Undergraduate Programs
Certificate Programs
Certificate in Public Affairs
The School of Public and Environmental Affairs offers the Certificate in Public Affairs to provide an overview of the study of public policy, governmental organization, and public management as an enhancement to the major area of study in a student's undergraduate program. The interdisciplinary program requires 27 credit hours, of which at least 15 but not more than 21 credit hours must be in SPEA courses.
Certificate Requirements (nine courses):
The following courses:
- SPEA-V 170 Introduction to Public Affairs (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 264 Urban Structure and Policy (3 cr.)
ONE of the following courses:
- SPEA-E 162 Environment and People (3 cr.)
- SPEA-H 316 Environemental Sciece and Health (3 cr.)
A total of TWO courses from groups A, B, and C, with no more than one course from any group.
A. Organizational Behavior
- BUS-Z 302 Managing and Behavior in Organizations (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 270 Survey of Administrative Techniques (3 cr.)
B. Public Administration
- SPEA-V 366 Managing Behavior in Public Organizations (3 cr.)
C. Law
- SPEA-J 301 Substantive Criminal Law (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 376 Law and Public Policy (3 cr.)
- BUS-L 201 Legal Environment of Business (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 304 American Constitutional Law I (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 305 American Constitutional Law II (3 cr.)
Choose any four of the following courses:
Public Affairs
- SPEA-V 260 Topics in Public Affairs (approved topics) (3 cr.) (may be repeated)
- SPEA-V 346 Introduction to Government Accounting and Financial Reporting (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 348 Management Science (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 365 Urban Development and Planning (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 372 Government Finance and Budgets (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 373 Human Resources Management in the Public Sector (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 378 Policy Processes in the United States (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 432 Labor Relations in the Public Sector (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 442 Topics in Budgeting or Cost-Benefit (3 cr.) (may be repeated)
- SPEA-V 444 Public Administrative Organization (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 449 Policy Senior Seminar (3 cr.)
- SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs (approved topics) (3 cr.) (may be repeated)
Criminal Justice
- SPEA-J 101 The American Criminal Justice System (3 cr.)
- SPEA-J 302 Procedural Criminal Law (3 cr.)
- SPEA-J 322 Introduction to Criminalistics (3 cr.)
- SPEA-J 401 Criminal Law and Procedure (3 cr.)
- SPEA-J 439 Crime and Public Policy (3 cr.)
Geography
- GEOG-G 412 Urban Transportation Analysis (3 cr.)
- GEOG-G 414 Regional Transport Systems (3 cr.)
Political Science
- POLS-Y 200 Citizen and the Courts (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 302 Public Bureaucracy in Modern Society (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 306 State Politics in the United States (3 cr.)
- POLS-Y 394 Public Policy Analysis (3 cr.)
Sociology
- SOC-R 329 Urban Sociology (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 345 Crime and Society (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 346 Control of Crime (3 cr.)
- SOC-R 480 Sociology and Social Policy (3 cr.)