PBP - Public Policy

This course is an examination of the interrelationships between benefits and costs of economic growth and the environment in the formation of environmental policy. Emphasis is placed on the economics of environmental quality and the social costs of environmental care. Prerequisites: POL-240 and ECO-212.

The Public Policy Capstone provides students with opportunities to study policy issues of local and/or regional scale from multiple perspectives. The objective is to enable students to recognize policy processes in public, private, and/or nonprofit sector organizations and to identify, refine, and integrate the analytical policy skills they have acquired from the various public policy courses taken during their studies. Prerequisites: Students will take the Public Policy Capstone after completing the core requirements for the Public Policy major.