Public Policy Analysis Major

Requirements for the Major in Public Policy Analysis

1. Four-course public policy sequence: ECON 051 PO , ECON 052 PO ; POLI 003 PO  or ; .
2. Statistical/Quantitative Methods course:  or  unless otherwise noted below:

• Biology/PPA students may take one of the above or  or  
• Chemistry/PPA students take ,  
• Economics/PPA students take  
• Geology/PPA students take  
• Physics/PPA students take ,  
• Psychology/PPA students take  
• Sociology/PPA students take  or  
• STS/PPA students take , ,  or a course approved by the PPA Program Coordinator.

3. Policy Elective: Students are invited to suggest policy-oriented courses at the Claremont Colleges to fulfill this requirement, which must be approved by the PPA Program Coordinator. To be approved, the course must be beyond the introductory level and should focus primarily on public policy. This can include courses focused on a substantive policy area, such as housing or health, the development of tools for analyzing public policy or some combination of these. Students may consult with the program’s associate director. A policy elective is not required for EA/PPA or STS/PPA. Regularly offered courses which are approved are: , , , , , , , , GOVT100  CM, .
4. Courses in an existing major:

• Anthropology:
  ,  , and ; two of the following: , , , , ; and one elective. Courses are chosen in consultation with student’s academic advisor for relevance to the internship and direction of study.
• Biology:
   and  or ; ,  or ; any three upper-division biology courses subject to approval by the biology advisor.
• Chemistry:
   and  or , , , ;  , , , or , .
• Economics:
  , , , three electives.
• Environmental Analysis:
  1. Four course general public policy sequence: one of  or ; , ;  
  2. ,  
  3. Statistical/Quantitative methods course:  or  
  4. One ecology course such as , , ,  or  
  5. Four environmental policy courses: two courses from , , , , , ; two courses from , ,  
  6. One course from the following: ; ;  or similar
  7. Senior Thesis/Capstone:  (seminar),  (thesis),  (internship)
• Geology:
  1. One introductory geology course from , , , , , ,  
  2. Three courses from: , , , ,  
  3. One course from: ,  ,  
  4. One additional Geology course numbered 100 or above
• Physics:
  , , , or ; ; ; ; plus one additional course credit from physics or astronomy courses numbered above 100. Students may petition to count a complementary lab science course if appropriate in place of the additional physics course.
• Politics:
  Six POLI courses distributed across at least three of the four subfields, chosen in consultation with a Politics advisor. No more than two introductory courses numbered 001 to 010 will count toward the major. At least one elective must be numbered 100 or above.
• Psychology:
  , or  or ; ; three electives chosen in consultation with Psychology and PPA advisors for relevance to the internship.
• Sociology:
  , , , and four electives.
• Science, Technology and Society:
  See the  section in this catalog.

This information is subject to change by departmental or major committees.

5. Three-course internship-thesis sequence: , , .