Career Tracks
Choice of one in seven Career Tracks is a required part of the MPIA program and the BA/MIA program. Career Tracks are designed for students to acquire expertise in a functional area of their choice. Career Tracks consist of five courses from a prescribed list: 2 required and 3 electives.
Visit a Career Track link below for information about that track's focus, supporting faculty, courses, and more.
International Politics
Emphasizes the political, military, and economic determinants of the global environment, and explains the foreign policies of particular countries. Attention is also given to the Pacific region as an international subsystem.
International Economics
Develops expertise in specific areas of international economic policy: managing exchange rates, setting fiscal and monetary policy, regulating multinational enterprises, negotiating trade agreements, adjusting to global economic shocks, and forecasting economic variables.
International Management
Includes intermediate and advanced courses similar to those offered in MBA programs such as corporate finance, accounting, production and operations management, and international marketing as well as courses on international business activities such as project analysis and planning, trade, and risk analysis.
Public Policy
Develops tools and comparative perspectives to analyze and evaluate public policies. The curriculum combines case studies and application with theoretical and analytical tools.
International Development and Nonprofit Management
Offers students critical knowledge and skills needed for work in the development and nonprofit sectors as managers, technical staff, and consultants. Students explore current issues and strategies related to development and nonprofit management. Includes hands-on experience through summer internships in NGOs or development agencies and case study of an issue facing a nonprofit organization.
International Environmental Policy
Extends the application of concepts and methods from economics, political science, management science, and international law to the complex and contentious environmental challenges that managers, analysts, and advocates in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors face. Teaches students to identify core economic and political issues, to evaluate the tradeoffs associated with potential policy responses, and to formulate strategies for bringing about policy change.
Self Design
Requirements: by petition only; any three of required courses from other tracks in consultation with faculty advisor; another three electives in consultation with faculty advisor.
Note: Specific course requirements for fulfilling a concentration may be obtained from the Academic Affairs Office at (858) 534-5914.
