Social Research and Public Policy (BA)
Program Description
Designing and evaluating policy depends on social science theory and research. The program in Social Research and Public Policy offers rigorous training with courses in economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology, as well as courses in quantitative and qualitative research methods, which enable students to critically evaluate research findings and produce original research. Social Research and Public Policy is attractive to students who are concerned with the major social problems of our times such as international migration, unequal economic development, poverty, racism and sexism, inequality, ethnic conflict, as well as health inequality and population dynamics.
The program aims to inspire students’ critical theoretical imagination and helps them to make better sense of the world around themselves. SRPP majors will be regarded as excellent candidates for law school, and for graduate programs in the social sciences, in public policy, business school, public health, education, urban planning, and social work. Graduates work with NGO’s, in public service, urban planning, and community action.
Its breadth and its emphasis on critical thinking and hands-on empirical research, especially research linked to policy questions, distinguish the major in Social Research and Public Policy. Social Research and Public Policy majors will produce a piece of original research to meet the capstone requirement. Students may collect their own data, conduct simulations, or reanalyze available data to make a contribution to the research in the field of their choice. Students will work with a faculty mentor to develop and implement their research design. Students who wish to do fieldwork abroad should develop the project in the spring of junior year and obtain approval from the faculty mentor to collect data during the summer before senior year. NYUAD’s Institutional Review Board must approve all projects that involve human subjects before data collection begins. Seniors will attend a bi-weekly colloquium, which is moderated by a faculty member and serves as a forum for peer review and feedback on progress with the project.
Study Away
The study away pathway for the Social Research and Public Policy major can be found on the NYUAD Student Portal at students.nyuad.nyu.edu/pathways. Students with questions should contact the Office of Global Education.
Admissions
New York University's Office of Undergraduate Admissions supports the application process for all undergraduate programs at NYU. For additional information about undergraduate admissions, including application requirements, see How to Apply.
Note: NYU Abu Dhabi has pending changes to this program with their accrediting body, with an anticipated start term of Fall 2024. Because of this, these pages may change after publication.
Program Requirements
Course | Title | Credits |
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General Education Requirements | ||
Colloquia | 4 | |
First-Year Seminar | 4 | |
Arts, Design, and Technology | 4 | |
Cultural Exploration Analysis | 4 | |
Data and Discovery | 4 | |
Structures of Thought and Society | 4 | |
J-Term Field Colloquia (2 courses) | 6 | |
Physical Education (2 courses) | 0 | |
Foundations of Social Science Courses | ||
SOCSC-UH 1010Q | Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 1113 | Introduction to the Study of Society | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 1011 | Global Economic, Political and Social Development (GEPS) | 4 |
Select 1 Social, Political, and Economic Thought (SPET) course | 4 | |
Major Electives | ||
Select 2 Methods electives | 8 | |
Select 2 Institutions and Public Policy electives | 8 | |
Select 2 Social Structure and Global Processes electives | 8 | |
Select 2 Society and Culture electives | 8 | |
Capstone | ||
SRPP-UH 4000 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
SRPP-UH 4001 | Capstone Project | 4 |
Other Electives | ||
Other Elective Credits | 42 | |
Total Credits | 128 |
Electives
Methods Electives
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
BUSOR-UH 2004 | Data Analytics: Business | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1058EJQ | Data, Discovery, and Decision-Making in Public Health | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1067Q | Epidemiology for Global Health | 4 |
CS-UH 2219E | Computational Social Science | 4 |
ECON-UH 1410EJ | Research Design, Fieldwork, and Data Analysis for Development Economics | 4 |
ECON-UH 2020 | Data Analysis: Economics | 4 |
ECON-UH 3210 | Quantitative Methods and Program Evaluation | 4 |
ECON-UH 3912 | Economics of Networks | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2211 | Data Analysis | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 1210Q | Logic of Social Inquiry | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 2210 | Introduction to Game Theory | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 2211 | Survey Research | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 2212 | Research Design & Causality in Social Science | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 2213 | Textual Analysis for the Social Sciences | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 2214 | Applied Data Science | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 3210 | Advanced Game Theory | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 3220 | Econometrics | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 3221EJ | Experimental Research in the Social Sciences | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2211 | Ethnographic Field Research | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2214 | Interview Methods | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3210 | Practicum in Social Research | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3214 | Social Networks | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3215 | Quantitative Data Analysis | 4 |
Institutions and Public Policy Electives
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
