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Oct 09, 2024
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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Public Policy Analytics Minor
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The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy offers a minor in public policy analytics that is open to students pursuing any major. The minor is intended to provide skills in employing advanced analytical methods that have become critical to the design, implementation and evaluation of public policy on the part of government agencies, nonprofits, think tanks and academicians. Students are exposed to the foundations of public policy and the policy-making process, analytical tools from economics and political science, quantitative methods and program evaluation techniques, subject matter from a selected public policy field and development of a portfolio that requires hands-on applications in conducting public policy research.
A limited cohort of 15 students will be admitted to the minor each academic year. Admission will be based on student applications that demonstrate academic aptitude, interest in public policy and engagement outside the classroom. An admissions committee will make selections based on overall student promise and the potential for synergies across students in the cohort. Further information on the admission process and timetable are available on the Center website (http://bakercenter.utk.edu/).
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Minor Requirements
The minor consists of six courses (17-19 hours, depending on course selection) beyond the required pre-minor coursework below. Of these six courses, no more than two may also be used toward meeting curricular requirements for the student’s major or another minor. That is, at least four courses counting for this minor must be above and beyond those counting for the major or another minor.
Required Pre-Minor Coursework:
Select Two Courses from One of the Following Tracks:
Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
Fiscal and Regulatory Policy
Health and Social Justice Policy
**Can only take one of the following to satisfy requirement:
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