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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 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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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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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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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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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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Economic Approaches to Environmental Management
Examines the economic tools relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Tools are developed in the context of a series of resource problems, with an eye towards building intuition useful for addressing complex policy problems that do not fit neatly…
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Nonprofit Financial Management
Provides an understanding of the financial framework on nonprofit organizations. Focuses on the financial principles of management of nonprofits, with an emphasis on financial reporting, strategic financial planning, managerial decision-making and budgeting.
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Taxes and Social Policy
Examines major areas of social policy that interact with the tax system.
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Advocacy for Social Change
Examines different components of advocacy, including: role of and opportunities for advocacy in the policy process; relationship between advocacy, social movements, and public policy; organizations leading advocacy in the U.S. and their regulatory environment; and tactics and strategies used for…