501 Policy and Organizational Analysis (4:3:0) Prepares students to engage in systematic analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, and constitutes the basis for advanced analytical techniques. Emphasis on research design, information acquisition, application of data analysis techniques, and presentation, including writing for professional and lay audiences.
502 Governance and Policy Processes (4:3:0) Assesses governance processes in public and private organizational settings on the basis of economic and political standards such as efficiency, accountability, and responsiveness to societal needs in a rapidly changing global environment. Using cases, simulations, and fieldwork, students learn to evaluate the quality of institutional governance in specific venues and appraise implications for public policy.
503 Culture, Organization, and Technology (4:3:0) Focuses on the influence of culture in societal, political, economic, and technological processes, nationally and internationally. Culture is seen as dynamic and interactional. Using case studies, students learn pertinent approaches to the study of culture, from the analysis of organization and social networks to that of belief systems and identities. Students also develop practical skills in observation, participation, and intervention.
511 Quantitative Methods in Public Policy (3:3:0) Introduces students to the range of quantitative methods used for public policy analysis. Provides a broad foundation to prepare students for doing statistical analysis on the master’s level.
533 Topics in Public Policy Processes (1-3:3:0) Focuses on selected topics in public policy processes and procedures on an introductory level.
550 Topics in Public Policy (1–3:3:0) Focuses on selected topics in public policy not covered in fixed-content public policy courses.
555 Economics Math Workshop Short course covering math and calculus skills required for master’s level managerial economics course PUBP720.
556 Writing Workshop A limited enrollment, noncredit, one-day workshop designed for master-level public policy students who want to improve their writing skills. Aimed at good writers who want to move to the next level of effectiveness. Taught by professional writers.
601 Theory and Practice of Regional Economic Development (3:3:0) Helps students develop real-world skills to be a successful economic developer, consultant, policymaker, or change agent in this rapidly changing environment. Designed to provide a framework for understanding regional and national economic growth and prosperity, and provide tools to conduct concrete analyses to help decision makers, clients, and constituents make better-informed decisions.
602 Regional Economic Development: Strategies and Applications (3:3:0) Introduces range of methods for tracking the performance of metropolitan economies, identifying opportunities for economic development, and assessing effectiveness of public and private investments designed to achieve region’s economic growth. Also examines strategies and case results of economic development plans and projects.
605 State and Local Government Policy and Economic Development (3:3:0) Examines state and local government policies and processes to promote local economic development, including institutional arrangements, financing and tax incentives, nonfinancial strategies and approaches, land use, environmental and other relevant regulations, and relationships across government and nongovernmental organizations.
650 Peace Operations I (3:3:0) First course of two- semester sequence on international peace operations. Focuses on emerging theory of peace operations, including peace-making activities of United Nations and other diplomatic initiatives; peace-building activities of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations; and peace support provided by international militaries.
651 Peace Operations II (3:3:0) Second course of two-semester sequence on international peace operations. Focuses on application of emerging theory of peace operations, including peace-making activities of United Nations and other diplomatic initiatives; peace-building activities of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations; and peace support provided by international militaries. Several guest lectures from past and present peace operations provide practical information for future staff of peace operations.
700 Theory and Practice in Public Policy (3:3:0) Theories of public policy emphasizing historical intellectual development, and role theory and ethics may play in public policy making. Assumptions made by policy professionals examined against broad range of philosophical, social, political, and economic imperatives affecting public policy environment.
702 Comparing Political Institutions (3:3:0) Examines political institutions and processes from comparative and international perspectives, and role of political environment in economic trade and investment policy decisions. Examines how generalizability, objective knowledge and understanding, and nature of evidence impact public policy.
703 Organizational Informatics in Public Policy (3:3:0) Helps policy professionals develop proficiency in technological skills necessary for effective practice by teaching latest developments in organizational informatics and web-based student-teacher interaction. Uses information technology to understand real-world policy problems.
704 Statistical Methods in Policy Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 501. Graduate-level introduction to statistical methods and techniques used in policy sciences. Topics include descriptive statistics, sampling and probability theory, graphical data display, estimation and significance testing, contingency tables, bivariate regression and correlation, and multiple regression, with introduction to computer-based statistical analysis.
705 Advanced Statistical Methods in Policy Analysis (3:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 704 or equivalent. Covers classical regression methods and their application to public policy analysis. Includes simple and multiple regression, analysis of variance, time series, and simultaneous equation structural models. Problems associated with applications include specification error, multicollinearity, qualitative variables, heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, and structural identification. Course develops analysis skills by discussing sample empirical studies and models using advance statistical computer software.
706 Environmental Decisions: Modeling Rational Judgment (3:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 705. Discusses decision aids for environmental or other policy makers to make and defend decisions soundly and economically. Integrates public policy and environmental science with decision analysis; for example, prescriptive models that quantify knowledge and values person or institution brings to bear on a decision. Applies simple aids, based on decision theory, to real consulting cases.
