Sustainability Course Repository

This course will examine the transportation systems and infrastructure that surround us. Students will explore the histories of how transportation has developed and evolved in the United States, to understand the systems we have today. Students will unpack ongoing transportation policymaking processes, developing a critical lens for assessing the regulatory frameworks, funding structures, institutions, and stakeholders that shape transportation policy. Additionally, students will be asked to cri...

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Students will review classical and emerging perspectives from organizational theory and focus on improving their effectiveness in public and nonprofit organizations. This course will develop a student's capacity to understand and address issues concerning organizational values, assumptions about human nature, and organizational structure, culture, politics, psychology, and learning. Required.

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This course takes an applied approach to research design, data gathering and analysis. It aims to prepare you to be a proficient producer , and a discerning consumer  of data so that you can solidly support your research inquiries and policy propositions, accurately evaluate the claims made by others, and effectively communicate your results. This course is concept oriented and focuses on domestic and international topics that are of environmental and social import. Concepts covered include: spe...

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Provides an overview of the practice of public administration, including key current and future issues, basic concepts, and intellectual history. Addresses a variety of topics such as the changing scope and role of governments in American society, cross-national comparisons of political cultures, leadership, roles of administrators in government, administrative responsiveness and accountability, and ethical analysis. Students should take this course during their first two quarters. Required.

Read more about PUBM-5010 : Foundations of Public Admin

Analyzes processes by which various issues become public policies and public programs. Addresses the interplay of executive, legislative and judicial branches and the various other stakeholders in the processes of policy formation and implementation. Special consideration is paid to the impact and influence of public bureaucracies, values, and ethics. This course examines why policy may have been formulated or not on selected issues and considers barriers to the effective implementation of polic...

Read more about PUBM-5120 : Policy Process

This course addresses the systematic analysis of policies that are under consideration or, after having been implemented, are under review. Emphasizes logical and prescriptive techniques for analyzing public policies and making decisions regarding policy change. Among the approaches and issues considered in this course are modeling, decision making under risk and uncertainty, and risk preference. Emphasis is on conceptualization, interpretation, and analysis of selected policies. Area of Emphasi...

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An Introductionductory course in social ethics for public service professionals. Social ethics is a field that utilizes theories and methods that analyze the behavior of public sector actors and their institutions. Students will be Introductionduced to theoretical approaches to ethics and how they are applied to public and professional life. Required.

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Provides students with fundamental economic content and knowledge to understand issues of public policy and management. Focus on concepts of cost, market dynamics, inflation, demand elasticity, welfare, employment theory, and stabilization policy. Required.

Read more about PUBM-5700 : Economic Analysis

Analyzes the revenues, expenditures and debt of federal, state and local governments. Uses economic theories and models to understand the role of the public sector as means of social reform, economic efficiency, and distributional equity. Area of Emphasis course.

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This course will explore the strategies commonly used to engage the intended targets of a new policy in policy-making and programmatic design both at the domestic and international levels. Topics include the 'why' and 'when' of participation within the policy process, participation design guidance, tools for engagement of participants, as well as key challenges of public participation such as representativeness and inclusion. Students will delve into the ethical issues inherent in balancing 'how...

Read more about PUBM-5910 : Engaging the Public in Policy