13 courses with the subject MPP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MPP 4120Food Security & Sovereignty3
Cross-Listed As: GPS-6120 This research seminar will explore the politics of food from a systemic framework through the policies of food security and contemporary responses by social movements advocating food sovereignty. We will begin the course by examining hunger nationally and internationally. Our readings will explore such issues as the complicity in how food stamp and welfare policies are created to intra-household food distribution to the purposeful creation of famine for political and even genocidal ends. An underlying assumption of this seminar is that politics, very simply, affect hunger. Students will explore and research particular food policies that bring light to the distinct political frameworks of food security and food sovereignty. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: GPS 4010 This course provides an overview of the study of public policy by exploring three different approaches to policy analysis: the behavioral, economic, and interpretive approaches. It surveys the topics central to the tasks of policy analysis: how problems are defined, how information is collected, how the relative costs and benefits of policy are assessed, how policy solutions are formulated and adopted, how government and the market succeed and fail, how analysis is utilized, and how ethics informs policy analysis. The course also emphasizes the three challenges to those who would analyze public policy: the challenge of partisanship, the challenge of uncertainty, and the challenge of pragmatism. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: GPS 4020 This course is designed for students to become familiar with both the historical evolution of and ongoing developments in the international economy. Students will gain an understanding of the foundational concepts and theories of international political economy which focus on political-economic relations among international actors such as states, global corporations, and international organizations. We will center our discussions on state power and world markets analyzing the political causes and consequences of international economic policies and outcomes on societies. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: GPS 4030 This course is an introductory exploration of policy analysis. It assumes that the student already has some familiarity with the basic concepts and terminology of public policy and public administration. This course will provide you with both rapid and more complex methods of public policy analysis. It will cover important considerations in the process of policy analysis such as identifying data sources and weighing the utility of data; establishing criteria for analyzing policies; assessing policy alternatives; choosing among policies; and monitoring policy implementation. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: GPS 4040 This course provides student with a broad overview of the nature of politics in the United States. National, state, and local politics are covered, as are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Special attention is paid to the bureaucracy, lobbyists, and interest groups and their effect on policy formation. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
MPP 6041Writing and Communication for the Non-Profit, Private and Public Sector
The norms and goals of policy writing are different than those of academic, creative and many forms of persuasive writing, in that they are rooted in the needs and requirements of policy professionals and policy academics. This course provides public policy students with a significant opportunity to develop and enhance their policy writing, graduate writing and communication skills while providing a comprehensive review of how public policy is shaped by social, political, and economic factors and written, visual (multi-media) and social network communications. Students will be engaged throughout the course, both as readers and critical analysts, and as writers and discussion leaders, on public policy topics, including, environmental issues, food shortage, poverty, social inequities, tax incentives and homelessness. These will be viewed within the context of three sectors, the Non-profit, Private and Public Sectors.
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4051 This graduate course in qualitative methods is designed to introduce students to the traditions and research design of qualitative methods in the social sciences, and to provide a foundation for understanding them. It presents opportunities to learn, hands-on, the primary techniques of the major data collection methods in qualitative methods. Students taking this course will design their own research project from conceptualization to the finished product and presentation. The project will require data to be collected using qualitative methods. This course is guided by the conviction that in order to make a difference, we need good and useful data derived from sound methodological approaches to research-quantitative or qualitative. Whenever we do research with a community, however, we must have “qualitative” skills regardless of how we do the actual research. This depends on the strength of the relationship between the researcher and the community. All of the skills of good qualitative research–good listening skills, good interviewing skills, good observational skills, are crucial in the design and implementation of even a quantitative survey. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4052 This is a graduate course that focuses on applying existing quantitative methods to make informed managerial decisions. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4110 Contemporary government economic policies and programs affecting the U.S. agricultural and food sector will be the focus of this course. As a capstone course designation, this course builds upon the student’s understanding of economic tools and concepts as covered in previous course work. More specifically, the course will use these economic tools and concepts in the analysis and evaluation of public policies affecting agriculture and food. The influence of macroeconomic policy, the world economy, and international trade on U.S. agriculture and food sector is also discussed. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4111 This course is intended to help students solve the fundamental agricultural question “Why do farmers produce what they produce where they produce it”? Every item discussed in this course is aimed at solving this question. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
