Public Policy Minor Tracks
You must complete three courses relating to a policy theme, including at least one seminar. Some possible tracks are included below. These are only examples. Other courses and tracks of study will also be considered.
Economic Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- SOCY 26: Capitalism, Prosperity, and Crisis
- ECON 27: Labor Economics
- ECON 28: Public Economics
- ECON 39: International Trade
- ENVS 55: Ecological Economics
- ENVS 56: Environmental Economics and Governance
- GEOG 34: The Global Food and Energy Landscape
- GOVT 30: Politics Policy and Knowledge Economy
- GOVT 40: Comparative Political Economy
- PBPL 43/ECON 77: Social Entrepreneurship
- SOCY 49.09: Critical Political Economy
- SOCY 49.17: Religion and Political Economy
- SOCY 66: Markets and Management
Seminars
- SOCY 70: American Labor Relations
- SOCY 79.09: Global Inequality Protests
- ENVS 80.1: Artic Environmental Change
- PBPL 81.9/GOVT 83.02: Politics and Markets
- PBPL 84.02/ECON: 71: Health Economics and Policy
- ECON 85: Independent Study in Economics
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Education and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- EDUC 20: Education Issues in Contemporary Society
- EDUC 24: Education and Inequality
- EDUC 27: The Impact of Poverty on Education
- EDUC 30: Educational Psychology
- EDUC 32: Learning and Education Across Cultures
- EDUC 46: STEM and Education
- EDUC 47: Social and Emotional Development
- EDUC 50: The Reading Brain: Education and Development
- EDUC 52: Topics in Educational Theory
- EDUC 64: Development in the Exceptional Child
Seminars
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Environment and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- AAAS 50/ENVS 45/HIST 75: Colonialism, Development and the Environment in Asia and Africa
- ENVS 12: Energy and the Environment
- GEOG 14: Water Policy and Politics
- ENVS 15: Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions
- ENVS 17: Marine Policy
- ENVS 20: Conservation of Biodiversity
- ENVS 25: Ecological Agriculture
- ENVS 28: Global Environmental Health
- GEOG 36: Climate Extremes on a Warming Planet
- GEOG 37: A Climate for Human Security
- ECON 38: Urban and Land Use Economics
- ENVS 39: Natural Resources, Development and the Environment
- GOVT 40.23: Energy and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
- ENVS 44/GEOG 42: Environment and Politics in Southeast Asia
- ENVS 45/HIST 75: Colonialism, Development, and the Environment in Africa and Asia
- ENVS 50: Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formation
- ENVS 55: Ecological Economics
- ENVS 56: Environmental Economics and Governance
- ENVS 60: Environmental Law
- ENVS 61: Governing the Environment
- ENVS 65: Global Environmental Politics
- GEOG 68: Environmental Justice
Seminars
- ANTH 75: Ecology, Culture, and Environment
- ENVS 80.01: Artic Environmental Change
- ENVS 80.03: Regenerative Design of the Built Environment
- ENVS 80.08: The Practice of Science Policy and Diplomacy
- ENVS 84: Seminar on Environmental Issues of Southern Africa
- GOVT 86.34: Ethics, Economics, and the Environment
- ENVS 90: Independent Study and Research
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Foreign Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- ENGS 6: Technology and Biosecurity
- GEOG 17: Geopolitics and Third World Development
- GEOG 20: Economic Geography and Globalization
- SOCY 25: Democratization in Developing Countries
- GOVT 47: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- GOVT 49.04/LACS 52/WGST 31: Sex and the State in Latin America
- GOVT 53: International Security
- GOVT 54: United States Foreign Policy
- GOVT 58: International Political Economy
- GOVT 59: Foreign Policy and Decision Making
Seminars
- ENVS 80.08: The Practice of Science Policy and Diplomacy
- GOVT 85.08: U.S. Security Policy in the 21st Century
- PBPL 82.1/GOVT 85.12: Military Statecraft in International Relations
- GOVT 85.15: Economic Statecraft in International Relations
- GOVT 85.16: The Causes and Prevention of Genocide and Mass Killing
- GOVT 85.39: Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy
- PBPL 85: Topics in Global Policy Leadership
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Health and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- ANTH 17: The Anthropology of Health and Illness
- ENGS 5: Healthcare and Biotechnology in the 21st Century
- ENGS 13: Virtual Medicine and Cybercare
- ENVS 28: Global Environmental Health
- GEOG 2/INTL 18: Global Health and Society
- GEOG 56: The Geographies of Health and Disease
- HIST 36: Health Care in American Society
- SOCY 28: Health Care and Health Care Policy
- SOCY 34: Health Disparities
- SOCY 35: Sociology of Mental Health
- SOCY 68: Global Health Systems
Seminars
- GEOG 70.01: Witchcraft and Biomedicine
- PBPL 81.2/GOVT 81.04: Lawyers and Public Policy
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Identity and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- AAAS 21.10 Race and Modernity
- AAAS 25/SOCY 46/WGST 33.1: Constructing Black Womanhood
- AAAS 40/WGST 34.2: Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
- GEOG 26/WGSS 30.01: Women, Gender, and Development
- GEOG 28/LACS 40/SOCY 48: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
- GOVT 20.01/WGST 31.4: Women and Politics
- GOVT 27: Racial Justice
- SOCY 32: Social Meanings of Home
- GOVT 40.05: Politics of Ethnicity
- GOVT 40.20: Immigration Politics
- WGST 32: Gender and the Law
- SOCY 33: Self and Society
- SOCY 43/LATS 44: Latino Roots and Transitions
