The School of Public Policy

4133 CHASS Interdisciplinary South

• (951) 827-2310;

spp@ucr.edu; spp.ucr.edu

The School of Public Policy (SPP) brings together faculty and students from a variety of disciplines to:

• • train students in rigorous policy analysis skills, allowing them to

pursue careers in government and the not-for-profit sector

• • facilitate research by multidisciplinary teams at UCR on policy

problems affecting the region, state, nation, and the world

• • initiate and maintain a policy dialogue with regional, state, and

national policy makers.

The mission of the UCR School of Public Policy is to train a new generation of forward-thinking public policy leaders equipped to address the complex, interrelated challenges of poverty, disease, illiteracy, climate change, energy security, pollution and more. Their training will be informed by a diverse, interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes evidence- based policy research as well as cross-learning from both international and domestic problem-solving experiences, and a rich internship program that emphasizes experiential learning.

What makes the UCR School of Public Policy unique in comparison to other public policy schools are three cross-cutting themes:

Focus on the Environment The school treats environmental and social policies as part of an integrated ecological-socio-political system. Students will approach policy making with an understanding that environmental problems are both the cause and consequence of social processes like population growth, immigration, and inequality.

Emphasis on Local and Regional Policy Making The school focuses squarely on local and regional policy making, and emphasizes the importance of coordinating policies that cut across traditional jurisdictional boundaries such as cities, counties, states, and even nations.

Global-Local Connections The school promotes a “think globally, act locally” mindset and seeks to apply global policy lessons to solve local problems, and vice versa.

Under the leadership of former Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge, the school has partnered with 15 local and regional public agencies to provide students with first-rate internship experiences. Unpaid internship positions are available to qualified undergraduate public policy majors for academic credit. Beginning in the summer of 2015, the school will offer paid summer internships for students of the MPP program.

The flagship program of the School of Public Policy is the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program. The MPP requires a minimum of three four-unit courses per quarter for a total of 72 units of graduate courses. Find out more at spp.ucr.edu. 92 / Colleges and Academic Programs 93 Programs and Courses

The credit value of each course in quarter units is indicated for each term by a number in parentheses following the title. Departments may indicate the term in which they expect to offer the course by the use of: “F” (fall), “W” (winter), “S” (spring), “Summer.” The Schedule of Classes, at classes. ucr.edu, published several weeks before each term commences, lists the courses that will actually be offered for that term, along with their class hours and locations.

The class type, such as lecture or laboratory, and number of hours per week are listed in the first line of the description.

The letters “A,” “B,” “C,” and “D” are used with the course numbers to indicate sequential order; they do not necessarily indicate that an earlier quarter in the sequence is a prerequisite to the later quarters; the prerequisites (if any) of a given course are stated in the description of that course. The letter designation “E-Z” immediately following a course number — for example, HIST 191 (E-Z) — indicates different topics offered under a general title; no specific instance of such a course, for example, HIST 191E, HIST 191F, or HIST 191G, may be repeated for credit unless otherwise indicated in the course description. The letters “E” through “Z” have no sequential implications. The letters “H”, “L”, or “P” immediately following a course number usually have special designations: “H” for an honors course, “L” for a laboratory course (usually in the sciences), and “P” for a proseminar. A grade is assigned by the instructor at the end of each term, and credit is granted for each term, except as otherwise noted. Courses are numbered as follows:

• 1. Lower-division: 001–099; generally recommended for freshmen and

sophomores.

• 2. Upper-division: 100–199; normally open only to students who have

completed at least one lower-division course in the subject, or six quarters/four semesters of college work. Credit in special studies courses for undergraduates is limited to 5 units per quarter.

• 3. Graduate: 200-299; normally open only to students who have completed

at least 18 upper-division quarter units basic to the subject matter of the course.

The admission of undergraduates to graduate courses is limited to upper- division students who have an overall scholarship average not lower than “B”; these limits are imposed by the rules of the Graduate Division. However, graduate courses completed before attaining the baccalaureate will not be accepted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the credential or minimum requirements in the 200 series for the master’s degree, except for undergraduate students who have received approval for backdating their graduate status to cover the session during which such courses were taken. See the Backdating Units section under Policies and Regulations.

• 4. Professional courses for teaching credential candidates: 300–399.

• 5. Other professional courses: 400–499.

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