Introduction to basic statistics including use and interpretation of statistics used in policy research. Topics include statistical methods, descriptive statistics, probability theory, analysis of tabular data, correlation and regression, and multiple regression.

This course equips students with tools to evaluate the success of public and nonprofit policies and programs. Course topics will survey basic practices such as process and outcome evaluation, as well as techniques such as experimental and quasi-experimental designs for effective policy and program administration. In addition, the course explores the advantages of using evaluation as a mechanism for program improvement.

Integrates material from core courses and applies it to actual and hypothetical policy issues in many areas. Examines policy analysis methods using case studies from a wide range of substantive policy areas. Looks at social, economic, organizational, political, and other influences on policy decisions.

Integrates material from core courses and applies it to actual and hypothetical policy issues in many areas. Examines policy analysis methods using case studies from a wide range of substantive policy areas. Looks at social, economic, organizational, political, and other influences on policy decisions.

Despite significant advances in medical knowledge and profession in the global south, health care continues to present inequality, discrimination, and inaccessibility to a large majority of people. Global south has been witnessing a drastic shift towards privatization, deregulation of health markets, cutbacks in the state health programs, reduced barriers to capital flight and massive amounts of resource extraction and land grabbing by small elites since 1990s.

This class introduces students to actors, institutions and public interest battles fought nationally, regionally, and globally for the control of the Internet. It considers the interaction between law, technological design, and policy solutions in shaping infrastructure, code, and content of the global web.

Over the last decade or more, there has been a detectable and growing dissatisfaction among students with the "status quo" in the way the society works. Students have witnessed terrorism, long-term war, the "Occupy" movement, a "great recession," ongoing social inequities, disfunctional politics, the effects of climate change with challenging projections on its effects to come, and most recently, a global pandemic followed by inflation with a great impact on the economy.

This independent study serves as the first course in the two-course honors research thesis sequence offered within the School of Public Policy. Within this course, the student is asked to build upon their understanding of the policy process and toolbox of tools they've built in prior classes, such as an understanding of hypothesis testing and statistics. They will identify a research question and will explore different ways?qualitative and quantitative research designs?that they could use to answer the question.

This course asks students to execute their thesis where they have already identified a public policy, public administration, or public management problem facing a community today, which they then analyze some aspect of and which they laid the groundwork for in their previous Honors Research course.

This course asks students to execute their research project where they have already identified a public policy, public administration, or public management problem facing a community today, which they then analyze some aspect of and which they laid the groundwork for in their previous Honors Research course.