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Curriculum

Year 1

Course Acronym Course # Description Credit Hours
PPOL 700 Quantitative Methods I 3
PPOL 704 Research Methods 3
PPOL 706 Program Evaluation and Design 3
PPOL 708 Issues of Program Implementation  3
PPOL 714 Foundations of Public Policy  3
PPOL  716 Political Philosophy and Social Policy  3
PPOL 850-1 Dissertation Research / Capstone  6

Total Credit Hours Year 1       24.00 

Year 2

Course Acronym Course # Description Credit Hours
PPOL 710 Microeconomics 3
PPOL 711 Public Finance and Budgeting 3
PPOL 718 Social and Political Institutions in Policy Making 3
PPOL 720 Policy Analysis  3
PPOL 733 Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector  3
PPOL  735 Seminar on Issues of Race, Gender and Equity  3
PPOL 850-2 Dissertation Research / Capstone  6

Total Credit Hours Year 2.                 24.00  

Total Credit Hours for Degree.        48.00