ANTH-UH 2117J | Migration and Displacement Across the Red Sea | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1008 | Making Development Work | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1011 | Foundations of Leadership | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1104 | Diversity and Inclusion | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1302 | Impact Investing | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1401J | Global Business Strategy | 4 |
CADT-UH 1070J | Arts for Transformation: The Case of the Mekong Region | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1020EJQ | Challenges in Global Health | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1056J | Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Case Study of Uganda | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1058EJQ | Data, Discovery, and Decision-Making in Public Health | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1060EJ | Researching Peace | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1074 | Refugees, Law and Crises | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1087 | Future of Education | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1091J | Disability, Technology, and Media | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1095J | Space and the Future of Humankind | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1102Q | Health & Society in a Global Context | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1105J | Environmental Governance | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1109J | International Peacebuilding and the Role of Education | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1111J | Disability Justice and Radical Inclusion | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1120J | Purposes of Public Education | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1143J | Global Education Inequalities and Policies | 4 |
ECON-UH 1701 | Economics of Gender | 4 |
ECON-UH 3460 | Poverty | 4 |
ENVR-UH 1312 | Global Debate on Green Growth | 4 |
HERST-UH 1502 | Judging Heritage: Cultural Property Law and Preservation Policies | 4 |
HIST-UH 3110 | Economic Development and Environmental Change in China | 4 |
LAW-UH 1013 | Business Law | 4 |
LAW-UH 2110 | Punishment in Politics, Law and Society | 4 |
LAW-UH 2113J | International Law | 4 |
LAW-UH 2121 | Renewable Energy Law and Policy | 4 |
LAW-UH 2124 | Human Rights Law | 4 |
LAW-UH 3503 | European Union Law | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2311 | Political Economy of Institutions | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2324J | Politics of Belonging: Membership, Communities, Nations, and Boundaries | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2411 | Politics, Social Change & Development in South Asia | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2423 | Media and Politics | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2427J | Practicing Politics in the Age of Disruption | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2511 | International Organizations | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2529J | Moving Towards Net Zero While Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2911 | Environmental Politics | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2912 | Politics of Natural Resources | 4 |
POLSC-UH 3313 | Making and Breaking Elections | 4 |
POLSC-UH 3413 | Foreign Policy Analysis | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 1112 | Introduction to Political Thinking | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1416J | Globally Sustainable Leadership Models | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1610J | Child Development and Social Policy in a Global Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1611 | Introduction to Global Health | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1612 | Global Health and Economic Development | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1613J | 21st-Century International Human Rights | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1614 | Entrepreneurship | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1615 | Law, Society, and Public Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1616J | Children, Youth and Sustainable Development of the World's Cities | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1617 | Sociology of Entrepreneurship | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1618J | Political Abdications | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1619J | Philanthropy Today: How Organized Money Fuels Innovation, Institutions and Movements | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1620J | Himalayas: Geopolitics and Ecology of Melting Mountains Water Towers, Sky Rivers and the Sponge | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1701 | International Migration in Global Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1811 | Discipline | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1816 | Crime and Deviance | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1817J | Birthing Inequity: Teenage Pregnancy and Covid-19 Public Health Measures in Uganda | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1818 | Gender, Policy and Politics | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2212 | Epidemiology: Knowledge and Skills Foundation Course | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2414 | Global Family Policies and Laws | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2419 | Migration Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2420 | The Mafia Business: Sociological Approach | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2610 | Introduction to Public Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2611 | Social Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2612X | State Formation: The Case of the United Arab Emirates | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2613 | Urban Poverty and Social Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2614X | Women and Work in the Gulf | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2616 | Immigration, Ethnicity and Public Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2617J | Global Burden of Non-communicable Diseases | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2618 | Welfare States in Comparative Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2619 | Leadership and Diplomacy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2620 | Education and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2621 | Bound by Borders: Sociology of Law and Migration | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2622J | Seminar in Sociogenomics | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2623J | Cultures of Addiction: A Bio-Social View | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2624JX | Disability in a Global Context: Advancing Inclusion in the UAE | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2625JX | Making Women Matter: Case Studies from the GCC | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2626J | Knowledge Translation: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice in Inclusive Education | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2627 | Organizations and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2628J | Lead With a Story: How to Change the World through Public Narrative | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2629 | Education Policy Analysis and Design | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2630 | Social Impact Design for Policy and Business | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2801X | Community- Engaged Scholarship: Addressing Social Hierarchies in the UAE | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3610 | Public Policy Analysis: Case studies for Effective Formation and Implementation | 4 |
URBAN-UH 1122J | Contested Cities: Difference, Inequality, and the Metropolis | 4 |
Social Structure and and Global Processes Electives
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
ACS-UH 2614X | Colonization of Palestine | 4 |
AFRST-UH 1110J | Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2115 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2116 | Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2117J | Migration and Displacement Across the Red Sea | 4 |
CADT-UH 1063 | Foodways for the Anthropocene | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1046EQ | Infectious Diseases: Preventing and Stopping Epidemics | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1017 | Revolutions and Social Change | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1053 | Understanding Urbanization | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1053J | Understanding Urbanization | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1074 | Refugees, Law and Crises | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1086J | Nation and Empire | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1089J | Migration: Crisis or Norm? | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1099 | Global Media Seminar: Latin America | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1102Q | Health & Society in a Global Context | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1117J | Food Security in Communities of Color | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1119J | "Race", Genomics, and Society | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1133J | Care Across Borders: Migration and Domestic Work | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1134J | Health and Society | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1142JX | Gendering Islam in the Global City | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1143J | Global Education Inequalities and Policies | 4 |
ECON-UH 1701 | Economics of Gender | 4 |
ECON-UH 3460 | Poverty | 4 |
ENVR-UH 1312 | Global Debate on Green Growth | 4 |
HIST-UH 1125X | South Asia in the Indian Ocean World | 4 |
HIST-UH 3110 | Economic Development and Environmental Change in China | 4 |
HIST-UH 3310 | Humanitarianism in Africa: A Critical History | 4 |
HIST-UH 3323J | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: History and Memories | 4 |
MUSIC-UH 2668 | Popular Music and Politics in Africa | 4 |
PEACE-UH 1117J | Nation-Building in the Shadow of Empire | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2320J | Diversity and Society | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2411 | Politics, Social Change & Development in South Asia | 4 |
PSYCH-UH 2215 | Psychology of Sex and Gender | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1411J | Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1412J | Wealth and Inequality in the Global City | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1413X | Social Change and Development in the Arab World | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1414 | Social Dimensions of Health | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1419J | Refuge Beyond Reach: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1611 | Introduction to Global Health | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1612 | Global Health and Economic Development | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1701 | International Migration in Global Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1819J | Sports and the Political | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2213JQ | Sports and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2410 | Gender and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2411 | Wealth and Inequality | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2412X | Islamist Social Movements in the Middle East | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2413J | Connecting Neighborhoods and Health: An Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2414 | Global Family Policies and Laws | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2417 | Global Stratification | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2418 | Politics and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2419 | Migration Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2420 | The Mafia Business: Sociological Approach | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2612X | State Formation: The Case of the United Arab Emirates | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2614X | Women and Work in the Gulf | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2616 | Immigration, Ethnicity and Public Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2617J | Global Burden of Non-communicable Diseases | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2618 | Welfare States in Comparative Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2620 | Education and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2629 | Education Policy Analysis and Design | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2630 | Social Impact Design for Policy and Business | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3410 | Social Science Analysis of Global News | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3412 | Issues in African Societies | 4 |
