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PUAF Public Affairs ( Public Policy)PUAF348 (PermReq) Academic Seminar for Interns: State and Local; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG.PUAF349 (PermReq) Internship in Political Institutions: State and Local; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: S-F. PUAF359A Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Media in American Politics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF359C Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Advocacy in the American Political System; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF359L Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: The Art of Leadership; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF359P Contemporary Issues in Political Leadership and Participation: Political and Civic Leadership; (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. PUAF388 (PermReq) Special Topics in Public Policy; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. PUAF396 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. PUAF692 Leadership Principles and Practices; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. This course will introduce leadership principles and practices to students by focussing on the theory of leadership, different leadership themes and skills, and discussions with practitioners. PUAF698C Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Intelligence, Policy Making and Politics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698F Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Criminal Justice System Planning: Policy Analysis for Crime Control; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as CCJS720. PUAF698G (PermReq) Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Real Estate Development for Planners; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as URSP664. PUAF698J Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Proseminar in Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as GVPT859B and PHIL688W. PUAF698K Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Problem in Comparative Health Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Formerly: PUAF698H. PUAF698L Selected Topics in Public Affairs: International Enviormental Agreements; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698O Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Ethics, Development and Foreign Aid; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698P Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Information Policy & Technology; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698W Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Wildlife Conservation; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF698Y Selected Topics in Public Affairs: Policy Disasters; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699E Selected Topics Public Policy: Fin. Systems and Control; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699I Selected Topics Public Policy: Global Inequality and Its Implications; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699J Selected Topics Public Policy: State in Econ Dev; (1-3 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; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699V Selected Topics Public Policy: Homeland Security Policy; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. PUAF699Y Selected Topics Public Policy: Development, Trade & Labor; (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. PUAF737 Strategies of Equality; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. For PUAF majors only or permission of department. Formerly PUAF698Y. Concentrates on the institutional and political means by which disadvantaged segments of the United States population have sought to enhance their social, economic and political prospects. Race, gender and disability are the substantive focal points, with considerable attention given to the challanges of African American socio-political uplift. Also explores legislation, litigation, administration, agitation (i.e. protest), and constitutional reform. Students become familiar with alternative conceptions of equality and the modes of argument employed in different institutional and political contexts. 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. 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. PUAF798R Readings in Public Policy: Research Methods and Public Policy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: PhD candidacy or permission of department. 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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