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1 Public Policy and Public Administration • Nonprofit management (http://bulletin.gwu.edu/arts- PPPA 2117. Branch Politics. 3 Credits. sciences/public-policy-administration/certificate-nonprofit- Contemporary concepts and issues in public administration management/) and management. Major trends and approaches to governmental administration in the U.S., including the FACULTY changing federal role, roles of the in relation to the private sector, and managing public agencies at all levels. : W. Adams, B. Barnow, S. Cellini, D. Conger Same as PSC 2217. (Associate Director), J. Cordes, J. Brinkerhoff, K. Newcomer, S. Pandey, M. Tschirhart (Director), M. Worth PPPA 2701. Sustainability and Environmental Policy. 3 Credits. Associate Professors: L. Brainard, L. Brooks, C. Carrigan, J.M. A survey of the intersection of the principles of sustainability Johnson, J. Kasle, P. Linquiti, E. Rigby and the set of public that affect environmental management in the . Consideration of the idea Assistant Professors: A. Nathan, E. Strader, L. Yang, N. Kelsey that environmental policy is inevitably implemented in a Regular Part-Time Faculty: N. Augustine, D. Brunori complex interaction of both natural and systems. Topics applicable to most environmental policy debates, such as COURSES the the balance between costs and benefits of environmental protection. Introduction to a “toolkit” of environmental policy Explanation of Course Numbers instruments ranging from highly prescriptive command-and- • Courses in the 1000s are primarily introductory to flexible market-based policies. undergraduate courses PPPA 5099. Variable Topics. 1-99 Credits. • Those in the 2000s to 4000s are upper-division PPPA 6000. Perspectives on Public Values. 1 Credit. undergraduate courses that also may be taken for graduate The underpinnings and skills necessary for a functioning credit with permission and additional work assigned democratic society; empathy and the ability to have civil • Those in the 6000s and 8000s are for master’s, doctoral, discourse to create, analyze, pass, implement, and evaluate and professional-level students policy and programs. • The 6000s are open to advanced undergraduate students PPPA 6001. Introduction to and with approval of the instructor and the dean or advising Administration. 3 Credits. office Introduction to the discipline of public administration. The traditions and theoretical frames of reference Programs in Public Administration are offered at the graduate that inform public administration as a field of professional level by the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public practice and study. Current and continuing challenges and Administration. Courses with 2000 designations are open to controversies. undergraduates. PPPA 6002. Research Methods and Applied . 3 PPPA 1000. Dean's Seminar. 3 Credits. Credits. The Dean’s Seminars provide Columbian College first- Development of skills and knowledge for conducting original year students focused scholarship on specific intellectual research and critically evaluating empirical studies. Various challenges. Topics vary by semester; see department for more research designs and data collection techniques are examined. details. Focus on computerizing data sets for quantitative analysis, PPPA 1099. Variable Topics. 36 Credits. analyzing strength of relationships, selecting appropriate statistical techniques, and testing statistical hypotheses. PPPA 2000. and the Legal System I. 3 Credits. The structure and function of constitutional : the Supreme PPPA 6003. Economics for Public Decision-Making. 3 Court as an institution, how its cases are decided, and effects of Credits. its decisions on the political and social life of the country. The basic tools and concepts in microeconomic analysis and how these tools can be useful in public decision-making. PPPA 2001. Justice and the Legal System II. 3 Credits. Continuation of PPPA 2000. The structure and function of PPPA 6004. Managing Public Organizations. 3 Credits. : the Supreme Court as an institution, how its Organizational dynamics, management approaches, and cases are decided, and effects of its decisions on the political workplace relationships that affect behavior in public and social life of the country. Prerequisite: PPPA 2000. organizations. Prerequisite: PPPA 6001. PPPA 6005. Public Budgeting, Revenue, and Expenditure Analysis. 3 Credits. Survey of institutions and analytical tools associated with raising revenue and allocating/managing resources at all levels of government. Hands-on budgeting skills and communication of analysis to decision-makers.

