Race, Politics, & Justice
Designed for undergraduate students who are interested in understanding how race and ethnicity factor into the political and criminal justice fields.
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American University's School of Public Affairs is a place where knowledge meets action. By bringing scholar-teachers and practitioners together around society's most pressing concerns, SPA drives transformational progress in policy, politics, justice, law, and public administration.
Browse our PDF on SPA Minors, or learn more about undergraduate minors below.
Minors
Public Administration & Policy
Designed to give undergraduate students a deeper appreciation for the challenges in organizing the modern state and the manner in which the intricacies of implementation affect the achievement of public policies.
Justice
Designed to help undergraduate students understand, think critically about, and evaluate the causes of and responses, including policies, to crime and violence in society.
Legal Studies
Designed to help undergraduate students understand and evaluate the conceptual foundations, historical evolution and normative implications of legal ideas and traditions.
Political Science
Designed to give undergraduate students the knowledge and understanding of key theories, concepts, and issues surrounding the study of political institutions and processes then put their acquired knowledge into practice of politics.
Certificates
Data Analytics and Digital Technology
Preparing students to apply data science to generate insights from data and identify and predict trends.
WPI Certificate Program
Providing the knowledge and experience students need to become a leader in the field of politics, government, and the nonprofit sector.
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