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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Psychology Developmental and Brain Sciences |
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PSYDBS 611 - Physiological Methods in Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this course is to provide a basic fluency with the technical approaches available to modern neuroscience to graduate students beginning a career in the filed. The course assumes a basic familiarity with biology and psychology and an undergraduate level mastery of neuro-scientific concepts. The course will begin by building on these foundations in order to make a functional understanding of the methods presented possible. Students will make use of a selection of techniques during independent laboratory sessions. By the end of the course student should be able to critically read papers utilizing the techniques taught in the course and solve research problems in their own careers by the appropriate selection and application of technical approaches.
039467:1
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PSYDBS 613 - Behavioral Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Behavioral Neuroscience is the discipline dedicated to the scientific investigation and advancement of theory pertaining to processes underlying the biological basis of human behavior. The filed is interdisciplinary in approach touching on fields of study such as psychology, biology, chemistry, neuropharmacology, biochemistry, and the clinical sciences (e.g., neurology and neuropsychiatry). The goal of this course is to provide an advanced survey of current topics in behavioral neuroscience. The course takes a research based approach through interpretation, analysis and application of experimental findings. Additional insight will be gained by examination of neural dysfunction in neurological and neuropsychiatrically impaired clinical populations. My hope is that by the conclusion of the course, students will have advanced knowledge in concept and theory, research methodology, and application of neuroscientific knowledge to normal behavior and clinical disorders/syndromes.
037703:1
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PSYDBS 623 - Cognitive Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This core course covers the cognitive and neural processes that underlie perception, attention, memory, language, social cognition, decision-making and executive function. Classic and recent journal articles will be discussed both to extract major findings and to elucidate the various methods - neuropsychological evaluation, psychophysical measurement, single-cell neurophysiological recording, and neuroimaging - that allow for inferences about the brain bases of cognition.
037705:1
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PSYDBS 641 - Computational Methods in Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to teach students to optimally utilize Matlab as a platform for generating perceptual stimuli, controlling experimental devices such as stimulus delivery systems and recording devices (eye tracking, fMRI, NIRS), and visualizing and analyzing data.
037708:1
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PSYDBS 690 - Mentored Research
1 - 9 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides the mechanism through which students will receive credit while conducting pre-doctoral research. The student will be individually supervised and mentored by his or her advisor during the design and execution of an original Mentored Research Project. With approval of the student’s advisory committee Mentored Research may be applied toward the research requirement for a Master’s Degree. 9 credits of Mentored Research are required.
037877:1
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PSYDBS 693 - Seminar in Development and Brain Sciences
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course covers topics of interest to the DBS Program faculty with a focus on classic article on the topic and recent paper of significance on the topic. The objectives for this course focus on the following core competencies: ability to clearly communicate and present research and scholarly material, develop critical skills required for evaluation research, and to gain knowledge of the history and recent advances on a relevant research topic.
039429:1
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PSYDBS 695 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
038693:1
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PSYDBS 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
038694:1
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PSYDBS 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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PSYDBS 715 - Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Developmental behavioral neuroscience is an emerging interdisciplinary field with diverse contributions from the behavioral and biological science. This core course places the study of development in a biological context that includes evolution, genetics, physiology, anatomy, cells, and molecules. The focus is on major concepts and methods used to explain development of brain and behavior, particularly during early stages. Enduring controversies and modern efforts to resolve them will be considered. The course is organized to represent major areas of contemporary research, with attention to both fundamental processes and functionally defined, integrative behavioral systems.
Enrollment Requirements:
PsyDBS 610
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PSYDBS 725 - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Developmental cognitive neuroscience is an evolving field that investigates the relations between brain and cognitive development. Fundamental questions include: What are the relations between developmental changes in the brain (e.g. morphology, connectivity) and developmental changes in children’s perceptual and cognitive abilities (e.g. depth perception, ability to sustain selective attention, executive functions)? Why, and how, is learning enhanced during certain periods in development? These issues will be investigated in the context of the following specific topics: the development of the visual system, visual attention, memory, executive functions, speech and language. The methods of human cognitive neuroscientific research that can be used with infants and children will also be discussed (e.g. ERP, NIRS).
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PSYDBS 752 - Advanced Homones and Behavior
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will examine the neural and hormonal correlates of behavior. We will consider how hormones influence the development and activation of behavior, and how behaviors, in turn, regulate neural and endocrine physiology. Our discussions will primarily focus on hormone-behavior interactions in mammalian systems. Throughout the course, we will explore the hormonal influences on sex determination, sexual behavior, mating behavior, parental behavior, dominance and aggression, responses to stressful stimuli, immune function and homeostasis, biological rhythms, learning and memory, and endocrine disruptors.
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PSYDBS 754 - Neurobiology of Addiction
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course examines molecular and cell biology, genetic, and systems approaches to the study of addiction. It begins with an overview of the pharmacological actions of drugs of abuse, neural substrates of drug reward and craving, molecular mechanisms of drug-induced neuroplasticity, genetics, and their involvement in tolerance, sensitization, dependence and addictive behavior. This will include theories of addiction, brain circuits mediating reward and motivation, invertebrate and vertebrate models of addiction, neurotransmitters and signaling pathways targeted by drugs of abuse, and pharmacotherapy of substance use disorders.
