Courses of Study 2023-2024

Nov 21, 2024

Courses of Study 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Policy Analysis and Management

Policy Analysis and Management Major
Brooks Honors Program
PAM Minor

Policy Analysis and Management Major

In March of 2023, the Brooks School of Public Policy launched the Public Policy major. All students matriculating after that time will enroll in the Public Policy Major. Below, we report the Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) Major Requirements for students matriculating in August 2022 or January 2023. For existing Policy Analysis and Management (PAM) majors, please contact Brooks Student Services for more information on your requirements.

Effective Fall 2023 all courses that previously had a prefix of PAM will have the prefix PUBPOL.

Brooks Honors Program

Policy Analysis and Management majors are eligible for the Brooks School honors program, which gives official recognition to students who have demonstrated excellence in their academic work and their capacity for independent research. In addition to fulfilling the requirements for the major, students in the honors program will participate in an honors seminar and prepare an empirically-based honors thesis. Honors students work with a research mentor in preparing for their thesis. Upon successful completion of the Brooks honors program, students will receive a B.S. degree with honors in Policy Analysis and Management. Interested students should obtain a Brooks Honors Program application form in the Brooks Undergraduate Office (2301 MVR). For questions, contact BrooksUGProgram@cornell.edu.

Eligibility:

Students must maintain a 3.3 GPA to be admitted into and complete the honors program. Students whose GPA drops below 3.3 will be dropped from the Honors Program.
To start the program, students may not have any outstanding incomplete (INC) grades on their record.
PUBPOL 3120 - Research Design, Practice, and Policy must be completed before starting the program.

Honors Program Requirements:

Complete a minimum of 6 credits of PUBPOL 4990 - Honors Program , under supervision of a Brooks School faculty mentor, with a grade of B or higher.
Complete PUBPOL 4980 - Honors Seminar .
Complete a basic and advanced statistical software training series as approved by faculty mentor.
Attend four professional research seminars during senior year.
Present a poster of research during final semester in honors program.
Defend thesis to a committee of faculty.

Policy Analysis and Management Minor

The Brooks School offers a 15-credit minor in Policy Analysis and Management for Cornell undergraduates outside of the PAM and HCP majors. PAM minors complete PUBPOL 2300 - Introduction to Policy Analysis (4 credits), 9 credits of upper level PAM coursework at the 3000 or 4000 level, and additional PAM electives to reach a minimum of 15 credits in Policy Analysis and Management. Students can build the minor to focus on a specific policy area, or choose to take a breadth of courses for a general overview of policy analysis. Questions should be directed to BrooksUGProgram@cornell.edu.

Minor Policies:

There can be no substitution for any of the required courses.
Students must enroll in the PAM section of the course. Cross-listed sections are NOT applicable.
Students must earn a grade of B- or better in every course. S/U will not be accepted unless it is the only grade option available.
PAM Special studies courses (PUBPOL 4000 , PUBPOL 4010 , PUBPOL 4020 , PUBPOL 4030 ) do NOT count towards the PAM minor.

PAM Major

PAM Major

In addition to admitting college requirements , students in the PAM Major must complete specific requirements listed here.

As of Fall 2023, students are no longer being admitted to the PAM Major. The requirements listed below pertain to students that matriculated in August 2022 and January 2023.

All course prefixes have changed from PAM to PUBPOL.

PAM Required Courses

PAM Required Courses (6 courses)
Take all of the following:

PUBPOL 1111 - Building Success at Brooks
PUBPOL 2030 - Population and Public Policy
PUBPOL 2040 - Economics of the Public Sector  (prerequisite PUBPOL 2000 )
PUBPOL 2101 - Statistics for Public Policy
PUBPOL 2300 - Introduction to Policy Analysis
PUBPOL 3100 - Multiple Regression Analysis  (prerequisite PUBPOL 2101 )

PAM 3000/4000 Electives

PAM 3000/4000 Electives (21 credits)
Students must take a minimum of 21 credits of 3000 or 4000 level PAM courses in addition to the PAM Core Requirements.
Note: PUBPOL 4000 , 4010 , 4020 , 4030 , 4980 , and 4990 may not be used to fulfill this requirement.

