Minors

The Public Management & Policy Minor is a structured minor that requires the completion of 18 units, 9 of which must be for upper division credit. The requirements are as follows:

PA 206 -- Public Policy and Administration   (3 units)
Description:   Theory and practice of executive agencies, including policy making and other functions, processes, personnel and fiscal management, and administrative law.
Pima Community College equivalent: P AD105

PA 221 -- Health, Human Services and Public Management  (3 units)
Description:   This course will provide a general survey of significant issues in the health, human services and public management fields. Secondary emphasis will be placed on how policy is made and implemented in the three subject areas. The use of and interpretation of data and practical examples will be stressed.

Pima Community College equivalent: P AD 221

Complete a minimum of 9-12 units from these options:

PA 321 -- Health Care Policy and Institutions  (3 units)
Description:   Examines public policy issues in health including recent developments in health policy and planning at the national, state and local levels and their impacts on administrative behavior.

PA 344 -- Legal Aspects of the Criminal Justice Process  (3 units)
Description:   Analysis of selected principles of criminal law, criminal procedure and correctional law.

PA 406 -- Bureaucracy, Politics, and Policy  (3 units)
Description:   Description and analysis of the executive branch of government: how federal agencies capture policy-making; why bureaucracy develops; the rules of bureaucratic culture; who controls the administrative branch.

PA 480 -- Formation of Public Policy  (3 units)
Description:   Needs and demands for public action on policy issues; organization and nature of political support; processes and problems of decision making in the formation of public policy at the national, state, and local levels. 

PA 481 -- Environmental Policy  (3 units)
Description:   Role of government in management of energy, natural resources and environment; process and policy alternatives; special attention to the Southwest.

POL 412 -- Local Government and Administration  (3 units)
Description:   Examination and analysis of local decision-making structures and their policy outputs. 

No more than 6 units from:

POL 341 -- Comparative Public Policy  (3 units)
Description:   Analysis of social and economic policies and policy making, using examples from Western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America . Special attention to how global and regional political and economic forces are leading to significant changes in the "what" and "how" of government action.

POL 470 -- Constitutional Law: Federalism  (3 units)
Description:   Development and analysis of constitutional law of the U.S. ; problems of distribution of powers.

POL 474 -- Administrative Law  (3 units)
Description:   Law governing the organization, powers, and procedures of the executive and administrative establishment, with emphasis on the limitations imposed by the American constitutional system.

SOC 326 -- Sociology of Work and the Professions  (3 units)
Description:   Survey of the sociology of work occupations and organizations, with emphasis on such topics as productivity, work performance and workplace discrimination.

SOC 333 -- Group Processes  (3 units)
Description:   Study of processes that form, maintain, and dissolve groups, including their objectives, cohesion, norms, role leadership and power structures, communication patterns, interpersonal relations, problem solving, and effectiveness.

SOC 422 -- Complex Organizations  (3 units)
Description:   Theories and research regarding large-scale organizations and their relations to the individual and society.

• 9 units must be completed in residence, 9 units must be upper division, and any transfer work must be approved through the Eller College Undergraduate Programs Office. (See pre-approved of transfer courses http://www.registrar.arizona.edu/Preapproval.htm)
• Students in the 2004-2005 catalog or more recent must also have a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 within the minor.
• Eller does not permit double use of courses in their majors with majors or minors outside of the college, nor double use of courses in their minors with majors outside of the college. Unique units are required for the student’s major and minor. One exception: Students who complete a second degree MAY use courses from their first degree (from the Eller College major) in the GBUS minor for their second degree from another college.