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PUAF Public Affairs ( Public Policy)PUAF349 (PermReq) Internship in Political Institutions: State and Local; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: S-F.PUAF359C Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Advocacy in the American Political System; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF359J Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Leading to Get Results; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF359W Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Women and Politics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF386 (PermReq) Experiential Learning; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BSOS386 or PUAF386. Formerly BSOS386. PUAF388B Special Topics in Public Policy: Israel and International Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as GVPT378B and ISRL449B. This course focuses on Israel's international cooperation for human development in the context of core issues such as poverty, governance and capacity building. Through case studies, the course also offers a practical grasp of the tools of development from project design through evaluation and lesson learning. PUAF388I Special Topics in Public Policy: Intelligence as a National Security Instrument, The US Experience; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. An introduction to intelligence as an instrument of national security policy and operations, including issues arising from intelligence in a homeland or domestic security context. PUAF388T (PermReq) Special Topics in Public Policy: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Directed Study; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF396 (PermReq) Fellowship Program in Political Leadership; (2-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department and acceptance of full-time fellowship program. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BSOS396 or PUAF396. Formerly BSOS396. Individual instruction course. PUAF610 Quantitative Aspects of Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Introduces statistical methods needed for evaluating and choosing among policy options. Topics include probability; decision-making under uncertainty; the organization, interpretation, and visual display of complex data; prediction and inferences about causality; hypothesis testing; and linear and multiple regression. Develops analytical skills and the ability to apply theory to complex, real-world problems. PUAF611 Quantitative Analysis of Policy Issues; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Study of a series of problems and the development of quantitative techniques to describe or evaluate the problem. The organization and interpretation of complex data and its use for prediction and inference about casual effects. The definition of objectives, trade-offs among objectives, and allocation of resources to meet objectives. Sensitivity of outcomes to changing conditions. PUAF620 Political Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Examination of politics as a process for allocating scarce resources among claimants for public benefits. Comparision of the allocative model of politics with other distributive processes, such as markets. Comparison of the model with behavior of different political institutions, such as Congress and the presidency. Study of politics as a process with distinctive concepts of rationality. The translation of voter and interest group preferences into public choices. The impact of political decisions on competing constituencies. PUAF640 Microeconomic and Policy Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Applies intermediate microeconomic theory to public policy issues: resource allocation by firms and consumers; the response of economic agents to changes in incentives; market allocations in competitive and non-competitive environments; and market failures and government remedies. Uses extended case studies of particular issues in such areas as the environment (acid rain), international trade (tariffs), industry regulation (cable TV), and the provision of public goods (highways). PUAF641 Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Studies the behavior of the economy as a whole: the level of national income, unemployment, and inflation; the vulnerability of the U.S. economy to external influences; possible federal influence over the level of economic activity; and the consequences for prices, employment and the U.S. trade deficit. Also examines possible U.S. policy responses to widespread debt crises in developing countries. PUAF650 Moral Dimensions of Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Explores the moral issues involved in public policy questions; the limits and usefulness of decision-making tools; problems of choosing, justifying and using criteria to judge a program's success and suitability; ethichal issues involving the welfare state and income distribution; and possible obligations beyond one's political community and generation. PUAF660 Environmental Policy Workshop; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Students work as a team to analyze and recommend responses to a current enviornmental policy issue. Emphasizes problem definition, organization of information and presentation of results. PUAF670 Finance; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Introduction to principles of resource allocation over time, role of debt in context of changing sources of governmental revenues, long- and short-term debt instruments, analysis of mixed public-private economic development projects, leasing, and the impact of borrowing devices. PUAF688C Topics in Public Policy: Cyberspace: Legal and Policy Implications; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF689B Public Policy Topics: Advanced Microeconomics & Policy; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF689D Public Policy Topics: Social Entrepreneurship; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF689F Public Policy Topics: Current Issues in Federal Acquisition; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as BUSI758P and ENSE698F. PUAF689G Public Policy Topics: Geographic Information Systems in Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF689P Public Policy Topics: Strategic Philanthropy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF689V Public Policy Topics: Forecasting and Analyzing Political Violence; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698C Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Intelligence, Policy Making and Politics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698L Selected Topics in Public Affairs: International Environment Agreements; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698O Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Ethics, Development and Foreign Aid; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698P Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Information Policy & Technology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698R Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Developmental Challenges; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698T Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Managing Across Sectors; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698W Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Wildlife Conservation; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699D Selected Topics Public Policy: Disease, Disasters and Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699E Selected Topics Public Policy: Financial Systems and Control; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699F Selected Topics Public Policy: Ethical Dimensions