Supporting Courses and Related Areas
Supporting Courses and Related Areas
As indicated on the EPP Course Requirement Checksheet, students have many choices of topics and emphases in the Supporting Courses and Related Areas portion of the requirements for the major. Three areas of emphasis include Policy Problems and Public Systems; Leadership, Decision-making, and Ethics; and Diversity and Equity.
The courses below, linked to their descriptions in the University Bulletin of Undergraduate Degree Programs, currently meet the requirements for the major. Other courses may be substituted with permission of the EPP faculty.
POLICY PROBLEMS & PUBLIC SYSTEMS
AG EC 450: International Development, Renewable Resources, and the Environment
AEE 311: Developing Youth Leadership Through Organization and Program Structure
AEE 440: Communication Methods and Media
AEE 450: Program Design and Delivery
COMM 401: Mass Media in History
COMM 405: Political Economy of Communications - Prerequisite: ECON 002
COMM 413: The Mass Media and the Public
CEDEV 430 (AG EC): Principles of Economic Development Planning
CEDEV 432 (AG EC): Techniques of Community Economic Development Planning
CEDEV 452 (RSOC): Rural Organization
CEDEV 460 (RSOC): Introduction to Community Information Systems
E RRE 201 (AG EC): Introductory Environmental and Resource Economics - Prerequisite: AG BM 101 or ECON 002
E RRE 431W (AG EC): Economic Analysis of Environmental and Resource Policies - Prerequisite: ECON 302
HIST 445: The Emergence of Modern America - Prerequisites: HIST 021; 3 additional credits in history, economics, or political science.
HIST 447: Recent American History - Prerequisites: HIST 021; 3 additional credits in history, economics, or political science.
HIST 448: American in the 1960s - Prerequisite: HIST 021.
PL SC 403 The Legislative Process - Prerequisite: PL SC 001 or PL SC 003.
PL SC 422 Comparative Urban Politics - Prerequisite: PL SC 003, PL SC 020, PL SC 022 or PL SC 417
PL SC 426 Political Parties and Interest Groups - Prerequisite: PL SC 001
R SOC 356: Rural Community Services - Prerequisite: R SOC 011 or 3 credits in related social science
R SOC 417 (CEDEV): Power, Conflict, and Community Decision Making (also listed under LEADERSHIP, DECISION-MAKING, & ETHICS) - Prerequisite: 6 credits in social or behavioral science
R SOC 422 (US): Family in Rural Society - Prerequisite: 6 credits in the social sciences
R SOC 425: Poverty Analysis: People and Programs - Prerequisite: 6 credits in sociology, economics, or related areas
R SOC 444: Social Change in Rural America - Prerequisite: R SOC 011 or 3 credits in related social science
R SOC 452 (CEDEV): Rural Organization - Prerequisite: 6 credits in rural sociology, sociology, or psychology
R SOC 460 (CEDEV): Introduction to Community Information Systems - Prerequisite: 6 credits in quantification; 6 credits in social or behavioral science
SOC 419 (US) Race and Public Policy - Prerequisite: 3 credits in Sociology
SOC 432: Social Movements - Prerequisite: 3 credits in sociology
YFE 439: Contemporary Youth Issues
YFE 455: Extension Youth Development Programs and Volunteer Management
LEADERSHIP, DECISION-MAKING, & ETHICS
AEE 360: Leadership Development for Small Groups
AEE 440: Communications Methods and Media (also listed under OLICY PROBLEMS & PUBLIC SYSTEMS)
AEE 460: Foundations in Leadership Development - Prerequisite: AEE 360
AEE 465: Leadership Practices: Power, Influence, & Impact
CEDEV 417 (RSOC): Power, Conflict, and Community Decision-making
EDLDR 409 Leadership Studies in Popular Film - Prerequisite: EDTHP 115, junior standing, or permission of program
EDLDR 480 Introduction to Educational Leadership - Prerequisite: 3 credits in social science, sociology, anthropology, community development, business administration or political science
ENGR 407: Technology Based Entrepreneurship - Prerequisite: ECON 002 or ECON 004
ENGR 408: Leadership Principles
PHIL 103: Introduction to Ethics
PSYCH 485: Leadership in Work Settings - Prerequisite: PSYCH 100; PSYCH 281 or 3 credits MGMT
R SOC 305W: Leadership for Social Change
R SOC 417 (CEDEV): Power, Conflict, and Community Decision-making (also listed under POLICY PROBLEMS & PUBLIC SYSTEMS) - Prerequisite: 6 credits in social or behavioral science
SOC 409: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in America (also listed under DIVERSITY & EQUITY) - Prerequisite: 3 credits in Sociology
DIVERSITY & EQUITY
AM ST 432: Ethnicity and the American Experience
CEDEV 420 (US;IL) (R SOC;WMNST): Women in Developing Countries
GEOG 425: Geography of Race, Class, and Poverty in America
GEOG 436 Ecology, Economy, and Society
PHIL 008 (GH) (WMNST): Philosophy and Feminism
PHIL 009 (GH;US): Philosophy, Race, and Diversity
PHIL 437: World Philosophies and Culture - Prerequisite: 9 credits of philosophy, including 6 credits of philosophy at the 200 level
PL SC 467: International Relations of the Middle East - Prerequisite: PL SC 014 or HIST 181
SOC 409: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in America (also listed under LEADERSHIP, DECISION-MAKING, & ETHICS)
SOC 422 World Population Diversity - Prerequisite: 3 credits in Sociology
WMNST 102 (GH;IL) (AAA S): Women of Color Cross-cultural Perspective
WMNST 428 (US;IL) (PL SC 428) Gender and Politics - Prerequisite: 3 credits in political science or women's studies
WMNST 455 (US) (CAS): Gender Roles in Communication - Prerequisite: CAS 202
