Community Fellows who are interested in careers in public policy, the non-profit sector or social and political advocacy can earn an interdisciplinary concentration in Policy and Advocacy Studies in addition to their departmental Masters degree.

The objective of the Policy and Advocacy Studies Concentration is to provide students with the interdisciplinary intellectual perspective and the real-world skills necessary for work in the public policy or non-profit sectors. In order to earn the Policy and Advocacy Studies Concentration, Fellows must successfully complete Methods/Research Design and two additional courses in Inequality, Public Finance, Policy Analysis or Theories of Advocacy. Fellows may also arrange Independent Study with individual faculty in the participating departments. For additional information on departmental faculty and their research interests, please refer to the departmental web sites.

The following courses are examples that would complete the requirements:

ECON 353 - Public Finance: Federal

ECON 354 - Public Finance: State and Local

ECON 430 - Public Finance

ECON 440 - Labor Economics

ECON 451 - Urban Economics

POLS 405 - The Budgetary Process

POLS 432 - Public Policy Process

POLS 458 - Seminar: Interest Groups, Factions and Coalitions in American Politics

POLS 473 - Seminar in Public Administration

POLS 475 - Seminar: Green Polity

POLS 476 - Seminar: National Social Policy

SSP/WS 341 - Women and Health

SSP/AAS 379 - Race and Class in America

SSP 414 - Survey Research

SSP 415 - Case Studies of Social Control

SSP 453 - Urban Communities

SSP 454 - Urban Education: Inequality and Public Policy

SSP 455 - Inequalities at Work

SSP 476 - Issues in Health Policy Analysis

Students who wish to earn the Policy and Advocacy Studies concentration should mention the concentration in their letter of interest in the Community Fellows Program, which should be submitted with their graduate school application. Each department has its own application requirements. Please refer to the individual departmental web sites for more information about specific requirements and procedures.