Public Administration Minor

Public Administration Minor Requirements

Core Requirements

POLS 140	United States Government	3
POLS 321	Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers	3
POLS 351	Public Administration	3
POLS 352	American Public Policy	3
Total Credit Hours:		12

Public Administration Electives

Choose six hours (two courses) from the following:

POLS 420	Seminar in Public Law	3
POLS 451	Seminar in Bureaucracy and Public Management	3
PPOL 400	Ethics in Public Policy	3
Total Credit Hours:		6

Electives

Choose six hours (two courses) from the following:

COMS 250	Introduction to Intercultural Communication	3
COMS 290	Conflict and Communication	3
COMS 300	Strategic Organizational Leadership	3
COMS 310	Professional Presentations and Speech Writing	3
COMS 330	Argumentation and Persuasion	3
COMS 333	Social Media and Community	3
COMS 340	Event Planning and Public Relations	3
COMS 350	Communication, Culture and Diversity	3
COMS 370	Communication and Health	3
COMS 382	Public Relations Principles	3
COMS 405	Communication Issue Management	3
COMS 482	Public Relations Campaigns	3
CRIM 250	Introduction to the Criminal Justice System	3
CRIM 317	Police Culture	3
CRIM 385	Contemporary Legal Issues in the Criminal Justice System	3
CRIM 388	Sociology of Punishment	3
CRIM 404	Crime and Justice Policies	3
CVM 492	Media Law and Ethics	3
ECON 101	Introduction to Economics	3
ECON 102	Economic History of the U.S.	3
ECON 201	Principles of Macroeconomics	3
ECON 202	Principles of Microeconomics	3
ENG 390	Professional Writing	3
GEO 345	Global Environmental Sustainability	3
GEO 349	Mapping Social Life	3
GEO 351	GIS 2	3
GEO 405	Conservation of Natural Resources	3
GEO 455	GIS Applications	3
GST 273	Introduction to Gender Studies	3
GST 333	Women and Partner Violence	3
GST 335	Families in Modern Society	3
GST 350	Sex and Gender	3
HST 261	American History since 1865	3
HST 306	America 1939 to Present	3
HST 344	African American History	3
HST 345	Women in American History	3
HST 352	History of Appalachia	3
HST 353	History of Kentucky	3
HST 356	Struggles for Reform in America	3
HST 357	United States Urban History	3
IST 345	Global Health	3
IST 346	Global Environmental Sustainability	3
IST 350	Communication, Culture and Diversity	3
LGS 200	Law and Individual Rights	3
LGS 210	Introduction to Law and Ethics	3
LGS 355	Administrative Law	3
LGS 370	History of American Law	3
MNGT 201	Principles of Management	3
NURS 345	Global Health	3
NURS 361	Leadership for the Health Care Professional	3
NURS 430	Health Disparities	3
PHIL 103	Beginning Ethics	3
PHIL 303	Ethics	3
POLS 242	State and Local Government	3
POLS 314	American Political Thought	3
POLS 322	Courts and Civil Liberties	3
POLS 324	Environmental Law and Policy	3
POLS 325	Federalism and the Constitution	3
POLS 328	Law, Government and Privacy in the Internet Age	3
POLS 329	Comparative Constitutional Law and Politics	3
POLS 342	The American Presidency	3
POLS 343	Political Parties and Elections	3
POLS 344	Kentucky Government	3
POLS 345	Congress and the Federal Bureaucracy	3
POLS 350	Political Behavior	3
POLS 353	Public Personnel Administration	3
POLS 354	African-American Politics	3
POLS 355	Women and Politics	3
POLS 381	Evolution of the U.S. Intelligence Community	3
POLS 382	Intelligence Process	3
POLS 383	Counterintelligence	3
POLS 384	Intelligence Analysis	3
POLS 385	Terrorism and Political Violence	3
POLS 386	Comparative Counterterrorism	3
POLS 387	National Security Strategy	3
POLS 498	Local, State, National and International Government Internship	3-15
PSY 353	Industrial/Organizational Psychology	3
SOC 300	Class, Power, and Privilege	3
SOC 323	Urban Sociology	3
SOC 354	Individual and Society	3
SOC 426	Communities	3
SOC 456	Organizations in Contemporary Society	3
SOC 459	Social Change in Appalachia	3
SOC 461	Sociology of the Law	3
SWK 340/GST 340	Introduction to Mental Health and Mental Illness	3
SWK 365	Grant Development	3
Total Credit Hours:		6

Total Credit Hours: 24