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PUAF Public Affairs ( Public Policy)PUAF201 Leadership for the Common Good; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. CORE Interdisciplinary & Emerging Issues (IE) Course.Corequisite: CPSP118P. Restricted to College Park Scholars Public Leadership. Freshman standing. This course is designed to provide undergraduate students an introduction to leadership theory and a chance to practice a core set of practical skills relevant to transformational and collaborative leadership. PUAF202 (PermReq) Contemporary Issues in Leadership and Public Policy; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Open only to students in the Rawlings Undergraduate Leadership Fellows Program. Sophomore standing. Students will examine public policy and social justice issues in the community and state. Students hear from local elected officials, leaders of non-profit organizations, members of state and county agencies, and faculty from the School of Public Policy. PUAF302 (PermReq) Leadership: Philosophy, Policy and Praxis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: PUAF202 and permission of department. Students are exposed to a variety of interlocking public policy issues, their philosophical concomitants, and introduces them to skills necessary to become competent public leaders. This has been designed for participants in the Rawlings Undergraduate Leaderhip Fellows Program. PUAF349 (PermReq) Internship in Political Institutions: State and Local; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: S-F. Also offered as BSOS349. PUAF359C Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Advocacy in the American Political System; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as BSOS359C. PUAF359W Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Women and Politics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as BSOS359W. 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 BSOS 396. Individual instruction course. Also offered as BSOS396. 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. 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. Prerequisites PUAF 610 and 640. PUAF698B Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698E Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Proseminar in Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL688P. PUAF698I Selected Topics in Public Affairs: The Politics and Policy of Education Reform; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698N Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Intelligence and National Security; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698Q Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Democracy and Democratization; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698R Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Development Challenges; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698V Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Managing Social Services; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. PUAF699L Selected Topics Public Policy: Leading and Motivating People; (1-3 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. PUAF712 Analysis of Fiscal Conditions; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. The financial operations of U.S. government at various levels, with emphasis on local governments. Practical problems in revenue management, including revenue forecasting and cash flow analysis; debt management operations, such as borrowing; intergovernmental financial operations, such as grants management and reporting requirements, and personnel management issues that have a direct bearing on governmental finances. PUAF716 State and Local Government Budgeting; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. State and local government practices as a laboratory for studying public sector financial management. 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. 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. PUAF735 Health Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Analyzes the origins, history, status, and future of health care as problems in political and economic theory and as puzzles in policy formation. Considers current American reform controversies in the light of several disciplines and in comparison to foreign experiences and structures. PUAF741 Global Environmental Problems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Suitability of analytic tools for examining global environmental problems, human overpopulation, land abuse, ozone depletion, climate change, acid rain, loss of biological diversity, the scarcity of food, fresh water, energy and nonfuel mineral resources, and health hazards of pollutants toxic metals and radiation. PUAF742 Environmental Ethics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Analyzes issues such as the relation between human beings and nature from the perspectives of the science, history, philosophy, and religion. Considers the bases for policies such as environmental regulation, public lands, and international conventions with respect to the environment. PUAF744 Environment and Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Analyzes sustainable development and its conflicting interpretations. The dominant view, as expressed in the World Bank's 1992 World Development Report, is studied, along with some critical responses. Further readings on issues of population, consumption and development indicators. PUAF752 Managing Differences:Resolving Conflict and Negotiating Agreements; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Enhances the student's negotiation and leadership skills for managing differences between individuals and groups. Students study the nature of conflict, learn how to handle two and multiparty conflicts, exerting leadership where there are no hierarchy leaders, and explore the impact of facilitators and mediators on the negotiating process. Blends skill building exercises and theory discussions about the behavior of groups and individuals in groups to understand negotiation dynamics. 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. 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. 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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