A Guide to the Studies Major

“Graduates in all careers must understand that everything they will do is bound by a complex web of federal, state, and local and , and by treaties among nations. The major is a perfect approach to ensuring that students are prepared to thrive in that demanding environment.”

Fred Benson ‘59 Policy Studies Steering Committee Benson Capitol Connection Skill Specializations Applicable to Policy Studies Careers

Theme of Arts and and Corporate and Science Social Concentration Media Policy National Security Public Finance Policy Policy

Rationale Rapid changes in global Continuing emphasis Rising demand for Innovations and Domestic and global communications and on economic, analytically trained modification of trends towards an the need for policy preparedness, and individuals who governing increasing focus on savvy individuals who security issues in the understand the climate, waste, energy, social issues, education, are conversant with public and private interplay between space exploration, and public health multi-media technology sectors financial market biotechnology, and and the arts performance, risk, and telecommunications policy

Typical Career • Public and external • Analyst at CIA, • Financial • Federal and state • Paths/Job Titles affairs manager DHS, DoD, FEMA, management and government agencies management and or consulting firms, investing leadership in NGOs • Government relations defense contractors, • Legislative committee and advocacy professional think tanks • Industry analyst staffs or legislator organizations staffs • Management and • Economist at central • Development banks • Policy analyst in leadership of not-for- banks, finance • Research and international, federal, profit organizations ministries, and • Risk management policy expert for state, or local and cultural treasury departments professional in corporations, trade agencies, or think institutions private and public and professional tanks • Foreign Service organizations associations, or think • Arts promotion and Officer, U.S. State tanks • Government relations preservation Department • Budget analyst professional

Target Students seeking Students interested Students interested Students seeking Primarily directed Audience careers in private in careers related to in careers related to careers in biotech, towards students or public arts applied economic financial markets, nanotech, health interested in health organizations, media analysis, emergency industry research, and care, science ethics, care, poverty, consumer policy, journalism, or preparedness, or risk management in the space, telecom, and protection, and associated professions security in the private public or private sectors ; and and public sectors civil and human rights

Value Acquire an Integrate economic Develop an Combine technical Develop the tools and Proposition understanding and or security theory understanding of skills with the ability knowledge necessary to appreciation of the arts with knowledge of quantitative methods, to understand the influence international and media, and policies natural and man- data acquisition, political process and the and domestic policies that foster or hinder made threats to create research, and analysis consequences of laws and to analyze the them strategic planning and the role of policy in and regulations consequences of policy recommendations financial markets “The skills that I gained from doing in-depth research and presenting in front of industry experts have been invaluable to my career.” Stephen Caruso ‘06 Global Securities Research and Group, Merrill Lynch Themes of Concentration Available to Policy Studies Majors

Arts and Economic Policy and Corporate and Science Social Media Policy National Security Public Finance Policy Policy

Students select ART 290 ECON 313 ECON 218 BIOL 234 A&S 227 Graphic Design Forecasting for Financial Accounting Environmental Biology The Family four elective Business and courses and ART 292 Economics ECON 303 BIO 245 A&S 247 an internship Visual Communication Income Tax Topics Immunology Organizations in through Technology ECON 323 Action experience Money, Financial ECON 319 BIO 345 that focus on a A&S 245 Intermediation, and Financial Theory Infectious Diseases ECON 225 particular theme Mass the Economy and Analysis Women and Communications CE 464 the Economy or concentration. and Society ECON 335 ECON 320 Environmental Environmental Corporate Finance Geophysics ECON 341 ENG 214 Economics Public Sector The chart New Media ECON 321 CHE 334 Economics illustrates typical ECON 341 Investments Chemical Processes elective options ENG 250 Public Sector in Environmental ECON 346 Writing Genres Economics ECON 322 Engineering Economic by concentration. Financial Markets Development ECON 360 ECON 346 CHEM 252 Marketing Science Economic ECON 324 Environmental NEUR 351 Development Options and Futures Chemistry Neurophysiology ECON 361 Marketing Research ECON 353 ECON 326 EP 352 PSYC 225 International Trade Entrepreneurial Energy Technology Psychopharmacology EP 462 Policy Finance and and the Modern Management of Management World PSYC 235 Technology Innovation ECON 386 Social Behavior Political Economy ECON 342 GEOL 120 GOVT 313 Public Finance Geological Disasters: PSYC 240 First Amendment GOVT 234 Agents of Chaos Health in the U.S.: American Security ECON 351 and Politics Policy International Finance GEOL 310 PSYC 336 Environmental Organizational PSYC 336 HIST 262 EP 261 Geomorphology Behavior Organizational History of American Engineering, Behavior Economics and NEUR 351 REL 222 Management Neurophysiology Religion and PSYC 335 Politics: Conflict Industrial Psychology and Cooperation “Students need to possess integrated skills, not segmented skills for whatever they choose to do. The marketplace is looking for individuals who possess multidisciplinary skills and insights. This program supports and typifies this new reality and marketplace demand.”

Chris Caine ‘78 Policy Studies Steering Committee VICE PRESIDENT, GOVERNMENTAL PROGRAMS, IBM

Course Requirements for the Major in Policy Studies PREREQUISITES One of: GOVT 101 Introduction to U.S. Politics, GOVT 102 Introduction to International Politics, or GOVT 103 Introduction to Comparative Politics

HIST 105 Development of the Modern World ECON 211 Intermediate Microeconomics ECON 213 Fundamentals of Econometrics

CORE COURSES PSTD 251 Introduction to Policy Studies PSTD 300 Industry, Strategy & Policy PSTD 400 Policy Internship & Seminar PSTD 495/6 Honors Thesis (for qualified students)

ELECTIVE COURSES Students work with an adviser to structure four elective courses that relate to a theme of concentration. Themes of concentration include:

• Arts and Media Policy • Economic Policy and National Security • Corporate and Public Finance • • Students enjoy a boat ride on Lake Atitlan during an interim course in Guatemala.

Policy Studies Program www.lafayette.edu (610) 330-5921 307 Ramer History House [email protected] Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 www.lafayette.edu/~policystudies