Enrollment Requirements:
PsyDBS 610
038728:1
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PSYDBS 762 - Knowledge Acquisition
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is a proposed elective for the Developmental and Brain Sciences program in the Psychology Department. The goal of the course is to acquaint students with the breadth of theories for how we represent and acquire knowledge, with a focus on acquisition. Students will engage with primary and secondary sources, mainly focusing on classic papers and book chapters, and supplementing these with current literature. The current literature portion of the course is expected to evolve over the years to track recent findings that clarify classic theories.
039505:1
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PSYDBS 764 - Mechanisms of Attention
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course covers the cognitive and neural processes that underlie mechanisms of attention. Classic and recent journal articles will be discusses to extract major findings and to elucidate the various methods - psychophysical measurement, single-cell neurophysiological recording, neuroimaging - that allow for inferences about the biological bases of cognition. The major focus will be on mechanisms of visual attention, but there will also be some discussion of mechanisms of auditory attention or other sensory modalities, when possible.
039099:1
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PSYDBS 795 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
038695:1
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PSYDBS 796 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
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PSYDBS 797 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
038645:1
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PSYDBS 895 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
038697:1
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PSYDBS 896 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
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PSYDBS 897 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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PSYDBS 899 - Dissertation Research
1 - 12 Credit(s)
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This course allows students to register for required dissertation credits towards the PhD in Developmental and Brain Sciences.
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Public Administration |
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PUBADM 601 - The New England Political Environment
3 Credit(s)
Description:
An introduction to the key contemporary systems that now constitute the environment in which legislative and executive policy-making and implementing processes work. This course is designed to provide a thorough understanding (in theory and practice) of: where, how, and by whom policy is made and implemented; how the process is/can be influenced; who pays and who benefits; and how to evaluate results (intended and actual).
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 602 - The New England Economic Environment
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces the student to the theory and tools of regional economies as a framework for analyzing policy issues. The economic and fiscal structure of Massachusetts is studied to identify the inner and outer workings of the Massachusetts economy vis-a-vis New England and the nation. The latter part of the course focuses on the economics of major issues facing policy makers. Such issues include public and private housing, health care costs, public pensions, fiscal and economic competitiveness, and the economics of the capital city, Boston.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 606 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The goals of this course are to (1) familiarize students to the nonprofit sector in the United States, (2) discuss the various roles that nonprofit organizations play as policy actors, and (3) to introduce students to a range of empirical and theoretical work on nonprofit organizations. Using theoretical and empirical readings, this course considers a variety of issues related to the role of nonprofit organizations in public policy including: tax exemption, the increasing commercialization of the nonprofit sector, charitable choice provisions guiding the distribution of federal funds, and the role of nonprofit organizations in political advocacy.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 610 - Public Management: Theories and Principles
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the complex environment in which today’s public managers must effectively function. It introduces students to the various theories of complex organizations, with a particular emphasis on those developments most relevant to public organizations. As part of the effort to relate theory to practice, students’ own work experiences become a legitimate and important aspect of the subject matter.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 611 - E-Government: The Internet and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This is a graduate-level seminar course that examines how new information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) influence the way government functions and shapes public policy. The course consists of three sections. In the first section, important characteristics of the Information Society are examined in a broader context of social transformation from the Agricultural and Industrial Ages to the Information Age. The role of establishing trust in the Information Age and the functions of the public sector are examined. The second section introduces the notion of e-government. Critical factors of successful e-government operation are explored and innovative cases of e-government practices in the USA and around the world are introduced. The concept of e-democracy and online citizen participation and their implications in our democratic system of governance are discussed. The third section focuses on public policy areas where the domain of the public sector in the Information Age is re-examine and some emerging public policy issues are discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 612 - Urban Politics and Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course introduces students to the role of public governance, and the group conflicts that swirl around it, in shaping cities and urban regions - with particular attention to local economic development policies, racial and ethnic politics, and challenges in governing fragmented metropolis. Students will understand ways decisions are made in urban contexts. Key topics examined in the course include the evolution of city politics, racial and ethnic segregation, gentrification, urban revitalization, large-scale infrastructure investments, education, health, policing and community relationships, informality, and contemporary efforts to achieve “smart” growth at large scale. Crosscutting themes include the special role of business in local governance; citizen participation; equity issues in urban place making; the costs and benefits of local government fragmentation; and contending theories about the balance of forces in the U.S. urban politics.
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PUBADM 614 - Human Resources Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to familiarize students with the major elements of human resources management in the public sector: personnel management practices and the practice of labor-management relations. The first half of the course examines the basic concepts of human resources management and the principles of planning and forecasting human resources needs. This part of the course examines career planning and management, job design, pay systems, selection, training, and equal opportunity. The second half of the course explores the nature and history of labor-management relations, focusing on the tactics and strategies of management and union representatives and the legal constraints on their behavior in: (1) the organization of public employee unions; (2) contract negotiation; and (3) contract administration and interpretation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 619 - WPPP: Contemporary American Public Policy Issues
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Fall seminar in Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy. This course provides an overview of the policy-making process and electoral politics, then examines several central public policy issues of contemporary concern, including homelessness and poverty, health, and environmental issues. Readings from the disciplines of sociology and political science analyze how public policy is shaped both by internal processes of government and by interest-group dynamics.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 620 - Analytic Skills I: Skills for Policy Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will introduce a variety of policy analysis tools for policymakers and public managers/administrators; provide an overview of how public policy is shaped by research and numerical data; encourage students to generate research questions and match research methods to the questions; teach how to interpret numerical data in tables, charts, research reports, and articles; introduce basic statistical analysis tools and the interpretation of statistical results as they inform public policy decision making.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 621 - Analytic Skills II: Research Methods
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will provide a more in-depth focus on the Case Study Method and its related skills, including interviewing, analysis of documents/archives, analysis of prior research findings, qualitative research skills and analysis, and determination of policy implication. Students will cover both theoretical aspects of these topics and apply them as they prepare their capstone proposal.
