Public Policy SMU

I want to get the details of the Public Policy Major program in Southern Methodist University so can you provide me?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

The Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences of Southern Methodist University offers Major program in Public Policy.

Major program in Public Policy

The public policy major is an interdisciplinary program in economics and political science designed to provide students with the analytical skills and historical context to understand and address contemporary policy issues.

The B.A. degree in public policy requires at least 15 hours of advanced courses selected from the electives, with no fewer than six hours in economics and six hours in political science or public policy.

Students must receive at least a C- in all classes counting toward the major.

A maximum of 12 hours of (preapproved) advanced-level courses in SMU-approved study abroad programs may be counted toward the major.


Twenty-four (24) semester hours of Required Core Courses

ECO 1311 Principles of Microeconomics
ECO 1312 Principles of Macroeconomics
ECO 3301 Price Theory (Intermediate Microeconomics)
MATH 1309 Intro to Calculus for Business/Social Science
or MATH 1337 Calculus I
PLSC 1320 Intro to American Government and Politics
PLSC 1340 Introduction to Comparative Government
or PLSC 1380 Introduction to International Relations
PLSC 3320 Principles of Public Policy
STAT 2301 Statistics for Modern Business Decisions
or STAT 2331 Introduction to Statistical Methods
or STAT 4340 Statistical Methods for Engineers and Applied Scientists
Fifteen (15) semester hours of Electives

Quantitative Methods (one from the following):

ECO 5341 Strategic Behavior
ECO 5350 Introductory Econometrics
ECO 5370 Cost-Benefit Analysis

Two courses from any two of the following groups:

Political Economy

ECO 4371 Theory of Industrial Structure
ECO 4382 Economics of Regulated Industries
ECO 4385 Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy
ECO 5361 Natural Resources and Energy Economics
ECO 5365 Public Finance
ECO 5366 Economics of the Public Sector
PLSC 3329 Bureaucracy and Regulatory Politics
PLSC 3355 The Political Economy of the Welfare State
PLSC 3382 International Organizations: Global and Regional
PLSC 3389 International Political Economy*
PLSC 3390 Negotiating International Trade
PLSC 4329 The Politics of Economic Policy
PLSC 4333 Policy, Politics and the Budget
PLSC 4356 Latin American Political Economy*

Law and Social Policy

ECO 4351 Labor Economics
ECO 4361 Economics of Education
ECO 5320 Health Economics
ECO 5353 Law and Economics
ECO 5357 Economics of Human Resources
PLSC 3321 Congress and the Legislative Process
PLSC 3327 Texas Politics
PLSC 3330 Law, Politics, and the Supreme Court
PLSC 3333 Environmental Policy
PLSC 3335 Judicial Process
PLSC 3370 Women and Politics
PLSC 4321 Basic Issues in American Democracy
PLSC 4334 Politics and Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
PLSC 4335 Constitutional Law
PLSC 4336 Civil Liberties: First Amendment and Privacy
PLSC 4337 Civil Rights
PLSC 4338 Criminal Process Rights
PLSC 4339 Women and the Law
PLSC 4341 Comparative Rights and Representation
PLSC 4371 Jurisprudence
PP 3310 Environmental Policy

International Politics and Policy

ECO 4357 International Trade
ECO 4358 International Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
ECO 5360 Economic Development: Macroeconomic Perspectives
FINA 4329 International Finance (Cox double majors only)
PLSC 3340 Western European Politics
PLSC 3345 Governments and Politics of the Middle East
PLSC 3346 Japanese Politics and Society
PLSC 3347 Governments and Politics of Africa
PLSC 3348 Governments and Politics of Latin America
PLSC 3352 Chinese Politics
PLSC 3358 Government and Politics of Russia
PLSC 3383 The American Foreign Policy Process
PLSC 3389 International Political Economy*
PLSC 4342 Why Nations Revolt
PLSC 4356 Latin American Political Economy*
PLSC 4381 National Security Policy
PLSC 4382 Politics of Military Force
PLSC 4384 American-Russian Relationship
PLSC 4386 International Relations of East Asia
PLSC 4391 NAFTA and Free Trade in the Americas
PLSC 4398 Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
STRA 5370 Strategic Management in a Global Economy (Cox double majors only)
* PLSC 3389 and PLSC 4356 count as either Political Economy or International Politics and Policy.

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Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences
PO Box 750235 | Dallas, Texas | 75275-0235 | 214-768-2440
Southern Methodist University