707 Budget Decision Making: Concepts and Practices in Economic and Financial Analyses (3:3:0) Studies analytical concepts and techniques used in public-sector overall budgetary and specific project decision making. Includes conceptual concerns and quantitative techniques used in benefit-cost analysis, capital budgeting, financial analysis, and various specialty applications, such as economic and fiscal impact analysis. These are all interrelated by the desire to measure the benefits versus the costs of various alternative public decisions. Attention is given to measuring results over time and the use of present value techniques. Assesses strengths and weaknesses of analytical techniques. Emphasizes the process of defining the appropriate stakeholders affected by decisions, the sources and quality of data, and the rigor of conducting studies.
709 Research Design and Writing (3:3:0) Helps students revise a draft scholarly paper into form acceptable in refereed public policy journal. Focuses on how to find researchable question, identify appropriate methods, build bibliography, outline argument, and find supporting evidence.
710 Topics in Public Policy (1–3:3:0) Focuses on selected topics in public policy not covered by fixed-content public policy courses.
711 Modeling Policy in Dynamic Environments (3:3:0) Introduces basics of policy making and decision analysis, with major focus on hands-on development and use of systems dynamics-based models.
712 Policy Systems Analysis and Management Science (3:3:0) Introduces analytical models and analysis to support decisions. Primary emphasis on understanding techniques of operation research and management science, cost benefits, and cost effectiveness for public decision-making. Using mathematical details of algorithms to solve models not emphasized except as it contributes to understanding reliability and validity of methodologies. Through case studies and computer solutions, offers appreciation of when, where, and how to use models. Students demonstrate their understanding of techniques by applying them to term research project on government program.
713 Policy and Program Evaluation (3:3:0) Examines how programs of public agencies are proposed, established, operated, and evaluated. Covers role of research in program-evaluation process, including alternative methodologies for policy assessment. Considers demand estimation, supply and pricing of publicly produced goods and services, and role of subsidies in nonmarket environments.
714 Topics in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (1–3:3:0) Issues in transportation policy, operations and logistics in United States and abroad. Includes practical applications of theories and analysis to policy problems, and emphasizes competence in improving policy in selected domains. May be taken up to three times and simultaneously for sections addressing different subject matter.
715 Introduction to Transportation Systems (3:3:0) Transportation is a service that contributes substantially to well-being of advanced economies. Resource requirements and byproducts of transportation also pose sobering environmental challenges for society. Course examines history and development of transportation systems; contribution to and impact on society; institutions and practices that govern planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and retirement from service; and policy and managerial challenges, and tools and techniques for addressing them.
716 Transportation Operations and Logistics (3:3:0) Provides survey of issues, methods, problems, and strategies. Topics include origins of logistics, industry structure, pricing, underwriting, rate making, compliance, inventory effects, just-in-time inventory management (JIT), materials requirements planning (MRP), customer service and order processing operations, sales functions and operations, dispatch and fleet manager functions and operations, rate-setting among three parties, typical electronic and paper document flow, routing and scheduling, route selection, satellite load tracking through dispatch-customer web inquiry, role of ITS in route selection, toll system use, congestion, training activities, and logistics markets.
717 Analysis for Transportation Managers (3:3:0) Introduces basic methods of transportation analysis and evaluation relating them to policy framework. Covers descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, contingency tables (Chi-Square analysis), regression, optimization, demand elasticities, and gravity model. Also covers sources of transportation data and research design. Teaches mathematical base and logic of each technique, but primary emphasis is applying methods to relevant policy and management problems. Students required to complete series of assignments along with research proposal focused on applying one or more methods to problem of their own interest.
718 Transportation Planning and Policy (3:3:0) Introduces highway, rail, air, and water transport planning in United States. Teaches legislative, organizational, fiscal, legal and political environment within which planning for transportation facilities and services takes place. Introduce technical and analytical methods for transportation planning. Focus is largely on public sector, but also considers commercial transport planning and role of private sector in helping to design, manage, and finance transport systems.
719 Transportation Law (3:3:0) Examines legal environment of transportation. Topics include basic legal concepts and institutions, history and evolution of price and service regulation, environmental law and regulation, labor relations, and property.
720 Managerial Economics and Policy Analysis (3:3:0) Introduces microeconomics theory and its application in analyzing public policy issues. Provides capability to understand economic literature and theories.
721 Transportation Economics (3:3:0) Provides basis for understanding economics of transport system, and how transportation relates to urban and regional development. Treats transport generically, but includes case studies of specific modes.
722 Practicum in Transportation Policy, Operations, and Logistics (3:3:0) In-depth field study of ongoing transportation policy, operations, or logistics situations; and design and delivery of actions to manage or resolve problems and opportunities. Range of application areas depends on interests of student body and opportunities faculty identify for “clients” or real-world projects. Illustrative domain areas include surface transportation (highways and transit), airports, and aviation.
