Analytical Competency Requirement

The analytical competency helps prepare students for the design and execution of professional policy analyses. A minimum of seven credit hours is required, drawn from one or more courses from sections A, B, C, or D and up to four courses from D below. Other courses may be deemed appropriate with the Director's approval.

A. Policy Analysis and Public Administration

PAD 251 Governmental Budgeting

PAD 253 Financial Management in the Public Sector

PAD 260 Policy Formulation and Administration

PAD 264 Public and Nonprofit Program Evaluations

PAD 295 Research Methods

B. Economic Theory and Concepts

ECON 217 Survey of Microeconomics

ECON 218 Survey of Macroeconomics

Other relevant courses offered by the Economic Department (e.g. microeconomics, industrial organization, environmental economics, regional economics)

C. Research Methods

PAD 296 Statistical Applications in Public Administration

STAT 105 Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences

STAT 111 Business and Economics Statistics I

STAT 112 Business and Economics Statistics II

STAT 118 Regression Analysis

STAT 183 Intermediate Statistical Laboratory: Statistical Computing Packages

PPOL 212 Research Methods in Policy Analysis

ECON 221 Economics Applied to Public Policy: Theory and Method

PSC 203 Approaches to Public Policy Analysis
(ECON 221 may be cross-listed as PPOL 204)

D. Skills-Courses (1-credit hour)

IAFF 202 Skills Workshop (choose from several

IAFF 203 Topics Workshop (choose from several)

In instances where proficiency in a foreign language can be shown to be integral to a student's program of study, it may be used to meet the analytical competency requirement. Students must petition for approval from the Program Director. Courses taken to demonstrate language proficiency may not be included in the 40 credit hours required for the degree.