Society and Culture Electives
Code | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
ACS-UH 1010X | Anthropology and the Arab World | 4 |
ACS-UH 1611JX | Politics of Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula | 4 |
ACS-UH 2418X | Politics and Cultures of Nationalism in the Modern Middle East | 4 |
ACS-UH 2613X | Youth in the Middle East | 4 |
ACS-UH 2614X | Colonization of Palestine | 4 |
AFRST-UH 1110J | Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies | 4 |
ANTH-UH 1010 | Introduction to Anthropology | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2111 | India: Topics in Anthropology & History | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2113 | Memoir and Ethnography: Understanding Culture Through First-Person Narrative | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2115 | Anthropology of Forced Migration | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2116 | Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2117J | Migration and Displacement Across the Red Sea | 4 |
ANTH-UH 2121X | Gender/Religion/Violence | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 1011 | Foundations of Leadership | 4 |
BUSOR-UH 2110 | Creativity and Creative Industries | 4 |
CADT-UH 1044JX | Sensory Ethnographic Methods in Kerala: Documenting Tradition, Documenting Change | 4 |
CADT-UH 1061 | The Body Archive | 4 |
CADT-UH 1063 | Foodways for the Anthropocene | 4 |
CCEA-UH 1079J | Art, Education and Barbarism in Berlin | 4 |
CCEA-UH 1111J | Anthropology of Tourism | 4 |
CCEA-UH 1112 | Fashion, Culture & the Body | 4 |
CCEA-UH 1114X | Sexualities of the Middle East: A Cultural History | 4 |
CCEA-UH 1121J | Ethnography and Experience | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1046EQ | Infectious Diseases: Preventing and Stopping Epidemics | 4 |
CDAD-UH 1061J | Digital Intimacies in and Beyond the Gulf | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1017 | Revolutions and Social Change | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1053 | Understanding Urbanization | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1053J | Understanding Urbanization | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1074 | Refugees, Law and Crises | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1086J | Nation and Empire | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1089J | Migration: Crisis or Norm? | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1099 | Global Media Seminar: Latin America | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1102Q | Health & Society in a Global Context | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1108JX | Global Solidarities: Feminism, Islam, and Transnational Capital | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1117J | Food Security in Communities of Color | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1119J | "Race", Genomics, and Society | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1131 | Gender & Governance | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1132JX | Movement, Border Crossings, and Race | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1133J | Care Across Borders: Migration and Domestic Work | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1134J | Health and Society | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1142JX | Gendering Islam in the Global City | 4 |
CSTS-UH 1143J | Global Education Inequalities and Policies | 4 |
ECON-UH 1701 | Economics of Gender | 4 |
ECON-UH 3460 | Poverty | 4 |
ENVR-UH 1312 | Global Debate on Green Growth | 4 |
HIST-UH 1125X | South Asia in the Indian Ocean World | 4 |
HIST-UH 3110 | Economic Development and Environmental Change in China | 4 |
HIST-UH 3310 | Humanitarianism in Africa: A Critical History | 4 |
HIST-UH 3315 | Love in Africa | 4 |
HIST-UH 3323J | Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: History and Memories | 4 |
LAW-UH 2125X | Islamic Law and Secular Politics | 4 |
MCC-UH 1004 | Media Landscapes: The Wire | 4 |
MCC-UH 1011J | Memory and Visual Culture | 4 |
MUSIC-UH 2668 | Popular Music and Politics in Africa | 4 |
PEACE-UH 1117J | Nation-Building in the Shadow of Empire | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2320J | Diversity and Society | 4 |
POLSC-UH 2411 | Politics, Social Change & Development in South Asia | 4 |
PSYCH-UH 2211 | Social Psychology | 4 |
PSYCH-UH 2215 | Psychology of Sex and Gender | 4 |
PSYCN-UH 1002 | Gender & Representation: Field Study Workshop | 2 |
SRPP-UH 1411J | Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1412J | Wealth and Inequality in the Global City | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1413X | Social Change and Development in the Arab World | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1414 | Social Dimensions of Health | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1415J | Birds in Fragile Ecosystems: The Himalayas, the Middle East, and Hawai'i | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1419J | Refuge Beyond Reach: Refugees, Asylum, and Forced Migration | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1611 | Introduction to Global Health | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1612 | Global Health and Economic Development | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1701 | International Migration in Global Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1810X | Islam and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1811 | Discipline | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1812J | Sociology of Morality: Good, Evil, Altruism, and Norms | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1813X | Family and Gender in the Arab World: Continuity and Change | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1814J | Language, Religion, and Ethnicity | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1815J | Diversity, Inclusion and Tolerance?: Contemplations on 21st Century Identity Formation | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1816 | Crime and Deviance | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1818 | Gender, Policy and Politics | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1819J | Sports and the Political | 4 |
