9 courses with the subject PP, 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.
PP 101INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY3
Introduction to Public Policy is an overview/survey course, which covers a wide range of topics, from the standards, norms and values informing democratic policymaking to the basics of cost-benefit and other economic tools of policy analysis. It will address the institutional arrangements for making public policy decisions, the role of nonprofit and private-sector professionals — in shaping policy outcomes, and the fundamentals (and pros and cons) of analytic approaches to public policy.
This course will provide students with an overview of how public administration, often referred to as “government bureaucracy” fits within our American system of government. Students will examine the rapid growth of the administrative branch of the government and how its operations interact and influence politics and policy.
This course will investigate the procedures that help to make sure that the needs and preferences of individuals are successfully converted into public policy. Public problems and issues will be examined along with methods to design better policies that will help to resolve these problems. A close look at the ways that analysts and policy makers use these methods to address these public policy issues will be discussed. There will also be instruction on how to conduct research regarding policy issues.
This course examines the ethical issues that will arise in performing services to the public, and the statutes and regulations required of those in public service. Issues that will be covered include: conflicts of interest, honorariums and gifts, communications made by public officials, post government service and reporting/ accounting. This will also include specific areas of implementation, such as: how to set up an ethics hotline, reporting issues, and what to do when dealing with ethical dilemmas. 151
This course will examine major statutes and policies used, at both the federal and state levels, to protect people and the environment against exposure to harmful substances, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Superfund, the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, and laws designed to regulate toxic substances. The course will also examine enforcement challenges, alternative legal mechanisms for advancing environmental policies (such as voter initiatives and common-law actions), the role of market mechanisms in addressing environmental problems, and constitutional restrictions on environmental regulation.
This course will focus on a series of historical and contemporary challenges posed by a range of technologies to the government’s administration of security and justice, and the solutions implemented or proposed by the state in response. The course will examine the interface of government regulation with advancing technologies including government regulation of the Internet and Internet commerce, government surveillance, governmental access to people’s devices and data, use of technology to predict and prevent threats.
International Law is the foundational course in public law, treaties, systems, and policies that bind nations into a world community of law. The class places special emphasis on the origins of international law; statehood; international responsibility and claims; investment, criminal law, use of force; and human rights.
This course introduces students to the legal, economic, regulatory, and structural issues that both shape our energy practices and regulation. Traditional monopoly models of regulation will be compared and contrasted to evolving competitive regulatory alternatives. Students will be introduced to issues and practices such as energy resource planning, pollution management, rate design, green markets, energy efficiency, demand side management, renewable energy portfolios, climate change, and carbon management.
This course deals with the issues related to non-profit organizations, from start up to termination, and everything in between. Students will explore the different regulations and operations of a non-profit entity. The course will also include the nonprofit sector, many nonprofit organizations, and will focus on the ways that they are led and governed in today’s society. Non-Government Organizations will also be covered in this course with attention to national and international organizations that have assisted the government in the role of helping citizens of this country and the world. 152
