Undergraduate Programs

Degree Programs

BS in Informatics

Public and Environmental Affairs Cognates


Environmental Management Cognate

Required:

  • SPEA-E 272 Introduction to Environmental Sciences
  • SPEA-E 363 Environmental Management

Select one course from the following:

  • SPEA-E 311 Introduction to Risk Assessment and Risk Communication
  • SPEA-E 340 Environmental Economics and Finance
  • SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation

Select one course from the following:

  • SPEA-E 325 Computing for Environmental Scientists
  • SPEA-E 419 Applied Remote Sensing of the Environment 

Select one course from the following (if not used above):

  • SPEA-E 325 Computing for Environmental Scientists
  • SPEA-E 355 Introduction to Limnology
  • SPEA-E 410 Introduction to Environmental Toxicology
  • SPEA-E 411 Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology
  • SPEA-E 412 Risk Communication
  • SPEA-E 419 Applied Remote Sensing of the Environment
  • SPEA-E 422 Urban Forest Management
  • SPEA-E 431 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
  • SPEA-E 440 Wetlands Ecology and Management
  • SPEA-E 451 Air Pollution and Control
  • SPEA-E 452 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
  • SPEA-E 456 Lake and Watershed Management
  • SPEA-E 457 Introduction to Conservation Biology
  • SPEA-E 460 Fisheries and Wildlife Management
  • SPEA-E 461 Fisheries and Wildlife Management Laboratory 

Health Systems Administration Cognate

Required:

  • SPEA-H 124 Overview of the U.S. Healthcare System
  • SPEA-V 373 Human Resource Management in the Public Sector

Select three courses from the following:

  • SPEA-H 352 Healthcare Financial Management I
  • SPEA-H 353 Healthcare Financial Management II
  • SPEA-H 354 Health Economics
  • SPEA-H 401 Strategic Planning in Health Organizations
  • SPEA-H 402 Hospital Administration
  • SPEA-H 411 Chronic and Long-Term Care Administration

Policy Studies Cognate

Select one course from the following:

  • SPEA-V 160 National and International Policy
  • SPEA-V 161 Urban Problems and Solutions 

 Required:

  • SPEA-V 348 Management Science
  • SPEA-V 370 Research Methods and Statistical Modeling
  • SPEA-V 386 Case Studies for Policy Analysis
  • SPEA-V 401 Financial and Cost-Benefit Analysis    

Public Finance Cognate 

Required:

  • SPEA-V 246 Elements of Governmental and Nonprofit Financial Accounting Cycle
  • SPEA-V 346 Introduction to Government Accounting and Financial Reporting
  • SPEA-V 361 Financial Management
  • SPEA-V 372 Government Finance and Budgets

Select one course from the following (an alternative course may be chosen in consultation with a SPEA advisor and approval from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Informatics):

  • SPEA-V 401 Financial and Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • SPEA-V 441 Topics in Financial Management and Policy  

Urban Affairs Cognate

Required:

  • SPEA-E 418 Vector-Based Geographic Information Systems OR SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs
  • SPEA-V 461 Computer Applications in Public Affairs
  • SPEA-V 475 Database Management Systems    

Select two courses from the following:

  • SPEA-V 340 Urban Government Administration
  • SPEA-V 368 Managing Government Operations
  • SPEA-V 372 Government Finance and Budgets
  • SPEA-V 421 Metropolitan Development

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