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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

PUAD 304 - Introduction to Public Policy

3 Credits

This introductory course is designed to teach undergraduate students the processes associated with public policy development, implementation and evaluation of policy at various levels of the public sector. It begins with a discussion of how a Congressional Bill becomes a public law. The course will answer the following questions: ¨What is public policy¨ ¨How is policy formulated¨ ¨When does the public policy process begin and end ¨Is it an incremental process¨.