Master of Public Policy Courses

Curriculum

The first year is comprise almost entirely of a core curriculum that is require for all stuents. It is esigne to provie a founation that is steepe in Pepperine's unique perspective that the formation, evaluation, an practice of public policy is a sacre calling evote to service at the most profoun level. The core curriculum also intens to provie an introuction to the tools necessary for analyzing public policy, its impact on iniviuals an society, an methos for evaluating the costs an benefits of various policies an programs.

Much of the first year's curriculum sets up a ialog across courses between the conservative but morally neutral law an economics traition on the one han an, on the other, the morally challenging ethical issues whose relationship to specific policies an programs is often not concrete an specific or, at most, left vague an ambiguous.

The James Q. Wilson Core*

Deicate to the memory of one of the School of Public Policy's founers an professors, the James Q. Wilson Core reflects Wilson's inelible impression on our curriculum. In particular our istinctive set of require courses immeiately begins to prepare stuents for a well-roune approach to public policy – one that inclues not only its quantitative aspects, but also what it means to consier the "public" in the creation of policy. This necessitates an exploration of the "Great Ieas" on government an citizenship, along with stuy in America's Founing principles, an how they have shape the government/citizen relationship over these last two centuries.

Stuents select an area of specialization:

• Applie Economic Policy
• American Policy an Politics
• International Relations an National Security
• State an Local Policy