Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy

Overview

Why consider the Ford School BA in Public Policy?

Degree Requirements

Required courses for the BA (20 credit hours):

Policy Seminars:
The most distinctive part of the concentration is Public Policy 495 (the policy seminars). These are small interdisciplinary courses that focus on particular public policy issues. These seminars emphasize working in teams, writing, and oral presentation skills. The final product of each seminar is an extensive policy analysis of the issue being studied, written for an audience of public officials. In these seminars, students apply the skills they learn in other courses and have opportunities to interact with policy makers and scholars who are experts on the issue being studied. Each student must take one seminar as a junior and one as a senior. The seminars address a balance of domestic and international topics and fulfill the upper division writing requirement.

Elective Courses (18 credit hours):
Each student will work with an advisor to define a focus for his/her BA program and to identify a set of electives that provide appropriate disciplinary depth and policy knowledge. Students may select electives from across the university to meet this elective requirement. The Ford School will offer a variety of elective courses each year. Possibilities include:

A preview of the curriculum: Public Policy 201

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