Public Policy and Public Administration 2 PPPA 6006. . 3 Credits. PPPA 6016. Public and Nonprofit Program . 3 Development of skills in conducting and critiquing policy Credits. analyses. Application of methodologies used in analyzing Theory and practice of and evaluative possible consequences of specified alternatives as applied research. Exploration of scope and limitations of current in the public policy decision-making process. Appropriate practice in evaluation, considering economic, political, social, applications and limitations of policy analysis and its and administrative factors. Examination of methodological relationship to politics and the policy process. considerations for design, data collection, analysis, and PPPA 6007. for Public Policy I. 3 Credits. dissemination. Prerequisite: PPPA 6002 . Intermediate microeconomics with a focus on policy-related PPPA 6017. Introductory Microeconomics for Public Policy. topics and examples. Restricted to students in the MA in 3 Credits. environmental resource policy, public affairs, and public policy Intermediate microeconomics with a focus on policy-relevant programs. topics and examples. Restricted to MPA and MPP degree PPPA 6008. MPA/MPP Capstone. 3 Credits. candidates. For MPA and MPP students completing their degree program PPPA 6018. Public Policy, , and the Global at the end of the fall semester. This course substitutes for PPPA Market. 3 Credits. 6009 and PPPA 6019, respectively. The socioeconomic foundations of government and PPPA 6009. MPA Capstone Seminar. 3 Credits. public policy cooperation for the governance of firms, markets, Integration and synthesis of the knowledge and skills acquired and globalization. The evolution of national, transatlantic, and during the MPA program. Analysis and integration of ethical, multilateral frameworks for market and governance, political, economic, managerial, and personal values and issues international competition policy cooperation, regulatory in the field. Prerequisites: Completion of all core courses in the harmonization, and industry standards. MPA curriculum. PPPA 6019. MPP Capstone. 3 Credits. PPPA 6010. Politics and The Policy Process. 3 Credits. Policy theory and typologies; policy formulation, The role of policy analysts in public policymaking. The impact , and evaluation; and practice in policy that the political, economic, cultural, and bureaucratic context analysis, processes, content, and contexts; policy linkages has on the policymaking process and outcomes. Political and to multiple disciplines. Students submit an analysis of a ethical issues raised by the intricate interface of the private, not- substantive policy primarily utilizing resources in the DC region. for-, and public sectors in public policy formulation and PPPA 6020. Decision Modeling for Public Policy. 3 Credits. implementation. Practical modeling approaches used by policy analysts to PPPA 6011. Analysis. 3 Credits. explain and assess complex problems, bound a solution space, Foundations of the public policy field; the role of policy or determine what data is needed to support policy decisions; analysts in the policy making process; agenda setting, decision using spreadsheets (specifically, Microsoft Excel) to begin making, policy implementation, program evaluation, and policy modeling policy problems. Prerequisite: PPPA 6002. feedback. PPPA 6021. Data Visualization. 3 Credits. PPPA 6013. for Policy Research I. 3 Credits. How graphics can be used to obfuscate, illuminate, and Multivariate research methods in policy analysis. compel. Focusing on the programming language R, includes working with large-scale data and distilling such data into PPPA 6014. Microeconomics for Public Policy II. 3 Credits. pictures that communicate. Prerequisite: PPPA 6013. The application of intermediate microeconomic theory to the study of public policy; models of individual choice in PPPA 6024. in Complex Organizations. 3 policy analysis, policy aspects of models of the firm, theory of Credits. market failure and economics, and resource allocation What the manager must know and do to provide leadership decisions in the public sector. Credit cannot be earned for both and guidance in large, complex organizations. An exploration PPPA 6014 and SMPP 6206. Prerequisite: PPPA 6007. of leadership theories and the factors and processes that condition effective leadership. PPPA 6015. Benefit-Cost Analysis. 3 Credits. The application of microeconomic theory and welfare PPPA 6025. Ethics and Public Values. 3 Credits. economics to the empirical evaluation of public policies Ethical dimensions of personal and professional judgments of and programs. Applied welfare economics as a framework public . Cases are used to consider the ethos of public for policy analysis; empirical measures of welfare change; organizations and the moral foundations of public policy. techniques of benefit–cost analysis. Prerequisite: PPPA 6014. PPPA 6027. Program Management. 1 Credit. Program management as a basis for developing policy and evaluating programs; how managers look at problems, the competing demands they face, what (and who) influences their decisions and actions, and how they get things done.

