Requirements

Requirements for the Politics, Policy, Law & Ethics Major (44 semester hours)

Three Required Core Classes (16 semester hours)

• PPLE 210 American Politics (4)
• PPLE 220 Politics and Ethics (4)
• PPLE 480W Knowledge into Action Senior Capstone (8)

Two Courses in Public Policy (8 semester hours)

• ENVS 321 Environmental Policymaking: Politics and Process (4)
• ENVS 380W Research in Forest Management and Policy (4)
• PPLE 318 Death in America (4)
• PPLE 319 U.S. Welfare Policy (4)
• PPLE 330 Topics in Public Policy (4)
• PPLE 331 Direct Democracy: The Politics and Policy of State Ballot Measures (4)
• PPLE 334 Law and Public Policy (4)
• PPLE 358 American Exceptionalism?: Policy and Politics in Comparative Perspective (4)
• PPLE 372 American Foreign Policy (4)
• BUS-6201 Public Policy Studies (4)

One course in Public Law (4 semester hours)

• ENVS 323 Understanding Environmental Law and Regulation (4)
• HIST 308 American Legal History (4)
• PPLE 334 Law and Public Policy (4)
• PPLE 337 Constitutional Law (4)
• LW 237 Native American Law (4)
• LW 252 Constitutional Law II (4)
• LW 266 Election Law (4)
• LW 304 State and Local Government (3)
• LW 381 First Amendment (3)
• LW 382 U.S. Supreme Court (3)
• LW 385 Presidency and the Constitution (3)
• LW 3019 Legislation and Regulation (4)

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

• ENVS 304W Politics of Environmental Ethics (4)
• HIST 221W History Workshop: The US Far Right and Its Critics (topic dependent) (4)
• IDS 330 Bodies in Public (4)
• PHEAL 301 Public Health Ethics (4)
• PPLE 314 Politics and Religion in the United States (4)
• PPLE 315 Topics in Politics (4)
• PPLE 317 Political Judgment (4)
• PPLE 331 Direct Democracy: The Politics and Policy of State Ballot Measures (4)
• PPLE 338W Reforming Criminal Justice (4)
• PPLE 351W Sex, Gender, and American Politics  (4)
• PPLE 353 Parties, Elections and Campaigns (4)
• PPLE 354 The American Presidency (4)
• LW 304 State and Local Government (3)

One Internship/Experiential Credit (4 semester hours)

• PPLE 338W Reforming Criminal Justice (4)
• PPLE 396 Governmental Internship (4)
• PPLE 397 Advocacy Internship (4)
• PPLE 398 Legislative Internship (4)

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

• ANTH 231 Indigenous Peoples of North America (4)
• ANTH 258 Selected Area Studies: Intro to Migration Studies (topic dependent) (4)
• ANTH 344 Medical Anthropology (4)
• ANTH 351 Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment (4)
• CCM 202 Designing Persuasive Campaigns (4)
• CCM 342 Feminist Media Since 1920 (4)
• CCM 361 Citizenship and the Public Sphere (4)
• ECON 320 Discourse on Income Inequality (4)
• ECON 344 The Economics of Race & Gender (4)
• ECON 345 Environmental Economics (4)
• ENVS 328 Health and the Global Environment (4)
• HIST 239 The Social History of Health (4)
• HIST 262 Gender and Women's History in the United States (4)
• HIST 307 American Immigration History (4)
• HIST 342 Studies in American History (4)
• HIST 453 History in the Archives (4)
• INTST 328W Political Metaphors (4)
• PPLE 345 Topics in Politics, Policy, Law & Ethics (4)
• PSYC 360 Psychology and Law (4)
• SOC 355 Health and Society (4)
• SOC 382 Human Rights Research and Advocacy (4)

Requirements for the Politics, Policy, Law, and Ethics Minor (24 semester hours)

• PPLE 210 American Politics (4)
• PPLE 220 Politics and Ethics (4)
• 4 semester hours in 3 of the following four categories (12):
  
  • Public Policy
  • Public Law
  • American Politics & Ethics
  • Internship
• Four additional semester hours that counts toward the PPLE major (4)

Note: At least 4 courses must have a PPLE prefix.