723 Metropolitan Transportation Policy (3:3:0) Recent changes in federal legislation have led to renewed importance for transportation policy and planning. Considerations of clean air, economic development, congestion management, and changing urban form have greatly increased importance of well-planned transportation facilities and policies. Course introduces basic methods of transportation policy analysis and evaluation. Topics include data collection, simplified demand estimation techniques, transportation choice modeling, transportation supply analysis, and ex-ante and ex-post evaluation methods.
724 Intelligent Transportation Systems and Technology (3:3:0) Overview of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), which include wide range of information technology applications to surface transportation. ITS categories include traffic management, traveler information, fleet control, commercial vehicle regulation, transit, rural, and vehicle-control systems. Key institutional and policy issues involve the appropriate federal role in ITS; state and local government collaboration; public-private partnerships; how privacy interests can be protected as ITS surveillance and enforcement technologies become increasingly sophisticated; and how driver information systems, including cell phones, can be used to optimal advantage without burdening drivers with information overload.
725 International Transportation Logistics (3:3:0) Focuses on making efficient match between new demands on transportation, and ways demands can be met. Topics embody multidisciplinary approach to international transportation logistics drawing on economics, law, information technology, and network analysis. Includes international supply-chain management, global performance indicators, international intermodal transportation, air-freight logistics, new technologies, and border-crossing issues.
726 Telecommunications Policy (3:3:0) Examines salient issues associated with telecommunications and electronic commerce in context of public policy questions facing decision makers-in government, education, and business. Examples include privacy, electronic signatures, digital divide, bandwidth auctions, IP telephony, CRM, Bluetooth, and Internet taxation.
727 Transportation Evaluation (3:3:0) Transportation impinges on many aspects of life: economic, social, and political. Provision and operation of transportation services involves a wide range of trade-offs. Course looks at range of evaluation techniques and concepts applied in making decisions over such matters as transportation investments, transportation operating strategies, and public policy as it affects transportation. Considers theory and concepts as well as more detailed assessments of standard evaluation methods used in United States and elsewhere. Case studies reviewed in depth.
728 Fleet Operations (3:3:0) Overview of most important factors affecting fleet operations today. Topics include goals for government fleet operations and privately owned fleets, proforma cost analysis, fleet operations including route and vehicle and operator selection, asset-based versus non-asset based fleets, fleet design and make-up based on multiple objectives, scheduled maintenance requirements and trade-offs, shared capacity issues, reverse logistics policies, costs, operations, environmental constraints on fleets, fuel logistics, fleet decision-making, competitive and market challenges, and opportunities in fleet management.
729 Transportation Asset Management (3:3:0) Introduces main elements that have attracted significant attention over the past decade. Several developments have challenged traditional framework for transportation service delivery, including changes in transportation environment; shift in public’s attitude toward provision of public goods; and extraordinary advances in communication and computer technologies. Adoption of transportation asset management poses significant challenges on both organizational structure and existing knowledge base within transportation agencies. Course provides overview of these challenges, and introduces theoretical frameworks within which challenges may be analyzed.
730 National Policy Systems and Theory (3:3:0) Provides inquiry into policy-making environment, organized around U.S. federal system. Examines nation’s policy systems and key components: actors, institutions of governance, outside groups, and other influential interests. Special emphasis on dynamic character of policy making. In addition, different policy theories discussed in context of current political realities.
731 Macroeconomic Policy Assessment (3:3:0) Covers monetary theory, theories of consumption and saving, budget deficits, economic growth, international finance, and monetary and fiscal policy. Investigates national income and product accounts, savings, employment, and investment, and alternatives to Keynesian principles. Evaluates theories of inflation, investment, capital accumulation, and nonproportional growth.
732 Transport and the Environment (3:3:0) Multi-disciplinary course examines implications of transportation and how public policy has attempted to handle them, and how policy may move in future. Looks at all modes of transportation and at most environmental ramifications. In addition to two faculty members, several guest speakers provide wider perspectives on particular issues.
734 Administrative Law and Public Policy (3:3:0) Covers administrative discretion, rule-making and agency proceedings, public participation, political accountability, regulatory processes, oversight, formal adjudication and informal action, lobbying agency administrators, and political and legal nature of the administrative process.
735 Lobbying and Interest Representation (3:3:0) To work effectively within a democratic political environment, policy analyst must understand contemporary methods used to influence policy. Course focuses on roles and techniques of organized influence, and its impact on policy.
736 The Global Information Economy and the Digital Divide (3:3:0) Discusses institutional, social, and policy issues involved in development of global information economy and society. Economic development needs, public institutional capacity, nongovernmental networks examined critically; course deals with implications of universal access to Internet and equality of use in areas such as online delivery of government services, privacy, online voting, and e-government. Focuses on efforts to ameliorate digital divide sponsored by major multilateral agencies. Emphasizes development of public policies for democratic governance in a complex networked world.
