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Requirements

44 semester hours major; no more than 40 semester hours can have a PPLE prefix.

Three Required Core Classes (16 semester hours)

PPLE210 American Politics (4)
PPLE220 Politics and Ethics (4)
PPLE480W Knowledge into Action Senior Capstone (8)

Two Courses in Public Policy (8 semester hours)

ENVS321 Environmental Policymaking: Politics and Process (4)
ENVS380W Research in Forest Management and Policy (4)
PPLE318 Death in America (4)
PPLE319 U.S. Welfare Policy (4)
PPLE330 Topics in Public Policy (4)
PPLE331 Direct Democracy: The Politics and Policy of State Ballot Measures (4)
PPLE334 Law and Public Policy (4)
PPLE358 American Exceptionalism?: Policy and Politics in Comparative Perspective (4)
PPLE372 American Foreign Policy (4)
BUS6201 Public Policy Studies (4)

One course in Public Law (4 semester hours)

ENVS323 Understanding Environmental Law and Regulation (4)
HIST308 American Legal History (4)
PPLE334 Law and Public Policy (4)
PPLE337 Constitutional Law (4)
LW237 Native American Law (4)
LW 252 Constitutional Law II (4)
LW266 Election Law (4)
LW304 State and Local Government (3)
LW381 First Amendment (3)
LW382 U.S. Supreme Court (3)
LW385 Presidency and the Constitution (3)
LW3019 Legislation and Regulation (4)

Two courses in American Politics and/or Ethics (8 semester hours)

ENVS304W Politics of Environmental Ethics (4)
HIST221W History Workshop: The US Far Right and Its Critics (topic dependent) (4)
IDS330 Bodies in Public (4)
PHEAL301 Public Health Ethics (4)
PPLE314 Politics and Religion in the United States (4)
PPLE315 Topics in Politics (4)
PPLE317 Political Judgment (4)
PPLE331 Direct Democracy: The Politics and Policy of State Ballot Measures (4)
PPLE338W Reforming Criminal Justice (4)
PPLE351W Sex, Gender, and American Politics (4)
PPLE353 Parties, Elections and Campaigns (4)
PPLE354 The American Presidency (4)
PPLE355 Latinx Politics and Policy
PPLE360 Pacific Northwest Farmworkers (4)
LW304 State and Local Government (3)

One Internship/Experiential Credit (4 semester hours)

PPLE338W Reforming Criminal Justice (4)
PPLE396 Governmental Internship (4)
PPLE397 Advocacy Internship (4)
PPLE398 Legislative Internship (4)

One Additional Course from the Above Lists or From the Following: (4 semester hours)

ANTH344 Medical Anthropology (4)
CCM202 Creating Persuasive Campaigns (4)
CCM342 Feminist Media Since 1920 (4)
CCM361 Citizenship and the Public Sphere (4)
ECON320 Discourse on Income Inequality (4)
ECON344 The Economics of Race & Gender (4)
ECON345 Environmental Economics (4)
ENVS328 Health and the Global Environment (4)
HIST239 The Social History of Health (4)
HIST262 Gender and Women's History in the United States (4)
HIST307 American Immigration History (4)
HIST342 Studies in American History (4)
HIST453W History in the Archives (4)
PPLE345 Topics in Politics, Policy, Law & Ethics (4)
PSYC360 Psychology and Law (4)
RHET362W Telling news: Framing Reality (4)
SOC355 Health and Society (4)
SOC321 Climate Justice Workshop (4)
SOC382 Human Rights Research and Advocacy (4)

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Politics, Policy, Law and Ethics

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Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.

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