Enrollment Requirements:
PUBADM 620
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PUBADM 622 - WPPP Fall Internship
3 Credit(s)
Description:
In close consultation with the instructor, students in the WPPP Certificate Program develop and begin to work at an internship placement in a city, state, or federal government agency, in a lobbying or research organization, or in a non-profit organization whose work is directly related to public policy. Interns spend 16-20 hours per week in the placement, keeping a record of work activities, skills development, and relationship between course curriculum and learning at the internship. Students also meet regularly with the instructor to discuss the progress of their internship placement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 623 - WPPP: Women in American Politics and Policy Making
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Spring seminar in Program for Women in Politics and Public Policy. This course explores how politics and government affect American women’s lives today and examines the ways that women participate in the political process in order to influence the course of public policy. Readings bridge the disciplinary perspectives of sociology and political science; newer feminist theoretical perspectives on public policy issues are included.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 624 - WPPP: Spring Internship
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The internship placement begun in the fall is completed and evaluated. Students in the WPPP Certificate Program prepare and present a paper integrating the theoretical knowledge and practical skills based on their internship.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 625 - Public Budgeting and Financial Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The public budgeting process in theory and practice. Students are introduced to contemporary approaches to public budgeting as well as to the difficulty of planning in the public sector, the dilemmas of choice and of priority setting, the results of incrementalism, and the nature of budgetary “rationality.” In addition, the course examines the nature and scope of public financial management at the state and local level. It familiarizes students with state and local government financial reporting and accounting, current operating expenditures, techniques for evaluating capital expenditures and products. It explores borrowing and debt management, evaluation of municipal credit quality, managing cash assets and liquid securities, simulations and financial forecasting, and evaluating and controlling financial management practices.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 626 - WPPP: Case Study Methodology for Policy Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is required preparation for AMST 625. The first part of the course focuses on the political and economic context in which policy disputes are raised and resolved through various political processes. Subsequent course work examines policy conflicts with emphasis on relative strengths and weaknesses of contending political forces. Students in the WPPP Certificate Program complete a case-study exercise based on readings, library research, and interviews that concentrate on a contemporary public policy controversy.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 627 - WPPP: Case Study Seminar
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The case study provides an opportunity for students in the WPPP Certificate Program to design and complete a substantial research paper, analyzing in detail one example of public sector decision-making, and integrating theoretical perspectives from the seminars. In close consultation with the instructor, student teams choose a controversial policy decision/area in which they wish to develop expertise-often these topics are related to the student’s internship placement. Students will make oral presentations from the case studies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 628 - Research Methods for Policy Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of this class is to provide a survey of research methods and the use of evidence to build persuasive arguments. The course is divided into three sections; (1) quantitative methods; (2) qualitative methods; and (3) community-based participatory action research, providing an overview of each group of research methods. Throughout all three sections, the course will include feminist research methods and scholarly work. Each section of the course culminates int he submission of a policy brief on a topic of the student’s choosing. Each policy brief will highlight the research methods from that portion of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
038937:1
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PUBADM 629 - Leadership and Organizations: Gender, Power and Authority
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers students the opportunity to develop an in depth understanding of authority, leadership, and organizational dynamics, and to learn about their own behavior in groups. We will also be looking at organizations from both feminist and systems psychodynamics perspectives. We will unpack terms such as authority, power, leadership, boundaries, role and task to deepen students’ understanding of their own experiences in groups, organizations and communities. The impact of social identity (gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, etc.) on how roles are taken up or allowed to be taken up, in groups and organizations will also be explored.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 645 - Program Evaluation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course explores the issues involved in and techniques applicable to evaluation of programs in the public sector. The course focuses on how to define programmatic objectives and output measures and how to develop evaluation methods and instruments. It further addresses how to implement such studies and demonstrate their worth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 650 - Organizations, Social Change, and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Organizations are at the heart of societal governance; they develop, contest, implement, and evaluate public policy. Organizations are also frequent targets of public policy, as sites that generate, reproduce, or sustain social and economic inequality. Some organizations, such as government agencies, are where public policies are enacted. Other organizations, such as community-based nonprofit organizations or advocacy groups, can act as agents of resistance and social change in the policy process. An understanding of organizations, their sources of power, role in governance, and structures and processes, is fundamental for public policy scholars. A wide ranging inter-disciplinary literature has applied organizational theory to the study of a variety of policy arenas. In this course we will read classic statements of organizational theory along with examples from contemporary empirical research that apply the theories. These examples are drawn from an array of disciplines including sociology, political science, and public administration, and cover a variety of policy arenas including education, health, housing, drugs, and the environment.
