Leadership and Service

This course is the second of a two-semester service-learning set of courses in the IMPACT! Residential Academic Program. In the spring seminar, students continue the reflective learning process begun during the fall seminar, examining in greater depth the role of social identity and social justice theory in the context of their community service experiences. Each student will complete 30 hours of community service over the course of the semester.

ST-Human Rights & Public Admin

What should government do to promote human rights, and what can it really achieve in practice? In this course, students will explore how human rights are defined in international law and how they shape national public policies. We will examine questions related to whether as public administrators we should focus solely on implementing policy or also be involved in promoting human rights, and to the extent to which the government is able to protect and promote human rights.

ST- Performance Management

This course will focus on the fundamentals for designing and using a performance management framework in the public sector, specifically in the U.S. at the federal, state, local, and nonprofit levels. It will provide a working understanding of how to develop and apply "useful measures that are used" - a simple statement that is devilishly difficult to actually do, but is fundamental for every public manager to be successful.

ST-Using the Past/EffectivePol

A lot of policy work is contingent on who gets to leverage, correct, or tell the story of the past. This course will push students to think about the historical context of policy work. We will learn a variety of ways of studying past policies using historical methods and discuss in detail the politics of how we remember (and forget) policies. This course will focus on both polices with obvious historical context (like confederate memorials or reparations), and examples where the past is less obvious (like privacy and social media).
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