3 Public Policy and Public Administration PPPA 6031. Governing and Managing Nonprofit PPPA 6049. Urban and Regional Policy Analysis. 3 Credits. Organizations. 3 Credits. Examination of selected national policies and their effects on Historical, legal, and social foundations of the nonprofit sector. urban areas and . Emphasis on policy dimensions Developing organizational strategy and capacity; managing of urban systems and their relationship to the social, political, staff, boards, and volunteers; ; fund and economic context. Against the background of urban raising, marketing, public advocacy, and other external politics and administration, areas of , , welfare, relations; partnerships and entrepreneurial activities; manpower, transportation, and housing are addressed. measuring performance; and policy issues. PPPA 6051. Governmental Budgeting. 3 Credits. PPPA 6032. Managing Fund Raising and Philanthropy. 3 Survey of the actors, institutions, and processes in the federal Credits. budgeting system. Executive budget preparation/execution, Fund-raising for nonprofit organizations and the management legislative review and approval of budget requirements, and of relationships between donors and recipient organizations. independent audit of . Positioning the organization for fund raising; roles of staff and PPPA 6052. PolicyAnalysis. 3 Credits. volunteers; principal techniques for identifying, cultivating, This course provides a guided, critical study of budgeting by and soliciting donors; ethical principles; emerging trends; and the U.S. Government: its conceptual foundations, structure, relevant policy issues. processes, accounting, scoring, and results. This process is PPPA 6033. Nonprofit Enterprise. 3 Credits. evaluated, as a system and by its component elements, using The use of business methods by nonprofit organizations, the criteria of performance with respect to its fundamental commercialization in the nonprofit sector, and the relationship objectives; fiscal and economic stability and efficiency, between nonprofit and for-profit entities in pursuing social including for those programs aimed at promoting equity. purposes. Case studies. Because of the dominant role of the Congress in the budget PPPA 6034. Managing Nonprofit Boards. 3 Credits. process, attention is focused on the system and process Overview of the responsibilities, roles, and management created by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. of nonprofit boards. The emphasis is on governing boards, PPPA 6053. Financial Management for Public and but advisory councils and boards of other types are also Nonprofit Organizations. 3 Credits. considered. Intensive analysis, using the case study approach, of concepts PPPA 6042. Managing State and Local Governments. 3 and principles used in the not-for-profit sector for financial Credits. management purposes. Disciplines of accounting, budgeting, Examination of state and local governmental structures and operations control, management, and auditing are integrated functions, their place within the federal system, their revenue into comprehensive management control systems and include sources, their limitations, and the alternatives available to issues of system design and implementation. encourage more effective administration to meet public and PPPA 6054. Issues in Federal Budgeting. 3 Credits. private demands. Policy tools available to pursue social objectives, including PPPA 6043. Planning and grants, loans, contracting out, regulation, tax credits, and tax Development. 3 Credits. expenditures. Focus on criteria such as effectiveness, efficiency, Theory and practice of land use planning. Issues of competing equity, , and administrative ease. land uses in an era of increased sprawl, population pressure, PPPA 6055. Contracting Out and Public–Private and environmental threat. techniques Partnerships. 3 Credits. and practices in states and localities; the use of various Contracting out and public–private partnerships as methods regulatory controls and economic incentives to achieve desired of delivering government goods and services. Policy and outcomes. The idea of “sustainable community.”. implementation issues, including when and how contracting PPPA 6044. State Politics and Policy. 3 Credits. out may provide a more efficient and effective method of Important concepts of state politics and government with delivering government goods and services. emphasis on how those concepts affect the formulation and PPPA 6056. Regulatory Comment Clinic. 3 Credits. implementation of policy. The functions of state government Survey of regulatory theories, institutions, policies, and and the political, economic, and legal factors that shape state procedures. Application of economic tools to analyze the public policies. effect of existing and proposed regulations on social welfare. PPPA 6048. Financing State and . 3 Communication of analysis to decision makers and the public. Credits. PPPA 6057. International Development Administration. 3 Analysis of the theory and practice of public finance in state Credits. and local governments. Includes the financing of services An institutional and policy context for work in the international through municipal taxation, intergovernmental funds, development industry. Mainstream policies, reform efforts, and debt instruments, and other revenue sources. Review of alternative approaches. Major actors, selected policy areas, and expenditures as well as financial management practices. regional and comparative perspectives.

