PubPol 778

PubPol 778: Project Skills Workshop

Elisabeth Gerber
This is a professional skills workshop that is required for students enrolled in the Applied Policy Seminar (APS, PP578) and open to other MPP/ Master’s students. The workshop will be offered each semester, concurrent with the...
PubPol 830

PubPol 830: Immersion in Research

Alan Deardorff
This course is designed to immerse students in a major research project of their own design. By the end of the two-semester course, students will be required to produce a polished paper, which can later be incorporated into their...
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...
PUBPOL 692

PUBPOL 692: Thinking About Crime

David Thacher
As Chief of the New York City Police Department, William Bratton was fond of saying that the crime rate has the same meaning for a police department as profits have for a business--that the crime rate is the bottom line of...