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Public Policy Minor Tracks

Public Policy Minors will complete three courses relating to a policy theme, including at least one seminar. Some possible tracks and courses are illustrated below.

The examples below are illustrative: a range of other courses and tracks of study have been pursued by students, and will be considered for potentially fulfilling the Minor's requirements.

Examples of Customized Tracks Created by Students

Social Division in Public Policy

Community Engagement and Leadership

Behavioral Economics, Decision Making, and Game Theory

Entrepreneurship and Economic Policy

Participation in Participatory Democracy

Established Tracks

Economic Policy

Mid-Level Courses

  • ECON 27: Labor Economics
  • ECON 28: Public Finance and Public Policy
  • ECON 38: The Economics of Government and Policy
  • ECON 39: International Trade
  • ENVS 55: Ecological Economics
  • ENVS 56: Environmental Economics and Governance
  • GEOG 20.01: The Global Food and Energy Landscape
  • GOVT 40.07: 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 80.01: Arctic Environmental Change
  • PBPL 81.9/GOVT 83.02: Politics and Markets
  • PBPL 84.02/ECON: 71: Health Economics and Policy
  • PBPL 84.04/GOVT 83.24: Inequality and American Democracy
  • ECON 85: Independent Study in Economics
  • PBPL 91: Independent Study in Public Policy

Education and Public Policy

Mid-Level Courses

  • PBPL 20/EDUC 20: Education Issues in Contemporary Society
  • PBPL 27/GOVT 30.12/EDUC 35: Affirmative Action in Higher Education
  • EDUC 24/SOCY 58: Education and Inequality
  • SOCY 24/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
  • ENVS 16: Business, Growth, and the Environment
  • GEOG 16.01: A Climate for Human Security
  • ENVS 15: Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions
  • ENVS 17: Marine Policy
  • GEOG 18.01: Climate Extremes on a Warming Planet
  • ENVS 20: Conservation of Biodiversity
  • ENVS 25: Ecological Agriculture
  • ENVS 28: Global Environmental Health
  • ENVS 39: Natural Resources, Development and the Environment
  • GEOG 39.01: Environmental Justice
  • GOVT 40.23: Energy and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
  • GEOG 42: Water Policy and Politics
  • ENVS 44/GEOG 44: 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

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
  • SOCY 25: Democratization in Developing Countries
  • GEOG 33.01: Geopolitics and Third World Development
  • GEOG 32.01: Economic Geography and Globalization
  • GOVT 49.04/LACS 52/WGSS 31.01: 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

  • ENGS 5: Healthcare and Biotechnology in the 21st Century
  • ENGS 13: Virtual Medicine and Cybercare
  • ANTH 17: The Anthropology of Health and Illness
  • GEOG 21.02/INTL 18: Global Health and Society
  • PBPL 26/ GOVT 30.14: Health Politics and Policy
  • ENVS 28: Global Environmental Health
  • 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 68.01: Witchcraft and Biomedicine
  • PBPL 84.02/ECON 71: Health Economics and 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/AAAS 21/WGSS 40.03: Racial Justice
  • SOCY 32: Social Meanings of Home
  • GOVT 40.05: Politics of Ethnicity
  • GOVT 40.20: Immigration Politics
  • SOCY 33: Self and Society
  • SOCY 43/ANTH 12.19//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
  • WGSS 16: Contemporary Issues in Feminism: Theory and Practice
  • WGSS 31.01/GOVT 49.04/LACS 52: Sex and the State in Latin America
  • WGSS 46.1/PHIL 4: Feminism and Philosophy
  • SOCY 65: Social Psychology of Inequality

Seminars

  • PBPL 84.04/GOVT 83.24: Inequality and American Democracy
  • 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 26/ GOVT 30.14: Health Politics and Policy
  • PBPL 28/GOVT 30.09: Law, Courts, and Judges
  • PBPL 46/GOVT 30.11: Policy Implementation
  • ECON 65: 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
  • PBPL 84.04/GOVT 83.24: Inequality and American Democracy
  • 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

  • INTS 15: Violence and Security
  • INTS 16/GEOG 8.01: Introduction to International Development
  • INTS 18/GEOG 21.01: Global Health and Society
  • SOCY 22: The Sociology of International Development
  • ECON 24: Development Economics
  • SOCY 25: Democratization in Developing Countries
  • GEOG 33.01: 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/LACS 50.11: U.S. - Latin America Relations: The Dynamic of Foreign Policy Formulation
  • AAAS 50/ENVS 45/HIST 75: Colonialism, Development and the Environment in Asia and Africa
  • ECON 64: Topics in Development Economics
  • ECON 69: Topics in International Economics
  • GEOG 74: Moral Economies of Development

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
  • PBPL 46/GOVT 30.11: Policy Implementation
  • 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
  • SOCY 50: Sociology of Law

Seminars

  • PBPL 81.9/GOVT 83.02: Politics and Markets
  • GOVT 86.18: Contemporary Readings on Justice
  • GOVT 86.26: Prophets on Trial
  • 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 46: Urbanization and the Environment
  • ECON 65: Topics in Industrial Organization
  • ECON 68: 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 6.01: 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 91: Independent Study in Public Policy