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Credits: 3 Introduces GIS including analytical tools to manipulate and study spatial data. Run mainly as a laboratory, with extensive hands-on experience. Focuses on public policy applications. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Applies behavioral, economic, strategic, and other decision theories to U.S. government and other actors in historical national security crisis cases and current policy issues. Explores tension in decisions between rational goal seeking by actors vs. organizational process, and aims to develop usable decision tools. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Geopolitical assessment of global threats to international order and security. First half of course focuses on geopolitical theories; elements of military power; and global social, demographic and political trends. Second half analyzes regional, political, military, economic, and social trends. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces international medical policy. Covers globalization of health and medical policies directed at removing disparities, financing, ethical considerations of biomedical research, and use of emerging technologies. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Explores medical and health governance, biosecurity and biosafety, health and natural and human-made disasters, humanitarian and emergency assistance, vaccine development, behavior and health, critical infrastructures, bioethics and resource allocations in global context. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Introduces legal and policy issues concerning current U.S. national security. Its emphasis is on developments since 9/11. It focuses on the legal rules governing the formulation and execution of U.S. national security policy. It examines U.S. and international law as well as general domestic and foreign policy considerations. In particular, the course considers the principal cases, legislation and treaties impacting U.S. national security. Special emphasis is on the interplay of national security concerns and civil liberties in this age of global and transnational terrorism. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Investigates roles dynamic scientific research and technological innovation play in contemporary society. Focuses on design and analysis of alternative public policies intended to influence rate and direction of technological change in societies, and use of scientific and technical knowledge in public policy making. Uses historical and international comparative approaches to assess politics and pragmatics of science and technology policy. Includes material from policy evaluation and analysis, organization theory, economics of innovation, and sociology of science and technology. Applications focus on areas of concern to "new economy" such as biotechnology, networked telecommunications and computing, and globalization of technology-based production.Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 This course is about people who start new ventures with the explicit objective of creating social as well as private value. As societies and the challenges they face become ever more complex, existing institutions and incentive structures may or may not be adequate to address new generations of problems. Social entrepreneurs innovate new organizational forms with the objective of finding solutions in the public interest. Students in this course will be challenged to integrate elements of business strategy and policy analysis towing the objective of crafting a practical plan for the launch of a novel and needed social venture. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Limited government involvement in social policies changed drastically during the 1960s, with an explosion of social programs designed to ameliorate poverty, reduce crime, and eliminate racial segregation. These new social policies affect many institutions, including family, schools and colleges, criminal justice system, and government agencies. Many of these policies have been controversial, with debates over efficacy and whether they have cured or exacerbated social problems. Course examines evolution and status of selected American social policies, including civil rights policies, education reform, family policy, crime prevention, and other topics chosen by students. Readings and discussions on policy issues linked to readings and discussions on social theories and value systems that underpin social policies. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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Credits: 3 Explores current issues and policy initiatives in education policy at federal, state, and local levels, with emphasis on education reform. Issues and topics vary. Typical policy issues include raising academic standards, high-stakes testing, alternative governance including school choice and voucher policies, teacher quality and certification, role of school resources in academic outputs, and equity topics. Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week 3 Hours of Lab or Studio per week 0
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