Public Policy and Public Administration 4 PPPA 6058. International Development NGO Management. PPPA 6063. Policy Issues in Corporate Social Responsibility 3 Credits. (CSR) and Impact Investing. 3 Credits. Provides an understanding of the primary implementers of This course examines the role of the public and nonprofit international development assistance. Overview of NGO sectors in supporting corporate and investor activities that management, highlighting those features that are particular are intended to have social and environmental, in addition to NGOs active in international development, including to financial, benefits. These activities – often referred to as NGO relations with government and donors. Recommended “corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR) and “impact investing” background: PPPA 6057 or permission of the instructor. – have been described as having significant potential to create PPPA 6059. International Development Management social benefits in addition to being in the financial best interests Processes and Tools. 3 Credits. of the corporation or investor. At the same time, some critics Training in development management tools and processes; of these activities have said that they are less about producing application of international development approaches specific social benefits and more about marketing private sector to the development management profession. Key theories and activities that are primarily designed to produce corporate perspectives of community development and development financial gains. The course explores what is meant by these management. Recommended background: PPPA 6057 or two terms, what steps the public and nonprofit sectors have permission of the instructor. taken to support the wide range of activities that these terms encompass, and what have been the results of this work both PPPA 6060. Policy Formulation and Administration. 3 in the United States and in other countries. The course also Credits. addresses emerging trends that are likely to affect the public Impact of economic and political factors on public policy and nonprofit role in CSR and impact investing in the future. formulation and implementation; intensive analysis of the analytical, normative, and decision-making models of the policy PPPA 6065. and Public Policy. 3 Credits. process with special emphasis on their relationship to current PPPA 6066. U.S. Environmental Policy. 3 Credits. policy problems. Current issues in environmental policy; biodiversity, land use PPPA 6061. Banking and Financial Institutions Policy. 3 including wilderness protection, , environmental Credits. justice, economic growth, and ecological sustainability. This course examines the broad range of policy issues PPPA 6067. Environment, Energy, Technology, and applicable to banking and financial institutions – including Society. 3 Credits. those related to , financial stability, consumer The identification, examination, and evaluation of how protection, and community reinvestment. This area includes environment, energy, and technology are interrelated and a number of questions that are at the forefront of the how these interactions influence policy formulation and current national policy debate about the appropriate role of implementation at the international, national, regional, government and how best to regulate financial institutions and industrial, and organizational levels. Same as SMPP 6207. financial markets. PPPA 6068. Leading Diverse and Inclusive Organizations. 3 PPPA 6062. Community Development Policy and Credits. Management. 3 Credits. Organizational leadership, decision-making, and This course examines the policy and practice of community communications skills necessary for leading in a diverse, development, including how private sector developers multicultural, multi-generational environment. and lenders work with nonprofits, foundations, and the PPPA 6072. Legislative Management and Congress. 3 public sector to promote sustainable affordable housing, Credits. , and other community-based projects Analysis of Congress as a management system; examination that meet both financial as well as social impact criteria. of its internal administration and its role in formulating policy This category of finance and development is intended to through legislation. Staffing practices, leadership, rules and help people and just outside the margins procedures, oversight functions, and coalition building. of conventional, mainstream finance join the economic mainstream – and to help the economic mainstream enter PPPA 6075. Law and the Public Administrator. 3 Credits. emerging opportunity markets. The course explores different Exploration and analysis of the functions of law in a democratic types of community development opportunities, including society. Emphasis is placed upon the procedural, historical, affordable housing, charter school, community facility, small and jurisprudential dimensions of American law. This broad business lending, and nonprofit real estate projects. The perspective seeks to convey understanding of the law as a course also addresses emerging trends that are likely to affect legal and moral force guiding and constraining public decision community development policymakers and practitioners, making. including transportation oriented development, “green” development, use of technology, comprehensive community , and new ways of raising capital for community development projects.

