Public Administration Minor

Public Administration Minor Requirements

Core Requirements

POLS 140United States Government

3

POLS 321Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers

3

POLS 351Public Administration

3

POLS 352American Public Policy

3

Total Credit Hours:12

Public Administration Electives

Choose six hours (two courses) from the following:

POLS 420Seminar in Public Law

3

POLS 451Seminar in Bureaucracy and Public Management

3

PPOL 400Ethics in Public Policy

3

Total Credit Hours:6

Electives

Choose six hours (two courses) from the following:

COMS 250Introduction to Intercultural Communication

3

COMS 290Conflict and Communication

3

COMS 300Strategic Organizational Leadership

3

COMS 310Professional Presentations and Speech Writing

3

COMS 330Argumentation and Persuasion

3

COMS 333Social Media and Community

3

COMS 340Event Planning and Public Relations

3

COMS 350Communication, Culture and Diversity

3

COMS 370Communication and Health

3

COMS 382Public Relations Principles

3

COMS 405Communication Issue Management

3

COMS 482Public Relations Campaigns

3

CRIM 250Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

3

CRIM 317Police Culture

3

CRIM 385Contemporary Legal Issues in the Criminal Justice System

3

CRIM 388Sociology of Punishment

3

CRIM 404Crime and Justice Policies

3

CVM 492Media Law and Ethics

3

ECON 101Introduction to Economics

3

ECON 102Economic History of the U.S.

3

ECON 201Principles of Macroeconomics

3

ECON 202Principles of Microeconomics

3

ENG 390Professional Writing

3

GEO 345Global Environmental Sustainability

3

GEO 349Mapping Social Life

3

GEO 351GIS 2

3

GEO 405Conservation of Natural Resources

3

GEO 455GIS Applications

3

GST 273Introduction to Gender Studies

3

GST 333Women and Partner Violence

3

GST 335Families in Modern Society

3

GST 350Sex and Gender

3

HST 261American History since 1865

3

HST 306America 1939 to Present

3

HST 344African American History

3

HST 345Women in American History

3

HST 352History of Appalachia

3

HST 353History of Kentucky

3

HST 356Struggles for Reform in America

3

HST 357United States Urban History

3

IST 345Global Health

3

IST 346Global Environmental Sustainability

3

IST 350Communication, Culture and Diversity

3

LGS 200Law and Individual Rights

3

LGS 210Introduction to Law and Ethics

3

LGS 355Administrative Law

3

LGS 370History of American Law

3

MNGT 201Principles of Management

3

NURS 345Global Health

3

NURS 361Leadership for the Health Care Professional

3

NURS 430Health Disparities

3

PHIL 103Beginning Ethics

3

PHIL 303Ethics

3

POLS 242State and Local Government

3

POLS 314American Political Thought

3

POLS 322Courts and Civil Liberties

3

POLS 324Environmental Law and Policy

3

POLS 325Federalism and the Constitution

3

POLS 328Law, Government and Privacy in the Internet Age

3

POLS 329Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics

3

POLS 342The American Presidency

3

POLS 343Political Parties and Elections

3

POLS 344Kentucky Government

3

POLS 345Congress and the Federal Bureaucracy

3

POLS 350Political Behavior

3

POLS 353Public Personnel Administration

3

POLS 354African-American Politics

3

POLS 355Women and Politics

3

POLS 381Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community

3

POLS 382Intelligence Process

3

POLS 383Counterintelligence

3

POLS 384Intelligence Analysis

3

POLS 385Terrorism and Political Violence

3

POLS 386Comparative Counterterrorism

3

POLS 387National Security Strategy

3

POLS 498Local, State, National and International Government Internship

3-15

PSY 353Industrial/Organizational Psychology

3

SOC 300Class, Power, and Privilege

3

SOC 323Urban Sociology

3

SOC 354Individual and Society

3

SOC 426Communities

3

SOC 456Organizations in Contemporary Society

3

SOC 459Social Change in Appalachia

3

SOC 461Sociology of the Law

3

SWK 340/GST 340Introduction to Mental Health and Mental Illness

3

SWK 365Grant Development

3

Total Credit Hours:6

Total Credit Hours: 24