Public Policy Analysis (Minor)

Program Description

The Public Policy Analysis minor provides students with the core skills necessary to develop an analytic framework for understanding the causes and consequences of public policies. It includes courses in the politics of the policymaking process; the economic analysis of public policies in terms of their impacts and distributive consequences; normative analysis of policy problems and means of implementation, and quantitative methods with a specific policy focus.

Minor Declaration

Students can apply for the minor via NYU Albert in the My Academics section of the Student Center.

Program Requirements

Course List

Course	Title	Credits
Required Courses
ECON-UA 2	Introduction to Microeconomics	4
UPADM-GP 101	The Politics of Public Policy	4
UPADM-GP 140	The Economics of Public Policy	4
UPADM-GP 120	Normative Issues in Public Policy 1	4
Analytical Elective
Select one of the following:		4
ECON-UA 227	Urban Economics
ECON-UA 233	Poverty & Income Distribution
POL-UA 315	Controversies in Public Policy: Logic and Evidence
POL-UA 842	Doing Political Economy: Apprs to Public Policy
POL-UA 844	Games, Strategy, and Politics
UPADM-GP 274
Total Credits		20

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