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Simulation Capstone
Provides opportunity for students to engage in culminating capstone experience to engage in solving a real world problem.
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Methods for Engaging Communities in Local Government
Introduces conceptional frameworks and practical strategies to center equitable and inclusive stakeholder participation in local government. Students learn to analyze the context of engagement, select and deploy appropriate methods, and develop techniques for appropriate documentation to enable decision making.
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Public Innovation Workshop
Focuses on developing strategic leadership development to alter organizational conditions and narrow disparities in public service outcomes.
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Project Leadership Skills Lab
Introduces concepts, frameworks, and practical skills around project management to address technical and adaptive challenges.
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Policy Leadership II
Introduces concepts, theories, frameworks, and practice to conduct policy analysis and communicate assessments to intended audiences.
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Organizational Leadership II
Introduces concepts and skills to assess and redesign implementation of public policies and programs. Examines use of participatory tools for analyzing and redesigning services, work flows, and delivery systems.
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Native Nations
Examines the ways that Native Nations in the US function as self-governing sovereigns and the ways that Native Nations govern their lands and waters. Considers how Native Nations interact with other governments and the consequences of those interactions.
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Data Science for Public Policy
Introduction to various data science methods and use of data science in public policy analysis. Topics include machine learning, network analysis, and numerical analysis.
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Community Economic Development
Explores the relationship between local community economic development, environmental sustainability, cultural vitality, and trend in regional and national economics, with specific focus on how to make community and economic investments that yield development outcomes that contribute to economic, equitable, environmental,…
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Communicating Climate Change
Surveys climate change communications and their role in achieving climate change policy goals. Assesses the ethics and science of climate change communication. Explores theories and frameworks to evaluate and improve climate change communications. Examines the role of climate change communication…