5 Public Policy and Public Administration PPPA 6076. Federal Government Regulation of Society. 3 PPPA 8022. Econometrics for Policy Research II. 3 Credits. Credits. For doctoral students who wish to use econometric tools Analysis of the federal regulatory process as it affects the in their research. An equivalent course in introductory public and private sectors. The regulatory process from legal, econometrics may be substituted for the prerequisite with economic, administrative, and political perspectives. permission. Prerequisite: PPPA 6013. PPPA 6077. Case Studies in Public Policy. 1-3 Credits. PPPA 8023. Mixed Methods in Research Design. 3 Credits. Critical analysis of topical issues in public policy, using a case- The historical and philosophical foundations of mixed method study approach. Specific issues covered vary. research design; review of canonical designs; developing and PPPA 6081. Poverty and . 3 Credits. honing skills to implement mixed methods research designs. Introduction to analytical and political issues surrounding PPPA 8085. U.S. Social Policy. 3 Credits. the ongoing American and British debates on poverty Development and implementation of social welfare policy and social policy; evaluating social assistance programs; in the United States. Introduction to welfare state theory and the complementary roles of policy analysis and public different welfare models. Critical interrogation of the values management. and underlying the policy formulation process. PPPA 6085. Special Topics in Public Policy. 3 Credits. Restricted to doctoral students. Recommended background: A Topics vary by semester. May be repeated for credit provided general understanding of the public sector is helpful. the topic differs. Consult the Schedule of Classes for more PPPA 8100. Seminar: Literature of Public Administration. 3 information. Credits. PPPA 6097. Practicum in Public Policy and Public Contemporary and historical literature in the institutional and Administration. 0 Credits. intellectual development of public administration. PPPA 6098. Independent Research. 1-12 Credits. PPPA 8101. Research Methods. 3 Credits. Permission of the instructor and program director required Doctoral seminar on theory and practice in research prior to enrollment. methodology. Data sources and gathering, research models and designs. Critical evaluation of research studies. Emphasis PPPA 6140. Introduction to Environmental Law. 3 Credits. on application of research methods to policy questions. Federal environmental , implementing regulations, state regulatory programs, international environmental PPPA 8105. Public Finance and Human Capital. 3 Credits. agreements; tools; strengths, The many facets of budgeting and finance and the research weaknesses of legal, administrative, private approaches to approaches used to study issues in this field. environmental threats; the role of federal courts, administrative PPPA 8111. Seminar: Public–Private Sector Institutions and law in environmental protection. Relationships. 3 Credits. PPPA 6145. Global Environmental Justice and Policy. 3 An analysis and critique of alternative theoretical frameworks Credits. for describing, understanding, and predicting the nature, Environmental justice, considered as both a movement and a values, and actions of American public and private institutions. public policy. Examination of environmental injustices—both Problems, potentials, and alternatives for structuring public and perceived and actual—affecting individuals, communities, and private institutional arrangements to meet the needs of society. populations. Adherence to, and enforcement of, environmental Restricted to doctoral candidates. Credit cannot be earned for and regulations that affect the allocation of environmental this course and SMPP 8311. benefits and the distribution of sources of toxic pollution and PPPA 8123. Seminar: The Policy Organization. 3 Credits. other hazards. Unique problems of complex organizations: public, private, PPPA 6198. Environmental Resource Policy Capstone. 3 and mixed. Emerging concepts and theories. Selected issues. Credits. PPPA 8164. Seminar on Program Evaluation. 3 Credits. Team development of a project sponsored by an external Doctoral seminar on theory and practice in public and entity, such as a government or nongovernmental agency, or nonprofit program evaluation. The broad range of approaches participation in an aspect of a research project directed by undertaken, current controversies in the field, and the political a faculty member. The student team functions as an external and ethical context for evaluators. consultant tasked with analysis of the chosen issue. PPPA 8174. Seminar: Public Management. 3 Credits. PPPA 6207. Program Management. 1 Credit. Public organization theory and behavior. Organizational PPPA 6295. Research Topics in Environmental Resource behavior, organization theory, and public management. Key Policy. 1-3 Credits. traditions of inquiry in the study of public organizations. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6 credits. Restricted to students in the PhD in public policy and administration program.

