Electives

Students may choose a minimum of any four courses to fulfill the electives portion of their major.   While there are several topic areas represented, students are free to choose any courses on the list to fulfill the requirements.   In addition, students may petition to have a course that is not listed be approved for major elective credit.

* Last Offered

• BUAD440 - International Business Management (Fall 2011*)

• BUAD442 - The Psychology of Decision Making (Fall 2011*)

• ECON304 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Fall 2011*)

• ECON308 - Econometrics (if not taken for core) (Fall 2011*)

• ECON311 - Money and Banking (Spring 2011*)

• ECON322 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Fall 2011*)

• ECON341 - American Economic History (Fall 2011*)

• ECON355 - Seminar in Population Economics (Not presently offered)

• ECON362 - Government Regulation of Business (Fall 2011*)

• ECON382 - Comparative Economics (Spring 2010*)

• ECON383 - Survey of Development Economics (Fall 2006*)

• ECON408 - Time Series Econometrics (Spring 2011*)

• ECON412 - Stabilization Policy (Not presently offered)

• ECON420 - Economics of Information (Fall 2011*)

• ECON422 - Applied Environmental Economics (Not presently offered)

• ECON451 - Labor Market Analysis (Spring 2011*)

• ECON452 - Income Distribution and Human Resources (Spring 2007*)

• ECON456 - Economics of Health Care (Spring 2010*)

• ECON460 - Economic Analysis of the Law (Fall 2011*)

• ECON461 - Industrial Organization: Theory, Evidence, and Cases (Fall 2010*)

• ECON475 - International Trade Theory and Policy (Fall 2011*)

• ECON476 - International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics (Fall 2011*)

• GOVT307 - Political Polling and Survey Analysis (if not taken for core) (Fall 2011*)

• GOVT324 - U.S. Foreign Policy (will count toward concentration elective credit only if HIST445 not selected) (Fall 2007*)

• GOVT328 - International Political Economy (Fall 2011*)
• GOVT353 - The Politics of States and Localities (Spring 2011*)
• GOVT355 - Southern Politics (Spring 2011*)

• GOVT360 - American Welfare State (Spring 2011*)

• GOVT370 - The Legislative Process (Spring 2011*)

• GOVT371 - The Presidency (Spring 2011*)

• GOVT372 - American Legal Process (Fall 2011*)

• GOVT373 - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (Spring 2011*)
• GOVT374 - Political Behavior (Not presently offered)
• GOVT435 - Seminar: Political Economy of the Newly Industrializing Countries (Not presently offered)
• GOVT454 - Seminar: The Politics of Metropolitan Areas (Fall 2011*)
• GOVT455 - Seminar: Education Policy and Politics in the U.S. (Fall 2011*)
• GOVT465 - Seminar: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior (Fall 2009*)
• GOVT470 - Seminar: Congress and the President (Spring 2011*)
• HIST434 - U.S. Foreign Relations - major elective credit only if GOVT324 not selected (Spring 2011*)

• MATH323 - Operations Research I - Deterministic Models (Fall 2011*)

• MATH424 - Operations Research II - Stochastic Models (Spring 2011*)

• PSYCH320 - Community Psychology and Prevention (Fall 2011*)

• PSYCH375 - Psychology of Decision Making (Fall 2011*)

• PSYCH450 - Social Psychology and the Law (Not presently offered)

• REL322 - Medicine and Ethics (Fall 2009*)

• SOC302 - Criminology (Fall 2011*)

• SOC306 - Urban Sociology (Fall 2010*)

• SOC307 - Sociology of Education (Fall 2011*)

• SOC308 - Environmental Sociology (Fall 2011*)

• SOC311 - Birth, Sex, Death: Population & Society (Fall 2006*)
• SOC313 - Globalization and the Environment (Fall 2011*)

• SOC352 - Methods of Social Research (if not taken for core) (Fall 2011*)

• SOC362 - Medical Sociology (Fall 2011*)

• SOC405 - Sociology of Aging (Spring 2010*)

• SOC426 - Sociology of Mental Illness (Not presently offered)

• SOC427 - Globalization and the Environment (Spring 2011*)

• SOC429 - Deviance and Social Control (Fall 2008*)

• PUBP390 - Topics in Public Policy (as well as 300 and 400 level Topics courses in Economics, Government, History, Psychology and Sociology, provided that the course has a strong public policy focus) (Fall 2011*)

• PUBP490 -Independent Study (as well as independent study in Economics, Government, History, Psychology, and Sociology, provided that the project has a strong public policy focus) (Fall 2011*)

• PUBP495, 496 - Public Policy Honors (Fall 2011*)

  *Last Offered

*390. Topics in Public Policy.
Fall and Spring (3,3) Staff.
Selected topics in public policy. The topic to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. This course may be repeated for credit.

*391. Seminar-Short Course in Public Policy.
Fall and Spring (1,1) Staff.
Selected topics in public policy. The topic to be considered will be announced prior to the beginning of the semester. This course may be repeated for credit.

†490. Independent Study.
Fall and Spring (3,3) McBeth.
Directed readings/research course conducted on individual or group basis on various topics in public policy. The course may not be taken more than twice.

†495-496. Honors.
Fall, Spring (3,3) McBeth.
Students admitted to the Public Policy Honors program will be enrolled in this course during both semesters of their senior year. Students are responsible for (a) reading a selected bibliography; (b) satisfactory completion by April 15th of an original scholarly essay; and (c) satisfactory performance on a comprehensive oral examination. A student who completes the Honors essay but does not achieve Honors may be given credit for Public Policy 490. For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.

†498. Internship.
Fall and Spring (3,3) McBeth.
This course may be repeated for credit.