The primary purpose of this seminar course is to develop the tools needed to assess the feasibility, potential impact, unintended consequences and legal/ethical ramifications of novel policies designed to improve population health and reduce healt
Through the lens of racial justice, Racial Foundations of Public Policy will equip students to better understand the critical role of public policy in improving our world and communities.
State and local courts are where the majority of cases are adjudicated but receive the least attention. In this class we will examine the role of state and local courts in our communities.
In this course, students will acquire the conceptual tools and knowledge necessary to understand the reciprocal relationship between domestic politics and migration flows.
The course will examine the past, present, and future of diplomatic interactions between the United States and the other nations of the Indo-Pacific region, starting with the 1951 signing of the Treaty of San Francisco that ended the state of war
How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy making?
This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and analysis.
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.
Strategic Public Policy Consulting (SPPC) is an opportunity for students to conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization at the local, state, national or international level.
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
This course will introduce you to the fundamental leadership concepts and skills you need to successfully navigate and shape dynamic policy environments.
This course will introduce you to the fundamental leadership concepts and skills you need to successfully navigate and shape dynamic policy environments.
Negotiation Basics for Public Policy will provide students with an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings.
Negotiation Basics for Public Policy will provide students with an understanding of the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings.
This course focuses on rigorous evaluation of policies and interventions intended to support children's early learning and success in K-12. Evaluations will be discussed in the context of the current and historical landscape.
Conflict is an evitable part of the human experience--in relationships, at the work place, in public administration and especially in the public policy making process.
A continuation of PubPol 555 (Microeconomics for Public Policy), this course will deepen students' understanding of key economic concepts and principles and, importantly, apply them to the practice of policy analysis.
This course will provide students with fundamental principles of and practical experience in presenting data in a visual form for communication and analysis.