of Public Leadership; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699K Selected Topics Public Policy: Civil Conflict and Terrorism; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699Q Selected Topics Public Policy: Demography, Development and Social Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699V Selected Topics Public Policy: Homeland Security; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699Z Selected Topics Public Policy: Energy Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF706 Public Policymaking for Journalists; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For JOUR majors only. Focuses on the political, procedural and administrative realities of policy formation and implementation. Specifically for the Journalism students who staff the Capital News Service. PUAF711 Public Management and Leadership; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Reviews the managerial, political, and ethical problems faced by public sector managers and leaders, including setting an organization's goals, obtaining and protecting a program mandate, designing a service delivery system and implementing a new program. PUAF717 Federal Budgeting: Policy and Process; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Budgeting as a political and administrative instrument of government. Development of budgeting, the multiple uses of the budget, including role in fiscal policy and resource allocation, the roles and relationships of major participants, and effects of resource scarcity on budgeting behavior. Emphasis on the federal level. PUAF720 International Security Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Reviews the principal features of international security as currently practiced. Traces the evolution of contemporary policy beginning with the initiation of nuclear weapons programs during World War II. Particular emphasis is given to experience of the United States and Russia, since the historical interaction between these two countries has disproportionately affected the international security conditions that all other countries now experience. PUAF732 Policy and Politics of Education Reform; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Examines education reform in its historical, fiscal, cultural, and legal contexts, and the changing relationship between education and economic opportunity. Focuses on institutional and normative issues, including national standards, public school choice, charter schools, vouchers and funding equity. PUAF734 Foundations of Social Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only. Provides an overview of government's role in social policy and the history of the development of federal and state policies with respect to welfare, aging, education, and housing. Analyzes current federal institutions and legislation in the same policy areas and the demographic history of the United States. Develops skills in analytic writing and presentation of descriptive data. PUAF740 Public Policy and the Environment; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Surveys of major federal environmental legislation; the development and implementation of laws, and alternative ways of thinking about the relationship between humans and the environment. PUAF743 Ecological Economics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Course is based upon the text Valuing the Earth: Economics, Ecology, and Ethics. PUAF745 Human Health and Environmental Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Reviews the major human physiological systems and their integrated toxicological functions; considers key bodily defenses; and discusses classic, emerging, and ambiguous risks; in all ecological context. Applies to scientific controversy, the methods of policy formation, such as risk analysis, social-cost analysis, "outcomes" analysis, and decision analysis, all in political-economic context. PUAF746 Dynamic Modeling for Environmental Investment and Policy Making; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Formerly PUAF698M. Examines the theory, methods and tools to dynamic modeling for policy and investment decision making, with special focus on environmental issues. Provides extensive hands-on modeling experience and makes use of state-of-art computing methods to translate theory and concepts into executable models. PUAF753 Advanced Negotiations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: PUAF752. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PUAF698C or PUAF753. Formerly PUAF698C. Deepens the student's negotiation and leadership skills for managing differences between individuals and groups. Cover conflict, escalation, dealing with intractable conflicts, sustaining agreements in inter-group conflicts, and the effects of trauma on negotiations. PUAF770 Seminar in Housing and Community Development Strategies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only. Detailed examination of community and social policy issues relating to the construction and management of affordable housing. PUAF780 The American Foreign Policy-Making Process; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Survey and analysis of the governmental institutions and processes which shape U.S. global engagement on national security and international economic issues. Particular emphasis is given to executive-congressional relations and the broader domestic roots of foreign policy. PUAF781 International Economic Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Issues and choices facing the United States in today's global economy. Primary, but not exclusive, emphasis is given to "competitive interdependence" among advanced industrial societies. PUAF782 International Development Economics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PUAF698U or PUAF782. Formerly PUAF698U. Examines key current economic and policy issues for developing and transition economies. Topics include inflation stabilization, fiscal policy, selected trade issues, dealing with international capital flows, the role of multilateral organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and issues relating to saving, investment and growth. PUAF790 Project Course; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Students work at a sponsoring government agency or private firm researching problem of interest to sponsor and relevant to concentration. Emphasis on problem definition, organizing information, and both oral and written presentation of results. PUAF798A Readings in Public Policy; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. PUAF798B Readings in Public Policy; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. PUAF798C Readings in Public Policy: International Law and Institutions; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798E Readings in Public Policy: Introduction to Policy Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798G Readings in Public Policy: Health Economics and Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798L Readings in Public Policy: Environmental Law and Finance; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798R Readings in Public Policy: Quantitative Research Methods and Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: Public Policy PhD student or permission of instructor. PUAF798W Readings in Public Policy: Climate Change Adaptation and Security; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798Y Readings in Public Policy: Non-Profit Management; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF798Z Readings in Public Policy: Qualitative Research Methods and Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. PUAF899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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