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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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Public Innovation Workshop
Focuses on developing strategic leadership development to alter organizational conditions and narrow disparities in public service outcomes.
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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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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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Policy Leadership II
Introduces concepts, theories, frameworks, and practice to conduct policy analysis and communicate assessments to intended audiences.
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Collaborative Governance
Organizations from different sectors (public, business, nonprofit) increasingly work together to achieve unique, collaborative outcomes. Managing cross-sector relationships presents dynamic process and governance challenges that go well beyond the difficulties of managing within an organization. Explores the opportunities and risks…
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Public Policy and Implementation
Examines the implementation of public policy and programs. Introduces multi-level implementation analysis and focuses on understanding how the core policy or program is understood at the policy field, organizational, and frontline levels.
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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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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.