Public Policy Minor
Public Policy provides students at Elon with the opportunity to explore the connection between major issues facing society (e.g., the economy, health care, crime, education) and the public policies used to address them.
All Public Policy minors take courses covering the basic institutional and economic principles underlying the creation of public policies, as well as the processes through which these decisions take place. Elective courses allow minors to examine public policy and the policy process from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including economics, political science, public health studies, sociology, and communications. Students gain substantive knowledge to aid their understanding of a particular policy area or political actor, while at the same time building skills in leading policy change and analyzing public policy issues.
Minor Requirements
Foundation courses: 12 sh
Select one Public Policy course: 4 sh
Select one additional course: 4 sh
| ANT3250 | Medical Anthropology | 4 sh |
| CJS2710-2790 | Special Topics in Criminal Justice | 2-4 sh |
| CJS2550 | Organized Crime | 4 sh |
| CJS3710-3790 | Special Topics in Criminal Justice | 2-4 sh |
| CSC1100 | Data Science and Visualization | 4 sh |
| CSC3360 | Computer and Network Security | 4 sh |
| ECO2300 | Statistics for Decision Making | 4 sh |
| ECO3120 | Money and Banking | 4 sh |
| ECO3130 | Federal Reserve Challenge | 2 sh |
| ECO3140 | Monetary Policy - Domestic and Global Perspectives | 4 sh |
| ECO3100 | Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory | 4 sh |
| ECO3200 | Intermediate Microeconomic Theory | 4 sh |
| ECO3110 | International Trade and Finance | 4 sh |
| ECO3410 | Gender and Development | 4 sh |
| ECO3210 | Health Economics | 4 sh |
| ECO3220 | Labor Economics | 4 sh |
| ECO3230 | Environmental Economics | 4 sh |
| ECO3240 | Industrial Organization and Regulation | 4 sh |
| ECO4220 | Public Finance | 4 sh |
| ECO4210 | Urban Economics and Planning | 4 sh |
| ECO4400 | Economic Consulting | 4 sh |
| EDU2110 | Education and Society | 4 sh |
| EDU3150 | Educational Assesment | 4 sh |
| EDU4670 | Early Childhood Policy and Advocacy | 4 sh |
| ENS2440 | Natural Resources Management and Sustainability | 4 sh |
| ENS3210 | Urban Ecology | 4 sh |
| ENS3400/GEO3400 | Water Resources Management | 4 sh |
| FIN3030 | Introduction to Finance | 4 sh |
| GEO3450 | Global Environmental Change | 4 sh |
| HSS3200 | Group Dynamics and Leadership | 4 sh |
| HSS3240 | Perspectives And Issues In Aging | 4 sh |
| HSS3490 | Violence in Families | 4 sh |
| HSS3590 | Criminal Justice | 4 sh |
| HSS3610 | Substance Abuse: Issues in Treatment | 4 sh |
| HSS3690 | Juvenile Justice | 4 sh |
| HSS4110 | Designing and Assessing Human Services Programs | 4 sh |
| JOU2500 | Journalism in a Free Society | 4 sh |
| MGT4120 | Advanced Organizational Behavior | 4 sh |
| PCS1210 | Introduction to Conflict Mediation | 2 sh |
| PCS1220 | Communication Across Differences | 2 sh |
| PCS3500 | Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies | 4 sh |
| PHL2150 | Ethics and Decision Making | 4 sh |
| PHL3200 | Reclaiming Democracy | 4 sh |
| PHL3300 | Economic Justice | 4 sh |
| PHL3410 | Philosophy of Law | 4 sh |
| PHL3480/REL3480 | Environmental Ethics | 4 sh |
| PHL3560 | Restorative Justice | 4 sh |
| PHS2010 | Introduction to Public Health | 4 sh |
| PHS3010 | Introduction to Epidemiology | 4 sh |
| PHS3020 | Global Health | 4 sh |
| POL3250 | The Presidency | 4 sh |
| POL3260 | Congress | 4 sh |
| POL3270 | The Supreme Court | 4 sh |
| POL3290 | Political Behavior | 4 sh |
| POL3410 | International Organizations | 4 sh |
| POL3430 | International Law | 4 sh |
| POL3590 | Political Communication | 4 sh |
| PUB2310 | Public Administration | 4 sh |
| PUB3010 | Policy Analysis | 4 sh |
| PUB3100 | Philanthropy and Social Change | 4 sh |
| PUB3110 | Nonprofits | 4 sh |
| PUB3200 | Food Policy | 4 sh |
| PUB3250 | Health Policy | 4 sh |
| PUB3320 | Comparative Public Policy | 4 sh |
| PUB3350 | Ethics in the Public Sector | 4 sh |
| PUB3420 | U.S. Foreign Policy | 4 sh |
| PUB3440 | International Environmental Policy | 4 sh |
| PSY2200 | Social Psychology | 4 sh |
| PSY3860 | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | 4 sh |
| PSY3210 | The Psychology of Leadership | 4 sh |
| PWR2110 | Professional Writing and Rhetoric | 4 sh |
| PWR3230 | Writing Civic Action | 4 sh |
| SOC2430 | Sociology of Education | 4 sh |
| SOC3150 | Drugs and Society | 4 sh |
| SOC3330 | Social Stratification | 4 sh |
| SOC3340 | Environmental Sociology | 4 sh |
| SOC3410 | Racism and Race in the United States | 4 sh |
| SOC3550 | Criminology | 4 sh |
| SOC3560 | Gender and Crime | 4 sh |
| STS2120 | Statistics in Application | 4 sh |
| STS2130 | Survey Sampling Methods | 4 sh |
| STS2320 | Statistical Modeling | 4 sh |
| STS3270 | Statistical Computing for Data Management | 4 sh |
Total Credit Hours: 20