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American Public Policy
The Departments of Political
Science (College of Arts and Sciences) and Business and
Public Policy (the Wharton School) offer a University
minor in American Public Policy. This program enables
undergraduates interested in public policy issues to
construct an integrated program exposing them to many
different perspectives. Graduates with a minor in
American Public Policy are employed by government
agencies, consulting companies, and government
relations departments of private sector firms. The
minor requires six courses, three from each department.
Additional information about the minor
can be viewed online at http://bpp.wharton.upenn. edu/programs/minor_in_app.html.
Biological Basis of Behavior
&
Health Services Management
The Health Care Systems
Department of the Wharton School and the Biological
Basis of Behavior program in the College of Arts and
Sciences offer a University minor designed to provide
students with exposure to neuroscience and behavioral
biology, as a leading example of the bioscience
enterprise, and health care management, as the
environment in which scientific innovation is developed
and managed. The minor introduces students interested
in biological sciences or medicine to the technical
methods used in health care management, so they can
manage and measure the application of health
innovations, and introduces students interested in the
health care system to the process by which such
discoveries are made. Additional information about the
minor can be viewed online at www.psych.upenn.edu/bbb/BBBHCMG
Minor.htm.
Cognitive Science
Penn Engineering and SAS together
offer a special minor in Cognitive Science. This minor
is aimed at a wide range of students in either SAS or
Penn Engineering, and permits a number of options.
Students must choose at least six courses from a larger
set organized into three levels: Introductory,
Foundational, and Advanced. The Introductory course
Introduction to Cognitive Science and the Advanced
courses are cross-disciplinary. The Foundational
courses and the remaining Introductory courses are
further organized into five tracks corresponding to the
parent disciplines of computer science, linguistics,
neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Students must
take a prescribed number of Introductory and
Foundational courses, but they are free to choose one
of the five tracks and also to choose their advanced
courses. Additional information is available at www.ircs.upenn.edu/education/minor-
cogsci.shtml.
Consumer Psychology
A cooperative program between the
Marketing Department in the Wharton
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School and the Psychology Department
in the College of Arts and Sciences, this minor has the
goal of promoting the link between experimental psychology
and marketing. Only with knowledge of consumer psychology
can you properly connect a corporate strategy with
consumers. The minor involves nine courses in total:
four in Marketing, four in Psychology and one in
Statistics. Additional information about the minor
can be viewed online at http://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/
programs/undergrad_program.cfm# consumerPsychology.
Health Communication
The Health Communication minor,
a collaboration between the School of Nursing and the
Annenberg School for Communication, is a unique option
at Penn. This program expands students' knowledge of
the communication process, theory, and behavior. It
prepares them for roles as professionals who develop
cutting-edge models for health behavior intervention
or
who implement patient education and health
communications programs locally, nationally, and
globally. The minor consists of six courses.
Additional information can be found in the School
of Nursing Undergraduate Student Handbook, available
online at http://www.nursing.upenn.
edu/students/ handbooks/.
Jewish Studies and Education
The aim of the minor in Jewish
Studies & Education is to prepare undergraduates
to teach Jewish Studies, Jewish history and culture
and
Hebrew language and literature in Jewish day schools
and supplementary (late afternoon and Sunday) schools.
The minor is open to all students majoring or minoring
in one of the four Jewish Studies tracks offered at
Penn. All students in the minor must demonstrate their
mastery of the Hebrew language by passing a proficiency
exam. The goal of the minor is to introduce students
in Jewish Studies to the central issues of contemporary
educational philosophy, methods, and practice, and
thereby to encourage, train and produce truly qualified
Jewish day and supplementary school teachers. The minor
responds to the growing demand for teachers in both
types of schools nationwide. Additional information
about the minor can be viewed online at http:
//ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jwst/ugrad.htm #nine.
Landscape Studies
The minor in Landscape Studies
focuses on the role of the landscape in the cultural
imagination, on its legibility as a representation of
political, social, artistic, and environmental values,
and on its potential both to reflect and change our
ideas about relationships between the natural world and
society. The program is the joint effort of three
departments: the Department of Landscape
Architecture and Regional Planning in the School of
Design and the Departments of History of Art and Earth
and Environmental Sciences in the School of Arts
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