737 Cases and Concepts in E-Government (3:3:0) Electronic government has become a significant public policy issue worldwide. It offers the prospect of dramatic improvements in delivering government services, but also portends major debate about government intrusion. Course covers emerging public policy issues associated with electronic government: job displacement in public sector, privacy, procurement and supply chain management, voter profiling, scope of government services, challenges to “digital democracy,” Internet-based voting, land management, the “digital divide,” and others.
738 Information, Technology, and Institutional Change (3:3:0) Examines role and character of information in institutions as foundation to understanding role of IT in economy, society and politics. Considers theories of and practice of information in institutions, organizations and markets, and assesses effects of information technology changes on key economic, social and political institutions such as firms, markets, communities, nonprofit organizations, and government.
739 Media and Public Policy (3:3:0) Explores complex relationship between media and public policy. Examines how these forces collide in our modern media, how coverage decisions regarding public policy are made in newsrooms, how advocates use and rely on the media to advance message, and how different media reflect different strengths and vulnerabilities.
741 U.S. Financial Policy Processes and Procedures (3:3:0) Examines design and operation of expenditure and revenue systems at federal, state, and local levels of U.S. government. Stresses mobilizing and allocating resources through planning, adoption, and execution of budget. Includes theory and policy objectives of tax and spending regimes and review of financial controls, performance measurement, cash and debt management, and accounting and financial reporting systems.
742 Transportation Safety and Security (3:3:0) Examines transportation safety and security from multimodal perspective for both passenger and freight. Topics include historical context and policy framework, regulation, institutional issues, new security arrangements for preventing organized terrorist attacks, infrastructure design, vehicle design, operating protocols, and information systems.
743 National Security Management and Policy (3:3:0) Examines hierarchies in national security from the president to military establishment, including National Security Council, secretary of defense, joint chiefs of staff, commanders-in-chief of unified and specified commands, and intelligence agencies. Covers policies involving national defense, peace-keeping operations, embargoes and other sanctions, defense conversion, and military acquisition policy. Also covers significant legislation affecting national security, such as National Security Act of 1947 and Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986.
744 Federal Institutions and Management (3:3:0) Covers management and policy in federal government, examining policy problems within context of national system of governance, including political environment, evolution and constitutional framework of American government, U.S. Congress, executive branch from White House to agencies, and role of interest groups and political parties. Special attention to implementing legislation, regulatory process, and intergovernmental relations.
745 Transportation and the Environment (3:3:0) Multidisciplinary examination of implications of transportation and ways public policy has attempted to handle them, and how policy may move in the future. Explores all modes of transportation and most environmental ramifications.
746 Maritime Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (3:3:0) Examines how international maritime transportation system has evolved, and discusses current challenges and options for future developments. Maritime shipping is an ancient enterprise that has dominated transportation since long before industrialization led to the development of steam propulsion, railroads, motor trucks, and airplanes. Topics include globalization, e-commerce, just-in-time manufacturing, quick response capabilities, integrated logistic systems, and relevance of maritime transportation in light of emerging technological advances.
747 Air Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (3:3:0) Reviews evolution of various forms of air transport such as airlines, general aviation, and military aviation; and includes basics of airline economics, especially as they intersect with airline operations and the management of hub and spoke networks; air traffic control technologies and operations and their intersection with airline economics; safety and security technologies and regulations; future of various elements of air transportation; and effects of deregulation on air travel.
748 Public Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (3:3:0) Provides general system description for components comprising typical publicly funded transit property. Topics include organizational structure, historical context, budget development including operating and capital budgets, personnel and labor relations, regulatory framework, operations management (bus and commuter rail), reporting structure, customer service, and contracted operations. Also discusses current topics of interest, such as security of transit systems and transit’s role in air quality.
749 Highway Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics (3:3:0) Highways have played central role in development of U.S. transportation system. Interstate highway system has revolutionized both freight and passenger transport. Course examines history and development of highway system, institutions responsible for development and ongoing operation, environmental impacts and efforts to mitigate them, the emerging emphasis on operations and management of highway system, and role in freight logistics and supply chain management system.
750 History of Military Operations Other than War (3:3:0) Focuses on history of military activity in support of noncombat missions. Uses historical examples of early days of United States and colonial histories of Western and Eastern powers. Also touches on use of military force in support of multinational peace operations.
751 International Police Operations (3:3:0) Analyzes role of international police monitors and domestic police forces in international peace operations. Focuses on how using international police monitors and developing indigenous law-enforcement capabilities can improve prospects for success of international peace operations. Examines origins, mandates, planning, and deployment of international civilian police forces; problems of coordinating international police operations with international military forces and local security forces; international role in developing democratically oriented police forces; relationship of police to the entire judicial system; and the need to continue assistance to all parts of the judicial system beyond initial intervention.
