PhD Courses

Required Core Courses (5.5 courses - 22 credits)

The core curriculum spreads across three categories: theory, methods, and area of concentration.

Approved PhD Selectives

• HS 212a, Contemporary Issues in Gender and Public Policy
• HS 236a, International Health Systems  
• HS 273f, Law and Social Policy: Contemporary Issues-Gender Equity
• HS 303a, Historical and Contemporary Developments in Social Welfare 
• HS 306a, Causal Inference and Machine Learning
• HS 307a, Immigrant Integration in the US: Policy, Practice and People
• HS 314f, Race and Stratification in the U.S. Economy
• HS 317f, Labor Income, Labor Power, and Labor Markets
• HS 320, LGBTQ+ Justice: A History of Pride, Prejudice and Policy in the Unted States
• HS 322b, Sociological Inquiry
• HS 323f, Participatory Action Research
• HS 324a, Social Experimentation in Child, Youth and Family Policymaking
• HS 324f, Globalization, Development and Governance
• HS 334a, Child, Youth and Family Policy: US and Cross Cultural Perspectives 
• HS 334f, Disability Policy: Intersections with Health, Poverty, Education and Family Policy
• HS 346b, Policy Perspectives on Criminal Justice Disparities
• HS 354a, Capitalism and the Welfare State
• HS 367a, Working with National Data Sets to Inform Policy Analysis and Recommendations
• HS 372b, Economic Theory and Social Policy
• HS 406f, Multilevel Modeling Methods
• HS 407b, Survey Research Methods
• HS 409a, Advanced Econometrics
• HS 410a, Applied Research Seminar: Quantitative
• HS 411b, Applied Research Seminar: Qualitative
• HS 412b, Substance Use and Societal Consequences
• HS 412f, Social Policy and Management Through the Lens of Equity
• HS414f, Ethical Issues in Social Science Research
• HS 416a, Foundations in Social Theory: From the Early Twentieth Century to Critical Race Theory
• HS419f, Labor Economics as Applied to Social Policy
• HS 422f, Cost-Effectiveness
• HS 425f, Case Study Methodologies
• HS 426f, Advanced Techniques of Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis
• HS 448f, Introduction to SAS Programming and Data Management
• HS 472b, Policy to Action: Understanding Implementation
• HS 505f, Quality and Performance Measurement in Health Care
• HS 506f, Advanced Topics in Quality and Performance Measurements in Health Care
• HS 507f, State Health Policy
• HS 510a, Applied Design & Analysis
• HS 513a, Issues in National Health Policy
• HS 518a, Management of Health Care Organizations
• HS 519f, Introduction to Health Economics
• HS 520a, Payment and Financing of Health Care
• HS 521a, Political and Organizational Analysis
• HS 526a, Organizational Theory and Behavior
• HS  528f, Law and Social Justice: Constructions of Race and Ethnicity and Their Consequences
• HS 534b, Perspectives in Economic and Racial Equity
• HS 572a,  Economics of Behavioral Health
• HS 586a, Issues in Addiction Treatment