038998:1
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PUBADM 651 - Policy Workshop
1 Credit(s)
Description:
A workshop in a series of weekend workshops that address public policy issues of concern to the Commonwealth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 652 - Policy Workshop
1 Credit(s)
Description:
A workshop in a series of weekend workshops that address public policy issues of concern to the Commonwealth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 653 - Policy Workshop
1 Credit(s)
Description:
A workshop in a series of weekend workshops that address public policy issues of concern to the Commonwealth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
024255:1
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PUBADM 654 - Policy Workshop
1 Credit(s)
Description:
A workshop in a series of weekend workshops that address public policy issues of concern to the Commonwealth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 655 - Policy Workshop
1 Credit(s)
Description:
A workshop in a series of weekend workshops that address public policy issues of concern to the Commonwealth.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 670 - Human Resource Management for Municipal Managers
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the concepts and principles required for successful management of people within municipal governments in Massachusetts so that the organization can achieve its mission and goals. It is a core course in the municipal manager’s track of the MPA.
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PUBADM 671 - Information Management and Technology for Municipal Managers
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Information Management and Technology for Municipal Managers is a required graduate-level seminar course in the municipal managers track that introduces students to the essential theory of e-government and to a number of innovative IT practices in municipal government. The course consists of two parts. In the first section, important attributes of Information Society are examined put on a continuum of broader social transformation from Agricultural to Industrial, and to Information Age. The importance of building trust in the Information Society and the changing role of the public sector are discussed. The second section is dedicated to introducing students to various innovative IT practices in municipal government. The potential of these IT applications on municipal administration are examined as well as various institutional factors that enable their successful adoption and operation. This course gives students a well-rounded understanding of the potentials of the emerging technologies and of institutional factors that can leverage these potentials in improving municipal administration. Students are not expected to be (technically) proficient in creating these applications but have necessary knowledge in managing individuals or entities that can, whether it is technology produced in-house or through contracting-out relationships
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PUBADM 672 - Strategic Management and Leadership
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is a Master’s level course designed to train students in executive management of public and private organizations. Effective leadership and management is characterized by particular skills, behaviors, and thinking models. The purpose of this course is to inform students of these characteristics as well as develop their own leadership capacity. This core course incorporates lessons on sustainability planning, long term organizational and financial planning, succession planning, employee engagement and empowerment strategies, leadership frameworks, and the role of professional management in policy development. This course rests on the assumption that successful leadership is characterized by particular approaches to these subjects and intends to inform students of those approaches as well as develop their own leadership capacity.
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PUBADM 673 - Public Accounting and Financial Reporting
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This graduate course is required for students in the Municipal Managers track and is an elective for other MSPA students. It provides a more comprehensive understanding of reading and understanding financial reports, financial statements, audits and using this information for managing a local government and communicating financial information to municipal officials and decision makers. The course compliments and builds on the theories and skills presented in PAF G 625 Public Budgeting and Financial Management. Financial management principles can be applied to any level of government; however, this course will specifically focus on the application of those principles at the state and local level. Students will learn how to analyze financial statements and conduct a financial condition analysis of a local government. Students will also explore the data maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and evaluate its usefulness in financial decisions.
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PUBADM 674 - Issues in Massachusetts Local Government Law
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will introduce students to issues in municipal law encountered by local government managers in Massachusetts. After a basic overview of the statutory framework of municipal governance in the Commonwealth, students will explore a series of legal topics that it is essential for municipal managers to understand, including: human resource laws, finance laws, land use laws, procurement laws, and laws governing board procedures and practices. Additionally, department-specific legal issues will be explored, including legal topics relating to police, fire, public works, and inspectional services.
039450:1
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PUBADM 675 - Collaborative Governance
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This 3-credit course is intended to build a foundation for understanding the concepts, theories, practices, and competencies of collaborative governance. Actors in local, state, and federal governments must find ways to work collaboratively, manage conflicts, and build consensus with other public actors as well as with private companies, non-profit organizations, citizen groups, and other stakeholders. This is often a challenging task and when practiced poorly can impede rather than promote effective action. On the other hand, collaboration can be vital to creating and implementing sustainable, successful policies.
039454:1
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PUBADM 676L - Public Dispute Resolution: Theory, Research, and Practice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This 3 credit course is intended to build a foundation for understanding the concepts, theories, practices, and competencies of public policy dispute resolution and consensus building. Actors in local, state, and federal governments must find ways to work collaboratively, manage conflicts, and build consensus and other public actors as well as with private companies, nonprofit organizations, citizen groups, and other stakeholders. This is often a challenging task and when practices poorly can impede rather that promote effective action. On the other hand, collaboration can be vital to creating and implementing sustainable, successful policies.
039675:2
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PUBADM 677 - Internship in Municipal Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides an opportunity for students to foster a broad-based view of public administration by applying theory and concepts in real world practice. Students gain meaningful work experience in public organizations and acquire knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for professional development and advancement. The internship allows students to contribute to the work of the public organization. It is an elective course in the municipal manager’s track of the MPA.