752 Infrastructure Finance (3:3:0) Covers planning, budgeting, and financing of infrastructure, including air, water and surface transportation, public utilities, and other major public works. Focuses on private capital markets for projects funding as well as domestic and international loan and grant programs.
753 Ethics in Public Policy (3:3:0) Inquiry into ethical and moral issues in public policy. Explores issues that are controversial and often confusing to public policy makers such as health care, secrecy in government, surrogate motherhood, and disability. Perspectives are national as well as global, and deal with impact of culture and politics on ethical dilemmas confronting society. Also looks at processes by which specific ethical systems are incorporated into governing bodies. Larger issues, such as war and peace, just and unjust wars, capital punishment, medical and legal ethics, and communitarian vs. individual liberties are also included, with emphasis on how they affect public policy.
754 Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis for Public Policy (3:3:0) Introduces GIS including analytical tools to manipulate and study spatial data. Run mainly as a laboratory, with extensive hands-on experience. Focuses on public policy applications.
755 National Security Decision-Making Policy (3:3:0) Applies behavioral, economic, strategic, and other decision theories to U.S. government and other actors in historical national security crisis cases and current policy issues. Explores tension in decisions between rational goal seeking by actors vs. organizational process, and aims to develop usable decision tools.
756 Geostrategic Assessment Policy (3:3:0) Geopolitical assessment of global threats to international order and security. First half of course focuses on geopolitical theories; elements of military power; and global social, demographic and political trends. Second half analyzes regional, political, military, economic, and social trends.
757 Public Policy in Global Health and Medical Practice (3:3:0) Introduces international medical policy. Covers globalization of health and medical policies directed at removing disparities, financing, ethical considerations of biomedical research, and use of emerging technologies.
758 Global Threats and Medical Policies (3:3:0) Explores medical and health governance, biosecurity and biosafety, health and natural and human-made disasters, humanitarian and emergency assistance, vaccine development, behavior and health, critical infrastructures, bioethics and resource allocations in global context.
760 Science and Technology Policy in the 21st Century (3:3:0) Investigates roles dynamic scientific research and technological innovation play in contemporary society. Focuses on design and analysis of alternative public policies intended to influence rate and direction of technological change in societies, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in public policy making. Uses historical and international comparative approaches to assess politics and pragmatics of science and technology policy. Includes material from policy evaluation and analysis, organization theory, economics of innovation, and sociology of science and technology. Applications focus on areas of concern to “new economy” such as biotechnology, networked telecommunications and computing, and globalization of technology- based production.
761 Social Capital and Public Policy (3:3:0) Looks at the literature on social capital, including classic works such as Tocqueville’s Democracy in America that, in effect, made use of the concept long before sociologist James Coleman brought it into wider use in the 1980s. One objective is to address questions such as the following: Is the concept merely a passing intellectual fad, or is social capital a useful concept for understanding political and economic behavior? Are there measures of social capital? Can the concept be plugged into economic models? Can social capital be introduced to improve our ability to fashion or improve specific social policies for crime, education, family, or social welfare?
762 Social Institutions and Public Policy (3:3:0) Limited government involvement in social policies changed drastically during the 1960s, with an explosion of social programs designed to ameliorate poverty, reduce crime, and eliminate racial segregation. These new social policies affect many institutions, including family, schools and colleges, criminal justice system, and government agencies. Many of these policies have been controversial, with debates over efficacy and whether they have cured or exacerbated social problems. Course examines evolution and status of selected American social policies, including civil rights policies, education reform, family policy, crime prevention, and other topics chosen by students. Readings and discussions on policy issues linked to readings and discussions on social theories and value systems that underpin social policies.
768 Education and Public Policy (3:3:0) Explores current issues and policy initiatives in education policy at federal, state, and local levels, with emphasis on education reform. Issues and topics vary. Typical policy issues include raising academic standards, high-stakes testing, alternative governance including school choice and voucher policies, teacher quality and certification, role of school resources in academic outputs, and equity topics.
770 Topics in Regional and Urban Development Policy (3:3:0) Explores leadership and institutional development in regional economic development. First part involves presentations by faculty members on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological traditions regarding leadership and institutional development. Second part focuses on issue of leadership in context of regional economic development.
771/SYST 691/EEP 601 Introduction to Enterprise Engineering and Policy (3:3:0) Provides overview of extended enterprise integration. Lectures focus on SAP architecture and R/3 standard software solution. Laboratory requires students to complete end-to-end implementation project with Great Plains Software midrange ERP solution, Dynamics C/S +. For modeling, students must demonstrate complete proficiency in Architecture of Information Systems (ARIS) methodology and supporting ARIS Toolset.
772/SYST 692/EEP 602 Decision Support for Enterprise Integration (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 542 and 691 or equivalent. Lectures focus on using business intelligence to enhance competitive advantage, developing information-driven set of controls to improve profitability, and creating balanced business with aligned corporate direction and strategic intent. Examines solutions provided in ERP systems.
