Program Highlights

Spring 2026 Dates

January 5 – April 25, 2026

Faculty Director

Professor Daniel Gitterman, Chair and Professor, UNC Public Policy

Daniel Gitterman is Duncan MacRae ’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. He also serves as Director of the Honors Seminar in Public Policy and Global Affairs (Washington, DC). At Carolina, he has received fellowships from the Institute of Arts and Humanities (Academic Leadership Program; Chairs Leadership Program) and the Global Research Institute (inaugural program Globalization, the Economic Crisis, and the Future of North Carolina).

He has received the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the John L. Sanders Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Service at Carolina. Gitterman’s research interests include: the American Presidency and public policy; education and labor markets; American welfare state and politics of social and health policy, and globalization and labor standards.

Highlights

This Honors Seminar on Public Policy and Global Affairs is centered around internships at non-profit and domestic and international public policy organizations. Students intern four days a week and attend weekly seminars. The seminars examine a range of domestic and international policy issues and allow students to hear directly from government officials and policy experts.

Several group excursions are planned, including visits to notable sites in the nation’s capital, a performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a three-day trip to New York City to engage with policy issues there. A weekly research-intensive workshop and professional development sessions are a key to navigating the networks and skills necessary to be a policy professional.