18 courses with the subject PLCY, 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.
PLCY 503Theory and Practice of Policy Analysis3.0
The aim of this course is to develop an understanding of the social, political, and ethical context of policy research, and how this understanding can be translated into an applied practice of policy analysis.
Course focuses on the logic and procedures used in carrying out social research for policy purposes. The aim of the course is to develop the student’s capacity to conceptualize, design, and conduct research.
This course focuses on distinctive features of managing and governing nonprofit organizations and draws on current theories, concepts, and real world examples to explore particular management challenges. Course includes a mix of lecture, discussion, case applications, and presentations by practitioners from the local nonprofit community.
Course introduces students to the concept of sustainability as it relates to policy planning, design, and implementation, and examines how different definitions of sustainability (e.g. environmental, economic, and social) can be translated into best practices, performance benchmarks, and other metrics.
A tutorial course for public policy students, to collect and report on original documents(legislation, hearing transcripts, reports, etc.) relevant to their chosen case study topics.
A group discussion course for public policy students to consolidate and report on their case study research and to comment on the research of other students.
A tutorial course for public policy students to collect and report on original documents (legislation, hearing transcripts, reports, ect) relevant to their chosen case study topics.
A final tutorial course for public policy students writing their case studies. Students complete and submit their final case study reports. Passage of this course is contingent completing an oral defense of their case studies.
Emerging theory as well as real-life demographics indicate that the world is becoming heavily urbanized. Though the US has been and continues to be less urbanized than the rest of the world, American cities have re-emerged as very attractive economic, cultural and social engines; they are understood to be an essential ‘working unit’ of how we live. With that, comes a concomitant belief that cities are where most of the pressing problems of the day will need to be solved: in sustainability, in education, in economic development and in poverty and economic inequality. Students will be expected to read select articles and books, produce weekly blog-posts in response to readings and presentations and produce a final paper on a topic of their choosing from within the course outline.
This course will focus on the creation of policy and its practice in international development contexts. Course content will vary from term to term but will emphasize familiarity with understanding multiple ways policy is conceptualized and studied.
This course explores key issues in culture, politics, economics, and development through a focus on a single region or a comparative perspective between regions. Course content will vary from term to term but will emphasize familiarity with leading theories in critical global and regional studies.
This course provides an advanced analysis of global capitalist power structures and of resistance movements to rising inequalities in the Global North and South. The content of this course may change every term it is offered and is repeatable for credit.
PLCY 533Topics in Global Sustainability and Migration3.0
This course will examine the relationship between human mobility, population health, and global sustainability goals. The topics covered in this course will change from quarter to quarter and will often be offered in collaboration with other departments on campus.
This graduate seminar examines how science informs public policy, and how public policies foster advances in science and technology. Topics addressed include public trust in science, and democratic participation in science- and technology-related decisions.
