Public Affairs & Administration, Minor

• The requirements for a minor must be completed concurrently with the major degree requirements.
• No minor may be added by completing courses after receiving the bachelor’s degree.

At least six (6) credit hours must be earned in courses acceptable for residence credit by standards set forth by the Dodge College of Arts and Sciences, excluding transfer, correspondence, and examination (AP, CLEP, Advanced Standing) credit. Courses for the minor may not be taken Pass/ No Pass.

No single course may be used by a student to satisfy a major requirement and a minor requirement. A course may be used, however, to satisfy both a major support requirement and a minor requirement. 

Students must successfully complete at least 15 hours of courses acceptable for major credit in Public Affairs and Administration, including at least nine (9) hours at the upper-division level. Note that introductory courses are not counted toward this total. Up to three (3) hours of other Political Science courses may be substituted with the permission of the Department of Political Science.

Requests to substitute a minor requirement must be approved in writing by the Department of Political Science.

Required Courses

Each of the courses to be offered to students minoring in Public Affairs and Administration is part of the curriculum of the bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs and Administration. As courses are added to the bachelor’s curriculum, they will also be available to students taking the minor. Only three (3) courses from outside of the department are included. One of these courses is NPNG 2033; the other two (2) courses are offered by Economics. They have been included in the curriculum of the minor in Public Affairs and Administration because they emphasize public sector activities which are not covered in any political science courses.

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Choose 15 hours acceptable for major credit in Public Affairs and Administration, including at least nine (9) hours at the upper-division level, from the following:		15
NPNG 2033	Introduction to Nonprofits
ECON 3713	Governmental Relations to Business
ECON 4353	Public Finance: Issues and Taxation
P SC 3043	Gender, Power and Leadership in Politics and Public Administration
P SC 3113	Bureaucracy and Citizenship
P SC 3123	Social Statistics
or SOC 3123	Social Statistics
P SC 3133	Politics and Public Administration
P SC 3170	Problems in Public Administration
P SC 3183	Politics of Government Budgeting
P SC 3193	Nonprofits and Public Policy
P SC 3220	Topics in Public Policy
P SC 3233	Environmental Policy and Administration
P SC 3313	Urban Government and Politics
P SC 3323	State Government
P SC 3910	Government Internship 1
P SC 3960	Honors Reading 1
P SC 3970	Honors Seminar 1
P SC 3980	Honors Research 1
P SC 3990	Independent Study 1
P SC 4033	Capitol Scholars: A Service Learning Course 1
P SC 4043	Public Policy Implementation
P SC 4143	Policy/Program Evaluation
P SC 4193	The Profession of Public Management
P SC 4213
P SC 4220	Problems in Public Policy
P SC 4990	Independent Study 1

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A maximum of three (3) hours from P SC 3910, P SC 3960, P SC 3970, P SC 3980, P SC 3990, P SC 4033, or P SC 4990 may apply. Course content must be Public Affairs and Administration related. 

• Minors in the Dodge College of Arts & Sciences are available to all undergraduate students at OU. If the minor is officially declared, successfully completed, and noted on the graduation application, the student’s transcript will so indicate at the time the bachelor’s degree is posted.