Perspectives on Women’s Health
• Econ 553: Economics of Population
• Geog 643: Geographies of Governmentalities

Race and Ethnicity

• Econ 485: Diversity Economics

Security

• Econ 556: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Economy
• Geog 465: Geopolitics
• PPM 670: Rebuilding Failed and Weak States

Size and Scope of Government

• Geog 460: Political Geography
• Pol. Sci. 577: Political Manipulation

Urban

• Econ 592: Housing Economics
• Geog 655: Theory and Methods of Regional Analysis
• Geog 660: Urban Political Geography