Supplementary Courses

In addition to the core Fellows seminar course, students must take two supplementary courses. These courses are intended to enhance students' knowledge of public policy and/or issues related to the subject matter of the concentration. At least one such course must be completed prior to the internship semester. Courses completed prior to beginning the program may be used to satisfy this requirement! Courses must be taken at the university (no high school AP/IB course credit), must be at least 3 credits, and must be taken for a grade.

We have a list of over 400 pre-approved supplementary courses from across the university. Students may choose from this list or suggest additional courses for approval by emailing a course description to fedglobal@umd.edu. The courses below represent a sampling of supplementary courses offered across the university.

View the full list of Pre-Approved Supplementary Courses. 

Sample Courses:

AASP101 Public Policy and the Black Community

AAST200 Introduction to Asian American Studies

AGNR301 Sustainability

ANTH266 Changing Climate, Changing Cultures

ARAB101 Elementary Arabic I

BSCI103 The World of Biology

BSST330 Terrorism Studies

CCJS230 Criminal Law in Action

CHIN101 Intensive Elementary Chinese

COMM201 Introduction to Public Relations

ECON317 Global Economic Policies

ENCE215 Engineering for Sustainability

FMSC290 Family Economics

FREN101 Intensive Elementary French

GEOG110 The World Today: Global Perspectives

GERS203 Intensive Intermediate German

GVPT170 American Government

HLTH130 Introduction to Public and Community Health

INST201 Introduction to Information Science

ITAL103 Intensive Elementary Italian

JWST141 American Jewish Experience

MLAW100 Justice and the Law

PERS101 Elementary Persian I

PLCY101 Foundations of Public Policy

PORT103 Intensive Elementary Portugese

RUSS101 Intensive Elementary Russian I

SOCY200 Human Societies

SPAN103 Intensive Elementary Spanish

STAT400 Applied Probability and Statistics