Public Policy Specialisation

It is important that you check your academic regulations before deciding which courses you wish to follow. The courses listed below is in the economics and political science fields as reqiured in the academic regulations.

When considering which elective courses you wish to attend, please pay attention to the principles used for the time tables to avoid overlapping courses. Find the course clusters in the Course registration section or check the Timetables for overlapping courses.

Please find the course descriptions in the course catalogue.

For students at BSc level, please refer to your academic regulation or your study portal.

Mandatory Courses

Mandatory courses - Autumn:
4428: Politics and Economics of the EU (10 ECTS)
4518: The Economics of the Welfare State (10 ECTS)

Mandatory courses -Spring:
4427: Economics of Competition and Regulation (10 ECTS)     
5425: Applied Public Policy (P) (10 ECTS)

Elective courses - spring 2025

Political Science:
224F25 Political Representation in Theory and Practice: How Do We Solve the Climate Crisis? (10 ECTS)
243F25 Behavioural Public Policy (10 ECTS)
211F25 Taking the "When" Seriously: Understanding the Importance of the Time-factor in Comparative Public Policy (10 ECTS)
222F25 Polarisation: A Challenge to European Democracies? (10 ECTS)
212F25 Undemocratic Politicians and Voter Support: Causes and Consequences (10 ECTS)
223F25 Lifestyle Symbols and Political Behaviour (10 ECTS)
241F25 Networks in Public Administration (10 ECTS)
244F25 Political Interplay Between Central and Local Government (10 ECTS)
261F25 Advanced Quantitative Methods: Causal Inference (10 ECTS)
214F25 Comparative Climate Politics (10 ECTS)
242F25 Management and Leadership in the Healthcare Sector (10 ECTS)
262F25 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
245F25 Research and Methods in Comparative Social Policy (10 ECTS)

Economics:
4118: Business Data Analysis (10 ECTS)
4542: Monetary Economics (10 ECTS)
4562: Housing Economics and Policy (10 ECTS)
5361: Macro Finance (10 ECTS)
5415: (P) Micro and Macro Models of the Labor Market (10 ECTS)
5620: (P) Economic Forecasting (10 ECTS)
6371: Advanced Macro Finance (10 ECTS)
6425: Advanced Micro and Macro Models of the Labor Market (10 ECTS)
6452: Advanced Microeconomics (10 ECTS)
6620: Advanced Economic Forecasting (10 ECTS)
6652: Advanced Econometrics (10 ECTS)

Elective Courses - Summer 2024

Political Science

AUG1E24 Values and Political Communication: How to Persuade Your Political Opponents
AUG2E24 Bridging the Divide: Understanding Intergroup Relations Between Migrants and Locals
AUG3E24 Cost-benefit Analyses of Public Policies
AUG5E24 Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration

Summer University:

EU Politics in Theory and Practice (International Summer Course in Brussels) (10 ECTS)

Economics:

4805: Summer Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
4810: Summer Topics in Economics (10 ECTS)

There are no courses in Economics for Public Policy in August 2023

Elective Courses - Autumn 2024

Political Science:

211E24 Climate policy (10 ECTS)
242E24 Facing the Human Capital Crisis: Recruitment, Selection and Retention of Public Workforce (10 ECTS)
233E24 Danish Foreign and Security Politics (10 ECTS)
241E24 Citizen-state Interactions: Burdens, Discrimination, and Trust (10 ECTS)
244E24 Who Has the Power in Local Government? Interests, Conflicts and Competences of Politicians and Civil Servants (10 ECTS)
214E24 Danish Regime Development in Comparative and Historical Perspective (10 ECTS)
222E24 Political Extremism: Understanding Citizens’ Attitudes and Behaviours (10 ECTS)
261E24 Political Geo-data Science with R: Analysis, Modelling and Visualisation (10 ECTS)
262E24 Political Data Science (10 ECTS)
101E24 Leadership and Motivation in Public Organisations (OBS 20 ECTS)
264E24 Advanced Quantitative Methods in Political Science: Causal Inference, Panel Data, and Multilevel Modeling (10 ECTS)
212E24 Frontiers of Environmental Politics (10 ECTS)
213E24 Advanced EU Politics (10 ECTS)
249E24 Coercive Institutions: Implications for Citizens and Public Employees (10 ECTS)
224E24 Gender, Power and Politics (10 ECTS)
225E24 What Do Politicians Do? Representative Focus and Style of Politicians in Modern Democracies (10 ECTS)

Economics:

4407: Labour Economics (10 ECTS)
4425: Micro 2 (10 ECTS)
4505: Macro 2 (10 ECTS)
4615: Microeconometrics (10 ECTS)
4616: Time Series Econometrics (10 ECTS)
4645: Machine Learning Methods in Empirical Economics (10 ECTS)
4805: Topics in Economics (5 ECTS)
5418: Health Economics (10 ECTS)
5440: Environmental Economics (P) (10 ECTS)
5461: Development Economics (10 ECTS)    
5522: International Economics (10 ECTS)
5524: Economic Growth and the Environment (10 ECTS)
5637: Applied Micro Econometrics (P) (10 ECTS)
6637: Advanced Applied Microeconometrics (10 ECTS)
6954: Mathematical Analysis (10 ECTS)