Public Policy
Facilitators: Kenneth Faulve-Montojo, Political Science, and Elsa Chen, Political Science
A policy is a plan of action intended to achieve objectives. Public policy involves the laws that apply to citizens and residents and also to the organization of government. The laws include taxation, subsidies, and regulations. Policy involves ethics that provide justification of the objectives (such as equity), a political philosophy that applies to the structure of government, and implied theories of economics, sociology, and political science as applied to implementation. For example, a policy of the control of the money supply implies a belief in a theory of how the quantity of money and its control by the monetary authority affects an economy.
Associated Courses
Anthropology
ANTH 152 Political Anthropology
ANTH 155 Conflict Resolution
Economics
* ECON 3 International Economics, Development, and Growth
* ECON 111 Economics of the Environment
* ECON 120 Economics of the Public Sector
* ECON 126 Economics and Law
* ECON 127 Public Finance: Taxation
* ECON 160 The Economics of Poverty and Inequality
* ECON 181 International Trade
Environmental Studies
ENVS 122 Environmental Politics and Policy (cross-listed with POLI 157)
Ethnic Studies
ETHN 155 Racism in the United States
Philosophy
PHIL 5 Ethical Issues in Society
PHIL 8 Ethical Issues in Politics
PHIL 9 Ethical Issues and the Environment
Political Science
POLI 30 Introduction to Political Philosophy
POLI 40 Politics of US Econ Policies
POLI 123 Global Environmental Politics
POLI 157 U.S. Environmental Policy (cross-listed with ENVS 122)
* POLI 167 Making Public Policy
Psychology
* PSYC 150 Social Psychology
Religious Studies
* RSOC 140 Animals, Environment & World Religion
* RSOC 190 Islam: Reformation and Modernity
* TESP 64 Environmental Justice in Catholic Imagination
Sociology
SOCI 33 Social Problems in the United States
* Indicates Course Has Prerequisites