- SOCY 44/LATS 5: Complexities of Latino Identities in the United States
- SOCY 47: Race and Ethnicity in the U.S
- SOCY 48: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
- WGST 16: Contemporary Issues in Feminism: Theory and Practice
- WGST 19.1: Queer Marriage, Hate Crimes, and Will & Grace
- WGST 31.1: Sex and the State in Latin America
- WGST 46.1: Feminism and Philosophy
- SOCY 65: Social Psychology of Inequality
Seminars
- GOVT 81.27: Politics, Gender, and Film
- GOVT 84.06: Identity and Power in the Americas
- GOVT 84.26: Ethnic Conflict
- AAAS 90.07 From Africans to African American
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Institutions, Organizations, and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- PBPL 28/GOVT 30.09: Law, Courts, and Judges
- ECON 45: Topics in Industrial Organizations
- PBPL 52/GOVT 30.02: Leadership and Political Institutions
- GOVT 20.02: Capitalism and Government
- SOCY 27: Organizations in Society
Seminars
- PBPL 81.9/GOVT 83.02: Politics and Markets
- GOVT 84.13: Improving Democracy-Institutional Innovations and Experiments in Developing Nations
- PBPL 82.2/SOCY 53: Power, Politics and the State
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
International Development Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- AAAS 50/ENVS 45/HIST 75: Colonialism, Development and the Environment in Asia and Africa
- ANTH 50.4: Race, Power and Development in Global Haiti
- ECON 24: Economics in Developing Countries
- ECON 44: Topics in Development Economics
- ECON 49: Topics in International Economics
- GEOG 16: Moral Economies of Development
- GEOG 17: Geopolitics and Third World Development
- GOVT 40.15: Commodities, Globalization and Development in Latin America
- GOVT 40.19: State Building in the Middle East and North Africa
- GOVT 44: Globalization and Global Development
- SOCY 49.02: Theories of Democratization and the Case of Iran
- GOVT 49.06: U.S. - Latin America Relations: The Dynamic of Foreign Policy Formulation
- INTS 15: Violence and Security
- INTS 16/GEOG 6: Introduction to International Development
- INTS 17/COLT 57/AAAS 64/LATS 43: Cultures, Places, and Identities
- INTS 18/GEOG 2: Global Health and Society
- SOCY 22: The Sociology of International Development
- SOCY 25: Democratization in Developing Countries
Seminars
- ENVS 80.03: Regenerative Design of the Built Environment
- ENVS 80.08: The Practice of Science Policy and Diplomacy
- ENVS 84: Seminar on Environmental Issues of Southern Africa
- GOVT 84.13: Improving Democracy: Institutional Innovations and Experiments in Developing Nations
- GOVT 85.10: State Making and State Breaking
- GOVT 85.12/PBPL 82.1: Military Statecraft in International Relations
- GOVT 85.15: Economic Statecraft in International Relations
- GOVT 85.21: International Law and Institutions
- PBPL 85: Topics in Global Policy Leadership
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Law and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- PBPL 28/GOVT 30.09: Law, Courts, and Judges
- ENVS 17: Marine Policy
- ENVS 50: Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formation
- ENVS 56: Environmental Economics and Governance
- ENVS 60: Environmental Law
- ENVS 61: Governing the Environment
- GOVT 40.20: Immigration Politics
- GOVT 60.05/NAS 36: Indigenous Nationalism: Native Rights and Sovereignty
- GOVT 60.18: Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case
- GOVT 60.20: Introduction to Law, Social Justice, and Trial Practice
- GOVT 60.22: Law, Power, and Society
- GOVT 66.02: Constitutional Law, Development, and Theory
- GOVT 67: Civil Liberties: Legal and Normative Approaches
- GOVT 69/NAS 50: Federal Indian Law
- PHIL 16.02: Kant of Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy
- PHIL 50: Is There a Universal Right to Free Speech?
- SOCY 50: Sociology of Law
Seminars
- PBPL 81.9/GOVT 83.02: Politics and Markets
- GOVT 85.21: International Law and Institutions
- GOVT 86.18: Contemporary Readings on Justice
- GOVT 86.26: Prophets on Trial
- PHIL 80: Free Speech and Conflicts of Rights
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Leadership and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- GOVT 35: The Presidency
- GOVT 50.16: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
- PBPL 43/ECON 77: Social Entrepreneurship
- PBPL 51: Leadership in Civil Society
- PBPL 52/GOVT 30.02: Leadership and Political Institutions
Seminars
- ENVS 80.08: The Practice of Science Policy and Diplomacy
- PBPL 85: Topics in Global Policy Leadership
- GOVT 85.01: Diplomacy
- GOVT 85.02: Leadership and Grand Strategy
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy
Urban Development and Public Policy
Mid-Level Courses
- GEOG 18: Urbanization and the Environment
- ECON 38: Urban and Land Use Economics
- ECON 45: Topics in Industrial Organization
- ECON 48: Topics in Public Economics
- ENVS 16: Business, Growth, and the Environment
- ENVS 20: Conservation of Biodiversity
- ENVS 39: Natural Resources, Development, and the Environment
- ENVS 50: Environmental Problem Analysis and Policy Formulation
- ENVS 56: Environmental Economics and Governance
- ENVS 61: Governing the Environment
- GEOG 22: Urban Geography
- GEOG 57: Urban Applications of GIS
- PBPL 46/GOVT 30.11: Policy Implementation
- PBPL 48: Policy Analysis and Local Governance
Seminars
- ENVS 80.03: Regenerative Design of the Built Environment
- ENVS 80.08: The Practice of Science Policy and Diplomacy
- PBPL 81.3/GEOG 46: Urban Politics and Policies: Transatlantic Perspectives
- PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy