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Public policy is an increasingly important influence in people's lives. Public policy is the array of government decisions and acts, born of private and public sector interactions, that shape a nation's political, economic and moral structures, and consequently, its citizens' private lives. Growing state intervention during the twentieth century means that today, all citizens have a stake in understanding public policy -- its origins, rationale and moral basis.
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The concentration in Public Policy enables students to combine work in several departments toward both critical and practical understanding of public policy issues, including those in the realm of social welfare, health, energy, environment, multiculturalism, gender, food and agriculture, and national and global security. These issues may be within domestic, foreign, or international governmental domains. Courses in the concentration encompass the development, formulation, implementation, and evaluation of policy. Those departments primarily concerned with the concentration are Political Science, Economics, and Engineering; but work in other departments may be pertinent to the concentration. Faculty members from other departments are involved in the concentration, and course or seminar offerings from other departments may, in certain circumstances, meet requirements for the concentration. Work in the concentration equally emphasizes historical, institutional, and normative analysis. Basic competence in formal or quantitative methods is required for students concentrating in Public Policy.
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