Concentration in Women and Public Policy in our Master’s Degree Program

Public policy is gendered. That means that men and women are affected differently by public policies, that they participate differentially in the public policy-making process, and that public policies are an important component in the ongoing construction of gender differences, and a site where gender is resisted and renegotiated. The predesigned concentration in Women and Public Policy in our master’s degree program offers students the opportunity to understand the economic, social and political structures that underscore gender inequity and explore available policy mechanisms to mitigate it. Students may want to do a gender analysis of any public affairs topic from transportation to foreign policy to health care.

Our Stength is Our Women and Public Policy Programs

The faculty and fellows of the Humphrey School’s Women and Public Policy programs are particularly strong on the issues of employment discrimination, feminist organizations and social movements, feminist economics, population policy, women’s human rights, women’s leadership, women in technology careers, women and international relations and women in the international development process.

In addition, students can draw on the University of Minnesota’s outstanding faculty who teach graduate courses in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Public Health, American Studies, Law, Political Science, History, Rhetoric, Social Work, and Sociology to name but a few.

Foundational Course for MPP Women and Public Policy program concentration

PA 5601 — Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the U.S.

Select elective courses from below (to bring total concentration credits to 9 or more)*

PA 5301 — Population Methods and Issues for the U.S. and Third World

PA 5490 — Topics in Social Policy: Early Childhood and Social Policy

PA 5490 — Topics in Social Policy: Social Policy Analysis in the Legislative Arena

PA 5451 — Immigrant Health Issues

PA 5501 — Theories and Policies of Development

PA 5522 — International Development Policy, Family and Health

PA 5561 — Gender and International Development

PA 5601 — Survey of Women, Law, and Public Policy in the United States

PA 5920 — Boards Service Practicum

PA 5690 — Feminist Perspectives on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

PA 5690 — Case Studies on Women and Public Policy

PA 5690 — Gender across the curriculum

PA 5590 — Gender and Development

PA 8690 — Gender/Bodies: Reproduction and Sexual Violence

PA 5890 — Women in Armed Conflict

PA 5431 — Public Policies on Work and Pay

ALL 5436 — Literature by 20th-Century Japanese Women in Translation

COMM 5451 — Intercultural Communication Processes

EDPA 5080 — Special Topics: Educational Policy and Administration

EDPA 5103 — Comparative Education

EDPA 5323 — Women in Leadership

EDPA 5346 — Politics of Education

EDPA 8020 — Leadership: From Theory to Reflective Practice

GWSS 5103 — Feminist Pedagogies

GWSS 5104 — Transnational Feminist Theory

GWSS 5190 — Advanced Femisnist Theory

GWSS 8108 — Feminist Theories and Methods I

GWSS 8109 — Advanced Feminist Theory and Methods II

GWSS 5122 — Philosophy and Feminist Theory

GWSS 5690 — Women, Society, and Race in the United States

GWSS 8190 — Feminist Theory: Praxis and Feminisms

GWSS 8490 — Gender, Ethnicity & Representation in Argentina

HIST 5720 — Society/Politics: Modern Europe

HIST 5801 — Seminar in Early American History

HIST 5910 — Topics in US History: Readings in African American History

HIST 8644 — Legal History Workshop

HIST 8910 — Gender, Sexuality and Political Culture

KIN 5511 — Sport and Gender

LAW 6827 — Seminar: Women's International Human Rights

POL 8312 — Legislative Process

POL 8403 — International Norms and Institutions

POL 8602 — Families, Children and the State

POL 8660 — Topics in Comparative Politics: Religion, Identity and Politics

PUBH 6055 — Social Inequalities in Health

SOC 8501 — Sociology of the Family

SOC 8221 — Sociology of Gender

SOC 8790 — Feminist Social Theory

* Not all courses on this list are offered every year. Some courses may have prerequisites. Students may select other courses for this concentration in consultation with their faculty and professional advisor

                   

Affiliated Faculty

Ragui Assaad, Professor
Robin Councilman, instructor
Katherine Fennelly, Professor
Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Assistant Professor
Jennifer Kuzma, Associate Professor
Deborah Levison, Professor
Jodi Sandfort, Associate Professor
Joe Soss, Professor

Greta Friedemann-Sanchez, Concentration Head
Humphrey Center, Room 267
gfs@umn.edu
(612) 625-4747