Public Policy and Public Administration 6 PPPA 8183. Current Topics and Research. 1 Credit. ENRP 6102. Environmental Sciences II: Life Sciences. 3 Current scholarship discussed in a seminar setting. The Credits. conduct of research and presentation of research findings. May Basic life sciences crucial to environmental issues, including be repeated for credit. biology, ecology, environmental health and toxicology, PPPA 8190. Philosophical Foundations of Policy and epidemiology, and agriculture; biodiversity, ecosystem Administrative Research. 3 Credits. services, habitat preservation, deforestation, conservation as applied to research in public policy biology, nutrient cycling, and the impacts of climate change and public administration. The nature of and current problems on living systems. Restricted to students in the MA in related to epistemology, development and role of theories, and environmental resource policy; graduate certificate in contexts relationships among theory, methodology, and empirical data. of environmental policy; and BA/MA in and environmental resource policy programs; permission of the PPPA 8191. Dissertation Workshop. 3 Credits. instructor may be substituted. Critical analysis of current research. Formulation of a dissertation proposal and development of dissertation research ENRP 6145. Global Environmental Justice and Policy. 3 strategies. Credit for this course may be applied toward the Credits. dissertation credit requirement. Restricted to public policy and Environmental justice, considered as both a movement and a administration doctoral candidates who have taken and passed public policy. Examination of environmental injustices—both the qualifying examination and completed all required course perceived and actual—affecting individuals, communities, and work in a policy or public administration field. populations. Adherence to, and enforcement of, environmental laws and regulations that affect the allocation of environmental PPPA 8197. Doctoral Seminar: Special Topics. 1-3 Credits. benefits and the distribution of sources of toxic pollution and . other hazards. PPPA 8998. Advanced Reading and Research. 1-12 Credits. ENRP 6295. Research Topics in Environmental Resource Restricted to doctoral candidates preparing for the general Policy. 1-3 Credits. examination. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6 credits. PPPA 8999. Dissertation Research. 3-12 Credits. Doctoral candidates in dissertation research. Restricted to doctoral candidates.

ENRP 5099. Variable Topics. 1-99 Credits. ENRP 6085. Topics in Environmental Resource Policy. 1-3 Credits. Topics announced in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated for credit provided the topic differs. ENRP 6097. Practicum in Environmental Resource Policy. 0 Credits. International students engage in an unpaid internship. Restricted to students enrolled in the MA in environmental resource policy program. Credit cannot be earned for this course and PPPA 6097. ENRP 6101. Environmental Sciences I: Physical Sciences. 3 Credits. Basic physical sciences crucial to environmental issues, including chemistry, geology, hydrology, climate science, and cross-media interactions; land, air, and water pollution, climate change, production and consumption of energy, sea level rise, and anthropogenic changes in the cryosphere. Restricted to students in the MA in environmental resource policy; graduate certificate in contexts of environmental policy; and BA/MA in environmental studies and environmental resource policy programs; permission of the instructor may be substituted.

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