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PPPM Minor

Major | Minor | Nonprofit Minor | Honors Thesis

The Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management offers a minor of special value to students majoring in the social sciences and humanities. Through the minor, students can enhance their undergraduate education to include special preparation for a variety of professional occupations and areas of graduate study. The minor complements studies in the social sciences and humanities by providing a professional or applied context for the knowledge, theories, and methods of the student’s major discipline.

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The Minor Program

Required Core Courses (16 credits) These courses must be taken for letter grades and passed with grades of C- or better.

PPPM 201 Introduction to Planning, Public Policy and Management
PPPM 325 Community Leadership and Change
PPPM 326 Regional Leadership and Change
PPPM 327 Global Leadership and Change

Elective Departmental Courses (12 credits). Students choose three courses among departmental offerings. Following are some of the many courses in PPPM that fulfill this requirement.

PPPM 331 Environmental Management (4 credits)
PPPM 404 Internship (1-8 credits)
PPPM 407 Seminar [Topic] (1-5R)
PPPM 408 Workshop [Topic]
PPPM 410 Experimental Courses [Topic] (1-5R)
PPPM 413 Applied Social Research (4 credits)
PPPM 418 Introduction to Public Law (4 credits)
PPPM 419 Community Planning Workshop (8 credits)
PPPM 422 Grant Writing (1 credit)
PPPM 424 Public and Nonprofit Financial Management (4 credits)
PPPM 436 Social Planning and Geographic Information System (5 credits)
PPPM 438 Transportation Issues in Planning (4 credits)
PPPM 440 Land Use and Growth Management (4 credits)
PPPM 443 Natural Resource Policy (4 credits)
PPPM 446 Socioeconomic Development Planning (4 credits)
PPPM 455 Social Planning and Policy [Topic]
PPPM 480 Nonprofit Management I (4 credits)
PPPM 481 Resource Development Nonprofit Organizations (4 credits)

Up to eight credits may be taken in Internship (PPPM 404) or Community Planning Workshop (PPPM 419). Students are strongly encouraged to take one or more courses in research methods and statistics, such as Introduction to Social Research (SOC 311) and Quantitative Methods in Sociology (SOC 312).

Please see the department Undergraduate Adviser for application approval and information, Room 1A Hendricks Hall.

Application Procedure

Please print and submit these two files to the PPPM Department

Minor Progress Sheet (Word)
Change Major/Minor (Word)

Last updated May 6, 2007.
An equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This publication will be made available in accessible formats upon request.



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