MINOR PROGRAM CHECK SHEET

Program Requirements:

Public Administration is a minimum 30 credit hour minor. A grade of “C-” or better is required for each course counting towards the minor, but a cumulative GPA of at least a 2.00 is required for completion of the minor.

Students must complete at least 20 graded credits in upper division courses counting toward the minor

A minimum of 10 credit hours counting toward the minor must be completed at Eastern Oregon University.

This checksheet is in effect summer 2022. See PDF at the bottom of the checksheet for requirements from summer 2019 to spring 2022.

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PROGRAM REQUIRED COURSES: 21 credits

Course Number	Course Title	Credits	Prerequisites
POLS 101	American National Government [SSC, UWR, DPD]	5
POLS 151	Democracy & Public Service [SSC]	5
POLS 314	State & Local Government [UWR]	5
POLS 409	Practicum	1
POLS 451	Applied Public Administration [SSC]	5

Choose 9 credits from the following upper division Political Science courses:

Non-Political Science courses may be counted with prior program approval

Course Number	Course Title	Credits	Prerequisites
POLS 310	Selected Topics	1-6
POLS 315	Globalization and Beer	2	Must be at least 21 years of age
POLS 316	Politics and Beer	2	Must be at least 21 years of age
POLS 317	Beer and Tourism	2
POLS 318	The American Dream	2
POLS 320	The Presidency (next offered 2024)	5	Any lower division Political Science Course
POLS 340	Politics and Media [SSC,UWR]	5
POLS 350	Public Policy [SSC]	5
POLS 352	Budgetary Politics & Process [UWR]	5
POLS 353	Rural Governance [UWR]	5
POLS 354	Public Personnel Management [UWR]	5
POLS 381	Jurisprudence [UWR]	5
POLS 382	Constitutional Law [UWR]	5
POLS 383	Civil Liberties [UWR]	5
POLS 384	Administrative Law & Process [UWR]	3
POLS 402	Selected Topics	1-5
POLS 410	Selected Topics	1-5
POLS 450	Applied Policy Analysis [UWR]	5
POLS 477	Gambling Policy [UWR]	5

Students pursuing a combination of Public Administration, Political Science, Pre-Law, and Public Administration minors may apply POLS 101 to more than one minor. No other courses can overlap and apply to more than one minor.

Students pursuing a combination of Public Administration, Political Science, Pre-Law and Public Policy minors must take POLS 409 multiple times, once for each minor. No more than 5 credits of POLS 409 can be counted towards any of the above minors.

Total credits required for major: 30

If the requirements for the minor are not met at the time of graduation, the minor will not be awarded.

The changes to this checksheet start summer 2022

Last update October 2021

Previous EPCC Checksheet (April 2019 update [summer 2019 to spring 2022])