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Students entering the Program must present evidence
that their background is sufficient to undertake the course work required of
them. Such evidence must include:
- familiarity with political and legal
processes, behaviors, and institutions
- the nature of urban regions
- a graduate level social science
quantitative methods or statistics course
- college course work in both macro- and
micro- economics
- a course in Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
- substantial background in a public
policy specialty area.
Students may have completed equivalent courses elsewhere.
Normally, transcripts will provide the evidence required by the Advisory
Committee. However, if the student's previous experience is offered as
evidence, the student must provide all of the documentation necessary to specify
such experience.
Special Note: In most cases students will have been
adequately prepared by course work in their master's level work or, in some
cases, in undergraduate course work. However, to provide some direction on the
types of preparation necessary, the following list examples the types of course
work at UNC Charlotte a student would need to satisfy the minimum requirements
listed above:
 For political and legal processes,
students would need at least one course in the following areas:
- American
Politics
- Urban Politics, and/or
- Legal/Institutional
Foundations of Public Administration
For the nature of urban regions, students would need
at least one course in the following areas:
- Urban-Regional Analysis
- Urban Studies
- Regional Planning
- Internal Structure of the
City
- American Cities or
- Urban Sociology
For graduate level social science methods or
statistics, students at UNC Charlotte should include one of the following:
- Graduate Econometrics
- Quantitative Analysis
- Applied Probability
- Advanced Quantitative
Analysis
- Applied Statistics
For micro and macroeconomics, students should have
taken the equivalent of a micro-economics class.
For GIS, students should have taken the equivalent
of an Introduction to Geographic Information Systems.
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