Public Policy Designated Emphasis

Subject abbreviation: PBPL College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences School of Public Policy

Anil Deolalikar, Founding Dean Karthick Ramakrishnan, Associate Dean

anil.deolalikar@ucr.edu karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu

Advisory Committee & Participating Faculty

Anil Deolalikar (Economics, Public Policy) Karthick Ramakrishnan (Political Science, Public Policy) Ariel Dinar (Environmental Economics, Public Policy) Bruce Link, (Public Policy) Juliann Emmons-Allison, (Gender Studies, Public Policy) David Brady (Public Policy) Qingfang Wang (Public Policy) Mindy Marks (Economics) Kurt Schwabe (Environmental Economics and Policy) Cassandra Guarino (Education and Public Policy) Kevin Esterling (Political Science, Public Policy) Ben Newman (Political Science, Public Policy) Ken Baerenklau (Environmental Economics, Public Policy) Paul D’Anieri (Political Science, Public Policy) Ronald Loveridge (Political Science) Steve Brint (Sociology) David Biggs (History, Public Policy) Steven Clark (Psychology) Designated Emphasis Requirements

Students must complete four graduate courses (16 units) in total, of which two should be core courses in the Master of Public Policy program, one course from the list of MPP program elective courses, and one graduate course (from an approved list) offered by a department that is not the student’s own department. Note that students cannot apply units taken to fulfill the DE program requirement toward their own graduate program requirements.

• 1. Two (2) required core courses (8 units)

offered by the School of Public Policy: PBPL 200, PBPL 220.

• 2. One (1) required elective course (4 units)

offered by the School of Public Policy selected from: PBPL 206, PBPL 210, PBPL 212, PBPL 214, PBPL 224, PBPL 232, PBPL 233, PBPL 234, PBPL 241, PBPL 245, PBPL 260, PBPL 270, PBPL 271, PBPL 272.

• 3. One (1) required course from any of the

following programs that is not the student’s own graduate program: ECON 236, ECON 237, ECON 240, ECON 241, ECON 243, ECON, 250, ECON 254, ECON 260, ECON 261, ECON 264, ECON 265, EDUC 203, EDUC 206A, EDUC 269M, EDUC 245G, EDUC 269E, CEE 232, ENGR 200, ENGR 201, ENGR 203, ENSC 201, ENSC 206, ENSC 227, GEO 205, GEO 252, GEO 255, Public Policy Designated Emphasis / Religious Studies / 420 GEO 260, POSC 252, POSC 268, POSC 271, POSC, 282, SOC 245, SOC 257, SOC 251, SOC 252, SOC 253

• 4. Research Requirement: Students in the

Designated Emphasis are required to demonstrate their research capacity by writing a review paper that will focus on a policy issue/problem and the policy solutions (including design, implementation, and cost-effectiveness) to address the problem. Selection of the policy issue and the structure of the paper are to be agreed upon with a faculty member from the School of Public Policy, who will serve as a mentor, with an option for joint mentorship with a faculty member from another department (including the student’s own department). It is expected that the review paper, of about 25-30 pages long, will be at a publishable quality to be completed within 1-2 quarters.

All requirements for the Designated Emphasis must be satisfied within a year of a student advancing to candidacy in their Ph.D. field; a minimum GPA of 3.0 is required for the award of the Designated Emphasis.