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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The course will require a major research project using federal documents and other primary sources of information about the United States policy process. Topics will include the sources of public policy; the policy agenda; policy design, legitimation, and implementation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. Same as P P ADM 6430 GERON 6443, SOC 6443, and SOC WK 6443. (MSW students will normally take the social policy foundation course before enrolling in this course).? Survey course examining current issues in health policy that face the nation. Policies are placed in a historical context to show how issues have been influenced by different political and economic conditions. Secondary consequences and limitations of current trends in health policy are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Same as PP ADM 6444, GERON 6444 and SOC 6444. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. The study of specialized issues and methods related to federal, state, and local policies that affect the elderly. Potential policy areas to be covered include housing, taxation, mental health, transportation, etc. May be repeated for credit, provided the subject matter is different.
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1.00 - 10.00 Credits
Independent study through readings, reports, research projects, and conferences.
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3.00 Credits
Same as P P ADM 6460 and SOC 6446. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. The study of specialized issues and methods relating to health care policy. May be repeated for credit, provided the subject matter is different.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. Research seminar aimed at producing a substantial research project in the areas of public policy processes and outcomes. The seminar may focus on specific policy processes such as agenda-setting, policy formulation, or policy adoption, or it may focus on the politics of specific policy areas such as environmental programs, social legislation or regulation. May be repeated for credit when the subject matter is different.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course examines political economy in its contemporary manifestations as public choice and as the study of the ways in which institutional power shapes economic policies and performance. The course explores the origins and major concepts of political economy, the institutions of economic policy-making and economic policies in the U.S. It emphasizes the consequences of budget constraints, inflation, unemployment, and sectoral decline on the design and administration of public programs at all levels of government.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: P P ADM 6600 or consent of instructor. Same as SOC WK 6449 and P P ADM 6490. Presents an overview of personnel and labor relations in the public sector. Particular emphasis placed on issues which are unique to the public sector, such as the merit system, the questions of representative bureaucracy and the constraints of personnel in the nonprofit sector. The topics include personnel reforms in the federal sector, equal employment and affirmative action policies, testing, selection, hiring, comparable worth, job evaluation, and labor relations including grievance arbitration and collective bargaining.
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3.00 Credits
Classification and topology of political systems; structural-functional analysis; political culture, ideology, affiliation and participation; decision-making processes; political roles; organization of authority.
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3.00 Credits
Research problems and design in comparative politics. May be repeated for credit when the subject matter is different.
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