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3.00 Credits
American Foreign Policy Process surveys the process by which American foreign policy is made. The course extends beyond the traditional institutions of the presidency and Congress to encompass other actors like courts, the states, the media, the public and the international policy environment. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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Urbanization and Urban Geography analyzes the process of urbanization and contemporary urban trends. Topics include the evolution of neighborhoods, social conflict over access to resources and the future of urbanizm as a way of life. Students will explore the city through field trips and an analysis of a local issue. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Urban Policy examines the urban service system and policy formulation and implementation processes. The potential implications of policy on people in their everyday lives are assessed using a critical perspective. Specific urban issues, including urban restructuring, crime and terrorism, education, housing, economic development, and sustainability are examined. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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This course is intended to familiarize students with various ethical frameworks, analytical tools and policy instruments that can be used to evaluate environmental problems and policy options. Specific issues may include citizen participation, environmental equity, the uses and abuses of cost-benefit analysis, science and uncertainty in environmental policy development and the use of regulatory requirements vs. market mechanisms for environmental protection. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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This course is designed to introduce students to the major federal policy decisions-represented in judicial decisions and federal laws and statues, 1954 to the present- that serve as principal guidelines for the organization and administration of American public schools. Particular attention will be paid to the impact of these federal policies on the governance, implementation and outcomes of public education at the state and local levels. Issues of access, accountability, delivery systems, funding and quality will be explored. The actors, institutions, processes and influences that help to inform these policy decisions will be explored. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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This course will focus on American health policymaking, with particular emphasis on the three pillars of health: Access, Cost and Quality. The course will examine the financing and delivery of health care, the political environment in which health policymaking occurs and the key policy actors that drive federal and state decision-making regarding affordable health care for all Americans. Special attention will be paid to the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148), its effect on reducing the numbers of uninsured Americans and the challenges to its constitutionality. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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This course introduces students to foundational and advanced concepts and theories used to study our physical and human environments using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will learn about the data and methodology for using GIS to understand and solve a variety of policy problems, including those related to environmental, urban, and/or political issues.
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This course is designed to introduce students to the methods and processes by which American state legislatures achieve public policy objectives. Attention will be paid to the structure and organization of our 50 state legislatures, decision-making among competing public policy objectives, the development of institutional and individual legislative agendas, responsiveness to electoral and interest groups and the process of moving legislation from proposals to law. The Legislatures of California and South Carolina will serve as primary case studies of two very different examples of legislative structure, organization and operations. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Social welfare policy involves governmental actions or non-actions that impact the quality of life for its citizens. This course provides an introduction to public policymaking in the United States and to select substantive social welfare policy areas. Rational, political and sustainability frameworks for policy study and analysis are developed across multiple area of social welfare policy including poverty, disability, welfare, hunger, water quality and resource issues, healthcare, employment, services for children and the elderly and policies surrounding mental illness and substance abuse. How social welfare policy is impacted by politics, poverty, gender, race and crime and how social and economic resources can be made sustainable in order to alleviate some of these major societal problems will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
These courses examine an advanced topic in public administration or public policy. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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