Public Policy and Data Analytics Track | B.S. in Public Policy

Required Track Courses (28 units: 16 required; 12 electives)

• PPD 313 – Finance of the Public Sector – 4-units (fall) (pre-requisite, PPD 203)
• PPD 404 – Empirical Methods for Public Policy – 4-units (every other fall) (pre-requisite, PPD 303)
• PPD 430 – Urban Informatics – 4-units (fall)
• PPD 427L – Geographic Information Systems and Planning Applications or DSCI 250 Introduction to Data Science – 4-units (spring)

Track Electives (select 12 units)

• PPD 314 – Public Policy and Law – 4-units (fall, spring)
• PPD 318 – Financial Accounting in Public and Nonprofit Organizations – 4-units (irregular)
• PPD 342 – Crime and Public Policy – 4-units (fall, spring)
• PPD 357 – Government and Business – 4-units (fall, spring) (pre-requisite, ECON 203)
• PPD 358 – Urban and Regional Economics – 4-units (irregular)
• PPD 361 – Sustainable Communities, Policy and Planning – 4-units (fall, spring)
• PPD 382 – International Development – 4-units (every other spring)
• PPD 407 – Financial Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations – 4-units (spring)
• PPD 415 – Health Policy – 4-units (spring) (pre-requisite, PPD 325)
• PPD 439 – Housing and Community Development – 4-units (fall)
• ECON 303 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
• DSCI 352 Applied Machine Learning and Data Mining
• DSCI 429 Security and Privacy
• If not used to satisfy the core track requirement, either PPD 427L or DSCI 250 may be substituted as an elective.