If your educational and professional goals are not met by one of our existing concentrations, you can work with one (or more) of our faculty advisors to design a Specialized Concentration to help accomplish your goals.
Create a concentration to advance your specific goals
How to create your Specialized Concentration
Log into the Current Student Portal, and complete and submit the Specialized Concentration Form online. You'll need to submit your completed form—and have it approved—prior to enrolling in your relevant courses.
When designing your Specialized Concentration, we encourage you to take O'Neill courses whenever possible. The MPA-JD concentration requires a minimum of 15 credit hours. All other Specialized Concentrations involve a minimum of 18 credit hours. Although you must name your Specialized Concentration, the name will not appear on your IU transcripts—it will read “Specialized.”
Specialized Concentration course cluster examples
- E 542 Hazardous Materials
- M 566 Executive Leadership
- V 550 Topics in Public Affairs
- E 547 Applied Earth Science
- P 512 Public Policy Process
- R 645 Environmental Law
- P 541 Benefit Cost Analysis of Public and Environmental Policies
- R 625 Environmental Economics and Policy
- R 643 Natural Resource Management and Policy
- E 455 Limnology
- E 537 Environmental Chemistry Laboratory
- BUS-K 520 Introduction to Operations Research
- BUS-K 610 Topics Mathematical Programming
- R 645 Environmental Law
- R 625 Environmental Economics and Policy
- E 510 Hazardous Materials Regulation
- L 564 Urban Management
- Work with your advisor to add one additional course
