公共政策文学学士

公共政策专业的本科生培养必要的技能，以评估替代政策实施方法的效果，评估政策的有效性，了解决策者面临的政治障碍，并欣赏常常为政策辩论带来生气的基本人类价值观冲突。作为跨学科课程，该专业包括经济学和定量方法，政治学，法律，哲学，伦理学，组织行为学和社会心理学的课程。它由四个主要部分组成：准备，核心，集中和高级领导。预备课程为经济学，数学和心理学奠定了坚实的基础，而核心课程则更深入地研究了政策的实施和评估。学生将在这些课程中获得的技能应用到几个重点领域之一。重点解决公共政策的特定领域，各种类型的机构或政策分析工
The Public Policy undergraduate major the develops the skills necessary to assess the performance of alternative approaches to policy implementation, evaluate the effectiveness of policies, understand the political constraints faced by policy makers, and appreciate the conflicts in fundamental human values that often animate policy debates. As an interdisciplinary program, the major includes coursework in economics and quantitative methods, political science, law, philosophy, ethics, organizational behavior, and social psychology. It is composed of four main components: preparatory, core, concentration, and senior capstone. The preparatory courses provide a strong foundation in economics, math, and psychology while the core delves deeper into policy implmentation and evaluation. Students apply the skills gained in those classes in one of several areas of concentration. The concentration addresses a specific field of public policy, various types of institutions, or a deeper development of the tools of policy analysis. Seniors go on to complete the capstone either by participating in a practicum, a team policy research project for an outside client, and/or by writing an honors thesis.