773/SYST 693/EEP 603 Supply Chain Integration and Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 691 or equivalent. Lectures focus on two issues: supply chain integration from information technology perspective, and supply chain management from decision support perspective. Course motivation is merging of enterprise computing with operations research, primarily through customer and supply chain management systems. Topics include ERP/Web integration, advanced planning, and customer relationship management.
774/SYST 694/EEP 604 E-Commerce Architectures (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 691 or equivalent. Introduces network and system architectures that support high-volume business to consumer web sites and portals. Provides insight into structure of modern web enabled storefront. Critical business and technology issues include Storage Area Networks (SANs), server clustering, load balancing techniques at server and network level, fault tolerance, and recovery of database and application servers.
775/SYST 695/EEP 605 Economics of Electronic Commerce (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 691 or equivalent. Focuses on gaining competitive advantage through electronic commerce implementation; identification and growing of new market opportunities and electronic enabling of existing business relationships; and business-to-consumer relationships and economics of strategic procurement, ERP hosting, customer relationship management, catalog hosting, portal operations, and supplier management.
776/SYST 696/EEP 606 Customer Relationship Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 691 or equivalent. Focuses on front office integration with back office, and value creation process that results. Modern world of e-commerce extends intraenterprise integration as implemented in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to include external constituents such as customers, partners, and suppliers. Course focuses on modern system support for demand chain.
777/SYST 697/ EEP 607 Critical Information Technology Infrastructures (3:3:0) Prerequisite: SYST 694 or equivalent. Design and implementation of high-speed network and application services in support of modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Critical technologies include high-speed data communication, switched vs. routed data flow, workflow engines, business rule and web application servers, and load balancing technologies. Large-scale, web-enabled ERP system architecture examined in detail.
780 Evolution of the Washington Metropolitan Economy (3:3:0) Includes historical context, role of federal spending, tourism, technology sector, international business, regional organizations, local government policies, and forecasts. Evaluates development patterns in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland.
781 Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (3:3:0) A knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship is employed to link between theories of entrepreneurship and theories of innovation and regional development. Other interconnections are explored at the regional level as firms forge networks, clusters, and specialized markets. The public policy issues of these constructs, including competition policy, industrial policy, and cluster policy, are examined within a regional and global context.
782 International Financial Policy (3:3:0) Addresses theory of international finance, application to financial policy such as exchange rate regimes, and institutions of international finance. Covers operations of International Monetary Fund and World Bank, development of European Monetary Union, and debate over “international financial architecture.”
783 Global Governance (3:3:0) Surveys important issues in global governance given changes in contemporary world. Explores dynamics and complexity of formal and informal actors, institutional arrangements, organizations, and roles in process of governance in international sphere. Considers states, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, international regimes, social movements, regional associations, and multinational corporations as actors bearing on transnational authority. Examines various vehicles for international coordination and conflict in terms of relevance and opportunities for global governance.
784 Entrepreneurship, Economics, and Public Policy (3:3:0) To demonstrate that global capitalism is a process driven by entrepreneurship, students study the Austrian school of economics, which views capitalism as a process of creative destruction, as well as other economists who emphasize entrepreneurship and change. The course reviews the history of capitalism, focusing on the so-called industrial revolutions in Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States, and on particular historical and current entrepreneurs.
785 Urban Development Economics (3:3:0) Examines changing structure and functions of urban economy, and develops skills and knowledge for evaluating and remedying conditions inhibiting local economic development. Includes case studies of redevelopment strategies, programs, and outcomes for inner-city neighborhoods, central and suburban business districts, waterfronts, and surplus military bases.
791 Advanced Field Research for Policy: Theory and Method (4:3:0) Teaches how to analyze the framing of policy questions and examine culture and organization at group, organizational, interorganizational, and societal levels. Covers case study research, open-ended interviewing, participant- observation, social network analysis, and historical and archival research.
792 Advanced Economic Analysis for Policy Research (4:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 720 or equivalent. Builds analytical skills in economic analysis for policy research for students with competence in elementary calculus. Reviews mathematical techniques and covers consumer theory, demand estimation and forecasting, production theory, cost-benefit analysis, technological change and productivity analysis, growth theory, market structure and competition, game theory, capital budgeting, and public sector’s role in the economy.
793 Large-Scale Database Construction and Management for Policy Research (4:3:0) Explores data resources for macro-comparative policy research, and how to use these to inform decision making and evaluate policy performance. Emphasizes how social science data is generated, coded, and managed; and methods for successful presentation of evidence in support of policy recommendations.
794 Internship (1–6:0:0) Prerequisite: 12 PUBP credits, or permission of instructor. Open only to students in SPP degree program requiring internship. Contact appropriate program director one semester before enrollment. Work-study programs with specific employers. Credit determined by appropriate degree program.
