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Dec 08, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Public Policy Analytics Minor
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The Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs 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. Admission is competitive and 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 Baker School website (http://bakerschool.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, at least four courses counting for this minor cannot be used to satisfy other degree requirements. Required Pre-Minor Coursework:
Select Two Courses from One of the Following Tracks:
Economic and Community Development
Energy, Transportation, and Environment
National Security and Foreign Affairs
- ANTH 421 - Refugees and Displaced People 3 Credit Hours
- ECON 322 - The Global Economy: Trade and Development 3 Credit Hours
- ECON 421 - International Economics 3 Credit Hours
- GEOG 451 - The Global Economy 3 Credit Hours *
- PHIL 441 - Global Justice and Human Rights 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 350 - Sources of Political Change in the Global South: Coups, Climate, and Conflict 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 366 - United States Foreign Policy Process 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 370 - Contemporary International Problems 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 452 - Foundations of African Politics: Dictators, Democratization, and Development 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 453 - Europe in Transition: The Political Transformation of a Continent 3 Credit Hours *
- POLS 454 - Politics in China and Japan: Culture, Power and Competition 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 455 - Identity, Conflict and State Building in South Asian Countries 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 456 - Development and Decay of Democracy in Latin America 3 Credit Hours *
- POLS 461 - Comparative Public Policy: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions 3 Credit Hours *
- POLS 463 - Politics and Power in the Middle East 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 470 - International Law 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 471 - International Political Economy 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 472 - Conflict Processes 3 Credit Hours *
- POLS 473 - Negotiation, Bargaining, and Diplomacy 3 Credit Hours
- POLS 479 - Regional Analysis of International Politics 3 Credit Hours
- SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours
- SOCI 446 - The Modern World System 3 Credit Hours
- WGS 370 - Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours *
Tools for Policy Analysis
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