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PUBADM 691 - Capstone /Case Study Seminar
6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students in the MS in Public Affairs Program have the opportunity to complete a final project under the supervision of a faculty advisor. The project may be a case study of a public policy or significant piece of legislation which involved tracing its history, analyzing the political, economic, and social context in which it developed, identifying and examining roles played by those who were instrumental in its development, and assessing its intended and actual impact. It may also be a critical examination of a policy issue confronting a student at his or her place of employment. While completing their case study project, students participate in a weekly seminar that focuses both on the substantive issues under examination and on case study methodology.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
024260:1
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PUBADM 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
These are advanced courses of independent readings under the guidance and subject to the examination of the instructor. Areas and topics are chosen according to student need.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Administration
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PUBADM 697 - Special Topics in Public Affairs
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This is an advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in public affairs. Course content varies according to the topic and will be announced prior to the advance registration period.
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Public Policy |
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PPOL-G 601 - Political Philosophy and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This elective course is taught primarily from a historical and theoretical perspective. Major units include the theory of scientific inquiry; views of human nature; the history of ideologies and institutions; theories of freedom and justice; the conservative, liberal, and radical paradigms regarding the role of the state, race, ethnicity, gender and class.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 602 - Political Economy of Class, Race and Gender
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required course introduces students to political economic theories of class, gender, race, ethnicity and their intersection with each other and with policy. The course explores various theoretical explanations for the existence and persistence of class, gender, racial and ethnic inequality in the United States, largely within the economics and sociology literature (including Marxist, feminist and critical race theorists). Particular attention is paid to the way these inequalities shape the notions of citizenship as well as employment. Students will be asked to explore how theoretical understandings of race, class and gender underlie various policy prescriptions and to use various theories to explore the ways policies can or do result in class, gender and /or racially/ethnically based disparities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 604 - Statistical Methods in the analysis of Social Problems I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course introduces foundational concepts in statistics for social science research including: descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, bivariate inferential techniques, and multiple linear regression. The course focuses on understanding the components of a dataset, selecting appropriate descriptive and inferential techniques, evaluation assumptions of these techniques, generating statistical analyses, interpreting results, and presenting findings. The course familiarizes students with statistical software commonly used in social science research.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or Gerentology or Nursing
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PPOL-G 605 - Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Social Problems II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course explores widely used regression methods in statistics and social science research including: ordinary least squares, probit, and logit regression models. Additional topics may include time series analysis, weighted least squares and non-linear transformations. The course focuses on how to select an appropriate model, specify its mathematical form, and use the model to test hypotheses and estimate outcomes. The course explores a variety of issues related to estimating regression models including mission variables, multi-collinearity, heteroskedasticity, and diagnostic procedures to identify and address these issues.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or Gerentology or Nursing
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PPOL-G 609L - Qualitative Methods and Field Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to qualitative research methods; its specific focus is on policy research and aging. Students practice the skills needed to observe the world around them by attending to social phenomena, descriptively and analytically. The course functions as both a seminar and a research workshop, and students learn by engaging in a field work project. GERON GR 609L and PPOL-G 609L and SOCIOL 609L are the same course.
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PPOL-G 611 - Public Policy Processes: Environments, Power and Outcomes
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course introduces students theories of public policy processes, highlighting the intellectual development of the interdisciplinary field of public policy. The course focuses on the social, economic, and political environments of policy systems that shape policy processes and policy outcomes. The course is a survey of the theories and topics related to key public policy processes including issue framing, agenda setting, and policy design. The course also introduces the role of power in policy processes and how various actors such as government, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, and private organizations influence policy outcomes in variety of contexts. A key focus o this seminar is on tensions between conflicting values arising from the requirements of democracy and capitalism, and how they are resolved through policy processes.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or LIUS
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PPOL-G 612 - Approaches to Policy Analysis: Epistemology, Theory and Institutions
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course surveys the major epistemological approaches and theoretical foundations used by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of public policy. It is organized into four sections: (1) epistemological foundations; (2) theoretical approaches; (3) defining and emerging debates/considerations within the field with an emphasis on the role of institutions; and, (4) a short section on how students conceptualize themselves as policy scholars and define their epistemological and ontological commitments. The course introduces students to the variety of theoretical and epistemological approaches available to policy researchers, helps students develop both an ability to recognize and critique them in empirical work, and to understand the institutional influences of public policy in the American case.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or LIUS
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PPOL-G 621 - Microeconomics for Policy Analysis
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course covers the issues in microeconomics, behavioral economics, public finance, and (to a small degree) macroeconomics that are relevant to policy analysts. The course begins by discussion consumer choices and producer behavior in a competitive market setting. The course then explores circumstances of market failures, first within the neoclassical economic model and then in the context of alternative economic theories. The discussion of consumer and producer behaviors in a competitive market provides students with a reference point for the subsequent discussions of market failures since it describes an abstract, optimally working market setting. The course critically examines market efficiency and the elimination of market failures as normative criteria on for policy development and evaluation. The course specifically considers the policy implications of other, potentially competing goals such as equity.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 622 - Public Finance and Budgeting