795 Final Project (1–3:0:0) Writing of capstone paper related to student’s program concentration, under guidance of three-person committee.
796 Directed Readings and Research (1–3:3:0) Independent reading and research at master’s or doctoral level on specific topic related to public policy as agreed to by student and faculty member.
799 Master’s Thesis (1–6:0:0) Prerequisites: degree candidacy in public policy master’s program; completion of required credits of graduate course work; and approval of thesis proposal by faculty advisor, two committee members, and program director. Individualized section form required. Original research endeavor related to student’s program concentration. Research must result in document meeting public policy and university standards. Graded S/NC.
800 Culture and Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Comparative overview of institutions and culture, focusing on ways United States is exceptional when compared with other mature industrial societies. Presents culture and social structure as explanatory variables in accounting for these differences. Provides overview of analytical methods used in comparative public policy research, and background on political environment in which international trade and investment decisions are made.
801 Macro Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Demonstrates how macroeconomic, technological, demographic, and social forces affect supply and demand for governmental services. Counterpart analysis of the impact of shifts in patterns of international trade, demographic composition of population, and trends in social structure. Builds awareness of need to factor alternative assumptions about macro environment into policy planning; shows how macro events can affect social welfare and policy performance indicators; and suggests how national income accounting analysis and simple macroeconomic models can help pinpoint impending trouble spots for public policy.
802 The Logic of Policy Inquiry (1–4:3:0) Prerequisite: enrollment in doctoral program in public policy. Defines policy research problems, questions, and hypotheses. Explores modes of policy research, analysis, and rhetoric, including interdisciplinary research strategies. Uses information sources to emphasize written communication of policy research results. Also discusses professional practice issues.
804 Multivariate Statistical Analysis in Public Policy (4:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 704 or equivalent. Explores multivariate techniques of contingency table analysis, reliability and validity assessment, factor analysis and scaling, multivariate regression and path analysis, analysis of variance and covariance, and other selected multivariate techniques. Emphasizes applying these techniques to real policy data using sophisticated statistical packages.
805 Public Policy Systems and Theory (4:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 730 or equivalent. Theories of public policy making, emphasizing discipline’s historical, intellectual and international development. Focuses on policy systems’ political and social dimensions, including agenda-setting, policy design, rationality, incrementalism, systems theory, scientific methods, and public choice theory. Applies theories to comparative systems of governance.
806 Advanced Management Science for Public Organizations (4:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 712 or equivalent. Primary emphasis is to understand techniques of operations research and management science, cost benefits, and cost effectiveness for public policy decision-making. Some familiarity with elementary calculus and linear algebra helps with understanding mathematical basis of algorithms used to solve models, and reliability and validity of these techniques. Case studies and computer solutions help students understand when and how to use OR models.
810 Regional Development and Transportation Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Introduces and critiques theory and methods used in regional and transportation policy analysis. Explores central place, growth pole, and economic base theories as well as other theoretical constructs used in regional policy analysis. Introduces and examines methodological tools such as regional econometric modeling, multiobjective programming, shift-share analysis, economic base analysis, location quotient analysis, and input-output analysis. Examines selected regional and transportation public issues using theoretical and methodological constructs introduced in first part of course.
811 Applied Methods in Regional Development and Transportation Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Prerequisite: PUBP 810. Students develop research papers that investigate aspect of regional and transportation policy, with goal of producing publishable papers. Students develop focus of paper based on work done in first semester, and are expected to prepare two-page proposal followed by detailed proposal and finally, completed paper. Each is critiqued in the seminar, which is organized to conform to process of review and critique. Instructor works with students individually as well as in seminar sessions.
817 Policy Research Topics: Transportation Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Research workshop examining development of policy research and relevant methodologies linked directly to faculty and student interests. Students identify cutting-edge policy concerns and execute research program. The 4-credit version of course requires discussion section and research laboratory.
820 Technology, Science, and Innovation: Institutions and Governance (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) First of two-semester core seminar sequence required for public policy PhD students in science and technology policy concentration. Explores how political and economic institutions and cultural values shape pace, direction, costs, and benefits of technological innovation and scientific research. Special emphasis on interaction between national institutions, and values and processes of globalization.
821 Analytic Methods for Technology, Science, and Innovation Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Second of two-semester core seminar sequence required for public policy PhD students in science and technology policy concentration. Covers major methodological approaches to study of technology, science, innovation, and public policy. Focuses on analytical inputs to policy-making, and assesses practical consequences in such areas as security, energy, environment, and health.
830 Comparative Socioeconomic Policy (1-4:3:0) Throughout the past century, numerous socioeconomic theories have competed for primacy. This course compares, contrasts, and analyzes some of the leading socioeconomic theories and policies and places them in a global context. The role of these theories in shaping current public policy is explored.
