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Economics for Public Policy
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Decision Making, Behavior, and Policy Design
Provides a foundation in the application of decision theory and behavioral science to study public policy problems. Students learn how cognition, heuristics, biases, emotion, and social dynamics interact in decision-making, and how context and framing shape decisions. Students learn how…
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Principles of Finance
Provides foundation in financial principles, tools, and strategies needed by managers to make informed financial decisions.
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Environmental Justice
Examines background and legacy of public policy in contributing to and maintaining environmental injustice. Reviews methods for diagnosing and fostering environmental justice. Explores contemporary approaches to achieving environmental justice.
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Capstone
Meets the capstone project requirements as part of the Evans School MPA curriculum. Students work in a supportive seminar environment facilitated by peers and faculty to complete team-based capstone degree projects.
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Environmental Policy
Presents background to establish the need for environmental policy. Explores in a comparative manner, examining both successes and failures, various strategies that have been used or proposed to protect the environment. Explores different policy tools for environmental protection, including command-and-control…
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Water Law and Policy
Examines how society allocates and safeguards freshwater resources. Explores how policy and law address leading water management challenges, including water scarcity, groundwater depletion, and freshwater ecosystem preservation.
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Poverty and Anti-Poverty
Examines the nature and extent of poverty in the United States, its causes and consequences, and the antipoverty effects of public policies.
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AI Policy & Society
Examines relationship between advancement of technical knowledge and pace of technological change, and public policies to induce or respond to these trends. Generic issues of government research, development, and personnel training programs are addressed. Applications of policy issues involving biomedical,…
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Redesigning Public Services
Focuses on practices that support redesign of public services. Explores how public, nonprofit, and philanthropic structures create operational realities that must be navigated to lead change across institutional boundaries.