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core class covers both public finance and budgeting. The course discusses theories of optimal tax design under rational optimization and efficient public spending with rational consumers. The course also critically examines alternative reasons, other than market-oriented efficiency, for the existence of specific taxes and particular spending programs, such as politics and equity. This course further considers ways by which governments may be able to manage taxes, spending and deficits in line with citizens’ preference. This include long-term budget planning, decentralization, privatization and performance based budgeting.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 630 - Research Methods I for Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required course offers an introduction to research methods and design from a social science perspective. The primary objective is to improve students’ ability to become better producers and consumers of public policy research by providing an introduction to an array of methodological issues and approaches to policy research. In this course, students will compare and contrast different approaches to scientific inquiry and highlight their implications for selecting topics of research, framing research questions, choosing tools, and collecting and analyzing data. The course examines the main components of adequate research designs and will discuss and critique the research design and methodological approach of numerous pieces of published research. Finally, the course addresses an often neglected aspect of the research enterprise: how to write effective proposals for various purposes and audiences.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 631 - Research Methods II for Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This required core course will prepare students to produce professional-quality research, and will provide exposure to a variety of special topics in policy analysis. The course will focus in part on applied research methodologies and prescriptive approaches to the study of public policy. Students will design and implement a research project suitable for conference presentation that is relevant to their field of interest.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 641L - Organizations, Institutions and Social Change
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Organizations are at the heart of societal governance; profit-seeking corporations mobilize and allocate economic resources, governmental agencies deliver services and regulate other organizations, while numerous non-governmental organizations, from unions to churches to advocacy groups, constitute the realm of civil society. In structuring our society in particular ways, organizations represent a form of structural power; some groups systematically benefit relative to others as a result of how organizations function. Organizations are frequently the target of public policy, as they are sites that generate and reproduce inequality, discrimination, pollution, and other social and economic problems. Organizations can also serve as agents of resistance and change; they are thus the vehicles of public policy. Policy regimes emerge through the interaction of many organizations of different types, with conflicting interests and differential access to power and resources. An understanding of organizations, their sources of power, their role in governance, and their structures and processes, is therefore highly relevant for policy analysts, for activists, and for public and private-sector managers. MBAMGT 641L and PPOL-G 641L are the same course.
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PPOL-G 697 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 716 - Public Policy ProSeminar
1 Credit(s)
Description:
This course is a 1-credit required course in the Public Policy PhD program which is required in the fall semester of each of the three years of required coursework (for a total of 3 credits). The ProSeminar provides students with skills and knowledge that will help them to succeed in the PhD program and their career. About half of the class will focus on policy relevant academic research, while the other half will emphasize professional skills.
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PPOL-G 723L - Cost Effectiveness: Theory, Methods & Applications
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings of cost-effectiveness analysis and the alternative methods for measuring costs and outcomes of health interventions. Through many practical applications, students gain a familiarity with how to apply cost effectiveness, cost benefit, and cost utility methods to actual research situations. GERON GR 723L and NURSNG 723L and PPOL-G 723L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
NU 703 Health Economics or equivalent
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PPOL-G 740 - Political Institutions
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This elective course introduces students to a number of issues in the study of the American political system at the national, state, regional, and local levels. The course introduces a variety of the theoretical, methodological, substantive, and political presuppositions concerning research and analysis; and encourages students to acquire substantive knowledge of the American political system and to cultivate a critical attitude toward ways in which social scientists produce this knowledge.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 741 - Urban Housing Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will provide students with the ability to identify and analyze phenomena in cities and urbanized areas related to a socially fundamental need for adequate and affordable shelter that ensures individual well-being and social and community stability and sustainability. Students completing this course will understand the progress the United States has made in ensuring decent and affordable housing for its population, as well as the considerable policy barriers that prevent many people enjoying the housing they desire and the individual and social benefits that arise from it. Students will understand initiatives and interventions related to housing primarily from the perspective of public policy, but also disciplines such as sociology, economics, planning and management science. Students will be able to identify and analyze means by which to measure outcomes related to housing policy that affect diverse groups in society based on age, race/ethnicity, family status, geography and other characteristics. Students will understand how ideology and values are fundamental to understanding how housing is conceived as a good and a service, how various stakeholder groups are affected by housing policies, and whether and how housing can be viewed as a means for social justice and equality. Though the focus of this course is housing policies in the United States, examples will be drawn from other developed and developing countries as appropriate and feasible.
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PPOL-G 742 - Community-based Operations Research
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides an introduction to descriptive, predictive and prescriptive and analytic methods to improve planning and operations activities of nonprofit, mission-driven community-based organizations. A deeper understanding of relevant methods will help resource-constrained community-based organizations better measure the impact of their services, and design new ways to provide these services to optimize efficiency, effectiveness and equity. The course will emphasize iterative, inductive, mixed-methods and critical approaches. Student s will be prepared to become proficient modelers and analysts for community impact, not just educated consumers of relevant methods. Examples of public-sector applications we will address include: public safety and emergency services, human services, community and public health, economic development, humanitarian logistics and housing and community development. Master’s and doctoral students in public policy, business, economics, education, health care, political science, and many other areas are welcome. Students will learn how to identify public-sector problems that are amenable to solution-focused analytic methods from a variety of disciplinary traditions. Students will also learn how to structure decision problems, and to solve these problems using multiple methods. Some methods may use commonly-available technologies such as spreadsheets; others, such as insights into preferences of stakeholders, or heuristics (“rules of thumb” to guide strategies or routine operations, require little to no technology.