833 Topics in Public Policy (1–4:3:0) Focuses on selected topics in public policy not covered in fixed-content public policy courses.
834 Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Public Policy (1–4: 3:0) Focuses on a closer consonance among entrepreneurship, geography, and economic growth. Studies the creation and incubation of new knowledge and features three theoretical fields: the new growth theory; the new economic geography; and the new economics of innovation. Develops a knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Examines public policy issues arising from these constructs, including competition, within a regional and global context.
835 Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Innovation (1–4:3:0) Provides multidisciplinary foundation for the study of entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation, and their effects on regional and national economic growth. Draws from seminal thinkers and emphasizes creativity and innovation. Examines how organizational change, institutional structure, and geographic clustering drive the development of regional and national economies. Explores these issues through the lens of the three Ts of economic growth: technology, talent, and tolerance.
840 U.S. Policymaking Institutions (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) First of two-semester sequence in governance and public management policy concentration. Examines major institutions that formulate and implement policy at national level. Emphasizes presidency, Congress, and executive branch bureaucracies. Also considers agenda-building institutions such as media, interest groups, political parties, and elections.
841 U.S. Policy-Making Processes (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Second of two-semester sequence in governance and public management policy concentration. Analyzes major U.S. public policy processes. Attention to major instruments for implementing policy, including regulation, grants, tax policy, and market-based mechanisms; and how different methodologies are appropriate for understanding aspects of policy inquiry. Covers ethical and accountability aspects of policy, including federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local governance.
850 Seminar in Public Policy (1:1:0) Weekly colloquium series, required of public policy PhD students. Features variety of speakers from universities, government, and nonprofit sectors. Topics include policy formulation and analysis, and theoretical and methodological foundation.
860 Social Theory, Culture, and Public Policy (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Covers major social and cultural theories that underlie public policies. Selections from classical and contemporary social theorists relevant to studying social change, social capital, and social organization. Focuses on interplay among culture, social institutions, social processes, and policy.
861 Culture and Social Policy Analysis (2:2:0 to 4:3:1) Applies social and cultural theories to policy topics, including methodological approaches and empirical studies. Emphasizes linkage between theory and empirical research, and methods appropriate for social policy study. Policy topics may include poverty and inequality, family, education, crime and corruption, immigration, and health.
862 Institutional Analysis and Policy (4:3:0) Policy analysts are increasingly cognizant of the influence of societal institutions in shaping public policy, not only in terms of policy design, but also as a determinant of implementation. This course reviews the growing literature regarding institutional analysis; furthermore, it considers the ways in which institutions help shape the policies that emerge within a given society and the context by which they are evaluated.
870 Organizational and Policy Aspects of Informatics (1–4:3:0) Examines effects of informatics on national and international policy; setting international policy on informatics; ethical and social change in governments and organizations; shaping national policy in informatics; industry growth; and research methods from various scientific disciplines.
871 Organizational and Information Technology Challenges of the Knowledge Society (1–4:3:0) Prerequisite: PUBP 870. Explores links of policy, managing organizations, and information technologies in postmodern era. Includes issues related to contradictions among conventional models of organizational and process design, policy and regulatory structures, ideologies, and information technologies. Provides framework for becoming more sophisticated analyst of policy, organizations, and information technology.
872 Managing Knowledge-Based, Information-Intensive Organizations (4:3:0) Deals with challenges of planning, creating, integrating, and managing contemporary information- technology enabled public and private sector organizations, and managing relationships between public and private enterprises enabled by information technology initiatives.
880 Global and International Public Policy I (4:3:0) Explores multiple dimensions of globalization and internationalization relative to public policy processes and consequences. Offers substantive insight into contemporary public policy dynamics from global and comparative perspectives. Accordingly, it examines a broad range of international cultural, political, technological, and economic policy issues, and their interactions and implications at all levels of analysis. Engages relevant theoretical and methodological approaches and debates to provide tools for analyzing various world problems and policies.
881 International Trade Policy (4:3:0) Addresses international trade theory, trade policy analysis, regional economic integration, and institutional arrangements governing world trade. Covers World Trade Organization (including constituent agreements in goods, services, intellectual property and trade-related investment measures), regional trade agreements such as NAFTA, dispute settlement regimes, and relations between trade and the environment.
997 Field Statement (1:1:0) Requires work on field statement in preparation for field exam. Must register in semester during which field exam will be taken. Requires permission of field committee chair. May not be repeated. Does not apply to credit degree requirements.
998 Research/Proposal for Dissertation (1–9:0:0) Requires work on research proposal that forms basis for doctoral dissertation. May be repeated, but no more than 24 credits of PUBP 998 and 999 may be applied to doctoral degree requirements.
999 Dissertation (1–9:0:0) Requires research on approved dissertation topic under director on dissertation committee. May be repeated, but no more than 24 credits of PUBP 998 and 999 may be applied to doctoral degree requirements.