26 courses with the subject PPOG, 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.
PPOG 500Introduction to Research and Writing3
This course will provide an overview of current research techniques in the field of public policy. Students will also hone and apply professional writing skills by completing a final research paper fully incorporating appropriate research and citation techniques.
This course is a survey of U.S. domestic policy. It will focus on domestic public policy-making at the national level, beginning with the processes, institutions and actors engaged in the creation, advocacy, development, enactment, and implementation of domestic policy, and followed by a discussion of several contemporary public policy issues.
This course is a survey of U.S. foreign policy. It will focus on the processes, institutions and actors engaged in the creation, advocacy, development, enactment, and implementation of foreign policy, followed by a discussion of several contemporary foreign policy issues.
Legislatures are at the heart of policy-making in the United States. This course will help students learn how to ask and answer original research questions related to the study of U.S. legislatures, their members, and policy-making within the legislature. The course has two goals; to introduce students to a broad range of legislative research and to explore how to critically assess and extend that research.
This course examines the challenges of running public sector organizations at the state and local level from the perspective of those who lead them. With trust in government plummeting and greater expectations from both the federal government and citizens, senior executives in state and local governments face significant challenges in governing. Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to operate as ethical and effective statesmen at the state and local level. Additionally, students will learn the need for public officials to be ready to lead strategically, think creatively, and act collaboratively in a dynamic governing environment.
Students will collaborate with a faculty advisor to develop their thesis proposal. It is expected that the proposal for the thesis project will be relevant to the student's studies in their master's degree program and will direct their research to make an academic contribution to the body of knowledge in public policy. At the completion of this course, the student will be ready to begin data collection and research.
