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3.00 Credits
Required core course option. (Waiver permitted with faculty approval.) Introduction to the use of quantitative thinking. Designed to develop basic statistical skills as indispensable tools for policy research, planning and decision making. Students learn how to choose and apply statistical tools to data sources, when and how statistical tools can be used to analyze data, and how to interpret and understand others' quantitative research. Mapping software used for visual presentation of spatial data. Computers and spreadsheet software used to facilitate learning through active application of statistical tools. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Required core course for students in M.A. program. Practical planning and research experience in a community or governmental setting. Students are exposed to the realities of urban and environmental planning practice by working in teams for actual clients. Focus on the interplay of expertise, social and political values, and professional relationships. Please see departmental website for specific details: http://ase.tufts.edu/uep/about_uep/ Prerequisites UEP 250. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Child Development 247.) Purposes for, and types and techniques of, program evaluation. Study of the evaluation process, including design, implementation, and dissemination, with focus on development of relevant data collection, analysis, and report-writing skills. Emphasis on learning to match individual programs with particular models of evaluation. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Required core course option. (Waiver permitted with faculty approval.) Geared to students who already possess grounding in quantitative methods. Designed to help students further develop their skills in quantitative reasoning and statistical analysis. Course briefly reviews introductory concepts and analytic techniques and introduces two additional components of quantitative methods useful for planning and policy research: modeling and forecasting. Statistical methods include regression and time-series analysis. Statistical software and GIS tools used for data analysis. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of planning and community development, neighborhood revitalization, and local politics. Provides an overview of select literature, key issues, and debates in community development. Opportunity to conduct research about specific neighborhood-based planning and policy issues. Guest speakers include practitioners involved with community development initiatives and projects in Boston and Massachusetts. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Economic tools for assessing environmental policy. Examines market failures that lead to environmental degradation, such as air and water pollution, uncontrolled toxic wastes, and natural resource depletion. Environmental policies, including regulation, tradeable permits, fuel taxes, and subsidies to conservation, are examined in terms of economic efficiency (using cost/benefit analysis), distributional impacts, and effectiveness in protecting the environment. Prerequisite: UEP 251 or consent.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a broad discussion of public policy issues relating to the use and management of natural resources in the United States and to some extent, the world. Examines the major natural resource categories: air, water, and land. Reviews the means and techniques available to federal, state, and local governments to plan and protect natural resources. Focuses on the relationship between science and planning as the proper means for formulating public policy. Prerequisites Graduate standing or seniors with permission of instructor. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering 265 and Environmental Studies 265. ) Explores companies' responses to pressure from stockholders, regulatory agencies, community and nongovernmental organizations to exercise greater responsibility toward the environment. Topics include strategy, staffing and organization, decision making, codes of conduct, resources, program development, product responsibility, pollution prevention, trade associations, and foreign operations. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
(Cross-listed as Civil and Environmental Engineering 267.) Concepts, legal framework, public policies, approaches, and methodologies utilized in determining environmental impacts of proposed public, semi-public, and private actions. Analytic methods for determining environmental impacts and for guiding environmental regulation. Nature of impact examined from the viewpoint of economics, equity, and the environment. This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
Goals, strategies, and issues for community economic development. Analysis of the national, regional, and local economic environment. Alternative strategies; planning, development, implementation, and financial models; and social and economic criteria for project selection and evaluation. Prerequisites UEP 251 or permission of instructor. This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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