Policy Analysis And Management (pam)

[doctorjohndorian]

<p>Can this thread please be devoted to everything and anything related to PAM. I am a senior who is applying ED to Cornell and want to know everything I can about my intended major. Please!</p>

[ajp87]

<p>PAM in a nutshell, is business with an analytical/law tint.</p>

[doctorjohndorian]

<p>what does that mean though…i see it as a merger of sociology, psychology, poly sci and economics…am i wrong? also, what if i just wish to go onto law school and not a business oriented career…?</p>

[harvardman1988]

<p>all i know is, you learn a lot about the insurance industry.</p>

[doctorjohndorian]

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[foxdie]

<p>It’s a business program with an emphasis on public policy and government. It’s a great program for law.</p>

[doctorjohndorian]

<p>but what if i have ABSOLUTELY nooooooooooo intention to go into business but instead want to go to a top tier law school be a lawyer and then a politician? from what i have viewed regarding the program it seems to have a lot to do with health administration? anything else you can tell me about it in greater detail?</p>

[Tahoe]

<p>You can go to law school with any major - just check with pre-law advising.<br>
This might help you - the major was formed in 1998 and this is from an archived Uncle Ezra column.

Dear Uncle Ezra,
I was wondering what the P.A.M major in teh human ecology school was all about and if it involves Political science in any way/ </p>

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<p>Dear Wondering,
PAM stands for the newly formed Department of Policy Analysis and Management. It is merged from two former Human Ecology Departments, Consumer Economics Housing and Human Service Studies.
PAM provides courses, carries out research, and offers community outreach programs in family/social welfare, health, and consumer economics in terms of policy analysis and its application through program planning, management, and evaluation. It is therefore tangential to political science, but is formally oriented toward economics and social service issues.

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[doctorjohndorian]

<p>so its really more APPLIED POLITICAL SCIENCE?</p>

[doctorjohndorian]

<p>thanks for the responses thus far</p>

[doctorjohndorian]

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[doctorjohndorian]

<p>there have to be more cornell students here that know about PAM…any human ec people?? please i need to decide soon</p>

[Tahoe]

<p>Dr. JD (Scrubs?)
I think you have bumped this thread enough. Obviously nobody has anything constructive to add. Why don’t you try to contact one of the student ambassadors in Hum Ec and and ask them questions?<br>
<a href=“http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/Academics/Admissions_services/Contact_Us/Ambassadors.cfm[/url]”>http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/Academics/Admissions_services/Contact_Us/Ambassadors.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;