Public Policy

Office: Sie International Relations Complex
Mail Code: 2201 South Gaylord Street, Denver, CO 80208
Phone: 303-871-2468
Email: baints@du.edu
Web Site: https://korbel.du.edu/academics-advising/programs-ug/ba-minor-public-policy

Public policy is where law, politics, and business meet. It is a multidisciplinary approach to analyzing and evaluating information to solve collective problems. Public policy professionals develop, assess, and evaluate alternative approaches to current and emerging issues, such as education, health care, national defense, or immigration. The undergraduate program in public policy provides a focused, highly competitive major and minor in public policy for ambitious and motivated students.

Since its creation in 1981, the program graduates have enrolled in some of the best graduate and law schools in the United States; worked as legislative aides for the U.S. Congress or as staff assistants for various branches of government; and have found their studies immediately applicable to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. As part of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, the public policy program has both a domestic and an international focus.

Students must complete 44 credits in order to fulfill the major requirements, including six core classes, three courses within one of the four standing specializations or in a custom specialization (see Program of Study), and two public policy electives. The four standing specialization areas are development, economic policy, environmental policy, or social policy. Alternatively, students may build a unique specialization (e.g. security, local government, homelessness, etc.) with advisor approval,