SRPP-UH 1820J | Participatory Action Research in Neurodiverse Communities | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2213JQ | Sports and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2410 | Gender and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2411 | Wealth and Inequality | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2412X | Islamist Social Movements in the Middle East | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2413J | Connecting Neighborhoods and Health: An Introduction to Spatial Epidemiology | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2414 | Global Family Policies and Laws | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2416X | Gulf Urban Societies | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2417 | Global Stratification | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2418 | Politics and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2419 | Migration Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2420 | The Mafia Business: Sociological Approach | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2612X | State Formation: The Case of the United Arab Emirates | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2614X | Women and Work in the Gulf | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2616 | Immigration, Ethnicity and Public Policy | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2617J | Global Burden of Non-communicable Diseases | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2618 | Welfare States in Comparative Perspective | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2620 | Education and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2622J | Seminar in Sociogenomics | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2625JX | Making Women Matter: Case Studies from the GCC | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2627 | Organizations and Society | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2629 | Education Policy Analysis and Design | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2630 | Social Impact Design for Policy and Business | 4 |
SRPP-UH 2801X | Community- Engaged Scholarship: Addressing Social Hierarchies in the UAE | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3410 | Social Science Analysis of Global News | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3412 | Issues in African Societies | 4 |
SRPP-UH 3810 | Topics in Contemporary Theory | 4 |
Sample Plan of Study
1st Semester/Term | Credits | |
---|---|---|
Colloquia | 4 | |
First-Year Seminar | 4 | |
Core Course | 4 | |
Core Course | 4 | |
Physical Education | 0 | |
Credits | 16 | |
2nd Semester/Term | ||
J-Term Field Seminar | 3 | |
Credits | 3 | |
3rd Semester/Term | ||
SOCSC-UH 1010Q | Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences | 4 |
SOCSC-UH 1113 | Introduction to the Study of Society | 4 |
Core Course | 4 | |
Core Course | 4 | |
Physical Education | 0 | |
Credits | 16 | |
4th Semester/Term | ||
SOCSC-UH 1011 | Global Economic, Political and Social Development | 4 |
Social, Political, and Economic Thought (SPET) course | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
5th Semester/Term | ||
J-Term Field Seminar | 3 | |
Credits | 3 | |
6th Semester/Term | ||
Major Elective | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
7th Semester/Term | ||
Major Elective | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Major Elective | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
8th Semester/Term | ||
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Credits | 16 | |
9th Semester/Term | ||
SRPP-UH 4000 | Capstone Seminar | 4 |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 2 | |
Credits | 14 | |
10th Semester/Term | ||
SRPP-UH 4001 | Capstone Project | 4 |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Elective Course | 4 | |
Credits | 12 | |
Total Credits | 128 |
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the NYU Abu Dhabi Social Research and Public Policy degree, all graduates are expected to be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge and application of analytical frameworks to understand the policy process in different societies, including the role of the state and other major stakeholders and organizations, as well as the role of social and political movements.
- A thorough understanding of analytical frameworks to understand social structure in societies around the globe, including an understanding of the causes and consequences of social and economic inequality, poverty, and social development.
- Critical thinking, writing, and analysis related to the social science literature; ability to comprehensively and critically analyze the literature in fields of inquiry important for public policy in writing and for oral presentations, with an emphasis on analytical clarity.
- Ability to apply the central concepts and methodologies employed in fields relevant to SRPP majors, including fields such as research on inequality and poverty, health, conflict, development, culture, and social interaction.
- Critical assessment of the normative arguments and empirical evidence that play a role in specific policy debates; ability to assess the quality of existing empirical evidence as well as the need for additional empirical work relation to the policy question.
Policies
NYU Policies
University-wide policies can be found on the New York University Policy pages.
NYU Abu Dhabi Policies
A full list of relevant policies can be found on NYU Abu Dhabi's undergraduate academic policies page.