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PUA: Curriculum

The 120 credit hour curriculum has 69 required hours, including 54 hours in the core (including 15 hours in designated university core courses) and 15 hours in the student's area of concentration. This leaves 51 hours for the student to fulfill other university core requirements (maximum of 21 hours ) and for free electives (minimum of 30 hours).

The curriculum includes three areas:

  1. Core Requirements in Major
  2. Remaining University Core and Free Electives
  3. Area of Concentration

Course requirements for the Public and Urban Affairs degree: (Hours)

I. Core Requirements in Major (54 hrs)

Public Issue Domains (12 hrs)
UAP 1024 Public Issues in an Urban Society (3 hrs)
SPIA 1004 Nations and Nationalities
or UAP 3074 Social Movements in Urban Society (3 hrs)
UAP 3344 Global Environmental Issues *(Area 7) (3 hrs)
Any Area II (3 hrs)
The Policy Context and Process (27 hrs)
ECON 2005/06 Principles of Economics *(Area 3) (6 hrs)
PHIL 3314 Ethical Theory *(Area 2) (3 hrs)
or PHIL 1304 Morality and Justice
or PHIL 2304 Global Ethics
PSCI 1014 Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics (3 hrs)
PSCI 2055 World Politics and Economy (3 hrs)
UAP 3014 Urban Policy and Planning (3 hrs)
UAP 3714 The U.S. Policy Process (3 hrs)
UAP 4714 Economics Financing of State and Local Govts. (3 hrs)
UAP 4754 Legal Foundations of Planning (3 hrs)
Tools for Public Policy and Planning (12 hrs)
UAP 3004 Urban Research Methodology
or PSCI 2024 Research Methods(3 hrs)
UAP 3744 Public Policy Analysis (3 hrs)
UAP 4184 Community Involvement (3 hrs)
STAT 3604 Statistics for Social Sciences (3 hrs)
Synthesis (3 hrs)
UAP 4914 Seminar in Public & Urban Affairs (3 hrs)

II. Remaining University Core and Free Electives (21+30=51)

III. Area of Concentration (15 hrs)

Fifteen hours from one of the approved concentrations:
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