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PPOL-G 745 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The goal of this course is to extend the student’s knowledge of statistical techniques beyond that acquired in PPOL-G 604 and PPOL-G 605, by offering additional statistical estimation methods that apply in data or modeling situations in which the regression methods taught in PPOL-G 605 are either not appropriate or are not the best. The selection of methods may change over time,depending on students’ needs, or developments in the field of statistics. Like the two prior courses in this sequence, the course combines both theory and practice. The course deepens the student’s understanding of multiple regression estimation by further examination of problems associated with choosing a proper model and estimating its parameters. As with other methods labs, the course has a strong practical bias, with attention to statistical and econometric theory kept to a minimum.
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PPOL-G 746 - Geographic Information Systems for Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The purpose of this course is to learn principles and applications of GIS to support doctoral-level research in public policy, public administration, public affairs and urban and regional planning, with a particular focus on spatial data collections and analysis for urbanized regions within the greater Boston area. The goal of this course is to enable students to identify spatial characteristics of diverse application areas, to build maps that integrate diverse data sources, formats and displays, to perform spatial analyses, and to integrate spatial thinking and GIS analysis into their own research topics.
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PPOL-G 748L - Contemporary Issues in Health Politics and Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The course studies the determinants of health policy in the US, including the decisions and non-decisions made by the institutional and political actors at all levels of government and by private sector actors. The course covers the failure of health care reform in the US; the marketing, corporatization, and commodification of health care; comparisons with Western European nations; and topics in the assessment of health care quality.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 749L - Scientific & Political Change
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Prior to WW II, the US government played a relatively small role in the support of science, especially outside of its own institutions. That situation changed dramatically with the war and the Cold War that followed. We explore how these events transformed the role of science in United States life, vastly enhancing the prestige of scientists, and shaping the extent and the nature of federal involvement in science. These and later developments in the USA and internationally, including the proliferation of new forms of citizen participation and the commercialization of academic research, raise important questions about the appropriate role of science and scientists in shaping political change and the changing meanings of democratic control of science. CRCRTH 649L and PPOL-G 749L are the same course.
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PPOL-G 751 - Nonprofits, Nongovernmental Organizations and Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This elective graduate course covers a variety of public policy issues related to the role of nonprofits/nongovernmental organizations in our market economy, including: tax exemption, commercialization of the nonprofit sector, and political advocacy. Nonprofits/nongovernmental organizations are site where public policy is enacted, interpreted, or thwarted, often through the provision of publicly funded goods and services. This course reviews dominant theoretical perspectives, examines multi-disciplinary approaches to research involving nonprofits, and introduces publically available datasets. Student projects focus on a topic of their choosing.
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PPOL-G 752 - Public Policy, Organizations, and Social Change
3 Credit(s)
Description:
A wide ranging interdisciplinary literature has applied organizational theory to the study of a variety of policy arenas. In this course we will read classic statements of organizational theory along with examples from contemporary empirical research that apply the theories. These examples are drawn from an array of disciplines including sociology, political science, and public administration, and cover a variety of policy arenas including education, health, housing, drugs, and the environment.
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PPOL-G 753L - Epidemiological Thinking and Population Health
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Introduction to the concepts, methods, and problems involved in analyzing the biological and social influences on behaviors and diseases and in translation such analyses into population health policy and practice. Special attention given to social inequalities, changes over the life course, and heterogeneous pathways. Case studies and course projects are shaped to accommodate students with interests in diverse fields related to health and public policy. Students are assumed to have a statistical background, but the course emphasizes epidemiological literacy with a view to collaborating thoughtfully with specialists, not technical expertise. CRCRTH 653L and NURSNG 753L and PPOL-G 753L are the same course.
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PPOL-G 760 - Sociological Perspectives on Public Policy and Social Justice
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course introduces students to sociological perspectives relevant to the study of public policy with a focus on the relationship between public policy and social justice. We will focus on theoretical and empirical work from core aspects of the sociological discipline that are pertinent to these concerns, including urban sociology, political sociology and stratification. The course will cover the following topics: + How do various sociological traditions understand the role of the state and public institutions in relation to structures of inequality in society? Under what conditions do public institutions reproduce social inequality, act as agents of social control, work as a force for greater equity and inclusion, or otherwise support or oppose movements for social justice? + How have contemporary processes of social inequality, such as concentrated poverty, educational failure, mass incarceration and undocumented peoples, presented new challenges to equity-oriented policy-makers? + In what ways have marginalized populations organized to influence public policy to address inequality and to advance equity and social justice? + What models exist for researchers and policy-makers to collaborate with community-based organizations and for citizens to participate in the formation and implementation of public policy more generally? This course is designed as a seminar, where the professor serves as a guide and commentator on a set of texts that students examine. We will work to build a learning community in the classroom where students support and challenge each other. Students will be required to explore a theoretical or policy issue relevant to the course through a piece of original research. The course will primarily (although not exclusively) focus on the public policy/social justice relationship in eh U.S. context. But students, in their research projects, are welcome to pursue their own interests internationally or comparatively.
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PPOL-G 780 - Practicum in Community-Based Research I
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This 2-semester elective course provides graduate students with hands-on, apprenticeship training in conduction research in collaboration with community-based organizations. Students will work with one or more community organizations to define a research project that supports the work of the group as well as contributes to broader knowledge. The course serves as an advanced methods class in participatory and qualitative research. Attention will be paid to how to build collaborative relationships with participants in the organizing group and to the ethics of action research. The course will also provide apprenticeship training in qualitative interviewing and participant observation as research methods Students will have the opportunity to learn how to develop and conduct a research project from beginning to end.
