GRAD > PPOL-G > 780

Practicum

Description:
This two-semester course is taught as a practicum. Students work in teams providing professional services to public and non-profit agencies. The course focuses on the acquisition and application of techniques for policy planning, program development, and policy evaluation of qualitative and quantitative, technical and political. The course begins with an examination of the substantive topic to the addressed, and various models of planning, program development and evaluation. Through participation in carefully selected consulting projects, the course covers techniques of problem definition; goal setting; developing, evaluating and selecting programmatic options; predicting social, economic and fiscal impacts; designing and testing pilot program; implementation planning; and developing models and methods for public participation and constituency development. Ethical issues arising from policy planning and implementation are also considered. The specific focus and tasks vary from year to year. The course is designed to be an applied policy analysis experience which integrates theory, practice, and methods.

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