Major Requirements

COURSEWORK

All students majoring in Urban and Environmental Policy are required to take the following courses in the freshman or sophomore year:

ECON 101	Principles of Economics I	4
POLS 101	American Politics and Public Policy	4
UEP 101	Environment and Society	4

*Or another Economics course approved by the chair.

Upper Division Coursework

Students majoring in UEP are required to take the following upper division courses:

UEP 301	Urban Policy and Politics	4
UEP 304	Research Methods for Urban and Environmental Policy	4
	Or
UEP 305	Urban Data Analysis
UEP 310	Community Organizing and Leadership	4
UEP 311	Community Internship	4
UEP 410	Controversies in Policy and Politics	4
UEP 411	Applied Public Policy Practicum	4

Additional Electives

Majors are required to complete two additional electives. Although we encourage students to take UEP courses to satisfy this requirement, students may also choose courses from the list below:

DWA 249	Public Health and Human Rights: Global and Local Practices	4
DWA 248	Global Public Health	4
ECON 301	Environmental Economics and Policy	4
ECON 324	The Economics of Immigration	4
ECON 328	Economics of Race and Gender	4
HIST 206	History of American Women	4
HIST 237	History of Feminism	4
HIST 274	Medicine and Disease in Western Society	4
HIST 277	Women and Community Health	4
HIST 359	Mexico-United States Borderlands	4
HIST 395	Special Topics in History	4
PHIL 255	Environmental Ethics	4
POLS 206	Race and American Politics	4
POLS 207	Los Angeles Politics	4
POLS 208	Movements for Social Justice	4
POLS 260	Community Law Internship
RELS 240	Religion and Social Reform	4
RELS 242	Environmental Ethics and Religion	4
SOC 250	Race and Ethnicity in American Society	4
SOC 260	Deviance	4
SOC 325	Criminology	4
SOC 330	Political Sociology	4
SOC 350	Social Movement and Revolutions	4
SOC 360	Urban Sociology	4
SOC 420	Immigration to the United States From Mexico and Central America	4

WRITING REQUIREMENT

Students majoring in UEP will satisfy the final component of Occidental College's writing requirement by successfully completing

UEP 301

Urban Policy and Politics

4

Students should familiarize themselves with the departmental requirement at the time of declaring the major. See the Writing Program for additional information.

COMPREHENSIVE REQUIREMENT

During their senior year, UEP majors design and complete a policy-oriented comprehensive project that has an applied focus and includes original research. This project may take several forms. It can be a traditional research paper, a hands-on policy research report, a project in collaboration with other students, or a study conducted for a community-based "client" or "partner" organization. Students should enroll in UEP 410 in the fall semester and UEP 411 in the spring semester to undertake their comprehensive project.

HONORS

Students are required to have an overall grade point average of 3.50. See the Honors Program and contact the department chair for more information and specific requirements.

Recommended Math/Science courses

For their college math/science requirement, we strongly encourage UEP majors to take at least one of the following:

BIO 105	Marine Biology	4
BIO 106	Biology of California	4
BIO 110	Organisms on Earth	4
BIO 270	Ecology	4
GEO 106	Earth and the Human Future	4
GEO 150	Geographic Information Science I	4
GEO 255	Spatial Analysis with Geographic Information Science	4
MATH 146	Statistics	4
MATH 150	Statistical Data Analysis	4
UEP 201	Environmental Health and Policy	4
UEP 305	Urban Data Analysis

*UEP 201, GEO 150, BIO 105, BIO 106, BIO 110, BIO 270, GEO 106: Satisfies a lab science requirement.