2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Public Policy Minor
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Return to: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
The GSPIA Minor in Public Policy will give students the skills and experience they need to translate knowledge into impact. This credential will provide skills that will layer onto the students’ primary degree/major allowing them to connect their area of interest/study with meaningful impact in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Public policy processes and policy decisions affect every aspect of society — from how we provide police services, progress in civil rights, the safety of our water and food supplies, and our efforts to explore space. Students will understand how leaders at various levels of government assess and address contemporary challenges.
Students in GSPIA’s Public Policy minor will learn how public policy processes work, the roles of elected officials, analysts, agencies, and interest groups, and how federal, state, and local jurisdictions cooperate and compete to create policy outcomes. Skills development will focus on developing and using data, defining, and analyzing problems, identifying whether programs and policies work, and how to communicate to influence public policy processes. Students will have the opportunity to work on policies and community organizations of interest to their careers.
The program will leverage the existing faculty expertise in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of 29 faculty doing research, teaching, and service related to public policy. GSPIA is also host to 6 multi-disciplinary centers that conduct research and offer students experiential learning opportunities on a range of policy issues - from international security, human development, to gender equality and police accountability. According to the 2023 US News and World Report rankings, GSPIA ranked #1 among public universities (and # 8 overall) in the specialty rankings for international/global policy and #17 in urban policy (#27 overall).
Housed within GSPIA, the credential will offer a blend of lecture-based and experiential learning to meet students’ need for more hands-on training and experience.
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