PAM Additional Electives

PAM Additional Electives (3 credits)
Any 3 additional PAM credits (except PUBPOL 1050 , PUBPOL 1111 or PUBPOL 4030 ) OR
ECON 1120 - Introductory Macroeconomics (taken at Cornell)

ECON 3040 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory

Introductory Economics

Introductory Microeconomics (3 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution social sciences requirement.

ECON 1110 - Introductory Microeconomics

PAM Intermediate Microeconomics

Intermediate Microeconomics (4 credits)

PUBPOL 2000 - Intermediate Microeconomics

ECON 3030 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

PAM Introduction to Sociology

Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution social sciences requirement.

Choose one of the following:
SOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology
DSOC 1101 - Introduction to Sociology
PUBPOL 2250 - Social Problems in the United States
Note: PUBPOL 2250 cannot count for both the Introduction to Sociology requirement AND the Additional PAM Electives requirement.

PAM Mathematics

Mathematics (3-4 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution quantitative and analytical courses requirement.

Either of the following:
Score of 4 or 5 on AP Calculus BC exam OR
Any 3 credit Cornell math course except MATH 1101 and MATH 1710 .

Note: If this requirement is not satisfied with AP Calculus BC then the MATH course must be taken at Cornell.
Note: AP Calculus AB credit (a score of 4 or 5) may be applied as elective credits, but does not fulfill this requirement.

PAM Government

Government (4 credits)
GOVT 1111 - Introduction to American Government and Politics

Natural Science I and II

Natural Science I (3-4 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution natural sciences requirement.

One of the following:

Biology

BIOG 1140 - Foundations of Biology
BIOG 1440 - Introductory Biology: Comparative Physiology or BIOG 1445 - Introduction to Comparative Anatomy and Physiology, Individualized Instruction
BIOMG 1350 - Introductory Biology: Cell and Developmental Biology
BIOEE 1610 - Introductory Biology: Ecology and the Environment
AP Biology score of 5

Chemistry

CHEM 1560 - Introduction to General Chemistry or CHEM 2070 - General Chemistry I
CHEM 2080 - General Chemistry II
AP Chemistry score of 5

Physics

PHYS 1101 - General Physics I or PHYS 2207 - Fundamentals of Physics I
PHYS 1102 - General Physics II or PHYS 2208 - Fundamentals of Physics II
AP Physics score of 5

Note: If AP isn’t used to satisfy the requirement, then the course must be taken at Cornell.
Note: No lab is required.

Natural Science II (3-4 credits)

Choose any 3 credit course with a PBS, BIOLS-AG, or BIONLS-AG Course Distribution.

Note: No AP credit allowed, course must be taken at Cornell.

PAM Ethics

Ethics (3 credits)

This fulfills the college distribution humanities requirement.

Choose one of the following:
Note: any three credit ethics class may suffice. You can check with the PAM Director of Undergraduate Studies.

AEM 3205 - Ethics in Business and Organizations
BSOC 2051  // STS 2051 - Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine
BSOC 2061  // STS 2061  // PHIL 2960 - Ethics and the Environment
COMM 4300 - Ethics in New Media, Technology, and Communication

COMM 4350 - Communicating Leadership and Ethics
CRP 3011 - [Ethics, Development, and Globalization]
ECE 3600 - Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice
ILRLR 3830 - Workers’ Rights as Human Rights
ILRLR 4820 - Ethics at Work
ILRLR 4880 - The Mind of the Founders
ILRLR 4075 - Values, Rights, and Justice at Work

INFO 1200 - Information Ethics, Law, and Policy
INFO 2750 // ECE 2750 // STS 2751 // ENGRG 2750 - [Robot Ethics]
NTRES 2320 - Nature and Culture
PHIL 1440 - Ethics of Eating
PHIL 1450 - Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 2410 - [Ethics]

PHIL 2415 - [Introduction to Moral Psychology]
PHIL 2420 - Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 2455  // STS 2451 - Introduction to Bioethics
PHIL 3410 - [Ethical Theory] [Inactive]
PHIL 3460  // GOVT 3625 - Modern Political Philosophy
PHIL 3480 - [Philosophy of Law]

PAM Additional Distribution Coursework

Additional Distribution Coursework (6 credits)
Any course with the Course Distribution PBS, BIOLS-AG, BIONLS-AG, SBA, KCM, MQR, LA, CA, or HA. Language courses may count here.