This course provides a five-week deep dive into strategies to maximize the persuasiveness of your writing for various policy-relevant audiences: from decision-makers in professional policy spaces to the readerships of national and local news-and-opin...
This 4-credit course will provide an introduction to the fundamentals of evaluation research design and methods as applied to public policies and programs. The course will cover the role of evaluation in the public policy process, and both process an...
The main goal of this course is to practice and strengthen your ability to apply microeconomics to public policy issues. We will build on concepts and skills introduced in Econ 101 and focus on real-world applications to answer the question: "What ca...
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy use are the leading cause of global climate change, and they are growing. The challenge of sharply reducing emissions while continuing to provide energy to a growing population is an enormous global cha...
This course provides a five-week deep dive into strategies to maximize the persuasiveness of your writing for various policy-relevant audiences: from decision-makers in professional policy spaces to the readerships of national and local news-and-opin...
"What are the values and ethics of foreign policy? Foreign policy refers to interactions between states, yet states are built by and use violence. States also create and reinforce social inequalities. Therefore, the state-to-state interactions that t...
This course develops students' abilities to use microeconomic analysis to further our understanding of public policy. Major topics include models of consumer and firm behavior, operation of market systems, public goods and externalities, market failu...
This course is meant for students who see themselves as change agents. The goal is to inspire you to make a long-term commitment to public service, while preparing you for the constant challenges you will need to overcome. This is NOT a theoretical c...
Municipal socialism is back. But was it ever gone? In his election night victory speech,Zohran Mamdani invoked arguably the most famous socialist in U.S. history: "The sunmay have set over our city this evening," he began his speech, "but as Eugene D...
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
This course provides a five-week deep dive into strategies to maximize the persuasiveness of your writing for various policy-relevant audiences: from decision-makers in professional policy spaces to the readerships of national and local news-and-opin...
This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and analysis. The class will cover collection of data, management of data for visualization, creating a wo...
This course provides an introduction to public policy design and analysis using "systematic thinking" from the social sciences and humanities, with the application of scientific methods and knowledge more generally. Systematic thinking about how soci...
This course is designed to familiarize students with core skills in data access, manipulation, analysis, and presentation using Excel (and Excel-like alternatives). Spreadsheet programs remain an important part of professional life, and this course w...
In this course we will explore how artistic strategies such as improvisation and creative community engagement can be applied to the development and implementation of public policy. We will also explore how the arts have been deployed as effective so...
*Note: Instructor consent required* This course is an introduction to programming in the R statistical language. R is a flexible, open-source statistics platform which has gained broad adoption in a variety of fields. Through interacting with R, RStu...
In this course, we will examine the possibilities and challenges of using education policy to foster economic mobility in the United States. We will cover early childhood, K12 and higher education sectors. The goals of the course are to (1) familiari...
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only. This course examines policy issues affecting Latine populations in the United States and ...
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.
PUBPOL 495 (Policy Seminar) is for students currently enrolled in the Public Policy Undergraduate Program only, no exceptions. Enrollment is by permission only.
This course prepares students to understand the political and institutional environment within which public policy is formulated and implemented. The primary focus will be on policy processes within the United States, but some attention will be paid ...
Even a casual observer of U.S. society would note the centrality of race and racism inour country's politics and culture. This course is for students who want to build a criticalunderstanding of race, racism, and racial justice, and how these concept...
