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PUBPOL 715

PUBPOL 715: Elements of Public Budgeting

An introduction to budget theory, types of budgets and budget formats. Examines characteristics of federal and state budgets and concludes with a consideration of current stresses on public budgets.

PUBPOL 632

PUBPOL 632: Policy Analysis Practicum

Brian Jacob

The goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to get their "hands dirty" with actual policy work, both as a way to utilize some of the skills they have learned in their other courses as well as to help them learn about many of

PUBPOL 642

PUBPOL 642: Socioeconomic Policy and Health Policy

James House

This course explores how and why socioeconomic policies (e.g., education, income/welfare, civil rights, macroeconomics/employment, housing/urban policies) may be as or more consequential for population health as “health” policies (i.e., health car

PUBPOL 580

PUBPOL 580: Values, Ethics, and Public Policy

John Chamberlin

This course seeks to make students sensitive to and articulate about the ways in which moral and political values come into play in the American policy process, particularly as they affect non-elected public officials who work in a world shaped by

PUBPOL 529

PUBPOL 529: Statistics

This course covers descriptive statistics, probability theory, probability distributions (normal, binomial, Poisson, exponential), sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

PUBPOL 746

PUBPOL 746: Social Welfare Policy

Kristin Seefeldt

During the twentieth century, the U.S. both saw the development of a social welfare system to serve nonelderly families and a subsequent dramatic overhaul of the cash welfare part of that system.

PUBPOL 542

PUBPOL 542: International Financial Policy

This course provides an overview of international financial economics, developing analytic tools and concepts that can be used to analyze world economic policy debates.

PUBPOL 556

PUBPOL 556: Macroeconomics

This course teaches students the basic tools of macroeconomics and how to apply them to real world economic policy.