Associate Dean of the Law School: Matt Cordon
Graduate Program Director for Political Science: Timothy W. Burns

Admission

Students are required to fulfill admission requirements for both the Law School and the MPPA program. The Baylor University School of Law web site at http://law.baylor.edu/ contains the most current information about the admissions standards of that school.

Program of Study

Students receive twelve quarter hours of credit on a pass/fail basis toward their JD upon successful completion of the MPPA degree requirements and twelve semester hours of credit on a pass/fail basis toward their elective requirements for the MPPA upon successful completion of JD degree requirements. Thus, JD/MPPA students complete 114 quarter hours of Law and 24 semester hours of Political Science course work. A minimum of one-half of the semester hours required for the master’s program, exclusive of thesis credits, must be in courses numbered at the 5000-level. Neither degree may be awarded until all course work is complete. Therefore, all requirements of both schools must be finished before the candidate may receive either degree.

1. Upon commencing law studies, the student is required to take the first three quarters consecutively. After the first three quarters, students may set individual schedules for law school and the MPPA courses. 
2. JD/MPPA students must also fulfill the following Political Science requirements:

   Course List

   Code	Title	Hours
   Core Courses
   Select 15 semester hours from the following:		15
   PSC 4300	Political Behavior
   PSC 4305	International Law
   PSC 4307	Environmental Law
   PSC 4310	Politics and Communication
   PSC 4316	Grand Strategy
   PSC 4322	Seminar in Public Administration
   PSC 4330	Urban Political Processes
   PSC 4335	Public Discourse and Foreign Policy
   PSC 4342	Public Policy and the Courts
   PSC 4346	Intelligence and Covert Action
   PSC 4350	Political Parties
   PSC 4355	Power, Morality, and International Relations
   PSC 4385	Diplomacy in Theory and Practice
   PSC 5310	Seminar in American Politics
   PSC 5321	Seminar in Public Law
   PSC 5323	Research Design and Research Methods
   PSC 5330	American Political Development
   PSC 5340	The American Founding
   PSC 5344	Comparative Constitutional Law
   PSC 5345	American Foreign Policy
   PSC 5350	Seminar in Presidential Rhetoric
   PSC 5391	Reading Course in Political Science (Public Policy and Administration topics, may only be taken once)
   Elective Courses
   Select six semester hours (including at least one 5000-level graduate course) from the following:		6
   Courses listed above.
   Other Political Science courses.
   Relevant graduate-level courses in cognate fields (e.g., Accounting, Economics, Environmental Studies, History, Management, Quantitative Business Analysis, Sociology).
   Professional Internship/Research
   Select one of the following options:		6
   PSC 5V12	Graduate Internship (A student must complete three semester hours of the Graduate Internship. This involves supervised, full-time employment that combines practical field experience and research. Completion of the course requires a written report of the work done during the internship. Students must work in a public sector agency. Both the Graduate Program Director for the Political Science department and the Associate Dean of the Law School must approve all internships.)
   PSC 5392	Professional Paper in Public Policy and Administration
   Total Hours		27