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PPOL-G 781 - Practicum in Community-Based Research II
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This 2-semester elective course provides graduate students with hands-on, apprenticeship training in conducting research in collaboration with community-based organizations. Students will work with one or more community organizations to define a research project that supports the work of the group as well as contributes to broader knowledge. The course serves as an advanced methods class in participatory and qualitative research. Attention will be paid to how to build collaborative relationships with participants in the organizing group and to the ethics of action research. The course will also provide apprenticeship training in qualitative interviewing and participant observation as research methods. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to develop and conduct a research project from beginning to end.
Enrollment Requirements:
PPOL-G 780
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PPOL-G 795 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Study of a particular area of this subject under the supervision of a faculty member. Students wishing to register must do so through the department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 797 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This is an advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in public policy. Course content varies according to the topic, which will be announced prior to the advance registration period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 891 - Dissertation Workshop for Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Required core course that is designed as a workshop for third year doctoral students in the Public Policy PhD Program to assist them in developing their dissertation proposals. The class will facilitate the transition of students from class work to the dissertation stage, helping students choose and define a dissertation topic. During the course of the semester, students will create first drafts of all the parts of their proposals, including literature review, research questions, methods and policy implications. In addition, the course will facilitate students’ understanding of how the dissertation fits into their career goals.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 898 - Internship in Public Policy
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Students carry out supervised internships in such settings as state and local governments quasi-public and non-profit organizations, and some areas of the private sector. Students are given credit for their internships on the basis of a detailed research paper written about their experience and a presentation in the Public Policy Department.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate degree student in Public Policy or graduate student with permission of instructor
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PPOL-G 899 - Dissertation
1 - 12 Credit(s)
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CRSCAD 522 - Migrants and Refugees
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course will provide students with a broad overview of challenges faced by migrant and refugee populations that have been displaced by socio-political upheavals and natural disasters.
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CRSCAD 523 - Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation
3 Credit(s)
Description:
The theme of this course will be to address the two main imperatives in a climatically changed world: avoid conditions that will be unmanageable and manage the changes that will be unavoidable. The course will begin with a historical perspective of the variability in earth’s climate, and explanation of factors affecting climate such as the Greenhouse Effect, and a critique of current evidence indicative of global warming. To avoid catastrophic changes in earth’s future climate, mitigation strategies involving transportation, energy, agriculture, innovative technologies, legislation, cooperation between developing and developed nations, and individual responsibility will be explored. Specific strategies such as a smart electric grid, non-carbon sources of energy, new technologies, carbon sequestration, cap and trade, and lifestyle changes will be investigated. To manage new climate conditions, adaptive measures will be necessary. The course will evaluate adaptive strategies to address rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and shifting rainfall patterns. These strategies include infrastructure modification, coastal fortification, wetlands and coral reef restoration, and the need to develop water tolerant and drought resistant crops. The students will conclude the course with an assessment of their own carbon footprint.
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CRSCAD 526 - Disasters and Public Health
3 Credit(s)
Description:
Hurricanes, earthquakes, Isunamis, pandemic outbreaks of infectious/communicable disease, industrial emergencies bio-terrorism events - whether triggered by mother Nature or human nature, the incidence of disasters impacting on large populations has increased dramatically throughout the world. The inextricable relationship between public health and disaster occurrence, prevention, response, and recovery is undeniable. This course provides an overview of the phenomena of disasters and their impacts within the public health scope. It will cultivate insight into the pervasive presence of public health in contingencies specific to natural, accidental, and intentional disaster events paying special attention tot he epidemiology of events and patterns of events. Students will gain knowledge and insight into the nature and anatomy of disasters. Emphasis will be placed on public health interventions and emergency management strategies with an eye toward transition to long-term sustainable development.
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CRSCAD 527 - GIS in Emergency and Disaster Management
3 Credit(s)
Description:
This course provides an introduction to spatial technologies and desktop GIS software via real-world scenarios and research questions in humanitarian relief, disaster management, International development and environmental issues. In particular, students will learn to analyze, map, and publish spatial information at community, regional and global scales using powerful GIS tools. Students will develop skills in cartography, spatial data management and analysis, collaborative online mapping, manipulation of satellite and aerial imagery as well as toolsets, workflows and strategies common to disaster management and international development fields.
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CRSCAD 595 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty. Students wishing to register for independent study must do so through the department.
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CRSCAD 596 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
Students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty. Students wishing to register for independent study must do so through the department.
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CRSCAD 597 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s)
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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CRSCAD 601L - Social Vulnerability to Disasters
3 Credit(s)
Description:
By means of a multi-disciplinary approach, this course introduces students to an understanding of hazards and disasters grounded in social vulnerability analysis. It examines different theories of social vulnerabilities as well as the historical, geographical, social, and cultural factors and conditions that put people differentially at risk before, during, and after disasters. In particular, the course focuses on global, national, regional, and local patterns of development. Students will explore how vulnerable social groups are affected by and cope with various types of disasters, and strategies for community-based mitigation engaging those most at risk. CRSCAD 601L and UPCD 601L are the same course.
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