Resilience Studies, MS (Online)

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Required Courses

• POLS 7341 — Security and Resilience Policy
• One of:
  • POLS 7346 — Resilient Cities
  • PPUA 7346 — Resilient Cities

Research Methods

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • CRIM 5270 — Crime Mapping
  • INSH 6300 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences
  • INSH 6500 — Statistical Analysis
  • PPUA 5263 — Geographic Information Systems for Urban and Regional Policy

Capstone

• PPUA 7673 — Capstone in Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Electives

From the catalog

Complete 16 semester hours from any combination of the following:

• Choose 16 semester hours from:
  • POLS 7343 — Counterterrorism
  • PPUA 5100 — Climate and Development
  • PPUA 5235 — Participatory Community Planning Methods
  • PPUA 5249 — Sustainable Urban Coastal Policy
  • PPUA 5264 — Energy Democracy and Climate Justice: Technology, Policy, and Social Change
  • PPUA 5267 — Climate Policy and Justice
  • PPUA 5390 — Special Topics in Public Policy and Urban Affairs
  • PPUA 6503 — Managing People in Public and Nonprofit Sectors
  • PPUA 6532 — Building Resilience into Local Government

Optional Co-op Experience

From the catalog

Four-month co-ops require registration at 1 semester hour for one term. Longer co-ops require registration at 1 semester hour per term for two consecutive terms.

• Choose 1 semester hours from:
  • All of:
    • POLS 6964 — Co-op Work Experience
    • INSH 6864 — Experiential Integration

GPA requirements

• 32 total semester hours (33–34 with optional co-op) required Minimum 3.000 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

• Occasional online offering

Possible equivalents for this program beyond the above — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• POLS 7346 ↔ PPUA 7346 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under resilience-studies-ms-online, and the official page is the authority.